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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

Never trust a man who pronounces "nukular".

stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Simple motto I figured out many years ago (as a long-haired youth, sometimes therefore wrongly called gay or worse): "If you have to ask, you don't need to know." Put that on bathroom doors!

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Floor plan claims that one reception room is over 131 feet wide. (Although pics seem to agree,) I'd expect* an agent to do better for the commission on nearly £2m. *not really

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Snackortunity? As in, someone at Kraft or Unilever is pitching this very thing right now

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Journalese? Although that's the whole language... so "jourd"?

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Waitrose "perfecly ripe" last week (bbe 4 Apr) were from Chile

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

A perfect word for something that's been deliberately made difficult and/or complicated for no good reason. Commercial software I worked with was often this way, in order to sell training courses.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

I've called it that for a long time. I'm not Japanese, just fond of roonerspisms and the like.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

It's a typo, he meant "beyond the stairs" - the back ones, behind the gold escalator. The ones the trafficked kids are brought up.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Responsible for my first home visit from, and my most recent visit to, a doctor, nearly 70 years apart. It never stops. (I don't swim or get them wet. Latest bout followed wax removal at hospital)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

This entire thread ought to flash up the first dozen or so times any new or occasional user tries to reply to anything. Preceded by "Are you sure?", with the Reply button disabled until they've read the whole thing, slowly. Life could be a dream...

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Not far away in the same town... designed by/for an optometrist. Hard to photograph well these days since the current owner put a hedge around it (and added other dull features).

House with two adjoining windows framed to look like eyeglasses.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Some devious small print in a DD agreement about "the account represented by this card"? Ask the bank..

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Good to see you again. Today I was clearing out some stuff after my own challenging time last year, and found an old birthday card I'd never thrown. It's your Owls gag "Actually, it's To Whom". I'm taking that as a sign to keep it.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

If what he knew was what he read in the Alt text, he's in the clear.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

I tried to do this for about 3 minutes of irreplaceable VHS. Tested the VHS machine with a different tape, bought the adaptor, checked that it worked. Put the priceless tape in the VHS which promptly chewed it up. It's still there, waiting for me to extract, disentangle and find another machine.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

For a moment there I thought you were talking about curling. Dogs on an ice rink? Next it will be flamingos on the croquet lawn...

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Eating, not cooking. Betcha this character doesn't know how to cook eggs, or steak for that matter. Perhaps the wife he married so early does it for him? Like she* does everything else? Now I want to hear her* view... *or he/his.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

All the best recipes include my favourite ingredient, WYHLA* *(Whatever You Have Lying Around)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

I find it easy to resist now. All I have to do is remember what overpriced, poor-quality crap everything I ever bought through IG turned out to be. It only took four lessons.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Tony Bliar didn't become PM until the graf reached 1997 incidents. I rembeber it well.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Also now Barbie&Barbie, a chemicals company offering a range of lubricants and water displacement products. ...or so I just read ;)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Chorus: Oh, THAT kind of WD40! (Chorus thinks: I've never seen that kind of WD40...)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

So he belongs in a Reformatory. Sentencing takes a while these days, y'know.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Maybe not. As written, that line denies all of those that follow. So this could have been a deliberate look-how-clever-I-am sleeper-cell signal all along. Though it *is* more likely that she's an ignorant chancer like all the others.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Driving into London yesterday after reading this thread I passed a sign "Gallows Corner closed for works" and wondered if they were upgrading the gallows.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

You're right. So the fact that I've only noticed them between April and August, and that in the last 15 years, is perhaps more on me than on them. But... "...resident in the milder west of its range, but migrates from colder regions." Sensible birds!

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Goldfinches already? I don't see them till April!

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Could try "bonds" but that might bring something else you don't want

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

He was like this long before dementia. They knew all the time, and must have signed up willingly. (Revision of my earlier opinion that he threatened or bullied them all, there are just too many)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Shouldn't you be at home, working on a book proposal?

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Quantities? "Whatever you have of each?" (Note to self, ingredient 4 is prob UK "icing sugar", NOT "itching powder" as first read)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Local council website will know. Might take some finding though...

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I didn't have space to write all that, but yes. Countries on Earth are usually named after a dominant tribe or leader (often the same thing if we look back far enough). Places named by SF aliens get called whatever the writer was looking at, with no backstory. "Tattooine? Where we filmed it."

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

I want some of that sweet & sour popcorn, and I haven't seen it in the shops. I don't suppose they'd let you post their recipe?

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

In SF stories, our human home planet is called Earth (or Terra/Terror to display some classical knowledge or make a point), but all other planets are known to their inhabitants by polysyllables with no meaning. Perhaps I should write one about a space war after which ours is renamed Blue Mars?

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Expanding the bounds of what "comics" can do (again)

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

DM me next year, you can have your lifetime allowance of walnuts from my tree.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

During WW2, Noel Cowerd wrote "London Pride" to the tune of the German national anthem but with a jaunty rhythm. I always liked the tune, never quite knew why until I learned that.

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

As a licensed pedant I'm obliged to point out that the phrase "substitute for" (instead of e.g. "substitute with") makes the complaint mean exactly opposite of what I presume was intended. Not clear whether it's a quote or Daily Fail laziness (see also the quotemarks around 'virtue-signally').

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stuartjames2001.bsky.social @stuartjames2001.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

As in apartheid-era South Africa, where the signs designating park benches, train carriages etc. as "Whites only" or "Non-whites only" were often worded as "Europeans only" and "Non-Europeans only". Most of the white rulers had never been to Europe.

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