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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1h

I think you'll find that the aristocracy and capitalist elite granted all that stuff to workers out of the goodness of their own hearts.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1h

It's short for Piece of Shit.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 2h

#WorldLanguagesInASongOrMovie

A German For All Seasons

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 2h

If insanity is the same as stupidity I agree.
Of course it could be both.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 3h

If Trump follows his Covid policy, he'll just stop counting the deaths, so none will have happened.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 3h

Origin of the word "Jingoism": the song with the chorus:
"We don't want to fight,
But, by Jingo, if we do,
We've got the men,
We've got the ships,
We've got the money too."
Trump espouses inarticulate Jingoism.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 3h

#WorldLanguagesInASongOrMovie

No effort:
The French Connection
Take Me to the Greek
The English Patient
American Graffitti
The Italian Job

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 4h

#WorldLanguagesInASongOrMovie

The Invisible Mandarin

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 4h

And take note: Andrew is not just a bad apple.
The whole orchard is rotten.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 4h

"even a clock"!
Talk about barrel scraping.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 5h

Wild guess...you talking about Dorries?

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 5h

Wow!
And if I recall correctly, Afghanistan is a little bit bigger than Gaza, so how does that work out per square kilometer?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 5h

Other songs that show the composer it a pillock: "Wonderful Tonight" ("It's time to go home now
And I've got an aching head
So I give her the car keys
And she helps me to bed" whinge, whinge) and "Just the Way You Are" ('I don't want clever conversation'? It means I just want arm candy.)

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 5h

When I was a JHO in paeds and told the SR a kid vomited green, he'd demand "Great Western green, LNER Green, or Stroudley's Improved Engine Green?". If it wasn't GW green it wasn't bile (no intestinal obstruction).
That Metro is damn near LNER Green.
Stroudley's Improved Engine Green?
Look it up!

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 6h

Oh please do it.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 9h

TBF, if Gill made his statements in the European Parliament it's most unlikely that Farage was present.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 9h

"On our soil" surely.

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 9h

That would be a bit of a gamble.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 23h

Designing the epidemiological study to confirm that hypothesis would be only slightly easier than applying for the funding. And getting the ethical approval would be a bugger (so to speak).

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

It's ironic that the only decent thing she championed--the Single Market--is dead to the UK too.
Whereas all the other shit still haunts us.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Well Pheidippides did.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

They're all outdoing each other to advocate the Single Market are they?

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

They must have taken a leaf out of Trump's book: don't test for covid cases and the figures come down.

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Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

Beaten or whole?

Honest Dr John @honestdrjohn.bsky.social · 1d

I have a wristwatch that's embarrassed about the noun embedded in its name.
And don't talk to me about my pal from Scunthorpe.
Or the other one from Penistone.