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Derek @derekdesanges.bsky.social · Aug 15

with your help we can change this

the wicker mang @mangmangmang.bsky.social · Aug 14

People are always rightly pointing out that Warhammer contributes more to the British economy than the fishing industry, but the problem is that there just aren't very many folk songs about Warhammer

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bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 20h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21h

Maybe it's time for me to cast aside my usual clothes and start dressing like a cross between an 80s business lady and a nun?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21h

I am genuinely shocked at how relatively young she is. Her look seems to be "clothes my mother wore to her children's confirmations in the 80s".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 21h

That makes her only two years older than me. Bloody hell.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22h

Hmm, and camping chair miniaturization technology has also advanced greatly in recent years....

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22h

True, though I suspect the walking/standing requirements are still fairly taxing. Unless I can convince someone to propel me about in a wheelbarrow...

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 22h

I still have fond memories of the man at the cider bus in '92 who took pity on my impoverished self and accepted my argument that my empty two litre bottle was "about a pint".

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 23h

I still like going to festivals but not sure if I could manage the hardcore "five days living in a field on a diet of cider bus cider" quite as well these days.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 23h

Post you from another era: 2000, at a festival (Glastonbury), wearing a t-shirt from another festival (ATP), looking up at a picture of a tent I painted at a previous festival.

A woman in an All Tomorrow's Party t-shirt looking up at a picture made up of lots of little jigsaw piece shapes with individual paintings in them. She looks like she might have been living in a field for a while.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 23h

I still remember the flat that @spongepaddy.bsky.social and @hibernowombat.bsky.social shared where you could, if required, simultaneously shower, cook, and answer the front door.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Just got braces, feeling very

a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

ALT: a man wearing a music band shirt is holding a skateboard over his shoulder

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Damien Owens @damienowens.bsky.social · 1d

I see the Irish Times has a new 'Tip-offs' section.

Screenshot from the Irish Times website. Photo of a concerned-looking man on a beach. Headline reads 'A shortage of gardaí on Ireland's west coast makes it 'wide open' for crime'.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

I loved all of these too!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Anything by Catriona Ward (she's so good!). My Best Friend's Exorcism and How To Sell A Haunted House by Grady Hendrix.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Whyyyyyy would anyone think this was a good idea?

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

OH HI GUYS!

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Sadly they chose not to rent this prize establishment.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

"You might want to turn the TV up for the next few minutes lads"

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

The student rental market in Dublin in the early 90s was ... interesting.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

It's like a glam version of the flat friends of mine viewed in college that had the toilet in the living room behind a shower curtain.

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Look carefully at the bathroom arrangements in picture 11

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👻madeline boOoOoOodent👻 @oldenoughtosay.com · 1d

regret to inform you all that we have another one

www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/1...

Check out this 3 bedroom flat for sale on Rightmove

3 bedroom flat for sale in Dolphin House, Smugglers Way, London, SW18 for £1,750,000. Marketed by Knight Frank, Battersea

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

I actually sort of hooted out loud when I got to it

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Lisa Carey @msleedy.bsky.social · 1d

Trying to figure out which would be the greater musical project: Joni Mitchell Salutes The Majesty Of The Fall, or Mark E. Smith Salutes The Majesty Of Joni Mitchell

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