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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

If its isn't henchmen in Mini Mokes and a drunk Italian doing double takes then I am not interested.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 6h

James Bond's new producer David Heyman says he's up for the challenge

The producer was speaking for the first time about taking on the next 007 film for Bond's new owners Amazon MGM.

www.bbc.com

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

Handy one imagines in the event that Canada ever attempts to invade Qatar via Boise.

Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 6h

Qatar to build fighter jet facility at US base in Idaho on.ft.com/4hppfs5

Qatar to build fighter jet facility at US base in Idaho

Pentagon’s approval for project draws fire from Maga influencer and Trump ally Laura Loomer

on.ft.com

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

And according to some accounts the inspiration for David Bowie's Major Tom.

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Ian McDougall @ianmcdougall.bsky.social · 6h

Watching The Producers on BBC2. One of the posters in Max Bialystock's office is for the 1965 Broadway production of Entertaining Mr Sloane and you can see the names of Sheila Hancock and Dudley Sutton on it.

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Mark @wils.bsky.social · 7h

Good night.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

Angus McKay
Played him sly
John Arnatt
Was not a twat
Leonard Sachs
Was too relaxed
Philip Latham succumbed to temptation
WE DIDN'T START THE FIRE

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 6h

Blur:
🎵
Leonard Sachs
played the third Borusa
Leonard Sachs
had a small moustache
Leonard Sachs
dressed all in lilac
Leonard Sachs
with a big collar

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

One of the great dreams of technology, like being able to buy a telly which can't get BBC3.

Jon Dear @accordingtojond.bsky.social · 6h

Is there a Yank filter for this place?

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

Matthew Sweet is the man to ask about this.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

In short, William Hartnell had a sugar daddy.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 6h

Hartnell was a London street kid until he was picked up at the gym where he was boxing by the gay art dealer Hugh Blaker. Blaker took him home and had him trained as an actor and as a jockey. Even when Hartnell married he continued to live next door to Blaker until the latter's death.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

American eggnog only has to be 1% egg. It's gelatine with booze in.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

But only one sort of paprika.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

And then there's the little things like not having eggcups because their hygiene standards are so low that if you soft boil an American egg it'll kill you.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

They genuinely think that xenophobia is punching up.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

I knew an American who was unalterably convinced that all British meat is salt cured. Because you can taste it.

Red Sky At Night / Joanne Sheppard @redskyatnight.bsky.social · 7h

Also I have been to the US three times and concluded that the main reason they smother everything in the same limited range of sauces and pre-mixed seasonings seems to be because American meat tastes of *literally nothing*

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

And if you don't understand it, attack it.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

Offended by the existence of other cultures. Incapable of conceiving of non white migration as voluntary. Intellectually incurious. Thin skinned. Agenda of rage xenophobes.

Yep.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

People who don't think that British food is bland = antivaxxers.

You have to admire the commitment to the bit.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

I now learn that it's because of lunatic American zoning laws New York is in fact pretty well the only American city with corner shops because in most of the country it's illegal to have shops in residential areas.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · Sep 1

Also, why do Americans think that New York is the only place in the world with corner shops?

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

And the original vindaloo isn't even Indian but Portuguese.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 7h

Mind you British vindaloo is nothing like Indian vindaloo. The word means potatoes and vinegar and that's what an Indian vindaloo is. A British vindaloo is an extremely hot meat or shellfish curry.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 8h

But of course according to a certain kind of white American liberal American ethnic minority cuisine is American whereas British ethnic minority cuisine is "stolen."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 8h

Ditto driving round the block again because a song you like comes on the radio just as you get home. Or is that just me?

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 8h

Serious consideration was given to making German their official language. They'd all be making funny funny jokes about Bratwurst.

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Helen @bambi-helen.bsky.social · 8h

Jesus, America is *so* embarrassing.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 9h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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