Obstrepero
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Obstrepero
@bockdr.bsky.social
A lion walks with a thousand jackals just as a brave man walks with a thousand cowards.
Campus police. What's that? (Asking for all European universities).
December 9, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Later, when Joseph mistakenly cuts a plank too short, Jesus helpfully grows it by an extra foot, so that Joseph doesn't have to cut another one.

Scholars record this as the moment when the young Jesus learns it's better not to be an arsehole.

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December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
For instance, he brings a dried fish to life and he turns mud pigeons into real birds. He kills his playmates when they laugh at him and blinds their parents for complaining but then he reverses it all when Mary and Joseph tell him to behave himself.

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December 8, 2025 at 6:42 PM
I was with you right up to the silly jibe about aluminium.

Read up on the history of that word. You'll discover that its spelling was a matter of much debate, with the Brits opting to go one way and the Americans another.

There are plenty of reasons to criticise them. This isn't one.
December 8, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Fine-looking man, though.
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A councillor? Jesus, they went right to the top there, didn't they?
December 6, 2025 at 10:13 PM
What Americans think of as extreme radical Left, we in Europe think of as governing with decency.
December 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Seen from the rest of the world, there is no Left in the US.

Just Right and further Right.
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
He was afraid someone else would do it and snag his wig.
December 6, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Imagine the international fallout as redneck cops taser all those Eurolib soccer fans for talkin' funny an' shit.
December 5, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Have you spoken to these boomers personally?
December 5, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Most Americans wouldn't be able to find America on a map of America.
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Imagine waking up next to either of them.
December 4, 2025 at 7:05 PM
America, you are lost.
December 3, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Who remembers that question in the Brexit referendum?

"Do you want to leave the customs union?"

No.

Neither do I.
December 3, 2025 at 9:58 PM
No Protestants back then.

But we're all Protestants now, Father!
December 3, 2025 at 7:48 PM