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Bill Hayden

@billhayden65.bsky.social

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KGB spy, cosmonaut, inventor of the smell cancelling nosephones, extreme liar. Call your own Ishmael!

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 5h

Getting old is a terrible thing.

I'm glad to see that communism isn't a bad word any more though.

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 9h

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 9h

Is that one of the ships trumpet was complaining were ugly?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 9h

Only if they are dressed as Russian soldiers?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 9h

See you at eight?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 10h

Tell me more about the Dead of Winter?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 17h

Is the access to food thing resolved? Do we need to do something?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 17h

I have so much more time since I built my bowling robot. It goes bowling so I can stay at work.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 18h

I'm lucky enough not to have a 3D printer... But the floss issue is why. I call it the George Elliott issue.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 18h

They do seem to print a lot of dental floss.

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

Interference from Dutch means that what little German I do have sounds like "a Hamburg Opa"

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

I only use my French to chat with tourists now. In France they're not very amenable to my French but they lighten up a bit in Edinburgh. Unlike the Dutch who just refuse to acknowledge I wasn't speaking in English the whole time!

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

I only had what German I scraped together as a physics summer student at the ETH in Zurich nearly thirty years ago.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

Most of my language acquisition has been for work purposes, and even then they do tend to rot away again when I stop using them. Right now only my Spanish is in working order... Which is a problem because I keep getting sent to Germany.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

Is there, by any chance, a shortage of gym teachers at the moment?

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 19h

That hope for the future is a little thin at the moment. Our Overton window is almost wholly at odds with that of our southern neighbour, and they're lined up to elect a fascist bankrolled with foreign money.

This will be nothing new for you, of course.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

How did you cope with Culloden Moor? There's always an intense atmosphere there.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

The castle is invisible when you live here. I see it and its garrison (when I see it at all) as a symbol of oppression.

I much prefer Glasgow; the centre of Edinburgh is a theme park to sell shortbread and tartan scarves to tourists.

The suburbs are nicer though.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

It's not really a tourist destination, Penicuick.

How did you like Edinburgh?

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

Even the town name of Penicuick has been severely mashed over time, from the Brythonic version, Pen Y Cog.

It just sticks out for me because I live nearby.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

Are you cutting down?

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Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

You'll end up with some bleak opinions on universal suffrage if you do that.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 20h

And neither do they.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 21h

If I looked like Steve Bannon it wouldn't be my hair I'd be worried about.

Bill Hayden @billhayden65.bsky.social · 21h

I think, on balance, I prefer their version of reality to the one I have to endure.