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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 39m

Reprising his crown court role as a gay antiques dealer

Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 51m

I remember discovering them first through books and when I was kid convinced the pronounciation was Plant-a-genet and plantag-enet was very very wrong

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 53m

That looks like the sort of bed you’d find Mdm Fanny in allo allo in

James Wright @jpwarchaeology.bsky.social · 1h

The Georgian appearance of the Bailhouse Hotel in Lincoln masks a mid-14th century open hall with a crownpost roof. This sums up everything that my next book will be about: The Buildings Archaeologist - Discovering the Secrets of Britain's Ancient Buildings. Out summer 2026 🏰✒️

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 57m

Due to some shenanigans involving rolling out the national curriculum every year I was at middle school I studied the tudors. When I hit high school and we did “the tudors” I walked through the whole module

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1h

God this is amazing

Justin Decloux @declouxj.bsky.social · 1h

I've been reading a lot of people putting down Debbie Stevens' rocking songs in Michael J. Murphy's TORMENT (1990) down... and I have to say those naysayers are wrong! This is the best audio approximation of STREETS OF FIRE music to ever come out of North End, Portsmouth UK.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 1h

Is masud still doing standup? Haven’t heard anything from him in a while (which may just be moving in different circles)

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Alison @alisondennison.bsky.social · 4h

Nearly finished my Doc Martin rewatch and Joe Penhale has come to visit with some of his "favourite games"

Police officer Joe Penhale in Doc Martin stands in the kitchen doorway to the surgery, happily brandishing some board games he's brought. The top one is "Chimp Carnage - a game for all the family. Play from four years and above and try to calm down all the chimps before the time is up!" "Everyone's gone banana's (sic)"
There's a big pic of a happy cartoon chimp face

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

About 14. I had my growth spurt quite early. Summer of my first year of high school

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

No. There’s one substitution there. Swapping seal for meal. 2 substitutions becomes unwieldy. If that’s your punchline enjoy it but it’s not mine

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

Can’t stand the suggestive yellow horrors

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 3h

This is democracy manifest

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Kevin Wardrop @handle.invalid · 4h

So there's an alt-text:

“What’s the charge? Eating a seal?”

Image shows 4 men attempting to load a polar bear into a crate or cage while the bear looks towards the camera with a kind of amiable and incredulous expression on its face, with a paw out towards the camera as if addressing it.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4h

The blueprint of the enterprise had a ten pin bowling alley above the shuttle bay which really seals this idea

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4h

I thank you

Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4h

“Chinese seal” isn’t a phrase so I decided to err on the side of giving the audience the time for the gag and as you say make the connection

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 4h

I did debate that a bit but decided to let the audience supply that bit leaving a neater bit of text

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

Indeed

Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

Oh that’s a very good point

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

I thank you

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

It’s very annoying that he’s managed to basically be zaphod beeblebrox but you’d never want to cast him as that

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

Home bargains

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

Post you from a different era.

This is 2002 (we are on a lot of drugs in this photo A LOT)

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 5h

Were you still in manc at this point

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 6h

Some very nasty nasty stuff started turning up that led to a numbers of deaths and getting hold of “stuff” became much much harder. So people started casting around and hit on legal highs as an alt

Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 6h

Yeah. The entire club drug trade was controlled between Glasgow/Belfast and Amsterdam and largely funded the unionists. The govt turned a blind eye to it. Good Friday happened and they decided to finally break the cartel. Which they did. Everything dried up around 01.

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