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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 14h

We saw you from across the bar and we really dig your vibe. Can we buy you a drink?

A selfie of me and a large male pet rat with beige hooded markings and pink eyes

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 16h

At the time is over 20 years ago now though

Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 16h

At the time Co-op bread was the same, because it came from the same place

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 16h

The old Hovis etc method of having the actual date they expected it to go mouldy and a number of days in brackets for the retailer to remove it from sale before that was my favourite secret code.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 16h

One of the funniest things I ever read was a Calamity James strip which I don’t remember any details of except for at one point there is a jar of “pickled pig trumps” on a shelf.

This either explains why I’m like this or why I’m like this explains why it’s never left me.

Christopher Wickham @cwickham.bsky.social · 19h

On rediscovering a childhood memory of one of the funniest things I ever read. cwickham.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

Cover of the Bash Street Kids Annual 1995, depicting Plug, Danny, Spotty and Wilfred blowing soap bubbles shaped like their own heads.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 17h

“We have stopped printing best before dates on produce to fight food waste, now we are printing a letter that is coincidentally the same number in the alphabet as the current month, and a number that coincidentally is the day of the month five days from now”

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 18h

If it was possible to shit myself thin I’d never have been fat

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 20h

I bet it did, was it sent to him by the Tates?

Prosecutor Jo Morris said that Mr Lennon had used an expletive at officers and had told them that his phone contained information about "vulnerable girls"

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 20h

See? Because of me now they have a warning

An old Victorian drinking fountain in Clapham village centre

Close up of a Victorian drinking fountain, the basin it empties into is stained dark brown and surrounding parts are lighter shades of brown

Sign attached to drinking fountain which reads “WARNING THE WATER FROM THIS FOUNTAIN IS NOT OF DRINKING QUALITY”

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 21h

Coincidentally it was my wireless headphones in their case I was looking for. Fortunately there’s a “find my headphones” feature in the app which told me they were in my house so that narrowed it down.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 21h

It’s ok you can end your searching, I’ve found it.

Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 21h

Unfortunately the method I used to use for this which was to accuse my mother of stealing it until she looked up for about two seconds and said “it’s THERE” doesn’t work when I’m 30 years older and she’s on a flight to New Zealand.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 21h

Currently playing a game of “which flat surface did I put that down on, come on where is it” that some of you may recognise.

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 22h

I’m going to get one and shit in it

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

LOL

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

I can’t wait to see what hundred million dollar budget flop weirdo sex cult leader Jared Leto gets signed up for next.

IGN @ign.com · 1d

Tron: Ares disappoints with opening weekend box office below even Jared Leto's Spider-Man universe flop Morbius. https://bit.ly/43d7wxV

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Alan White @aljwhite.bsky.social · 1d

I ❤️ Viz

A letter to viz on why we should be removing British objects from people’s rectums, not foreign ones

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

Every time “we’re going to record this so anyone not here can watch it back (nobody has ever watched it back)

Modern Toss @moderntoss.bsky.social · 1d

#fuckmondays

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 1d

Went up a big hill (technically a mountain but there’s a load of paths up to the top so come on). Initially there was nobody about, then two people overtook me running up it, then at the top there was a guy riding his bike around on top blasting music so yeah you don’t get that on Everest