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David Whitley

@mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social

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Travel writer. Nerd. General annoyance. I never met a joke I liked that I didn't want to drill into the ground. Writes quizzes at https://geograquiz.com/ . Shares unsolicited thoughts at https://planetwhitley.com/ .

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1h

The Nobel committee has excelled itself there. Handing the Peace Prize to a right-wing Venezuelan is going to confuse the hell out of Trump.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 11h

Anyone believing the 2028 presidential election will be free and fair is a credulous mug to the point where their view should never be respected on anything ever again. Alas, this cohort includes almost every elected Democrat politician.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 12h

Penistone.

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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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 14h

"I'm not a paramedic, but I'm using the intonation of a paramedic, is that OK?" has to be my favourite line from New Partridge.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 14h

Joe Biden would be extremely funny.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 16h

Little 'Un has just been telling us about the frozen people of Pompadomland.

Turns out she means Pompeii.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Three lads saving their GP the bother of asking them if they're sexually active, there.

Jonny Morris @jonnymorris.bsky.social · 1d

Is this real or am I in a coma?

Young Conservative with a Doctor Who question mark pullover.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

I'd guess the dynamic in London (several pubs, Oyster cards, good public transport over a wide area) may be different to those in mediocre market town (one pub, at best two, that is endearingly lax).

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

It was the Three Nuns in Loughborough, although the weird, awkward kids found an equally accommodative home in the Windmill.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

YES. Everyone knew which pub it was, and everyone knew the line at which they'd never be allowed in it again.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

I'll go further: subsidise pub drinking and make buying alcohol from the supermarket staggeringly expensive*.

* For everyone except me.

Altreik @altreik.bsky.social · 1d

Should go further and tax supermarket beer at a higher rate than at the moment- raises revenue, targets the biggest source of binge drinking and might help get people back into pubs.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

*bellends*, obviously.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

I want my kids to be drinking in a solid community pub, where the landlord will kick them out for being blends, from the age of 14, just like I was.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

But he's not got his own mainstream TV series - he's basically self-publishing.

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Zack Fox 🦊 @zjfox.bsky.social · 1d

It'll be wild when Charlotte Church reveals she's been pretending to be Welsh this entire time #TheTraitorsUK #CelebrityTraitors

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Heartening to hear he's so devoted to his wife.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Ask "are you a faithful?" So you can compare the yes answers, Garraway! #celebritytraitors

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Has he seen the Church gravedigging footage too? Etc etc

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Ruth Codd has a massive desperate last minute replacement vibe, mind.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

17 out of 19 being genuine heard-of-them celebrities, some of them at least B-list, is genuinely excellent casting work. #celebritytraitors

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

11 to 20 is the happy medium between the dullards and the psychopaths either side.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 1d

How many browsing tabs do you typically have open?*

1: 6%
2-5: 54%
6-10: 14%
11-20: 8%
21-30: 2%
More than 30: 3%

*across all windows, on desktop/laptop

yougov.co.uk/topics/techn...

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Mark Anthony married Jennifer Lopez.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

"Who funds you?" was seen as a childish gotcha rather than a basic, essential sanitary check. Instead, loons who were given fake jobs laundering views and policies that benefited no-one except a few spite-addled American billionaires became disproportionately influential.

David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 1d

Kemi Badenoch as leader of a freefalling Conservative Party is the logical conclusion of giving too much attention to murkily-funded right wing think tanks staffed by ideologue morons who are permantly high after huffing their own farts.

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David Whitley @mrdavidwhitley.bsky.social · 2d

We used to do PE lessons that were 45% getting The Apparatus out and 45% putting The Apparatus away.

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