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UBF riccardo

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Refugee from Birdland. Betting, cricket, lefty politics, rugby, Everton... cba with multiple accounts, so you have to put up with all of those.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 31m

Yes... allegedly my sort of Protestant, though that is only true by upbringing.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 52m

An Archbishop of Canterbury (Runcie) must get me there pretty quickly.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 58m

Me too, via more than one MP.

I met Clarke (who was never my MP) in the Bass Clef more than once.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

They were apparently regulars there, together and separately.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

I don't count that as a meeting. Unlike Jacques Chirac (another possible route starter), to whom I have twice had an adjacent table by chance - we did actually converse.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

I never met Blair, though I was once in Granita* when he and Brown were dining.

(*No, not *that* dinner!)

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

I was trying the non royal route for Will's bonus points.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

Oh ok. I may need an extra step to Hitler, then.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1h

Me - Ken Clarke - (Nicholas Soames if required, idk) - Churchill - Hitler or Stalin.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2h

At most 4 for me. 3 if Ken Clarke met Churchill.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2h

I'm counting two, I don't know whether that's canonical though! I'm not assuming that Andrew met Trump, though it seems likely.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2h

Anyone who has met virtually any British royal is at most 3 steps from Epstein, and at most 4 from Trump.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 23h

Did this fix the problem? 😜

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1d

Butox?

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 1d

Something something couch it in those terms...

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

Oops. Memory playing tricks on me.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

1) Norn Iron bowing out with a 3-0 defeat to a really good Brazil side. That was our second consecutive finals appearance, and we have not been back since.

2) Gary Lineker's not-so-subtle arse wipe on the grass.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

A retrospective bend sinister.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

If it's good enough for a warrior's afterlife, it's Stollen Valhalla.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

One of a very short list of comic films that I loved in my youth, and could be absolutely certain that my own kids would live decades later.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

Trump learning Welsh was not on my bingo card.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 2d

He's now called Pri.

You may notice that this title has no nce.

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UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 3d

She likely *thinks* she has defused this situation very well; escaping an unpopular position by leaning on its proponents behind the scenes, and avoiding messy rows and sackings.

I think the message that she is too scared of the right to sack people *even for this* is loud and clear.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 3d

Phew. I'm in Europe, so it's already Thursday... a narrow escape.

UBF riccardo @ubfriccardo.bsky.social · 3d

@evertonthegear.co.uk I'm right now listening to Wish You Were Here. I'm certain from the hoodie you make that you must like Floyd... but the version I have on now is by Sparklehorse.

You might not know it, but it's magnificent.

spotify.link/Gorcjq7gSXb

Wish You Were Here

spotify.link

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