Dr Throttling
@drthrottling.bsky.social
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Screenwriter, drinks maker, baseball fan and GM to four impoverished travellers
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This Buffy Fish Owl has exactly the same expression I had on my face when I got to its home in Borneo. #addBirder #Birds #Borneo #UtanRainforestLodge
This Buffy Fish Owl has exactly the same expression I had on my face when I got to its home in Borneo.
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More than fair. Next question - Tim Jago was convicted on eight counts of sexual assault on minors and received 2 1/2 years in prison - Fair?
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I have moved to a tiny village where 90% of my neighbours are Māori and, unless they are playing the long game by bringing me all these cakes and scones, I have never been made so welcome in my life. Ignorance and fear are truly corrosive to community health, connection and happiness.
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I'm a middle aged white man who lives in Aotearoa New Zealand. Many people there have a knee-jerk distrust of Māori because they presume they will be left out of any community decisions.... 1/2
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Next time an institution tells you how seriously it takes research misconduct, ask them if it's *this* seriously. www.bmj.com/content/297/...
In 1916 the BMJ published an article about the work done by James Shearer, an American physician working in the British Army as a sergeant (because he had no British qualification). He had described a
"delineator" which was better than x rays for portraying gunshot wounds. This caused a sensation and a lot of interest — but on investigation the work was found to have been invented. The BMJ published a retraction, but Shearer was tried by court martial and sentenced to death by firing squad.
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“I used to run an airline” - into the ground you colossal twat.
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There are so many benefits to being a freelancer. Having sackloads of cash, sadly, isn’t one of them though.
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Hell yeah - I’ve read too many accounts of being forced to nibble on your shoes to wish that to be part of my journey.
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Which, as an ex-hospo veteran, is the gravest of crimes.
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Dear god, you’re spot on! I had a brief relationship with a gorgeous and ludicrously wealthy girl ages ago. Our relationship came to a swift end when she clicked her fingers for the waitress. (I worked 25 years as a bartender - I knew it did not bode well)
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That would be a gamechanger. Not holding breath but fingers crossed
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I have never had a bad night out in Chicago! Visited in ‘88 and fell in love with baseball and the Cubs so insisted my (NZ) wife and I went there on honeymoon. Epic nights out - barely ever paid for a drink either!
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2/2… ‘Ronald Reagan is a Wanker’ on it. A number of folk came up to us to thank us for displaying our ‘patriotic values’ without fear of commie backlash.
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Gold! I’d love to think there was a poorly treated UK writer in the room who popped the name in and everyone liked the sound of it. I was in the US in ‘88 and a friend wore a bald eagle shirt ironically so I got a t-shirt made with…. 1/2
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What a fabulous look!! I found and destroyed all the photos of myself at that age because I looked like a colossal tool. Also miss smoking like mad though (25 years of not doing so)
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If I lived in Minneapolis I’d be voting right alongside you. I visited a million years ago (1988) and found the citizens absolutely delightful. From Aotearoa New Zealand so ‘Kia Kaha’ to you both.
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Do you remember the episode of M+M when there was a character called Arnold Wanker? And, whenever he appeared, everyone referred to him by both his first and surname. My siblings and I near burst our seams laughing!
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And the word 'patties' as the final, insulting cherry on that particularly shitty cake.
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Imagine this scenario. I met a lady who wants her 8 year-old boy to really enjoy his creative writing classes. I suggested she get him into a role playing game BUT pref not D&D because she’d have to DM and she’d never heard of it(?!?). Does anyone have a child friendly RPG suggestion for a busy mum?
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Thank you both - it'll be my own private pleasure then. I remember seeing the original when I was 15 and I almost peed my cinema seat. Cheers to you.
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2/2...and he reckoned "1 1/2". Presumably meaning three every ten minutes, I hope. Up until now I had the Alpaca Scale as the measure of true fitness but your GoatFeat™ might just top it. 10/10 for your feats of strengths.
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Very impressed. A friend owned alpacas but, not on their usual rocky mountainside so her husband had to wrestle them to the ground once a month to clip their toenails. Cute but irascible these creatures. I asked her husband how many alpacas he could wrestle to the floor in five minutes 1/2
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Is it good? My wife decided to drop out after ep 1 but my brother-in-law thinks it’s genius. Both of them have suspect tastes - I’m on the fence after ep 1 (the whole Peter Pan thing rather bored me) but should I plow on?
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I loathe the fact that, should a female PM consistently wear clothes one size too small for her, she would be pilloried 24/7 and be constantly asked questions about her weight etc etc ad infinitum.
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Absolutely the suit thing! Can afford a tailor yet wears suits one size too small for him and struts around the world representing our country while looking like a total ninny.