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Sonofrojblake

@simonpblake.bsky.social
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Chemical engineer, (former) paraglider pilot, dad who feels inadequate next to Bandit Heeler.

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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's not an attack. It's an admittedly weak, tossed-off no-effort joke about what is clearly just a trivial typo. The hyperbolic meanness of it was supposed to be part of the humour (see Mel brooks' comedy/tragedy definition). You didn't like it. Okay
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Was she fat/ugly/spotty/mad/smelly/hairy/loud/American or something?
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Properly designed ones don't. They have a thin bar called a gallery. You open wide, pop it in, relax and it just sits there. It's great.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
"It is an essential read by a writing operating at the very top of his profession" And a copy editor scraping the bottom of his...
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ding dong the other witch is dead
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I suspect that's not his real bin, it's a false one
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Ding dong, the other witch is dead
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Crook's work is - and I use this word literally - incredible.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
You could, justifiably. But Gervais's monster was a large part of it. Shame he didn't leave it there, he'd be legendary
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
It's spelled bin-far-chay, but it's pronounced throat wobbler mangrove
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I'm going to stick my neck out and say fesser is female and partner is male.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Gervais performed a great service to this country. Without him, we'd not have: Crook Freeman Merchant Ineson Davis Or at least, not as we have them now. If the price of having all that greatness is we have to have Gervais as well, I think that's a reasonable trade.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
I ... Nope. Nothing. What ? Wait. Wait, what?
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Well played sir
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Here Comes The Sun. Beatles. Makes me think of.... ... everything.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Members of Uttoxeter Flamenco Club crying into their sangria
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Any Who fan can tell you he is massive bellend. Just huge.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
That having been said I'm more than happy to believe genetics makes it harder to resist eating too much, just like genetics can make people self-destructive or stupid in other ways. Doesn't make the solution any more complicated though. Anyone pretending it's complicated is selling something
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As I said - if you can eat fewer calories than you're expending and show even weight *maintenance*, much less gain, and can explain where that weight came from, there's a Nobel prize waiting. You're on the same level as people who claim they can talk to the dead or dowse for water.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
It's funny watching young people call bullshit on something people actually alive in the 70s find plausible to the point of trivial. Not everything in the world happened after YouTube, kids.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Or, y'know... solved world hunger? Could be done for about 0.5% of Musk's net worth, yet not one of them had even tried it.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fat people and their enablers desperately need other people to believe it's really complicated. Meanwhile, the first law of thermodynamics sits there, pitilessly simple. kcal in > kcal out, fatter kcal in < kcal out, thinner Nobel prize if can change that
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I practically bloody applauded when I read that
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Respectfully disagree. A few years ago, IT website The Register reported on BMW's plan to charge a subscription for heated seats. The genius who wrote the story questioned where it would lead - limiting access to air conditioning? ... If you tolerate this, then your chilled air will be next
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
How many calories you consume isn't genetic, it's a choice. And for kids, it's not their choice.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
How dare you sir. It's the greatest film starring a Frenchman as a Scotsman who can't do the accent, an American as a Russian who can't do the accent, and a Scotsman as a Spaniard who's actually Egyptian who's the only one doing an actual Scottish accent... ever made.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Could have been worse - they might have tried making a sequel to The Matrix. Thank Bod they never did. THEY NEVER DID. See also Highlander
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Miles Davis.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Good.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
This. Kevin Phillips Bong, Slightly Silly. In all seriousness, I think this is the single most insightful thing I've ever seen you say. And I've got your book. Genius.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
And some Daleks.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
That's the great thing about being right wing... you NEVER run out of other people's money
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
They're called "terms" not "semesters", this isn't America. 😉
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
xkcd.com/1235/
xkcd.com
Settled
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
This IS getting the recognition it deserves
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Which led to this... youtu.be/3MUvVuqxUmc?...
youtu.be
LightForce : SID-Life Crysis
YouTube video by Weebl's Stuff
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
youtu.be/AFnjA0VraDQ?...
youtu.be
C64 Rob Hubbard's "Lightforce" Oscilloscope view
YouTube video by Rolf R Bakke
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Light force. Rob Hubbard is a genius
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I just now got the reference
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Anyone who's ever been trained to use a rifle knows that prone, clear daylight, no wind, 130m away with a post-1970 rifle, if you miss a target the size of the palm of your hand you are doing so deliberately
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Hell no, you must be thinking of the other place. Feels like about 20% of what I post here just saying how brilliant something is.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Amazed to learn today that that is a real place
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
This is what I come here for. This, ladies and gentlemen, this is comedy. Great work all.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Good for you.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Never skipped the intro to True Blood. Should have skipped some of the later episodes, but the intro was amazing
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
youtu.be/Y1HtCZo5LH8?...
youtu.be
Never Ever Talk About .... Rolf Harris
YouTube video by SonOfRojBlake
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Fancy dress to include: - police uniforms - firefighter gear - traffic warden uniform - burqas - kilts or any other national dress - Hawaiian shirts - any wig or coloured hair - any kind of makeup Should be fun.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
You flatter it saying it should be somewhere people can read it. I was thinking more "a USB hard drive in a landfill in Wales". Safer.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
The funny thing is, they needn't bother.
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Sonofrojblake @simonpblake.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I don't think you know what "careless" means. What I do takes great care, as I explained. But then you cited a rule that doesn't support you, and then said "of course it doesn't" then explained that it does. I think we're done here
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