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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That sounds possible. I assume otters get priority boarding.

Cley was bad when I was working in North Norfolk but I dread to think what it's like now

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How many otters were on board?

It's 5 years ago today that I became a double amputee

Apaches and The Finishing Line. Two public safety films aimed at kids. In the first, kids playing on a farm die in a range of ways including drowning in a slurry pit. The second imagines a deadly school sports day on a railway line. Both available to watch online

A boy drowning in a slurry pit, only his head and hands showing

Bodies of school children in sports kit laid out on a railway line with medical staff around

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The 30amp supply to the cooker in the kitchen in one house had been nailed into it's channel behind the plaster with 3 inch OBO nails

It just amused me that the prewar technology is becoming useful again. I'm all for stylish structures everywhere. Or these

Large ear trumpets on a wheeled carriage

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I'm glad it's not just me that thinks in radio comedy references

There's just been an advert on tv for some food product called "Nutty Kitchen" with the product name being sung to the tune of Baggy Trousers by Madness. However it sounds like they're singing "Nazi Kitchen"! This is why someone not involved in the product needs to give things the once over

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I'd love an set of these drawn by Tom Gauld

Three plates depicting Martian tripods laying waste to western Surrey

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They are thinking of a version of that concept for drone detection and location, particularly for the low emission fibre optic ones. Not sure how wide an area it would cover

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I'm told it can be done painlessly as long as you keep your thumbs out of the way of the bricks

Despite being British and knowing what "fly-tipping" is, it took me far longer than it should to understand "fly-grazing"

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I know of someone installing drainpipes on a building near the perimeter of an airfield was responded to because someone on the field suspected it was a manpad and unbeknownst to the roofer, a VIP was due to land shortly

Dad was always bringing stuff home from work. That was the weirdest. There was a full 6ft tall bunch of bananas, a bucket of martini, 3 different pints of crude oil, an Aylesbury drake, some expired marine flares. I was amazed how long green bananas kept

Yes, not likely to meander and attack random parts. Digit safety was drummed into me as a kid when dad brought the tip and first knuckle of and index finger home that he'd found in the sump while servicing a generator. The oil preserved it. He gave it back to the guy who lost it next day!

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"Pruner of the Careless and Slapdash"

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There's finally a monument to the 122 boys from my school given HIV and other fatal viruses by contaminated blood. There's not a single haemophiliac from the time I was there that wasn't affected

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Thinking of starting a barrage balloon company

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Red shoots of hope? Is that the Martian red weed?

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As I was told "Gases for breathing, liquids/solids for swallowing"

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Just saying, if someone was in a rubber boat alongside another rubber boat when Border Force arrived, it's a reasonable assumption that they are acting together and that individual should be detained until their immigration status can be determined.

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They'll never see it coming!

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is it me or is it odd that wheelchair users being pushed round parkruns are classed the same as wheelchair users who push themselves?

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I'm reminded of the Spike Milligan memoir where a comrade refers to an old man "shitting in the street with no comment" and Spike retorts "What's he supposed to say? 'Olé?'"

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It's called Adopt-A-Chicken in our house

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yes, unfortunately all the really dense materials that could hide inside a card are quite expensive

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If only the cards were printed on something very heavy, like a brick

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Why, as a society, do we take people who were good at PE seriously?

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

I'm the reason my team at work has an average of 1.9 feet

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

My favourite was a week after buying a microwave from them, getting adverts for more microwaves. I don't think I need one in every room

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The very clunky Ferguson Videostar VHS recorder in the first one takes me back

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DocHackenBOOOOOsh @dochackenbush.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Gen AI can eat my farts. #art #NoAI

Graphic line illustration of a human butt farting in a robots face. Text: I SUPPORT THE HUMAN ARTS. GEN AI CAN EAT MY FARTS.

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Emergency planners have been urging people to do this for 20-odd years since I joined the profession and each time it's treated like it's novel by the media

I've had to declare tests that prove I don't have something due to "increased risk". Being tested and having it ruled out puts me at less risk than someone who's never been tested 2/2

Bought holiday insurance and had to declare the cause of my amputation as they consider it an ongoing condition as I see a prostheticist once a year to ensure it still fits. I've not received any treatment for the osteomyelitis for 27 years. 1/2

Pedestrians should definitely follow the Colregs.

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Asymmetric bobs, fisherman's jerseys and pixie boots

This has to be my favourite in Ottershaw

A telephone exchange with the sign swapped to read Elephant Exchonge

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As a minor I had my feet repeatedly sliced open and the bones smashed with a hammer and chisel (which is why I was able to walk for as long as I did)

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I met him at Stonehenge once and had a chat. Interesting chap