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- The birth of my brother
- The death of my grandfather
- The rejection of Kirsty Gallagher
- Feelings I didn’t know what to do with for Emma Oldes’ mom
- The Iranian Embassy Siege

Piers @pierscooper.bsky.social · 1d

What five events defined your childhood?

Wedding of Charles and Diana
Falklands War
Miners’ strikes
Challenger explosion
Poll tax riots

Dotty @fizzandnonsense.bsky.social · 2d

What five events defined your childhood?

Elvis dying
Parents getting a landline
Pans People being replaced with Ruby Flipper (dad was LIVID)
Launch of Channel 4
The miners' strike

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

There were some films when I was in my late teens we’d see repeatedly. My friends would learn and repeat the lines. Not me though, even with my limited natural social skills I thought that was probably annoying. They were very young lad films though.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Gone the way of the nunchucks.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

You don’t see friends with older brothers that are into Jean-Claude Van Damme anymore.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

I wonder what makes a detainee, and what makes a hostage. Is there something in the BBC style guide?

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Not sure. Giving them a week.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

I expect they’re watching it in Nicam Stereo, and that’s a contributing factor.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t know what they’re watching next door but it sounds dramatic. I hope it turns out well in the end.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Hah

Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Don’t know what the fireworks are about.

Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · Sep 5

Wonder what the fireworks are about. I’m rubbish at knowing what fireworks are about.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Exactly.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

I wish I was an intellectual. I wouldn’t be worrying about this at all. I’d be listening to Radio 3 with my eyes closed.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Maybe they need breaking.

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

Collected the new glasses again, different lenses. One pair I can see better than the other in, but neither pair as well as my old pair that have been broken for two years.

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Helen @internethelen.bsky.social · 1d

The real price is standing over the sink with soggy paper up your thumbnails

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Rob @bopterror.bsky.social · 1d

They said it’s going to be warm the last couple of days, sunny even. Thankfully I’m hardy.

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