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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 10h

Exactly this! Genuinely thought it might just be me

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 13h

I have an intrusive part of my brain that automatically thinks of the *most inappropriate possible* thing to say in nearly all circumstances. Occasionally so much so that I do a full flinch, like a tic

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

(I quite like them too)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

I have literally no idea why you like the books about a massive former squaddie from the west country who is intensely cynical and turns out to be right about everything. No. Not a scoob.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 17h

Pretty sure my local Vinoteca at one stage offered a range of “breakfast wines”

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

arr Jim lad ------> eh, Jim la'

(will give Solomon Kane a go)

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

Googled "Actors from the west country", got him, Cary Grant and Kate Winslet.

(Isn't there some thing about how we think that's the "pirate accent" because Robert Newton played Long John Silver and was really good)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

According to David Crystal, the closest thing we have to the accent of Shakespeare's time is West Country, so there should be a cracking market for actors doing productions at eg The Globe, The Wannamaker, and all the other "original experience" theatres

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

I liked it when they kicked someone off for not having a mental breakdown during a task. And he said something like "it's a light-entertainment television programme, I rather assumed they weren't going to let me die" and everyone else went BOO HISS TRAITOR

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

having watched the non-celeb versions, this does seem to be the main tactic

General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

He's got a point #CelebrityTraitors

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 20h

It WAS - I stress the past tense for both factual and legal reasons - The White Horse in Leamington Spa. I once saw the bouncer bar a guy for being too old; Alfie - for that was his name - wisely spotted this guy was only going there to prey on underage girls. It did make for a good story tho

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The Boobadook @bookiesnacksize.bsky.social · 22h

had on a random mix while in the shower and it started playing Babylon Zoo

Image of a smiling guy with the caption "us in 1996 listening to the first 30 seconds of Spaceman." Underneath is an image of a disappointed guy with the caption "in in 1996 buying the single and hearing the rest of the song".

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 20h

The middlebrow rule: when someone derides something as 'middlebrow' , *immediately* ask them what they consider 'highbrow'.

Almost always turns out 'middlebrow' either means "I am forced to admit it is art, I just don't like it" or - even more often - "It's too popular for me to use it to show off"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 21h

getting people to name famous norwegians is always fun, because it's just a race to saying "Morten Harket" twice

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 22h

I would say "Leicester" but, truth be told, we don't get many

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 2d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 22h

FINALLY.

I always knew we would eventually get a pontiff who was theologically sound on the whole pocket square / tie thing.

(also, a golfing clap for the graun, there)

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 1d

You won’t believe what degrading practice the Pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists The Pope has condemned clickbait as a “degrading” part of journalism, at a private audience with global newswires. Australian media representatives were among those to hear directly from Pope Leo XIV at the Vatican on Thursday with about 150 members of newswire alliance MINDS International. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 22h

Went to Whitehaven once. For the life of me, I can't remember why. Didn't even go to the Rum Museum.

We'd been there for a full five minutes before it started to rain and, shortly afterwards, we left.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I think you've identified a marketing gap. There must, surely, be a strong ABV beer called "DUAL IPA" by now

update: I checked, there is: www.nakedwines.co.uk/products/dev...

Dual IPA

.

www.nakedwines.co.uk

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

given there's still two hours to go, I'm not sure how much I'd be happy to risk on it still being both of them doing the same event by 7...

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

no, no, no, WEDNESDAY

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

there is some truth to the fact that things we refer to as Americanisms can sometimes be linguistic fossils from pre-c.18th English (eg they went over with the Puritans and stuck, whereas they were phased out of British English) - 'gotten' and 'fall' were both pre-c.18th English usage. But not all.

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

"linguisticaly" [sic] and "Americanisim" [sic] are just bait, right?

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

"ah, I see, like 'The Falkland Islands'?"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I therefore assume s/he has also blocked "the French"

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