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thriftonaut.bsky.social
Mícheál de Brún
@thriftonaut.bsky.social
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Charity shops, puns and Dad jokes. West-Cork-ish based. Interests; records, history, film and Vintage kitchenalia.
I’ve left behind my family, my friends-everything. The only thing for me is this-the battlefield.
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Who wore it best?
Pope Leo standing up on a airplane holding a baseball bat. Robert de Niro as Al Capone holding a baseball bat about to cave somebody’s head in.
November 29, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Post your favorite "Lord of the Rings" character. Wrong answers only.
Godmother from Wanderly Wagon cycling a tricycle.
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Ooh remembers that bloke from Saw? useta ride that tiny bike? What were that all about?!
An Ozempic headed Peter Kay with crappy photoshopped red lipstick and spirals on his face.
November 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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Roses are red
Robin eggs are teal
An online article headline that reads “try a ‘fart walk’ to ease the pressure after that big thanksgiving meal”.
November 28, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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I heard the follow up absolutely stank!
Picture sleeve for soundtrack to an Indian film called Shart.
November 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Couldn’t pass this up. #CharityShop #Vintage #Kitchenalia
A vintage cup, saucer and side plate. It’s pale yellow with a sort of folded blinds design.
November 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Gerry still denies he was ever a member…
A bespectacled man smiling, his face is on a Christmas bauble.
November 24, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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C’mere there’s more…
Up Ulster record sleeve Clubsound album cover. The band are dressed in pink Showaddy waddy style suits sitting in a sports car. Another Clubsound album cover. Two are wearing fancy clothes sitting on royles Royce the rest are dressed as pig farmers. Clubsound Xmas record. The lads faces appear on Xmas decorations.
November 24, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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I saw a copy today but knew you’d come true…
Clubland capers lp cover. It has a cartoon drawing of a biplane with offensive caricature of various races and nationalities.
November 24, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Don’t you know the hero can’t die until the last reel? RIP
Jimmy Cliff as Ivan in The Harder They Come. He is holding a pistol in each hand and looking like a bad ass.
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Ghost Rider motorcycle hero
Hey baby, baby, baby he's a-screamin' the truth
America, America is killin' its youth
Hey baby, baby, baby he's a-screamin' away
America, America is killin' its youth
America, America is killin' its youth
Pope Leo on the microphone.
November 23, 2025 at 5:48 AM
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I’m gonna guess Brendan Behan.
A fuzzy picture of book spines.
November 22, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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Today’s solo find. I know they’re electronically enhanced to stereo but I’m still v pleased. Billy is scarce enough in #CharityShop these days. #Vinyl
The LP The World of Billy Fury. Billy is looking a the camera, he has the collar popped on his gold lame jacket.
November 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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New neighbours called over to introduce themselves to Ulfrick.
A cat looking at another cat climbing through a window, outside is another cat. On the window sill are cat ornaments and a ceramic pug dog.
November 19, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Am I the first recipient? Nice Birra heft to it. #VinylSanta
A cardboard parcel of records.
November 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Roses are red
The stupidity of folk you can’t underestimate though
Newspaper headline with a picture of people queueing up in the rain. The headline reads Why I queued for almost 24 hours for a jacket potato.
November 18, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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When I made this connection I was out.
A man with dividing lines drawn on his face. Each section is a different colour. The Monster from del Toro’s Frankenstein.
November 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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It blew my mind when I found out they’d once built council housing inside King John’s Castle in Limerick.
King John’s Castle in Limerick. There is a small collection of houses within the castle walls.
November 7, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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And above that Thin Lizzy (jailbreak)?
The sleeve of Thin Lizzy’s jailbreak album. It is a cartoon graphic of a helmeted figure looking at a monitor. On the monitor Philo and the lads are legging it after escaping from the ‘joy.
November 7, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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An entrant on the Rose of Tralee doing “Hip Hop dancing”. She is pointing a finger at her temple and gurning.
November 6, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Words fail me as much as they failed whoever came up with the text on this geansaí.
An Xmas jumper. It’s Lord of the Rings themed. The text is One Christmas to Jingle Them All.
November 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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A man smoking crack with the text Raise a Glass Pipe in Remembrance. The crack pipe has a poppy drawn on it.
November 3, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Original Bungle origin story coming to the big screen?
A man in a scary looking bear costume on a children’s tv show.
November 1, 2025 at 10:55 PM
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Great score, unbelievably they actually made a 25th anniversary commemorative bottle for the 1988 bottle!
A commemorative 25th anniversary Dublin 1988 bottle with box.
November 1, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Search Halloween in your snaps to Help the Halloween party.
Henry Winkler dressed as a punk standing next to Nigel Planer.
October 31, 2025 at 12:35 PM