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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 20h

I think somebody put something in my drink. #TOTP

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 21h

It's been quite the week. Cheers!

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 22h

Home five minutes before it started chucking it down. #winning

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 23h

It's just a bit slim pickings really. And you don't want to end up with a Dr Oetker or something.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 23h

There are very few pizza places near me that do one with non-dairy cheese so it's normally either homemade or frozen. I've not made my own dough for a while actually, I should get on that.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Friday night is pizza night. No exceptions.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Dad's stock was random. Timber, screws and nails etc, paraffin, creosote, pet food, bicycle inner tubes, batteries, mugs featuring a lady whose clothes disappear with a hot drink in it, clothes dye, gas bottles, soda stream, the forbidden soft toy... And if he didn't have it, he'd order it.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Sounds like fifteen minutes well spent.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

My mum and dad ran an independent hardware shop for 40 odd years. Businesses like theirs are a dying breed more's the pity.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Edibles weren't a thing back in the day unless you baked them yourself.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I think the grapefruit spoons had to be bought with a credit card for age verification purposes. It would have been about ten years ago. Conversely I was allowed to buy an eight inch chef's knife last year so long as I didn't use gift vouchers and could prove my age to the delivery guy.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That's what they said as I was digging out their eyes.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That was supposed to be alt-text. I'm not firing on all cylinders today. It has been a week.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

John Thomson in the Jazz Club skit from the Fast Show. He is smoking a cigarette, makes the okay symbol with his hand and says "Nice".

Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I once had to prove my age to order grapefruit spoons. What did they think I was going to do, dig someone's eyes out?

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I think I mostly enjoyed him on the telly because it was daft, and felt quite chaotic for the era. That and Hot Gossip, for reasons I didn't yet fully understand.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

They don't make em like they used to. You'd only have to give modern cheap stuff a stern look to dismantle it.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Same. If we ever have a meal where gravy is involved my wife will tell me to "get that face off". The only positive to a meal with mash, veg and gravy is it means you can make bubble with the leftovers.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

It's been a long time since I've had anything mind altering but booze. I'm not sure that I wouldn't end up with THE FEAR™ these days.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

In my defence, I was probably about 9. I can't imagine his humour aged terribly well.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

First single you bought with your own money. No Lying! 10p from the bargain bin upstairs in WH Smiths if memory serves.

The cover of Kenny Everett's Snot Rap. It features him dressed as his character "Sid Snot" wearing a leather hat and jacket, and sunglasses.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

That takes all the fun out of it. I like to imagine a cottage industry of people called Jules desperate to get into the lucrative skin pic market.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Are they bot driven or one very determined creator? Or do women called Jules somehow feel drawn to the trade?

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I had a different Jules. There's a lot of it about.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I thought it was made up until I saw it had a wikipedia page.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

I'm only here to chat shit and complain about old episodes of Top of the Pops. I don't much care for arguing with Nazis.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Just heard @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social on the Top Comment podcast saying that Bluesky is an echo chamber where everyone agrees with each other. Clearly she's never witnessed British food discourse.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Marrowfat also get a pass, although I don't know why you'd want them.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

When the kids were little we'd sometimes buy peas and carrots in a jar for camping. Tasted no different but made us feel fancy.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I am very much of the not mentioning Christmas until December mentality, but if you need the delivery slot get it booked! Don't make life difficult for yourself later on.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

I will be easily identified then. Mine are fucked.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's a definite bonus when you can bugger off for a week and leave them at home without social services getting involved.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Ha, yeah. Our current cat is pretty chill but we've had some proper dickheads.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

The logistics of reproduction concern me. Did a cockerel stand on a ladder? The other way round doesn't bear thinking about.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Aside from the financial hit, it comes to a point where you just want a full night's sleep.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

A buffalo chicken? What kind of peculiar hybrid animal is that? Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

It's as well digital cameras weren't a thing in George's day. Utter filth.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

My 46 year old colleague is currently off on paternity leave and bugger that. My wife's manager is early fifties and his partner is expecting a baby. Double bugger that.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Flaccid? It was riddled with broken glass, which would take more than Sigmund to patch up if it was a substitute for something else.

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Simon (only spookier) @winklesbloke.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

Saw a thing by a nutritionist the other day listing the top 20 protein sources. Number one was tofu. I bet those dads don't try to get their kids to eat that.

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