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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 19m

Ditto driving round the block again because a song you like comes on the radio just as you get home. Or is that just me?

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 21m

Serious consideration was given to making German their official language. They'd all be making funny funny jokes about Bratwurst.

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Helen @bambi-helen.bsky.social · 30m

Jesus, America is *so* embarrassing.

hannah gais @hannahgais.bsky.social · 1h

Those are three people in inflatable frog suits.

@MrAndyNgo
Now that the local and national press have started to cover the Portland ICE area round-the-clock in reaction to the President, Antifa have devised a plan where they are encouraging one another to come in animal costumes.

The costumes serve the function of masking the violent extremism to make the direct action appear like a family-friendly gathering on camera, and to whitewash the past ultraviolence.

In 2019, Antifa devised a similar plot by giving out free "milkshakes" at a protest. But they couldn't contain their bloodthirst and nearly killed me when they saw me. In 2020, they mobilized a fake "Wall of Moms" where female Antifa supporters and members wore yellow shirts to act as human body shields while violent rioters behind them hurled projectile weapons.

photo of three people in inflatable frog costumes

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 41m

See now it's time for "you stole all your spicy food" and "only white people are British."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 46m

And again. Profoundly unserious people.

Just V Is Fine @justvisfine.bsky.social · 1h

British food (because I refuse to call it 'cuisine') is largely a mean-spirited prank that nobody wants to own up to. Or a game of chicken where every party refuses to back down.

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Matt Leys @mattleys.bsky.social · 50m

Just saw a Christmas ad so if anyone wants a free telly it's in my front garden full of hammers

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 50m

If Yank shitlibs had devoted a fraction of the energy to addressing the rod in their eye to the mote they perceive in ours they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.

Bit of Biblical terminology for the kids there.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 58m

And what the FDA is pleased to call "allowable filth."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Whatever gets you through another day of having death squads on your streets I suppose.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Just bored with the performative ignorance of American shitlibs.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

And the one thing you hear from Americans who actually live in this country is "Everything tastes better here." Because it does.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

No we don't.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Oh the originality. Oh the curiosity.

Katy Souders-Leifheit 🌙 @katysouders.bsky.social · 1h

Y'all eat like the Germans are still bombing you.

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Simon J @hobnobking.bsky.social · 2h

There's a corner of the internet entirely devoted to making incurious people who want to believe that British food hasn't evolved since the middle ages watch plenty of advertising before they can see videos.

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Spinky’s Mama @spinkysmama.bsky.social · 1h

Great thread. I can add Peter Davison writing about his father:

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

I more like him than I cared to admit while he was alive. I stand like he did, sit like he did, I look at my hands and see his, I look in the mirror and see his features, even though our colouring was so completely different. While I longed to look more like him, I realise I turned out as perfectly as he could have wished.
Here was a man from the Caribbean who wanted nothing more than to be accepted as British, who had a son who had made a name for himself playing the typical Eng-lishman.

Extract from Is There Life Outside The Box? An Actor Despairs
Autobiography by Peter Davison

But of course it did matter. What to us was a taste of the exotic was, to my father a bothersome distraction in his quest to be accepted as an exemplary British citizen.
The fact that his only son was born with blond hair and blue eyes, courtesy of inheriting my mother's dominant Caucasian genes, unlike my sisters, made the transition complete. Over the years however, his West Indian heritage became more than a distraction, and while we never knew of it until later, there's no doubt he suffered discrimination and rejection at the hands of Mother England that he loved. When Enoch Powell gave his 'Rivers of Blood' speech and my father had to stand in line and register as an alien, having been eventually accepted by my mother's extended family and friends, probably did nothing to soften his feelings.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Part of the reason why the Dominion of Newfoundland joined Canada in 1948 was that it had lost an entire generation of adult males in a single battle in WW1.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Who was it who said that Britain became a secular country when the CofE started fitting lightning conductors to its churches?

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

I learned recently that the little toggle things on bathroom light switch cords are called acorns because of the folk belief that oak trees are impervious to lightning.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting that the Master is such an established and well liked character by this one that he gets a hero in peril cliffhanger of his own.

Alex Will Resurrect That Werewolf Pic 🔸🏳️‍🌈 @alexwilcock.bsky.social · 8h

Doctor Who – The Dæmons
Magic vs science, the Doctor vs the Master, and Azal the Dæmon rises over all
Doctor Who does folk horror, where even the Master gets scared under a pretty village church. Then they blow it up.
#HalloweenWho

The Dæmons fan poster, all in red – Azal the Dæmon’s proud, bestially horned head, haloed by a runic pentagram, rises hugely above the Doctor and Miss Hawthorne in the flames

The Master (Roger Delgado) in Satanic robes, cowering on the floor far below a high Dæmon’s-eye view

Azal the Dæmon, striking a pose – appearing as a traditional devil / satyr figure, with horns and cloven hooves, beard, masses of chest hair and even furrier legs. Phwoar. Hairy devil.

Villagers tie the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to the Maypole

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Emma @juxtaposedwithyou.bsky.social · 2h

Sitting in your car for 20 minutes when arriving home counts as partying

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

And now for the implications for the first Doctor years of William Hartnell's bisexuality...

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

Note also the companions. Tegan is a white settler colonialist. Nyssa is the sole survivor of a dead empire. And Adric along with every other Alzarian is literally an indigene 'passing for white.'

All of which is a coincidence but a really nice one.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

Bit of bonus Barlow and Watt action which is not in the TV version. Absolutely spot on characterisation. Lovely.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

And Snakedance, in which a decaying colonial empire into which the previous two Doctors would have breezed treats this incarnation as a scaremongering fool with dodgy indigenous sympathies.

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 3h

There's a shedload of colonialism in Davison's early stories. Aliens who've captured humans from historical cultures and make them eternally reenact their cultural rituals. Human colonists try to civilise a tribal culture that long ago outgrew its vastly sophisticated technologies.

Ilario Bisi-Pedro as Kurkutji, an Indigenous Australian, and Burt Kwouk as Lin Futu, a Chinese mandarin, in Four to Doomsday (1982).

Simon Rouse as Hindle, addressing two of the tribal Kinda who he's dressed like him in tropical fatigues and pith helmets, in Kinda (1982).

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