Marktech
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Let me have books about me that are fat. Tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse. Life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.
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Responses beginning "So..." very commonly fail the waffle test, and this is no exception; the simplest response is to discourage the behaviour by pointing this out and muting.
Tweet from Coolee Bravo @BravoCoolee - 

Twitter the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted. 
You can say "I like pancakes" and somebody will say "So you hate waffles?" 
No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talkin about
Yeah but say you're on a beach and someone's been stung in the eye by a jellyfish
The only time in the entire history of the world that The Archers has ever been described as 🔥Hot
I was just going to point out that my father-in-law, at the time Chief Aerodynamicist at British Aerospace in Woodford, took the spoiler off the car he'd just bought because it was useless below closed-circuit speeds. So if the film referenced in the joke above is about racing, then obviously 1/163
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you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you
Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text:

Episcopalians on Facebook
Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h •
Exodus 8:2-6
"But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs...
The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."
So hard to photograph but
incredible to see
I was very occasionally bloody-minded when I was a kid, and I can imagine myself solemnly writing my homework using every one of the words in this AI slop and daring the teacher to mark me down for it.
I was minded to reply here, but I wanted to illustrate it and long story short I've spent the last twenty minutes just reading Krazy Kat Sunday strips, and to be honest that's probably the best result all round
Oh I'm sure you create an atmosphere. Sitting on your own without a laptop, not being silent.
The camo could come in useful when you're on the way back from the boathouse and you see your tutor coming
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So, people are going to have to pass A level english to live here are they? I hope they study what I did at A level, Translations by Brian Friel, about the colonial evil of the English forcing people to adopt the English language
"...in a moment of overenthusiastic gardening..."
Sir Norman Fry off of Little Britain reading his apology
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Milei looks like all the cast of Are You Being Served in one
I use mine as a PIN, because it'll probably be the last thing to go 💀
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Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this
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But one of the best things his work has given rise to, at least as far as teenagers of the 1980s are concerned, is that video. And one of the best things I’ve found about *that* is the Dazed article, in which Donald Sutherland talks about how he got the gig – and about Kate Bush being wasted:
Donald Sutherland: “Barry Richardson, who was the hairdresser on Nic Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, asked me if I’d do a music video with Kate Bush. I told him no and we went on to other conversations. A couple of days later there was a knock on my door. I lived in the Savoy Hotel (in London). On the river. Suite 312. I loved it there. So cosseted. So private. Only the floor butler rang the door. I opened it. There was no one there. I heard a voice saying hello and I looked down. Standing down there was a very small Kate Bush. Barry had told her where I lived. What can you do? She wanted to explain what her video was about. I let her in. She sat down, said some stuff. All I heard was ‘Wilhelm Reich’. I’d taken an underground copy of his The Mass Psychology of Fascism with me when I went to film (Bernardo) Bertolucci’s Novecento in Parma. Reich’s work informed the psychological foundations of Attila Mellanchini, the character Bernardo had cast me to play. Everything about Reich echoed through me. He was there then and now he was here. Sitting across from me in the person of the very eloquent Kate Bush. Synchronicity. Perfect. She talked some more. I said OK and we made ‘Cloudbusting’. She’s wonderful, Kate Bush. Wonderful. I love that I did it. (What do I remember) about doing it? I remember being in the car and the hill and them taking me, taking Reich, away and looking back through the back window of the car and seeing her, seeing Reich’s son Peter, standing there. And I remember the first morning on set seeing her coming out of her trailer smoking a joint and I cautioned her, saying she shouldn’t smoke that, it’d affect her work, and she looked at me for a second and said she hadn’t been straight for nine years and I loved her.”
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If Tommy robinson was a journalist he wouldn’t have thousands in cash and a flash car
Proper laugh at that. God, yes. (Hate the novels, like some of the poems.)
The Odyssey with a laugh track. People shouting "Play 'Scylla And Charybdis'!"
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'A work of art does not answer questions, it provokes them; and its essential meaning is in the tension between the contradictory answers' - Leonard Bernstein
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Today I was thinking about small kindnesses, simple inexpensive things that brighten a day, and I thought about how the receptionist at my school saved me from humiliation in front of the Headmaster on account of having left my belt in a vase.
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