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Simon J

@hobnobking.bsky.social

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One of those late middle-aged men with a large synthesiser collection you were warned about. Widower. Single Dad. Excelling at both. Cymraeg

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 18m

He didn't ask, he just berated people.

See the difference?

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 21m

I'll have thought of something by the morning.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 23m

Never ask when you can berate, great mate.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 24m

You'd have saved yourself a lot of trouble if you'd just asked a simple question rather than trying to make this about how you despair of everyone else's failure to grasp principled reasoning.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 1h

Euphemism klaxon!

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 1h

Lots of Monday fear.

Would you like to hear about mine?

I'll get up about 9, potter out to my workshop in the adjoined garages around 10.30, do a couple of hours of fixing up a Cosworth someone detonated over the summer, have a long lunch, more Cosworth rebuilding, knock off at 6.

Hellish, lads

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 3h

I did some work on The Waverley when she was refitted. You're able to hit most things with a sledge hammer, she's built like a brick outhouse.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 3h

I'll invest, but I won't serve. I'm already way off the pace he and his partner seem to be able to maintain 24/7.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 3h

My brother JJ has just reached peak Gen X gay man and pledged to buy a beach bar in Gran Canaria to retire to.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 4h

The simple truth is if you can get your hands on a really good quarterback - the guy who throws the ball, making a winning team gets a lot easier.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 4h

Yes. Although the front office can have trouble persuading coaches to see the wisdom in that.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 5h

Well, there's you and me for starters.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 5h

Wh-and-I-can't-stress-this-enough-ut?

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 5h

Funny thing is I used to buy the NME and the other one I can't remember the name just so I knew which bands to sneer at. But I was a teenager and I've grown out of that now.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 5h

Oh I hate this kind of review. You see them every time Kate Bush releases something and they say "but she's just doing Kate Bush again" like they're expecting her to have evolved into a rapper.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 6h

7 pm tomorrow.

If it hasn't reached the foundations by then.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 6h

I've made a vast apple crumble that's currently sinking through marble due to its surface of the sun temperature.

Serving around 7 if you want to pop round, lads.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 6h

It's all good. My mum is dead now and I no longer need to be entertained by one unmooring the top and bottom sets of her teeth on Christmas Day afternoon.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 7h

Literally a man you wouldn't trust to hold your dog for a minute while you pop for a wee in Spoons.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 9h

I'm telling him there's more than one way to do faith.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 10h

Everyone wants to be Gruff Rhys. It's amazing.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 10h

And remind them that their safe place in British society relies on Jews globally doing what they're fucking told.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 10h

The point is there's a particular type of person who just can't stomach the sight of Jews talking about their experience of antisemitism. It rouses a feeling of indignance in them and they must say something - anything, to put the Jew back in their box.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 23h

They've been destroying vines in Australia as well due to falling demand.

I could be single handedly responsible for that TBF.

Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 23h

An urn - it actually looked more like a chonky Pringles tube, that was given to us in what looked like a bottle of wine sized gift bag.

Which was appropriate considering how much pinot noir she shifted.