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John Lloyd
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Antiques and appraisals, vintage stuff, cycling, cats, rabbits. Moominologist. Formerly Cyclopunk, back in the blue bird days.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 17
😂
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 17
Nah mate, it was definitely the KLF not some Norwegian lads. 🤣
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 17
These are dark times 😒
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 17
Extremely disappointed that this wasn't delivered in an ice cream van.

#JustifiedAndAncient
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 15
Whoever donated a blue Asus laptop to the charity I work for should remember to delete personal details...and also think themselves lucky I'm not the sort of person who would blackmail anyone after finding all their hardcore gay porn 😂😂😂🍩🥒
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 9
Sidney Sime, 1865-1941. Kind of like a cross between Tove Jansson and Aubrey Beardsley, but on really bad Polish bathtub acid,
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 8
The speakers in my bestie's car have gone wrong and make weird crackles and screeching noises.

So now we just play Aphex Twin and it sounds normal.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Apr 5
Rep just slaughtered my best friend's bullying boss.

Join your trade union, folks!
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Mar 21
I feel like I had a deprived, miserable childhood due to not having one of those.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Mar 21
Today I learned that you should not pick your nose when you have battery acid on your fingers. Who knew!

#DoingTheScieneSoYouDontHaveTo
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Mar 10
Shhh!
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Mar 10
Dafuq, Cambridge Live?
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Mar 5
Got a new chap at work and I'm convinced he's an AI. Everything he writes is *almost* like a human wrote it, but just a little not right.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 24
Probably best in your case to leave it to the professionals, eh?
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 20
Fired up the ol' office N64 today and gave it a go. actually an great game. You could release it today (24 years later) as a budget title and it'd go down well.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 20
1941(ish) Beswick character jug - supposedly Churchill, but more like Martin Clunes.

#vintage #oldstuff #appraisals
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 19
Going to be weird watching races and not cheering for Sanne Cant. She's been the top rider for as long as I've followed #cyclocross, so she feels to me like a permanent feature of the sport.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 19
Conker's Bad Fur Day, featuring drinking binges, smoking, graphic violence, adult themes and (a lot of) poo jokes.

The 4th rarest Nintendo 64 game, according to some.

#vintagegaming #vintage #retrogaming
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 18
Introduced my 22-year-assistant to Fighting Fantasy books today. He reckons they look as much fun as XBox games...I explained they really weren't 🤣

#vintage #fightingfantasy
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
Watched The Illusionist earlier. Not a bad film, but would have been better if Edward Norton with that hairstyle and goatee didn't remind me so much of Noel Edmonds.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
The Type 746.

So iconic that, even now, 58 years after it was introduced, it is What A Telephone Looks Like.

All models were named after their colour, incidentally, except for the brown one which was for some reason called The Yeoman.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
If you have a Brooks bicycle saddle made in the same year as the case, it's probably just starting to feel broken in by noiw.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
He and his compass had a second career in the Uttlesford District Council surveying department after the war.

The maker of the compass, Short & Mason, are long gone; the maker of the leather case are still with us - Brooks, best known for bicycle saddles.
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
Nice little find - a 1912 Verner Pattern VI compass, made in 1912.

Its original owner scratched his name into the case, and I found some history: he went away to fight in 1914 and it pleased me to find he survived...
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John Lloyd @johnlloydstuff.bsky.social · Feb 15
Few things are as funny as a bunny eating a dandelion!
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