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Rick Welch

@sossidge.bsky.social
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trying not to fuck the planet or anyone else up… enjoying beer, music and wildlife along the way. Optimist that we’re finally past peak-right-wing-arsehole?

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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 7h
thanks, yep just about within my budget, guess it’s only the price of five sought-after albums. I would indeed rather go for something I won’t outgrow… cheers!
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 8h
apologies if you’ve mentioned it before and I missed it, but can you share a link to your cleaner please…? (wary of spending without a real recommendation)
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Saw Rees-Mogg when Truss was PM and he was getting pelters, running the gauntlet in Birmingham. Just seen him again, and it was glorious. No-one giving him a second glance… irrelevant, powerless and just an embarrassment
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
where’s that nob who said: The only good thing about Birmingham is Nando’s?
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
was thinking earlier that mebbz A House need to rewrite Endless Art with still-alive-artists
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Jeffrey Archer… actually dead or just more lies to enrich himself? does he have a new book out? #oxford
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
nobody gets jailed for allegations
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
loving all the hot takes about Birmingham from political journos - keep telling me more about the ways £800m funding cuts since 2010 have made Birmingham not as good as London or Manchester
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the Hyatt hotel rooms that these arseholes peered out of this morning would greet them with bumper to bumper exhaust fumes and utter gridlock, ooh but hang on it’s far more pleasant all round now private vehicles are banned from that stretch of Broad St
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
seems like a slight overreaction by him…
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
remind me not to go to breakfast at tiffani’s
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Greens are effectively 17/2 on Betfair, which is an efficient market rather than a bookie with a pencil (in case you are putting a tenner on on the side)
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ian Duncan Smith - August 2023 announced that he fully supported Kevin Rees’ and other blade runners actions against Ulez cameras. I can find no record that his opinion has changed since then.
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
or “laff at the dog” but no clue on the preceding “job” line. Jeez
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I thought Theresa May’s dancing was in Africa?
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
looks like “tripped on a bull” - b very similar to others on the page …. last verse looks identical to what we know apart from an attempted rhyme of job & bog (handwriting deteriorating even from the top of the page)
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
and later I had junk in a bag, the welcome to save - the way it looks, but scarcely makes any sense or even rhyme; gawd knows
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
ah, fifteen years… probably about right. Hopefully that will be a deterrent to other potential killers
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
this guy took 17 years to get a #hmhb Footprints reference… took me those 17 plus another 16. my excuse is that I can’t stand The Doors and always switch them off #golfclubs
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
give it six months then listen to the audiobook - extraordinary
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
US ten-year borrowing was 4% earlier in the year, but has edged above 5.3% this morning… could really be some serious shit brewing
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
it could definitely be the starting point for a philosophical debate or even a thesis… I lose track week by week on whether the far right love Jews or want them all dead again?!
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Ed Miliband getting a bit of heat on Twitter for •checks notes• expressing relief that all the plane passengers didn’t die…
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
“you lost, get over it” as brexiteers are so keen on saying…
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
there’s still a sub-section of the population who don’t say “uber” or “taxi” but instead “I’m gonna get a Joe”
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It is just insane. At least one car every minute of the day, and it only bastard leads to a no-vehicle tramway. I reported someone on 2nd September driving six weeks after MoT expiry but I’m expecting NFA
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
not seen Burnham’s speech yet…. did he open with “myyyyyyyyy mother-in-law……” ?
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Danny Tommo refused bail - trial 1st of March ! hurrah
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
RIP Mighty Sparrow
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
is it Gerard Depardieu?
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I thought the comedy festival was last month…?
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
look forward to hearing about the world of jo twist
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
how long to see a hundred of these in Birmingham? less than an hour, I reckon
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
can never trust anyone who uses five syllables “one hundred per cent” when a simple “yes” is quicker and clearer, but now the fuckers have started writing it as “100pc” rather than “100%” . arseholes
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
ta, got it now, just thought they were being suitably strange
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
voting Restore in… two and a half years time?!
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
King Kurt split #bananabanana
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
they usually have yellow paint on the floor where pitch is visible and you can’t take your drink
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
tho she couldn’t exactly ban alcohol in stadia as the big breweries were huge tory donors at the time
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
there has never been an in-stadium ban. Thatcher passed a law that you can’t drink “in sight of the pitch” so you can drink unlimited amounts if your eyeline is blocked by metal screens. Utterly absurd, but she didn’t really understand the working class, football… so many things
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
who shot what, who? a bazooka was who, and to my surprise it was the S1Ws - blackshorts in the hour of chaos at Basingstoke Jail
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Russell Parker @pussellrarker.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Such a sad decline from his Sherlock/Doctor Strange heyday www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow...
glasgowlive.co.uk
Burst Cumbernauld sewage pipe leaves smelly 'Pringles tube sized keech' on path
The issue is said to have been reported to Scottish Water after a pipe burst, spewing raw sewage onto the path behind Drumpellier Gardens.
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I think the polls with Reform at 30% were the ones they faked
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
their concentration in certain areas and minimal chance of seats in Scotland, Wales and big cities spread this out too thinly. There was never a scenario of their winning 326 seats, in my opinion. We’ll have to agree to differ.
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
not sure who told you this. Reform majority has never been higher than a 30% chance on Betfair and is now less than 10%.
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
there has never been a time when polls suggested Reform would win the most seats. Yes, they were highest percentage for a few months but this doesn’t convert proportionately into seats, fairly obviously
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
you’ve got to have a laugh…
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
oops, I’ve embarrassed myself here… that was Cupid Stunt. Cunning Stunts has definitely been a popular pub quiz team name since at least the nineties tho
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
borrowed from Kenny Everett half a century ago tho…
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Rick Welch @sossidge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
surely ITVX has room to put the whole lot on…? I’d be hooked for a fortnight. Feels like it has never really been repeated in full?
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