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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 44m

Imagine the life-long cocktail of ignorance, arrogance and obliviousness, for a man with the face of Jeremy Clarkson, to pass unsolicited commentary on someone else’s appearance…

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bundgaardf.bsky.social @bundgaardf.bsky.social · 21h

I am living for the sumo wrestlers having fun playing tourists while preparing for the sumo tournament in London

Sumo wrestlers having fun posing with Stonehenge

Sumo wrestlers posing like The Beatles on Abbey Road

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milo @notthatmilo.bsky.social · 2h

I would've sworn this was AI if I hadn't seen the news this week

Rikishi outside Beigel Bake on Brick Lane holding carrier bags from Fortnum and Mason

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BUCKERS @deathofbuckley.bsky.social · 4h

Halloween? x

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 7m

Ha! Spot on.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 8m

Saying that, I sold my lovely old BMW via FB earlier this year. I was able to find an FB selling group for that specific model, so only got enquiries from serious buyers. Sold it for twice what webuyanycar.com had offered!

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 9m

I rarely post on FB now. My ‘feed’ is deluge of suggested pages rather than news from friends.

I was prolific on it in back in the early days (2007-2019), as I’d only just moved back to the UK from the US, and most of my life/friends was still stateside, so it provided a good communication tool.

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 14m

Yeah I agree on all that. I’ve only just recently learned to move them once they’re in the water so they don’t stick to the pan.

I lower them into the pan one at a time, via a tiny Chinese bowl, in the hope the whites won’t disperse sodding everywhere.

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 16m

I”m staying in, doing music stuff for the band, and (unusually for me) doing a bit of baking.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 18m

Fewer betting shops, leeching money of those who can least afford to gamble, sounds like a good thing.

newsbeep.bsky.social @newsbeep.bsky.social · 8h

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred

https://www.newsbeep.com/194695/

Britain’s second-biggest taxpayers will close their entire estate of nearly 1,300 betting shops if Rachel Reeves increases gambling…

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred - News Beep

Britain’s second-biggest taxpayers will close their entire estate of nearly 1,300 betting shops if Rachel Reeves increases gambling taxes in the budget, The

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 25m

As others have said, as you’re presenting it, instead of that Tory lickspittle Lady Haw-Haw Kuennsberg, I will endeavour to watch it.

We just need the BBC to appoint you as permanent host of Question Time, instead of the lifelong Tory currently chairing it, and we can restore some balance to TV.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 38m

JFC what a shitty thing to have done.

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BladeoftheSun @bladeofthes.bsky.social · 20h

I will remind people, every single Billionaire in the UK gets an average of £320,000,000 of benefits a year, mostly in tax they allowed to avoid.

It ain't that Disabled Person on Motability ripping you.

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 40m

As someone who cooks a lot of poached eggs and still struggles sometimes to get them looking that good, I’m envious!

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 43m

Pun of the Week.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 1h

The port was opened after the wine ran out. Amazingly, I’ve a clear head this morning.

Now baking pain au chocolats and making coffee to a Jimmy McGriff jazz organ soundtrack.

It’s going to rain all day, and I’ve no other commitments, so I might finally make this cake kit I’ve had for ages.

A bottle of 2019 Graham’s Late Bottled Vintage Port

A lemon drizzle cake mix kit on a butcher’s block chopping board with some giant garlic and ginger in a basket behind it.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 13h

The port is finished.

Luckily, experience has kicked in and no-one is suggesting opening more port, or wine.

Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 14h

We’ve moved on to port instead of opening a third bottle of red. This rarely ends well.

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Morose @inspectormorose.bsky.social · 14h

I’m with him.

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