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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 4m

Unless Japanese Knotweed undermines the foundations of your home & causes untold damage with expensive remedies- only then do you realise that some plants are complete Bastards.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 7m

Yes, I know, & that attitude makes it even funnier ,for me at the very least.

Because if a bona fide v*rmin can get all het up about the word v*rmin I'm likely to keep on saying v*rmin.

Sticks,& indeed, stones.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 10m

Indeed.

Even during Prime Time it would still have been a flippant remark,apropos nothing.

& you know what, I reckon the alleged fox will either be clever enough to get out of where he thought it was trapped, or the scenario was entirely fictional.

Foxes aren't stupid, but radio hosts can be.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 16m

I mean let's just look at my silly Squirrel recipes & accusations of v*rmin.

You know I'm being daft - & although I will eat animals I'm not likely to be cruel to them, other than vicariously through my consumption of them.

I even like Squirrels (a bit).

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 22m

But,you see,I don't think it is.

Without context I can't really say what he meant, but it was probably a flippant remark.

Keeping a show moving in the early hours is a hiding to nothing & Ian is prone to saying silly things.

At 4am I'd probably be the same.
It's not a cancellation event.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 34m

I listen to Ian - not regularly, but enough to know that he's not 'a cunt'.

He does say some rather silly things, mostly about football, but I don't think he's malicious.

I've told the OP to call Ian & tell him he's a twit - he's amenable to taking calls & it's a much better way than
a petition.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 41m

Just call 0345 606 0973 between 4am & 7am and have a chat with Ian.
I'm sure he'd talk to you.

A petition against his unwise & daft comment is quite pointless, IMO.

He was just being what he probably thought was 'funny' at the time.

A gaff, not a recommendation for cruelty to foxes.

SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 49m

No,neither am I, but you have to think that given the relative 'expertise' of Coogan & his production team, they must have realised , even before filming, they'd made a right old mess of it.

££££s Vs integrity, I guess.

There's a lot of it about.

A bit disappointing, though.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 56m

Ian does 4am - 7am slot on LBC.

Formerly Steve Allen's slot.

It's basically Ian just rambling on between calls - & he's a funny chap - without really thinking about what he's saying.

Filling dead air space,really.

I don't really believe Ian is some sort of demented animal cruelty supporter.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 1h

I think I've watched 4 episodes of the new series, although I can't say I paid much attention to it after the first.
It was just on in the background & I'd probably not have bothered at all if I hadn't had the 'really nasty' cold/flu/covid or whatever it was.

The R4 series was actually worse.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 1h

Without Armando Iannucci the last few series have become a little bit too cringe,even for Partridge.

Lack of creative control, & sub-par scripts have parodied the parody a little too much.

I streamed the new series & I feel it might have been better if it were condensed into fewer episodes

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 2h

'Journalist'

'Newspaper'

Organ & Grinder.

That's all.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 2h

I mean what's the point of posting significant information such as this & limiting replies?

LittleGravitas, →EU immigrant, UK→ emigrant, anti-Brexit @catanonim.me · 5h

This connection has been •blindingly obvious• for æons.

I have myself made it numerous times.

» Why is it that, only now, MSM feels able to make it? «

Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 12h

Sky News, "If the government agrees, with everyone from the Bank of England, to the OBR, to their own treasury research, that Brexit is a drag on economic growth"

"And that Labour's number one priority is that very growth itself"

"Why not do something about it?"

#RejoinEU

SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 9h

Dungarees, O Magnificent Brasso, the only way left to go.

Leather, if you want to retain some kudos.

Sure,you're bound to attract some attention, but with that shiny hat no-one will dare mention the emperors new clobber.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 11h

Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy. ☆☆☆☆

Herman Melville's Moby Dick. ☆☆☆☆

Flann O'Brien's At Swim Two Birds ☆☆☆☆☆

Janina Ramirez's Femina ☆☆☆☆☆

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 13h

O's.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 13h

Seven season rice.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 18h

We're The Goodies, how do you do...

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 18h

You never see Jeremy Paxman & Dr Who in the same room.

Jeremy IS Dr Who, possibly another War Doctor.

It explains everything.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 19h

I'd rather them be poncy than not there at all.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 20h

Can't be.

Treason was levied against Charles 1,with moderate success.

SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 20h

She can be seen, shrieking as per, on GB News.

The only reason she doesn't stand out on that channel is because they all shriek, constantly.

I've no idea why other broadcasters book her.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 21h

For a first hand account of the resistance in the Balkans.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 22h

I think the Beeb are pushing so called 'smart' listening with an eye on closing the FM service.

Other broadcasters are doing the same.

No LW, No FM & probably no free-to-air TV either.

It's 'Progress', apparently.

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SiDeeply,the fallout is coming. @sideeply.bsky.social · 22h

we fall,now onwards
the light fading nightwardly
round we go again

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