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Andy Shearing

@handyshears.bsky.social

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Chap from East Dorset now living in Burmantofts, East Leeds. Taped in front of a live studio audience.

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · Dec 17

That teaches me to be so pessimistic

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 7h

Fascinating, tell me more.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 1d

Did someone say beveragino?

Terry-Thomas smoking a cigarette through a cigarette holder, with a glass of wine being offered to him by an unknown female.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 1d

That could have been a lot worse!

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 6d

The Cruisin' Casanova!

Talking Pictures TV @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social · 6d

Saucy humour with #BarryEvans in 🚕 ADVENTURES OF A TAXI DRIVER (1976) 9:45pm comedy on #TPTV Featuring #JudyGeeson #DianaDors

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 6d

My hovercraft is full of eels.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 8d

Does anyone know a good burger van? I'm ravenous #totp

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strangely-familiar.bsky.social @strangely-familiar.bsky.social · 8d

Roundhay Road, Leeds, 1970s

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 9d

Soo? That's really sad

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 9d

Closely followed by...

On 2 October 2025, John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television receiver in London, using greyscale technology.

First, a ventriloquist dummy head, Stooky Bill, then a human being, William Edward Taynton, the first person to be televised in a full tonal range.

Peter Gabriel's 1980 self-titled solo album.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 9d

Sampled on a Jive Bunny single. If that's not a badge of honour, I don't know what is.

WHAT A FUCKING RECORD @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social · 10d

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 10d

Too bloody right.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 14d

High five to this one!

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 14d

And married to "that Edward Woodward" as my mother used to remind everyone.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 14d

My four previous visits to Elland Road supporting #afcb have brought four defeats. Not so today. UTC!

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 15d

Ed Davey pills? This now makes sense...

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 20d

Lawrence is still a genius.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 21d

Bloody hell it's rainy.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 22d

It was worth it for this email alone.

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 22d

I pity the fuel (sorry)

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Rev Peter W Nimmo @peternimmo.bsky.social · 22d

I agree. Those survey forms he handed out to his audiences were cringe inducing

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 22d

Because life is hard enough when you belong here, Steven.

Morrissey cancels two US shows over ‘credible threat on his life’

Singer cancels shows in Connecticut and Massachusetts out of ‘abundance of caution’, days after threat also issued in Ottawa

www.theguardian.com

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British Transport Films Stills @btfstills.bsky.social · 22d

YORKSHIRE SANDS (1955)

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Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 22d

Jesus Christ. You could be in Leeds in that time.

fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 22d

My husband can last about two hours in bed. He's lovely, but the sex is just so fucking exhausting. Who has time to shag for two hours these days?

Andy Shearing @handyshears.bsky.social · 23d

@sentimentbot.bsky.social Break it to me gently.

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Not That Doctor @notthatdoctor.bsky.social · 24d

BBC news showing the Trump protest in London, Sylvester McCoy has just appeared on a vox pop.

A television showing Sylvester McCoy at an anti Trump protest.

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