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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · 6d

Amazing amount of confidence in the responses to this one from people who know very little. Screenwriter, editor, casting, DP, probably responsible for all the creative stuff that directors get/take credit for…

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · 8d

Kind of reminds me of a story about John Peel not being able to understand why a particular band wasn’t huge, because everyone he knew had bought the album. Actually it was everyone who had bought the album, he knew.

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · 10d

It’s been stuck in my head for must be the best part of 40 years. Have also ensured it is lodged in the heads of the next generation too.

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · 16d

To be honest, I don’t think it deserves a treat.

Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 16d

Natural Health: How can I treat my itchy vaginal thrush?

Plus: natural ways of dealing with a winter vomiting bug

dlvr.it

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Sep 12

I’m guessing when weighing up the admin of addressing emails from irritated vocab completists compared to emails from furious racism absolutists, the former is easier to deal with. Perhaps if enough of us step up we can be the change we want to see…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can’t believe this isn’t a valid word on NYT Spelling Bee.

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 25

Rugby fans? Big tournament happening right now…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 20

Keir Starmer and Elmo are doing porn now? It’s got even worse than I thought…

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 18

That it’s actually a Toshiba TV probably adds to it…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 13

I had heard somewhere that the actual lyric is “but in this ever changing world in which we’re livin’” which is not so bad…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 11

a man in pajamas is dancing in front of a stage

ALT: a man in pajamas is dancing in front of a stage

media.tenor.com

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 9

It was this sentence that ultimately convinced I’m going to have to put this album on right now…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Aug 9

Wait’ll they hear about University Challenge…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jul 26

Kirk!

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jul 20

In the years between his TV fame and the advent of the internet I thought that Roy Jay was American. I think somehow he got conflated with Bill Murray in my young brain…

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jul 11

Age verification? The British indie band Symposium were two years below me at school…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jun 26

Also, it’s either new or improved. If it’s improved it’s not new, and if it’s new how can it have been improved already?

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jun 24

Ain’t dat da trooth…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jun 18

Bushy Yip Parcs Squirm was an absolute banger.

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Jun 3

I make this recipe often and every time, as I cut the tomatoes along the equator as instructed, I wonder what the difference would be if I cut them pole to pole…

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · May 19

God, I hate it when couples use social media to send each other messages…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Apr 12

Only got purple by process of elimination. I know the NYT is American, but sometimes I do resent that its puzzles are SO American…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Apr 4

Credit to Meta, they’ve trained the Llama AI well…

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Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Mar 22

Ha!

Neal Doran @nealdoran.bsky.social · Mar 22

Just worried I wouldn’t have the reflexes to catch it mid-air anymore…

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