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The ants are my friends They're blowing in the wind

Curious, isn't it? "People should be free to make whatever choices they wish!" Apart from people in boats, against whom the full force of the state must be applied.

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Cue the Fume! You'd be able to warm a sizeable family home throughout the winter with the heat generated by the incandescent rage.

Controlled by whom and for what purpose? (Directed at him, not you). What an entitled arse. (ditto).

I do wonder whether he ever shared these views about keeping immigrants on an offshore island for2-3 years with Sir Viv Richards or Joel Garner?

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Around the world in 80 lays?

IHT is the fairest of all taxes because those whose accumulated wealth is taxed don't pay it. It's actually paid by those who inherit the wealth, who didn't actually do anything to accumulate the wealth in the first place. To the beneficiaries it's an effortless windfall and should be taxed as such

I strongly suspect that the unintended consequences here are completely intended. That or the Tories don't mind even further buggering up the property market if it means votes for them from dithering pensioners.

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And fart noises. Kids love their dad doing fart noises.

That gag is over 50 years old, and I'm still laughing at it. Cartoons are great.

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You don't say! *for the unaware this was my favourite Rosemay gag on Hong Kong Phooey: Rosemary is taking a call but we can only hear her side of the conversation. Three times she squeals: "You don't say!!!" Then the Lieutenant asks "What did he say?" Rosemany: "I don't know: he didn't say"

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I do like a dark beer. Would be curious enough to try it. Had a pleasing pint of Vanilla Porter at Northern Monk Refectory in Manchester a few days ago.

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Loved him as Eric Swan in the movie FM. Which coincidentally has one of the greatest sound tracks of all time.

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She met a string of s'lebs in the job, including Bob Mortimer, Tom Jones, Alan Brazil (I know, I know) and Orlando Bloom. Quite the gig.

Cort Jr used to work on the tech team for a firm who recorded / distributed podcasts. One day she got a call from @markhamillofficial.bsky.social, no less, asking for help uploading something he'd recorded to their platform. And I'm sat there saying to Jr , like "sorry ***WHO*** called you today?"

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Which is rather lovely, really. If you'd told the eight year old me Ms Gori and I would be following each other on BlueSky in 2026 I'd have been utterly puzzled, but if you'd been able to explain it to me in 1973, I'm sure I'd have been deeply thrilled. I still am.

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I'll have you know that I am a mutual on here with Miss @kathygori.bsky.social who was the VO for Rosemary on Hong Kong Phooey. Copper-bottomed true story.

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The theme tune was ace (as was the one for Robinson Crusoe). Can't remember a thing about the serial, though.

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Oh aye. I'd have been about 5 at the time. I still have a thing about ditzy blondes at 60.

Sounds like a part of The Aristocrats gag, for those that know. "And then, Michael Jackson himself moonwalks on stage, drops his trousers and attempts to fuck my seven year old son up the ass!"

On the bus. Gylfi in the car in front, do you reckon?

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I guess they think they can. But even Johnson was careful to avoid being kebabbed by Andrew Neil the last time he stood for PM.

The Dame Edna appearance was weird. He must have known he was going to be savagely satirised, so why do the show? Ego, I guess.

The Man With The Golden Bum

Yer ma, apparently Etc etc

Aye, aye, Donald Trump's had a pint of Boddingtons. (Hom, not you).

I think Thatcher, for all her faults, saw right through him. She saw his value to the party, which is why she stuck him on the rubber chicken circuit to fluff up the members. But she never let him near the levers of serious power. I often think Thatcher would have done the same with Boris Johnson.

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It's curious that those in favour of vigilante groups and the death penalty in wider cases would probably be very anti- it in this specific one, for some reason that currently escapes me.

"Stands the church clock at ten to three And the pubs are all shut, no good for me"

"Allegro rusting in the drive The shops all shut at quarter past five..."

UEA = University of East Anglia. I've often thought there ought to be a university in Liverpool whose initials are RAU. #niche

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As I kid I thought they were called the Middlewich Cuckoos and the whole thing was real and set in neighbouring Cheshire. I'd have been about 8.

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