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Dan Shires@vertigowooyay.bsky.social |
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Meeja hor, comics obsessive, sometime idiot. Old.
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Dan Shires
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Knowledgeable Beatles folk - rummaging around my dad’s old vinyl, I found his copy of Abbey Road which has a misprint sleeve (misaligned Apple logo and Her Majesty missing from track list). Internet pricing ranges from ‘not much’ to ‘Christ, that’s insane’. Am clueless, need help.
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Hope you enjoyed it. It’s all been very civilized so far. No crowd crush!
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@paulcornell.bsky.social bugger - am at London Comic Con with my son and was looking forward to saying hi - and then saw you’re not here today. Anyway, hi!
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They’d be slightly more bearable if they cut out the speed ramping, as then they’d be about 15 minutes long.
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I just made Blackcurrant Curd with blackcurrants I grew in the garden, and suddenly realised, whisk in hand, that my wild days are long gone and I never even noticed them walk out the door, flicking the V’s at me and saying ‘so long sucker!’
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Honestly, without researching it I don’t know. All I do know is it’s a cabinet where positions are finally not assigned based on how much someone would despise their brief and actively work against it.
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Given the timeline of the numpty who reposted it, the latter.
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There’s a thing going around on the hellscape place (obviously not linking here) “proving” how inexperienced all the Labour cabinet appointments are. Sir Patrick Vallance’s previous experience for the role of Science Minister is listed as “aid worker”.
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Isn’t that the noise Sabretooth makes when Wolverine goes “SNIKT”?
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Odds on it was a reasonable couple and you’re an absolute prick.
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Dan Shires
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How dare you spout this luvvie Marxist claptrap about supporting an industry that only brings in… …sorry, what?… …over £100 billion a year you say?… …well what the *fuck* have we been doing then??
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“Look, we just pulped the blank paper to save us some time, eh?”
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Even in abject defeat, the party of responsibility refuses to accept the slightest bit of responsibility.
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I hope here it isn’t a naive thought, but in the US, Biden has measurably recovered the economy of the US - but Trump still gets away with saying inflation is 30%, not 3%. It feels like an unprecedented era of political lying by the far right is their fuel and it’s hard for reality to get a toe-hold
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It’s been very much (imo, caveats etc etc) an election period based on high dissatisfaction with the Conservatives rather than enthusiasm for the opposition. If Labour win, they will have to act to *measurably and visably* improve lives very swiftly to actually gain trust.
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Don’t jinx it, man! It’s just the Exit Poll! (But also it looks like Reform - our loose equivalent of MAGA - will get a foothold in the Commons. And that’s not great news.)
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Even worse, if Labour get 410 seats, it will still be overshadowed in the media if Farage and his merry band of fash get 13.
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Update: wife and daughter t-shirts. (Have voted. Libdem and Labour folk sat outside the polling station, but not a Tory to be seen)
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Non violent protest in action. Would not sit nicely for photo like a good boy (treats may have been forgotten).
#DogsAtPollingStations
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Want. <checks wallet> Cannot have.
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Excellent work. I’ve gone for an old school anti fascist poster.
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Or King Cnut
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On an unrelated note, I have an urge to rewatch Alex Garland’s Civil War.
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I’m having trouble understanding why they’ve conferred King-like power to the President, given what happened the last time someone with King-like power ruled America.
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🎶“These are a few of my least favourite things” 🎵
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Those digital flat files look like someone said ‘Do Good Omens, but in the style of The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine’ 😄
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I know someone who is currently hate-watching *all* of Glastonbury and posting about it every 5 minutes and I just don’t know why, or how they have the energy to do that I don’t really like Coldplay, which is fine - you’re allowed to not like stuff. But why try and suck other people’s joy from it?
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It’s right wing irregular grammar. We have a mandate (yay) You have a supermajority (booo, scary)
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I don’t think it’s unreasonable to assume that people wealthy enough for this already have their kids at a public school. So what the fuck does that say about the quality of public school education?
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That is fully adorable. How old is she?
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Bob Hoskins, Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, Kathy Burke and Ray Winstone would like to have a fucking word.
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Bit of a backlog on AnonOpin then? Coming up “Boris Johnson should resign!”
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Thanks - really looking forward to that one. Also, I love that even though the Hammersmith Odeon became the Apollo 30 years ago, I only ever hear people call it the Hammersmith Odeon
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There’s only a handful of bands I’d see at stadiums, but Foo Fighters was one, and I saw them on Saturday. However, I’ve not been to the Palladium before but am seeing Iron & Wine there in October - is it a good place for a gig then?
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No regrets. youtu.be/lk6iJNSv-vY?...
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How dare you disparage something so *completely normal* as the Speaker’s Procession. Totally normal. Totally.
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Dan Shires
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Maybe listen to more than 2 songs a decade?
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That’s why I love the intro to this as a How Things Used To Be™️ reminder. youtu.be/diEaSlbTixI?...
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Thanks Andrea. She was indeed a great cat. The other two are a bit confused/forlorn this morning
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His role in JFK is literally pure exposition and he even made that compelling to watch.
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Akira just had her last trip to the vet. She was 19 (!), creaky, tired, a little bit addled in the brain and in the end had just had enough. But she had the best life and we’re going to miss her terribly, our little , brilliant moggy with no miaow but the loudest purr.
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They mean it as “in power, we get to do what the fuck we like and you get to do what the fuck we tell you to do” It’s not really that different to MAGA
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And if dogs had snakes for paws we’d kill them on sight. And if OH HOLY JESUS THERES A HORSE OVER THERE WITH PORCUPINE QUILLS!
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I can only assume I have ornithocoprophobia as well then
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I have never, *ever* understood why some people say that a bird emptying its bowels on you is somehow good luck. As counterintuitive superstitions go, being shat on as a good thing is the most counterintuitivey of them all.
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As a matter of course now, every Telegraph opinion piece has a subconscious “WOO…BOOGA BOOGA BOOGA!!” for the reader to add on at the end.
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But the alternative was goofy golf, so at least Roy was right about it being better than that.
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Absolutely positive this was Jilly Goolden wine review on Food & Drink circa 1987.
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I’ve been treating it like a handy series recap before a series finale - a quick whizz through all the characters, reminding us how absolutely bloody awful they are, so we can *really* enjoy their inevitable fall.
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It’s reflexive at this point - a compulsion to do a corruption on any given situation. Kind of reminds me of Leo McKern’s Moriarty in The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother having to do ‘something rotten’ every 24 minutes.
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