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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 51m

God, that Miss Piggy ad-lib. He's so great.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 3h

Roberts is an awful old cunt. Ask anyone involved with Doctor Who.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 15h

The PIN for my work computer is my oldest friend's phone number from when we were teenagers. He has a safe at his work, and the combination on it is MY phone number from when we were teenagers.

bleary @bleary.off-the-records.com · 21h

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing?
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I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up.
Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 16h

We've talked about it before. Funnily enough, the Great Mattacks' one that got away was a Rogers with a 24".

I own a steampunk Premier Resonator with a 24". I have not yet used it. It's just in my storage. I should remedy that.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 17h

Needs must. That Rogers is the kit you really wish you'd never got rid of, isn't it?

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 17h

"I believe that children are our future..."

Stuff like this gives me hope.

Kate Devlin 🎃👻🍂 @drkatedevlin.bsky.social · 17h

My 15yo child, unexpectedly: “Yeah, I have at least 3 LinkedIn accounts. All fake. I use them to check on my teachers’ qualifications. I keep getting job offers because I ticked something that said I used to work in middle management for Asda.”

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 17h

This is AMAZING. Your 15yo is a comic genius.

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The Nicholas Parsons Project @wazzock.bsky.social · 17h

Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne are the British Nick and Nora Charles. Wonderful television, smart and clever and yet comforting at the same time. And the casting and settings are almost as perfect as Plater's scripts. A joy.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 17h

A Premier logo head on a Rogers kit? Spicy.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 18h

Oh goodness, my pleasure. It's one of the very best things there is.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 18h

A television series everyone should see.

Mark Faulkner @markfaulkner24.bsky.social · 18h

I think it was a @cheeseford.bsky.social post a few months ago that alerted me to The Beiderbecke Trilogy (thank you!). I'd never heard of it so I'm watching it for the first time. A good thing too as this may get me back into listening to jazz. James Bolan and Barbara Flynn make a fab couple.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 23h

On Newsnight the other evening, Richard Bacon wore a jacket that strobed horrendously.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 23h

In particular, the fact that we both try one every decade or so to make sure we still hate the fucking things.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

Crown Court.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

I must watch it. @andrewmale.bsky.social was praising it a while back.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

Depth of field, perhaps? And the absence of big, sweeping shots. However, Edge of Darkness was shot with a very cinematic eye, but STILL FEELS LIKE TELLY.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

"Pissing is our business, pissing is what we sell."

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

Also, many filmed series look like television rather than film. Minder looks and feels like a television programme. Hard to explain, really, but I suspect you know what I mean.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

Right back atcha

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

If you don't want people calling you a cunt and telling you to fuck off, have you considered not being a cunt, you cunt? Now fuck off.

ofpope.bsky.social @ofpope.bsky.social · 1d

uh, discover feed is the default.

if you don't want people asking about the things you POST TO THE PUBLIC ON SOCIAL MEDIA then stop fucking posting to social media, or maybe restrict replies or even, and i get that this is difficult, provide an ounce of context.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

I know how personal bows can be, and how bloody expensive.

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Bouba's Delivery Service @fernmonkey.bsky.social · 2d

My friend Sascha is a professional musician and he's lost a viola bow on the way to Heathrow. Please signal boost to help him get it back.

Lost viola bow on the way from Honor Oak Station to Heathrow Terminal 2. The bow slid from its bow case somewhere along the way, possibly on the train. TFL contacted already.
It weighs 68.2 grams and has got a stamped DODD next to the frog. If any info on this, please pm me.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

Do you follow Justin? I do, and I know what he was on about.

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 1d

I think he was recording this when Live Aid happened, and it's the same band. I love it (and the film).

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LF Lightning-Barugh @cheeseford.bsky.social · 2d

What wood is the body? Obeche?

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