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I was authoritatively told today that corduroy is only cool if you were born between 1970 and 1979.
*checks notes*
Yep. It’s cool.
#fashion #FashionTips #BleedingEdge #cool #old #GeographyTeacher
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so, let me get this straight, Britain's former colonies *checks notes* "owe us a debt of gratitude for the inheritance we left them.”
Um. What?
Oh go and read a book.
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When the actor Kevin Eldon appears as Thomas More in 3-Body Problem and my wife and I turn to each other simultaneously and say, “Dirty!”
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“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world”.
Very true, Thorin Oakenshield, very true.
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You know, because.
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I was going to do various things this evening after dinner, but then there was a thing with Mackenzie Crook talking about Detectorists. Then S1e1 and now the 2015 Xmas special. And I’m sat watching it all, like any normal person would. I can’t even go past the little 30s previews on Netflix, so obviously I’m here for the duration. Such a joy of a programme.
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Well, what a bloody brilliant day out that was.
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I started boarding school as a 7 year old boy. I thought I survived the following 11 years more or less okay, but 42 years later, I've started dreaming about it, and the overwhelming feeling is of being frightened and alone. I think I built armour around myself then that I've never really taken off since.
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All you need to remember in life is to try to apply the rule “don’t be a dick” to everything. Stick by that, and you won’t go far wrong. Apply this rule to the behaviour of others too and it’s frequently illuminating.
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If that really is the end of Winning Time and there won’t be a season 3, then that’s a damn shame. Such a great show. I guess I’ll read the book.
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My wife has never watched a game of basketball in her life and yet she absolutely LOVES Winning Time, the story of the Showtime Lakers. It is quality tv, tbf… she’s been blown away by John C Reilly’s performance as she didn’t think he had it in him. It’s great, even if the sports fan and historian in me wants to read the book to see how much is actually true
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@godlessmom 5 things about me that you might not have known:
1: I love film but have never seen ET, Grease or Dirty Dancing. I have seen Grease 2, though
2: I’m nearly 2m tall & that’s enough
3: The musician I have seen perform the most live is Billy Bragg
4: I once dived in the Maldives with c.250 sharks, all bigger than me. Spoiler alert: they didn’t eat me!
5: I once won a karaoke competition in Ho Chi Minh City with (Theme from) Shaft. You’re damn right! -
Who are your 5 favourite authors, and your favourite book by each. I need a reading list to help me escape this endless doomscrolling.
I’ll start.
Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore
John Irving - A prayer for Owen Meany
Paul Auster - The Music of Chance
Neil Gaiman - American Gods
Terry Pratchett - Small Gods
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5
(Yes, that’s 6)
You?
#books #bookstodon #TerryPratchett #PaulAuster #JohnIrving #Murakami #Gaiman #Vonnegut
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Wearing Christmas pajamas and enjoying a very slow start to the day. Sundays usually involve coaching running at 0845 and then rowing at 1. Neither are happening today and I plan to make the most of it.
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When you put your bag down on the bed for a moment….
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I got an early train to London and I’m working in my new corporate overlord’s offices near London Bridge. It’s quite nice, but feels weird as I haven’t been in this sort of environment since 2019.
Still, I had a nice nap on the train and my boss is taking me out to lunch, so….
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For some weird reason, the Oasis reunion is making me think of the Milky Joe episode of the Mighty Boosh where Vince and Howard are marooned on a desert island and manage to fall out, creating a weird fever dream world of talking coconuts. The Boosh have the better songs, mind.
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Just watched The Legend of Milky Joe, that episode of The Mighty Boosh where they get marooned on a desert island and invent a world of talking coconuts (Howard‘s is French and pretentious, Vince’s is a sexually available girl called Ruby. Obviously). My French wife just looks up from her phone, looks at me and says, “How did this ever get made? It’s weird”.
I mean, she’s not wrong. Don’t even get her started on Old Gregg.
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Since getting a back and white cat, I’ve suddenly been seeing them everywhere. Has everyone suddenly got a black and white cat, or is this just how the brain works? #salience #ConfirmativeBias #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday
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CW: Black humour
I’ve been asked by my dad to read a poem at my mum’s funeral. He asked if I minded if it mentioned God, so I guess it isn’t going to be Larkin.
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I’m slightly further away from my desk than is optimal, but really, what choice do I have? #Cats #CatsOfMastodon #HomeWorking
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I used to work in the head office of a major UK health and beauty retailer (yeah, that one). A skin chart for suncare came across my desk that equated white skin with “normal skin”. I queried this, and was told that it was for use in the backshop only, so should shut up and get back in my lane. It ended up on the shopfloor and in the papers, of course. They genuinely couldn’t see what was wrong with it.
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The radiator is on and she keeps making little contented noises.
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CW: Skinny dipping
It’s international skinny dipping day…. So what else would you do before #parkrun?
