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Lawrence of Arabica ☕

@anxiousfutsie.bsky.social

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Judge Dredd, Star Trek, Halo, spicy food, maths, chess. Anxiety and Existential Angst specialist. I don't entirely trust gravity, maybe you shouldn't either. 📍UK

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · Mar 18

I've been rewatching Star Trek the Next Generation lately. I still love it. I've noticed a few recurring themes that pop up. So this will be my thread of common Next Generation plots ... In no particular order ...

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 19h

..right winger, when I'm definitely not. So yea that's my question, do you think of laurel leaves / laurel wreaths as being inherently right wing symbols? Cheers

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 19h

Question time.. do you guys think of laurel leaves / laurel wreaths as being a right wing thing? I was considering getting one in my next batch of tattoos, but I saw something that suggested some right wingers might use them. I wouldn't want to inadvertently make myself look like some sort of ..

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Now I have a wrong version of that song in my head

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Dammit now I'm so riled up I can't get back to sleep. The scars from being done so dirty last night are still too raw

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

True but then the ending - not showing us Divani's decision was the muggiest but of TV production I've ever seen #MAFSUK

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

Love their language. Our youngest calls gravestones "death signs" 💀

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

A stirring image depicting the time st. George got hammered then defeated the.... Tyrannosaurus rex (?!) .. in his WW2 era bi-plane. Brings a tear to the eye.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

@grok is this true? /s

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 1d

I know what you mean.. it starts about food and "taterised" made me think some disgusting revelation involving potatoes was coming...

a close up of a person with the words " what 's taters precious " on the bottom

ALT: a close up of a person with the words " what 's taters precious " on the bottom

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

Dam that poppyflation has gone out of control lately.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

She joked: "We've got poppy fatigue!"

'Poppy fatigue'... That's sailing too close to disrespecting the war dead for my liking.
As Samuel Johnson said, when a man is tired of performative poppy displays, he is tired of life.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

Likewise for "nice guys"... The thing is it isn't really for you to say whether or not you are a nice guy, it depends on the judgement of those you interact with, not your own rubber stamp of it.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

See I have a theory that the more someone says they are a thing, the less likely they are to actually be that thing. It's like people with "free thinker" in their profile who usually turn out to be the exact opposite, and just believe everything their right wing influencer videos tell them...

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

"in my defence, I was also friends with every other wrongun from the last 30 years.."

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

Great stuff! A noble tradition

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

The most toothless threat I've ever read.. vampires threaten to drain fewer victims unless their demands are met...

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 2d

Tough little ship

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Yea that could've been written yesterday

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Halo

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

*read them to our eldest, I mean.

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

I read one of Matt Haig's Christmas books (The Girl Who Saved Christmas, A Boy Called Christmas, Father Christmas And Me, A Mouse Called Mika) at bedtime for the weeks running up to Christmas for a few years in a row. That was good. Our youngest is a Dr Seuss fan so likes the grinch

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Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 3d

Tbf he's probably hiring too

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 4d

Stick a couple of teaspoons of mustard powder in there as well, to recreate a nostalgic mustard gas ambience

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 4d

All those achievements will be lost (the second they remove them from their sleeves)... Like tears in the rain

Lawrence of Arabica ☕ @anxiousfutsie.bsky.social · 4d

North or south of the border we just seem to have some sexy AF flags on this island