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@timdavies_uk @Leonard73714140 As you were

@Sam070770 @Leonard73714140 Go fuck yourself. 3 years sober.

@timdavies_uk @Leonard73714140 Back on the sauce, Tim?

Shall we do the one about when Great Britain was fighting Nazi Germany as they tried to take over the whole of Europe and you guys only decided to get involved when you got hit at Pearl Harbour, you dumb fuck? AND Great Britain paid you for your help and only stopped paying for it in 2006. You fucking low IQ inbred idiot.

@PAHoyeck @MorlockP They’ll see what you did there

You might have noticed a lot of people vagueposting. You really won't like the reason why.

@DurhamWASP Fascinating woman. Important mentor to Martin Amis

Evelyn Waugh chatting with Elizabeth Jane Howard about being old [he was 60 at the time].

@ACornerback @ArthurCSalzer @Martyupnorth Bait. I mean do you really think that? Really?

@ArthurCSalzer @Martyupnorth Love this album. Except I think they should have left off Sledgehammer.

I just listened to this album while working out. I could predict the next song as soon as one was finished. It's a nearly perfect record, from a bygone era. It totally reminded me of my youth, and how the last 35 years just flew by.

@Gazarelda @fesshole Told my mum she was middle aged at 35. She didn’t appreciate it! Turned out I was right, sadly

@fesshole 50 isn’t middle aged, you’re not living to 100.

Underwear used to last me for years. Since turning fifty, I go through it at an incredible rate. The gusset just decomposes. My middle-aged balls seem to have become corrosive.

@AmericanGwyn @emeriticus I wonder if he considered dewy for humid?

While he was writing ULYSSES, Joyce told his friend Frank Budgen that he’d spent eight hours working on a single sentence. The sentence: “The heaventree of stars hung with humid, nightblue fruit.”

@BarbellFi And no doubt you’ll outbid any losers trying to make it on their own.

When my son is ready to buy a house We’ll loan him the full purchase price He’ll make monthly payments to us 30 year mortgage at 0% interest Thanks to the bank of Mom & Dad 💰

@JohnLeFevre Worse is if you let them know but say it’s not a big deal but they insist on doing it again, delaying your meal and expecting special thanks

I ordered a steak medium rare. It came out medium. Do I send it back? Of course not. 1. the kitchen staff / waiter has to eat the mistake. 2. it's a waste of food 3. who cares? it's just food. why waste the time and energy?

@EEnuph @benonwine If it’s a Sunday stroll to the newsagents to buy a couple of 7 section newspapers, and scroll those

@benonwine There were mobile phones in the 1990s.

You wake up and it's 1995! No wifi. No mobile phones. No social media. No doom scrolling. What do you do first?

@RetroCoast We were given raw carrots as a snack

Gen X is the best looking generation Why?

@recievenne @husafell_stone Oh yeah - doesn’t his girlfriend break her back?

@husafell_stone Houellebecq writes about this

I spent an extended period in Paris, and I went with friends to sex club at Place d’Italie. Just a nondescript door. People doing it on tables in plain sight. You could do whatever you want. It’s called night life.

@lady_valor_07 1986-87 - some people hung on to old TVs like that. It’s the hairstyle. VCR looks mid 80s, not earlier, imho

Based on the entirety of this photograph, what is your best estimation of the year it was taken?

@28degreesprob @ELuttwak Exactly. Pedants are reliably narrow in their irritations.

@ELuttwak Don't get me started on people who call the 12th month December!

like any other person attached to his Latin I suffer a nasty twich every time somebody uses "decimate" to mean the killing of many rather than the killing of only one tenth (of the dishonored legionnaires). Like anyone attached to his English I am offended by "very unique" ...,

@ELuttwak Decimate means destroy now, I don’t make the rules neither do you

@vbspurs @mirandadevine If by gravelly you mean mellifluous, then yes

@mirandadevine Roger Moore comes from a similar area and working-class background but never sounded like this. He had to polish his accent and make it more gravelly, less nasal, because he was elevated to officer from the ranks during the war.

Can someone who knows British accents tell me what Starmer's is? It sounds pinched and constipated but it's not posh. I don't recognize it.

@PeteCWilliamson @DurhamWASP Call me Ishmael.

@DurhamWASP The greatest opening line in literature.

“Into the face of the young man who sat on the terrace of the Hotel Magnifique at Cannes there had crept a look of furtive shame, the shifty hangdog look which announces that an Englishman is about to speak French.”

@ecmontyyy @saintsoftness I didn’t notice any mistakes on his part, in fact the plot seems to rely on his omniscience

@saintsoftness one of my favorite little details throughout then novel is how the count, as erudite as he has become, nevertheless keeps making minor mistakes and references and such--he's still in the process of learning, even after his escape

A key lesson that I took away from The Count of Monte Cristo is that even when you are unjustly trapped in a dungeon with the dimmest hope of escape, you should draw up a syllabus and read and write your brains out to save yourself for living, (1/2)

@TSHamiltonAstro @OnDisasters The post says wrong carrier, then states it was their sole carrier. Misunderstanding understandable

@OnDisasters Ah, sorry—I'd misunderstood the premise. But that is a pretty spectacular abort!

"CRAP! Wrong carrier!" The famous aborted Sukhoi Su-33 aborted aircraft carrier landing (no this isn´t AI or simulator, this video had been aroung long before that was a thing - in fact one of the first "viral videos" I´ve seen). Not sure of the inciden´t date, but likely early 90s, when the Soviet´s Navy (sole) aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was still active. Note also how close the jet´s arresting hook was from catching one of the control cables: this guy was really lucky.

@cwest2410 @SDisputation @NnPnemck Define better

@SDisputation @NnPnemck in fact, women are statistically better drivers than men.

All the women melting down over the President’s joke don’t even realize they just validated it. Their reaction is the reason the joke was funny in the first place.