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Brian

@bwianair.bsky.social

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London based woke snowflake. Interested in everything, including horror, weirdness, art, nature, science. No time for Nazis, Tories, TERFs or the like.

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Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

I mean, I'd accept that from a friend but not a stranger. People have no idea about boundaries on social media.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

So, that meal of chicken livers, huge steak and a glass of wine came to... £26. And that's in a nice hotel. It's quite cheap here.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

Yup. What's wrong with people? Barging into strangers conversations being all twatty.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

Well, aren't *you* a twat.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

No! Portions are... generous. Gym when I get back. Promise.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 13h

And 250 grams of beef with a garlic butter sauce.

A large slab of fried beef steak on a black plate with a little bowl of melted butter and garlic and some potato wedges in a basket.

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Friz(ombie!) @frizfrizzle.bsky.social · 22h

STATLER; "This funeral is so boring, I'm jealous of the guy in the coffin! Ah ha ha ha ha!"
[Statler turns to the empty chair next to him and sheds one tear]

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

I love travelling but yup, cannot wait to get home.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

Waiting for my steak to arrive now!

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

🤣

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

This is country number 5 (well, 6 if you count landing in Zimbabwe and just waiting in the plane before taking off again) and yes, day 10.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

Very glad that only lasted a couple of days.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

Last leg of the trip! Meetings tomorrow then fly to Jo'burg Thursday to get the BA flight home. I'm very tired.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 14h

Flight was delayed, been travelling all day. It's almost 10 here in Lusaka but treating myself to a decent meal at the hotel. Starting with absolutely delicious chicken livers in a thyme and lemon sauce.

A black bowl containing chicken livers in a lemon and thyme sauce, on bits of bread
topped with a sprig of thyme.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 15h

I was sat the wrong side of the plane, so that's a zoom across the aisle and out the window. 😁

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 17h

Brief layover in Harare before flying on to Lusaka. Here's Kilimanjaro. Yes, I blessed the rains, etc.

My Kilimanjaro poking out above the clouds, seen from an airplane.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 17h

I will never vote for the party opposing the Republicans.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 20h

Ok, this is *definitely* about social media

"But there's no one who speaks like that!"
"Happily. But those were times when, to forget an evil world, grammarians took pleasure in abstruse questions. I was told that in that period, for fifteen days and fifteen nights, the rhetoricians Gabundus and Terentius argued on the vocative of 'ego,' and in the end they attacked each other, with weapons."

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 21h

Umberto Eco, writing in 1980 (set in 1327). He could have been talking about social media users...

Text from The Name of the Rose.
""Therefore you don't have a single answer to your questions?" "Adso, if I did I would teach theology in Paris" 'In Paris do they always have the true answer?" "Never" william said, "but they are very sure of their errors"

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 22h

Interesting parking.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 22h

Is there anything worse than a smug, white middle class male "ex-pat" with opinions about "foreigners"?

(Yes, yes, there are many things worse than this, I know, don't @ me)

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 22h

Doesn't reduce your casual, smug racism or sexism though. Enjoy the block.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 23h

Well, that's now a must watch.

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 23h

And that's made me think of this.

youtu.be/hLgeiRO63mE?...

Not The Nine O'Clock News - Kinda Lingers

YouTube video by mwfunnybonez

Brian @bwianair.bsky.social · 23h

Bring back the stocks, I say.