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Paul Brown

@foolmentaljoker.bsky.social

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Stunt journalist - doing the tricky bits uncredited so 'stars' look good. Fluent English/German, tourist French, Dutch, Italian, Macedonian, read Flemish, Spanish, can decipher some Icelandic. Jack of banjo, guitar, mandolin, violin, uke, master of none.

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · May 30

The word 'change' should be taboo in election campaigns. It's meaningless. Losing a limb is 'change'. Waking up to a bus in your living room is 'change'. Just because you're sick of whoever the current mob is - and almost all of us almost always are - don't fall for an utterly empty promise.

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'Mayday, mayday, backup required! The protesters have blown themselves up!'

'Jesus! How many casualties?'

'No, you don't understand! They've BLOWN THEMSELVES UP! Game over, man. Game over.'

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Do Not Obey. We are Democracy. @zangerliberia.bsky.social · 9h

War torn Portland.
I am

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Dave Bagpuss Forsey 🍺 @bagpuss.org · 4h

But where's the "fuck off" button?

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1h

'Trump's hopes of receiving the Nobel Peace Prize were dashed after he wasn't nominated by the Jan 30 deadline and then again when he openly turned the US presidency into an oppressive dictatorship that targeted people for the colour of their skin.'

There you are, sorted.

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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 3h

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1h

Used to be a joint venture...

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@geoffmcgivern.bsky.social @gmcgiv.bsky.social · 2h

I like 'stand alone'...

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 2h

Johnson & Johnson said it plans to separate its artificial hip and knee business into a stand-alone company to be called DePuy Synthes.

Johnson & Johnson to Split Off Orthopedics Business

The planned separation is the latest move by J&J to slim down in recent years and focus on faster-growing businesses.

on.wsj.com

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

A gathering of shadow puppeteers applauds and in the candle light a flickering menagerie takes flight across the walls.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 2h

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Cartoon of man at a table with a book, a plate, a knife and a jar in front of him. He is touching a blob on a page of the book. Caption: I've got jam on my autobiography! Well, that's my story and I'm sticking to it.

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 3h

My car makes exactly the same beep whether the outside temperature hits 4C, the tyre pressure has dropped slightly, or the oil is critically low and the engine is in danger of exploding.

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Brexit Bin 🇪🇺 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 @brexitbin.bsky.social · 3h

If you think you're immune to propaganda ...

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Max B 💙 🔶 🇺🇦 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 @maxbrockbank.com · 3h

Yup!

Tweet by Florence Lox (@floboflo)

Take your Brexit boats, food shortages, 6 hour queues in airports, no living abroad, no studying in Europe, thugs pissing in the street, flags up lampposts, painted roundabouts, shouting at hotels, bricks in the balls, 30p Lee and shove them up your Russian owned sh t pipe.

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 4h

Lord of the Bins

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 15h

Allow me to recommend this...

www.amazon.co.uk/End-Century-...

End of a Century: A feelgood 90s love story with a thread of mystery eBook : Carnahan, Paul: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

www.amazon.co.uk

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 16h

Books with humour are a higher art form than those without.

Also, if you can't finish your fantasy epic in three books, five at the most, you need a better editor.

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1) More people than you would think, either through ignorance or selfishness.
2) Obviously.
3) No. Otherwise the world would not be in the state it's in now.

The horrifying truth is that common sense is not actually all that common. WE would never do that. But many more would, and it only takes one

Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, and that means four-hour queues are a heightened risk for such diseases. But if you cough into or wipe your nose on your hand, touch the pad and then the next person touches it seconds later, there's still an infection risk.

Also, 'other diseases are available'.

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

🎶 Don’t know why
There’s no sun up in the sky
STORMY DANIELS 🎶

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump gets some help closing his umbrella while boarding Air Force One

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Neil Norman And His Cosmic Orchestra @fubsyshabaroon.bsky.social · 1d

*tries to play it nice and cool* *fails miserably*

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1d

Given how often I'm over there (family), anything that speeds me through is welcome. But I do wonder at a system which, only a couple of years after a pandemic, will require thousands of strangers a day to touch the same bit of glass one after another without cleaning it or their fingers.

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1d

Finale of this, featuring first hint of Doctors before Hartnell, aired on Jan 24, 1976.

Fugitive of the Judoon, which made this 'canon', aired Jan 26, 2020 - 44 years later almost to the day.

'Ruth Clayton' discovers she is a pre-Hartnell Doctor while celebrating her 44th birthday.

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Gabby HC, but a ghost, hiding in a corner @scriblit.bsky.social · 1d

Me: I should probably stop making "Edgar Allan Poe Nonsense" my entire personality
Also me:

Edgar Allan Poe socks, as worn by Yours Truly

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Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, but he's half Scottish so that's not actually all that good.

Paul Brown @foolmentaljoker.bsky.social · 1d

It's like a golem made of ear wax.