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BigDaftDad

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Cumbria, but not anymore. Migrated further up the map. Ex NHS lead apron model, now sit behind a cavity magnetron. Ish. Explains my radiant personality, I suppose. 3 months younger than Bagpuss. ☎️01 811 8055 #IC276

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 8h

What on earth have they done to you?

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, he won't care for that #NPP

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 10h

I hadn't realised Roger Mellie's 'Marbles up your arsehole' game had actually moved from the pages only @vizcomic.bsky.social into wider practice.

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 19h

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...

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 10h

When buying 'Colour matched' paint, maybe don't spray all of the doors in a oner before checking it really is matched.

Sigh.

A Land Rover 110.

In gray-scale, it appears

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 11h

Ah no. That was Fay Weldon. Opal Fruits, made to make your mouth water tho 👍

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 11h

Didn't he do 'Go to work on an egg' as well?

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 11h

Something which smells strongly of dead crabs and is quite salty.

On the beach at Stonehaven.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 11h

Happy anniversary, and on a Friday too. That's what I call planning.

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 21h

😄 whippersnapper etc

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 21h

320 you say?

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 22h

Tom Daly with the side eye turned up to 15 there.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 23h

Every single thing in that photo was a decision he could have got right.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 23h

I've heard of combovers, but that's a comballthewayround.

He looks like the plughole in our kids bathroom.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Read that as a tearful Jim Robinson at first.😄

Need to stop being vain and put my bloody glasses on

Although some things might be much less funny

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Thirsty Thursday. Fill your boots.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

One of the things I miss from the old days is 'internet of shit' from out of off of over there.
I'd be terrified that in a few years you would have to pay a monthly sub to use your own dryer.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Examining comedy is like dissecting a frog.

The frog drags you down to it's level and beats you with experience.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Alford...

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

They always drank the mead.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Torpenhow

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 1d

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

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Pamela Weaver @pamelaweaver.bsky.social · 1d

Screen shot of a typo in a post reading: Patient has an insulin pimp.
Some has shared this, saying: Pretty sure that's the opposite of a sugar daddy.
I have no idea who came up with this, but how could you not share.

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

Disco 1 too

Oh.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 1d

That's got 'Anaesthetist' written all over it.

BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 2d

Bruce and Cybill did NOT see eye to eye, I understand, certainly later in the show. To continue to work effectively for the viewer was quite an achievement, even if things did start heading down the pipe next to the boardwalk in the last year.

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BigDaftDad @bigdaftdad.bsky.social · 2d

More old person news as it comes.

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