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Gerard

@groverxv.bsky.social

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I come from a land next to a land down under … Zestful user of profanity. Interests - rugby, rugby, cricket, cricket, beer, wine, SNARK. Unalloyed support for all things Kiwi. https://bsky.app/profile/groverxv.bsky.social/post/3kzlszkke7m2v

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 10h

I made a joke the other day about in a work preso financial forecast out to the middle of Trump’s 4th term and very few people laughed.

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 10h

“Trump tore down a part of the White House only hours after spreading a fake video of him wearing a crown and shit-bombing the American people”

Dems down 6 points.

I mean … come on …

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 10h

Hooooooo boy … I’ve seen how this shizzle ends up at least four times before ….

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 11h

German banks push private equity funds to retail investors on.ft.com/4qgUYjb

German banks push private equity funds to retail investors

Lenders from Deutsche Bank to Trade Republic are trying to woo customers to the asset class

on.ft.com

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 16h

Someone should try nationalising it rather than allowing it to remain active under a management system that is hostile to the U.K.s interests (To be clear, a Board full of facking Tories)

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 16h

a bald man with a shaved head is wearing a gray suit

ALT: a bald man with a shaved head is wearing a gray suit

media.tenor.com

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 16h

Stay calm lads. Have been fed a clip of the biggest pair of wankers to walk the earth.

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Redirecting...

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 1d

Along with a whole buncha sailors from a whole buncha navies ...

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 6d

“Yes … but what kind of Frog are you?”

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 7d

Yorn? Very niche

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Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 7d

“Leaves office”

<insert hollow laughter emoji dot gif>

<insert Matthew McConaughey ‘Interstellar’ crying uncontrollably dot gif>

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 7d

The amount of money sloshing through this one makes Madoff look like a petty thief pickpocket

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 8d

I can't decide how many metaphors and warnings the Di Caprio-Penn showcase "One Battle After Another" contained but it was a SHITLOAD.*

*A unit of measurement that's relevant in both metric and imperial terms.

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 9d

ZINGER

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 10d

Is there a finer album in the last 3 decades plus 1 year than Disintegration by The Cure?

I think not.

I genuinely think not.

@whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social

#WAFR

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 10d

The Diary of Anne Franquesa

Sophie Sherry @sophiesherry.bsky.social · 10d

During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door.   It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help.

He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Neighbor shielded 7-year-old during South Shore federal raid: ‘I didn’t want them to take her’

During the Sept. 30 raid one tenant protected a terrified girl and her mom. Remnants at the complex, including a detailed map of all the units, offer clues to what authorities may have known before th...

chicago.suntimes.com

Gerard @groverxv.bsky.social · 11d

Oh my WORD. YES. WAFR.

Soundtrack of a New Zealand summer in 1988-89.

Attn @tanitatikaram.bsky.social herself