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Tony Deighton #FBPE

@tonydeighton.bsky.social

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A Stranger in a Strange Land. Brother, husband, father, grandfather, friend. Retired but working hard for a fair society. I live in the UK and long for it to rejoin the EU. No Tarts, no Crypto & no secret societies - FFS!

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 3h

The whiff of vomit combined with disinfectant & sawdust

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 5h

I refuse to watch it, Reform’s over representation, fixed audiences & Bruce make it a complete waste of time

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 20h

I suspect it’s not the ingredients that is effective, rather the act of application, and it’s more effective if applied by a friend. Certainly “cock” cream works this way.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

In the UK even the super rich use the NHS for emergency care

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

No you aren’t, please don’t leave

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Trump will die

[dear FBI agent, this isn’t a threat, we all die one day]

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Around 25 years ago

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Yes, I have three grandchildren.

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

It is, my granddaughter (4 next month) found it and spent a happy hour admiring photos of her brother & cousin and of course herself.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

She has lots, but if we go out in the evening she finds it more convenient to leave it at home and rely on my jacket pocket. I guess another way of looking at it is that she makes me her handbag!

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

If this is true then why when we go out I have to look after my wife’s purse?

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Perhaps if teachers had actually taught Farage how the white man had enslaved the black man and colonised his country, the would be Herr Hitler tribute act wouldn’t be such a cvnt.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 1d

Everywhere I look I keep coming across the expression “clap back”. It’s really annoying me, it’s a daft expression, what’s wrong with “push back”? Which clearly explains what it means. As for “clap back”, why not “skip back” or “hop back”, or even “fingers on lips” back?

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

One wouldn’t let any one of them babysit one’s children.

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

Just a thought, my wife found a website that turned a set of photos of our grandchildren into a really nice little book of photos, if this is of interest to you as a physical remembrance of your baby I’ll get the website details for you.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

I’m so sorry for your loss. Much love xxx

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve just picked 8kg of quince off a single tree. This is the 1st year I’ve had more than a couple of fruits from it and I’m very pleased, it’s still quite a small tree.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 2d

Someone posted this on LinkedIn and I’m so there for it. I’ll pop the video in the next thread because there is, indeed, a dancing unicorn. #Portland #DancingUnicorn

I live in Portland, Oregon.
We have been labeled a "war zone."
Last night, while federal officials were in town declaring the need for more force, the "war" escalated to dancing unicorns.
This is all happening in one block south of downtown.
Thave seen with my own eyes and heard directly from friends and journalists on the ground what has been happening where I
live.
I have been told by even members of my own family that I must not be "fooled" by my own eyes ... based on the stories they've heard.
Facts will never change minds.
Stories do.
That is a propagandist's dream.

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TeeDixie 📎 @teedixie.bsky.social · 2d

#Portland #DancingUnicorn

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

I’ve not done a stock take recently, but probably around 20. I buy them by the box from

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 2d

Grandchildren

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 3d

I try to remember that I’m observing Labour through the lens of right wing media, but that said they appear to go out of their way to shoot themselves in the foot, principally their lamentable record on human rights.

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Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 3d

That’s her usual expression, she never got over being discovered trying to hand the IDF our overseas development budget.

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 3d

If you mean a bomb disposal expert, I would be a good disposable bomb disposal non-expert, unlikely to get a 2nd gig!

Tony Deighton #FBPE @tonydeighton.bsky.social · 3d

I feel your pain. Last year I was flying from Dodoma in Tanzania back to Heathrow, 3 legs, sadly my flight for the 1st leg was cancelled & I had to wait for next flight, at Dar es Salaam I had 20 mins to get from 1 terminal to the next pulling my trolley bag behind me. I was 66!