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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird)

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Clyde built/Falklands anchored: freelance journalist/broadcaster, lawyer, legislative drafter, public policy consultant and tour guide - we multitask here!

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · Sep 6

According to an AI analysis of my posts on Another Site, I am "like a Swiss Army knife that's been left out in the Falklands' harsh weather - rusty, a bit dull, but still trying to be useful"
Not entirely unfair, but it's not just the Falklands weather that's harsh!

I will try to be useful here too

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 1d

I know that we use gender neutral language these days … but, somewhere in or around Sunderland, members of the Tribe of Toffs weep at an opportunity wasted in a Channel 5 documentary

John Kettley sitting on a sofa as a contributor to a Channel 5 documentary and captioned as a Weather Forecaster, not as a weatherman

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t think some of these people accept any more than one amendment and they probably wonder why it is called the Second Amendment

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Sam Wollaston @samwollaston.bsky.social · 2d

👏👏 to the headline writer

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

You won’t believe what degrading practice the pope just condemned

Communication must be freed from clickbait and misguided thinking, head of Catholic church tells journalists

www.theguardian.com

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 2d

Reporting at the Summary Court in Stanley and closing arguments included a reference to a lack of expert evidence as to the absorbency of the defendant’s trousers

(He was convicted of the more serious charge but cleared of causing criminal damage by urinating in the police cell while in custody)

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 3d

Not everyone still sniggers and some US Christians even prefer Bishop Lawrence’s teaching:

Bishop Lawrence knew better; he was J.P. Morgan's preacher, and of a Sunday he would look down at the assembled Wall Street tycoons in individually endowed pews and say,
"Godliness is in league with riches; it is only to the moral man that wealth comes. Material prosperity makes the nation sweeter, more joyous, more unselfish, more Christlike." Of course contemporary historians
snigger because that was what the boys in the endowed pews wanted to hear, Episcopal rites with a faint distillate of Calvinist salvation, Faith According to the Closing Quotations.

Taken from The Money Game by “Adam Smith” (George Goodman)

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 3d

That makes sense

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 3d

Court Martial is an episode that works well right to the end

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 3d

When I first saw it on Forces TV one sleepless night, I wondered what on earth I was watching … and then I got into it

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 3d

It is brilliant right to the ending which has a slight “and with one bound they were free” feel … which is a shame because the tension had been built up so very well

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 6d

Is Phil Menzies available?

Jake D’Arcy as Phil Menzies in Gregory’s Girl

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

Presumably an alternate timeline in which Calum Kennedy had not found the missing garment on the top of Ben Nevis

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

Reworked from an earlier version of the gag

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

Baroness Mone could always raise funds by covering a Deacon Blue classic
The lyrics might need changing:
They’re gonna sell my dinghy/I can’t call it Dignity

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Jacob Gifford Head @giffordhead.co.uk · 9d

As lawyers we should be congratulating Dame Sarah as her appointment to superintend the regulation of Notaries Public in England, Wales, Jersey, Guernsey, Gibraltar, New Zealand, Queensland & Papua New Guinea.

I hear the post comes with a couple of other responsibilities too.

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

It has been announced that a new Bishop of the #FalklandIslands has been appointed
+Sarah Mulally will concurrently hold office as the Archbishop of Canterbury
#TheresAlwaysALocalAngle

A picture of +Sarah Mulally, newly appointed as Bishop of the Falkland Islands and Archbishop of Canterbury

The caption from the Rev Hayley Argles-Grant reads:

As Rector of the Falkland Islands, it’s a great joy to hear that +Sarah Mullally is to be, among many other things, the next Bishop of the Falkland Islands.

As a community of faith, we will pray for her as she prepares to take up her role as Archbishop, for the Church of England and for the whole Anglican Communion.

#love #hope #faith #servant #christchurchcathedral #falklandislands

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

A previous Bishop for the Falkland Islands was also Bishop at Lambeth and Bishop to the Armed Forces
He claimed to be the Bishop of prepositions

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

Apologies: +Sarah Mullally, not Mulally

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

It has been announced that a new Bishop of the #FalklandIslands has been appointed
+Sarah Mulally will concurrently hold office as the Archbishop of Canterbury
#TheresAlwaysALocalAngle

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 9d

It’s the anniversary of the US Bill of Rights being sent out for ratification … although only one of the original package of 12 amendments seems still to be extant

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10d

Is that even more difficult?

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10d

I foolishly accepted a free trial of LinkedIn Premium and it has just taken me *seven* steps to cancel it

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10d

Nowadays, most of us use kerosene for heating and electricity or bottled gas for cooking

Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 10d

The latest post box topper outside the main post office in the Falklands marks Peat Cutting Monday, a spring public holiday on the first Monday in October - it was originally used for cutting the following winter’s fuel supply from allocated peat banks on the Common

A post box topper outside the main post office in the Falkland Islands with a diorama of two figures cutting pear at a peat bank
In the foreground is a small sign with text explaining the diorama
In the background are two red phone boxes

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 12d

Randomly just recalled a scene from Po Bronson’s book Bombardiers in which there are (staged) demonstrations in a country acquired by its bondholders and the placards read One Share One Vote
It was meant as satire but seems a bit more realistic these days

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 12d

Btw, back then I made a meme, but I lost it, so I remade it, because it's still funny:

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Ronnie MB (Ronnie MacLennan Baird) @rmbflk.bsky.social · 13d

In fairness, that isn’t a lot more than originally mandated by the Railway Clauses Consolidation Act

www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/8...

Railways Clauses Consolidation Act 1845

An Act for consolidating in One Act certain Provisions usually inserted in Acts authorizing the making of Railways.

www.legislation.gov.uk

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