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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 5h

Highly recommend going and seeing a band so loud you believe you may never hear again.
(It's ok,the ringing wore off in about an hour)

A bassist with long blonde hair in motion on a red-lit stage

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 6h

This means it's 30 years since I was picked up at 2am by police outside the Wulfrun Halls in Wolverhampton😬

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John O'Connell @jdpoc.bsky.social · 2d

🎵 🎵 "Freed from desire, mind and senses purified ..." 🎵 🎵

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

It was not the Spit of Theseus then

Ian Kikuchi @curatorian.bsky.social · 3d

Bit amazed by this bit:

'Investigators said they found a degraded gasket had created a fuel system leak, which caused the power loss.

The agency found the system was "at least 70-years-old and its last overhaul date was unknown"'

WW2 Spitfire had to do emergency landing as engine stopped

A safety notice is now in place following the emergency landing in West Hythe.

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I didn't know this was real 👏👏👏

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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 3d

Designer: *through tears* please just tell me what you want, you can even ask to make it pop, I'll do anything

Me: It's too Mycenaean, redo it

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Or even worse God-all-ming.

I often pronounce it Gomming if I'm in a hurry and then I realise where nearby Gomshall's name comes from.

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🤖CyberCrump🌆 @cybercrump.bsky.social · 3d

Ooh, shibboleths!

Burger King, early morning, Leicester. Self and friends having crappy breakfast. a couple from the States come in and ask the kid behind the counter, 'Please, can you tell us the name of the place we're at, and say it slowly and clearly?'
Kid: 'Uh, okay. BUR... GER... KING.'

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

If you don't like it, lump it

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I'm all for consistency

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Not like biceps?

I was so disappointed when I learnt that the Towcester Races didn't involve fast kitchen appliances.

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

See also: Leominster

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Frankly I don't know why I would deny myself saucy pleasure™️ - it's the equivalent of a few weeks of a streaming service that I don't have time to watch and never has anything I want to watch on it.

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

I walked at paying £4.50 for a bottle of HP sauce in the Co-Op yesterday.

THAT'S British values.

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Rob Finch @finchwrites.bsky.social · 3d

Like a raven's nightcap
Like the shadow cast by the black hole at the centre of the galaxy
Like the rumoured soul of Nigel Farage

So dark and shiny.

Jack Garfinkel @curiousscutter.bsky.social · 3d

campaigning to have claudia winkleman's hair grade 2 listed, but as a service

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Ben from Crudely Drawn Swords @glenatron.bsky.social · 4d

Do you need an audiobook to listen to? A good one, that you'll enjoy? Because I have just the thing - I know it's good because I wrote and produced it and I have listened to it so many times by this point but I still like it: www.audible.co.uk/pd/The-Redst...