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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 1h

I just checked out an ad from 1938 and ran the price through the BoE's calculators. Works out at about £90 in today's money so pretty flash for a kids' toy even back in the day.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2h

It's called being human, maybe you've erred of it

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 2h

Click the link to find out if the pic is Mr Wilson or Mr Archer

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 4h

Bill Nighy totally messed up that pun in the audiobook (he makes it into a dirty laugh) and it makes me so mad every time I get to it

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 12h

All those name-dropping anecdotes... When will the world wake up to the hit list??

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 21h

Thanks! That also accounts for the vagueness of my memory - it was probably still in use when I was taught about parliamentary procedure at school. *dissolves into dust*

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 22h

I think that one is an artefact of the procedure at PMQs isn't it? Where everyone lodges the same question about appointments because they get a follow-up question they don't have to announce in advance? I seem to remember something like that anyway.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I'm not sure any of his female patients who see him will be comforted to know he was perving over them, but I guess it's not about them 🙄

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Yeah, that's why I spent time going through dictionaries and corpora looking at how other people use the phrase to test my own instincts. It's why I've repeatedly agreed with you that your interpretation of the *intended* meaning is correct. Anyway, let's drop it.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't know if that's true in reality Vs in Putinist propaganda but he lived close by and said he used to go there regularly on business (before the war). It's certainly increased our worry about the plausibility of Russia making a play in the area.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

We were near Kaliningrad oblast a few weeks ago and we were speculating that they must be pretty "westernised", as people on the old Soviet/European border used to be. Got talking to a Lithuanian and he said no, they tend to be insanely pro-war and ultra-nationalist.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Always best to put that first. I'm sorry to hear it. And genuinely surprised because your work is consistently amazing.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Why are quote posts disabled? Have people been being dickheads?

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David Brace @davidbrace2.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

"Maple (fallen)", oil on unstretched canvas, 5 1/2 x 7", 2026 - $100(Cdn) #painting #art #canadianart

A small painting of a dried, yellow/brown maple leaf on a grey background. There's a loose blue pill and a loose white pill to the upper left of the leaf.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Sure, you didn't read it that way, and that's why the claim didn't make any sense to you. I don't think the possibility of a misinterpretation is a stretch at all (it's consistent with my own usage). Your interpretation is correct but it's very normal for people to insist on their own (mis)readings.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

(NB I'm very narrowly addressing that single reference, not anything else.)

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's the difference between "is true of antisemitism specifically" and "is especially true of antisemitism".

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The problem is linguistic. "In particular" is being interpreted as meaning "especially" rather than "including specifically". The phrase has both meanings. The intended meaning is the latter but the former is more common colloquially (some learners' dictionaries don't even include the latter sense).

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Oh god that's the second time in like a week that Rees-Mogg has made my timeline for opposing fascists. Rees-bloody-Mogg! Is he entering his Elder Statesman era?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I just refreshed my memory of it and it's extra odd because the examples given for things that are "not, on the face of it, antisemitic" constitute the strongest defence I've seen of the Green Party motion (against charges of antisemitism, that is, nothing else).

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

The motion literally called for "the establishment of a single democratic Palestinian State in all of historic Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital." Not a two-state solution. Had those people not read it?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ohh yeah probably. Thanks. How dull - I was hoping either for a curious bit of linguistic evolution or an amusing malapropism.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Tangential, for which I'm sorry, but: "baking up our officers" - I've never come across "bake up" with this usage before, and can't find any references online or in my dictionaries that fit. Can anyone help?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

It's soothing to finally have the answer though. It's annoyed me every time as I was certain it was solvable. Thank you!

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Ohhh an indirect anagram! No wonder I've never got it. Very much in keeping with the older style of crossword in the A-MT though.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor. I had no idea this even existed.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

That's a stupid claim. If you say "x is bad" it's still an expression of an opinion. Nothing objective about it. See my first sentence.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

This summer was pretty shocking. I'm getting scared about next year and what might break even here in the (so far) shielded CEE. What it could mean for more precarious regions doesn't bear thinking of - not to mention second- and third-order effects in our increasingly politically fragile world.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Without your hint I would only have thought of the wrong one tbh

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know: that made me catch my breath too.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I should preface this by saying I have no problem at all with Giancarlo's horny Pre-Raphaelite aesthetic. But yeah it's not just this picture.

Painting "The Debate", presumably the scene where Smeagol and Gollum argue over whether to kill or help Frodo. The bottom half of the picture is just churned mud and slick puddles. In the top half, Frodo, head down, lies unconscious. It's reminiscent of the painting of the Death of Chatterton. Smeagol is kneeling all but naked next to him. We see only his leg, part of his lean and muscular torso and his strong arms. The fingers of one hand are hooked into Frodo's waistband. He is evidently dragging Frodo along, but it also looks like he's clawing at his clothing.

A book cover design. On the left - the back cover - is a sword-and-staff-wielding Gandalf. On the right, a hooded, saturnine Aragorn clasps a drained-looking but stunningly beautiful Frodo, whose head is tipped back to bare his neck and a chain with the One Ring. It makes it look as though he is gazing lovingly at Aragorn. Multiple hands variously caress, embrace and claw at Frodo. It's very intimate.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Oh, good spot! Servants' bells don't really fit what Dickens describes, but it does explain where the idea came from. And would fit the idea that Scrooge lives in what were once servants' quarters.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's known as a jamerican football on this side of the pond

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I was on a ferry between Estonia and Finland and they had THREE performance spaces on the go simultaneously. It was inescapable.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

You forget how far off the rails the TikTok challenge craze got by the end, don't you?

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When mine were of the right age I did that joke so many times they automatically winced in anticipation any time they said "I'm [anything]". The joke became whether I'd say it or leave it in the air. It was *hilarious*.

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This is what I'm looking at. And trust me I didn't go fishing for data to support higher speed limits! I'm not a weirdo driver's rights wanker. I just wondered. www.gov.uk/government/s...

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Reported road casualties Great Britain, annual report: 2024

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felt smart, might delete later @outeast.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Yeah the UK has some of the safest motorways in the world, to my considerable astonishment.

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