Mark Hillen

Charlotte Ariel Finn @bycharlottefinn.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 29, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 15:01 UTC

People abuse drugs in may ways… I know of an old sight-impaired woman who slugged the cough medicine Benylin out of the bottle rather than measuring it into a spoon - and who often ended up hallucinating through overdose.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:51 UTC

Oh, for the small kids and the old and infirm, for sure they are.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:08 UTC

@miq.moe new color

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 14:07 UTC

Sorry, just took the opportunity to rant about our shit PM

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:36 UTC

Sunak is talented? At what? AFAICT, he’s a spectacularly naive and weak politician, who has been bullied into increasingly batshit positions by the Badenochs and Bravermans in his party. He also seems to be a petulant and nasty piece of work to anyone that doesn’t Smithers-him with approval.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 25, 2024 at 13:01 UTC

*weeps in Pharmacology*

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:44 UTC

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

@miq.moe

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 23, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

@miq.moe

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 21:05 UTC

My favourites were the Guards/ Vimes series. Best lessons in human nature, words still with me, what, 30 years later?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 20:59 UTC

Ooh, that looks like a fun drive.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 19:20 UTC

So far, all of Scotland’s goals in the #EM2024 have been scored by players with an umlaut in their surnames.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 20:14 UTC

Yeah. I can’t watch this.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:50 UTC

It felt like Scotland were playing with only 10 men BEFORE Porteous got sent off…

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:49 UTC

In reality, 10 since Porteous just got sent off.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 19:41 UTC

Well, beats watching Scotland apparently playing with 9 men, as opposed to Germany’s seeming 12.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 14, 2024 at 17:47 UTC

@rkemb.bsky.social So are you getting down to Marienplatz in your kilt and joining in with drinking the place dry?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 08, 2024 at 12:41 UTC

I absolutely will not be doing this.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 18:55 UTC

I seem to remember the last Labour MP to be attacked… died. Different outcome to Nigel’s trip to the dry cleaners.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 04, 2024 at 10:48 UTC

Almost certainly the latter.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 02, 2024 at 07:58 UTC

Mon then. Take a drink. youtu.be/vYY_EaCPGFw?...

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 01, 2024 at 09:44 UTC

To be fair, I recently needed some stock photos of some wealthy non-white people. Unless it’s a Sheikh-on-a-plane, they’re pretty much non existent, so clearly AI-generated images will follow the same bias.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 31, 2024 at 17:25 UTC

I bought the first vendor’s single, Tubthumpianzing, back in the nineties.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

I once bought someone alcohol free gin (by accident) as a gift. The shame.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 21:46 UTC

Does the squareal also work again then?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 30, 2024 at 16:37 UTC

Popular Tinder profile logo location.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 19:04 UTC

Phew, trainers. Thought the C-Suite had got to you.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 19:03 UTC

Are you… almost wearing a suit?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 11:26 UTC

But this is the joy of being a father to a teenager. Being really embarrassing to him - simply with silly humour.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 11:25 UTC

Turns out my 13-year-old son found this incredibly embarrassing and kept telling me that I wasn’t funny and to stop talking with the tour guide.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 11:24 UTC

When visiting the coliseum in Rome over Easter, the tour guide was explaining that before it was a ruin, it was covered in beautiful marble, that the marble had been looted, and asked the tour group who looted it. “Was it the Brits?”, I joked, hilariously. Turns out it was the Roman Catholics.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 28, 2024 at 10:57 UTC

Rylan once cut me up on the M6 in his private-plated diesel Mercedes GLC after he joined at Warrington. But he did give a wave of apology, so we’re all good.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 13:51 UTC

You will be surprised how much shitter it is than your expectations. The staff are typically lovely, but the hotel stopped having money spent on it the day Britannia bought it. I stayed in a room that had a smashed power socket. “Dilapidated” won’t do the room justice. Avoid at all costs.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 13:45 UTC

I just translate that in my head to “Härkan, you roaster”. Blimey Härkan, what did you to sereerve that sign?

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 27, 2024 at 05:27 UTC

Hmm.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 25, 2024 at 21:33 UTC

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 20:27 UTC

It’s so very Justice. So close, but so far.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 12:18 UTC

Finished it now: gah, absolutely none.

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Mark Hillen @markhillen.bsky.social [ View ] May 24, 2024 at 11:00 UTC

That’s definitely Red Bull’s ballpit behind it though.

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