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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

(Suspect I’ve posted this before. Favourite overlap fact)

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

Samuel Beckett, Salvadore Dali, and Emperor Hirohito all lived until 1989 and could have been really into the Happy Mondays.

If any of them, my money’s on Hirohito.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I saw a bar of "Dubai chocolate" on sale for £11.99 recently, and I assumed it was a euphemism, or at least under-recognised street slang, as well.

But no, just has bits in, apparently.

rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, there's a reason all those Instagram influencers get flown out to the Gulf states, and it's not just pictorials.

(This is also why I thought "Dubai chocolate" was a euphemism for something until recently)

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 1d

"I'm in the main hall......no you shouldn't have any problems finding me" #CPC25

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

One of those stories that gets better and better by the line

Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 1d

"A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has been exposed after some of the women found out about each other and nearly came to blows."

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I'd mind less if they were the generation who'd actually done it themselves, but the youngest person who did national service must be 82 at least

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

oh very good.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, the rhythm is up the spout

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

which jam? Fig / Quince I can totally see. Strawberry....not so much.

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

the packets of scampi fries where one 'fry' is just a ball of the flavour coating, delivering a concentrated hit of pure scampifryness straight to the brain.

Mouth watering just thinking about it

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 2d

What foods do you love that you fully acknowledge make you a pervert for loving them?

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I don't know, scarf with *sandals* is a strong look

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

1. yes, yes it is
2. this is also how I feel watching most stand-ups try to do political speeches

Best for Britain @bestforbritain.org · 1d

If I cringe any harder at the Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp's stand-up comedy routine, I may fold in on myself, collapsing into a PSR-J0952–0607-style neutron star of vicarious embarrassment. ~AA

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

"husband of French" giving strong "person with Norwegian"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

pretty sure "Foreigner with a Frenchman" is a Morrissey B-side

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

and to think she could have said "The Ted Heath Orchestra"

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Hea...

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

I'm still fond of the time Cameron said how much he enjoyed Eton Rifles when he was at school and Paul Weller almost had a fit.

(Made even better by Weller raging "he CLEARLY DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT" and everyone else thinking calm down Paul, he might just have a working sense of irony)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

There's a strong strain of....not quite libertarianism but certainly a muscular liberalism as well. cf Vetinari

“William: "I'm sure we can all pull together, sir."
Vetinari: "Oh, I do hope not. Pulling together is the aim of despotism and tyranny. Free men pull in all kinds of directions.”

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Laura Ashe @lauraashe.bsky.social · 2d

Epic; no notes

Headline from the Times: "Bestselling novelist Jilly Cooper dies in fall aged 88", illustrated with a rather famous black and white picture of Virginia Woolf

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

Love this picture, not least for the fact that David Tennant has clearly insisted on being allowed to wear trousers that fit

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

Really hoped this would be, like, "Satan" and "Witches" or even "Popish conspiracies" but turns out to just be "reconciling the worldwide anglican communion" as you were

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

If we can find a delegate we're happy to refer to as "a dunce - inane" then I've got a cracking Macbeth joke

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

Oh for goodness sake. If you're just going to revert to "it's a conspiracy" this isn't a serious discussion.

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

I say this without a hint of sarcasm: the Treasury are desperate for money. If you genuinely think your solution would work, write it up as a paper, with modelling showing there are no negative market consequences, and submit it. If it works, even in theory, you'd quite probably get a knighthood.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't. Fair enough, that is a gap in my cultural knowledge. And I shall modify my take.

Stratford Johns looks like &c

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

The chap on the front cover looks like an AI tried to merge Kingers and Larkin

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