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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 9d

Sincere question but what is the reference to the Mail back page? Googling hasn't helped and I feel that I ought to know this ...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · 22d

The most obvious figure is probably still Rayner, although she will need to do her period in exile first. She has a killer instinct that I do not see in many other senior Labour figures.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Sep 8

Bloody hell Roland, get well soon.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Sep 2

I think this is a reference to World Cups and other specific events where there is a national team to root for, not sporting events in general.

I struggle to find malign intent in someone putting the flag up on the day the national team plays a big game. Dicier if it's left up all year round ...

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Aug 20

I've just been to the story and it talks about "drinking, defecating and e-bikes" being banned.

Why would you list those three things in that order? The middle one is *obviously* the punchline, so it goes last.

FFS it's bugging the hell out of me.

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Aug 10

Jamie Waylett the first one, right?

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 31

... this man. God works in mysterious ways.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 31

Semi-relevantly, the biggest penis I have ever seen belonged to ...

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 28

So this increases the valuation of a person's pension asset, but is by definition only ever something that can be inherited. The person themselves can gain no benefit from it during their lifetime.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 28

Also, without getting too dull and technical about it, a significant slice of the cash value of many defined benefit pension pots is the "widow's" element - that is, a smaller continuing pension paid to a surviving spouse after the person dies.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 28

You are Simon Gilbert and I claim my £5!

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I am a civil servant in a film. I am also old, grey and dull, and while my secret vice is something much more mundane and furtive (alcohol?, porn?) it still leaves me open to blackmail. However, I also have a dependability and stoicism which benefits the main characters at unexpected moments.

Alastair Meeks @alastairmeeks.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I'm a trustee in a film. I'm old, grey and dull, but it will emerge that I have a secret vice which means that I have been embezzling funds to fund my old, grey and dull lifestyle.

Lewis Baston @lewisbaston.bsky.social · Jul 28

Hello, I am a writer in a film. I do most of my work at a tidy desk in my summer house overlooking a lake, although I am sometimes to be found at my impressive town house (it’s in Hampstead in the British version). My publisher is impatient with me but my agent seems to work for me alone.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 26

This is true and a great way to frame the key generational fairness point.

Full disclosure ... I am 46

Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · Jul 26

If you're around 35 or under in the UK, the government has never made anything better for you. Tuition fees brought in, stagnating wages from frozen tax brackets etc. An entire adult life of austerity with another decade ahead

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 26

It's a big bargaining chip for Heathrow in their endless negotiation with the DfT.

Basically they have guaranteed and preferential track access rights at Paddington and the entire GWR timetable is essentially designed around them.

Even if the trains are near empty, why would they give that up?

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 20

I know what you mean ... rather naff US seafood restaurant chain Red Lobster does these things called Cheddar Bay Biscuits as part of the cover charge. They are a bit like cheese scones but lighter than air and they might possibly be the best thing ever.

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 19

Either would work!

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 18

It pulled no punches whatsoever, did it? The bit where the hedgehogs - key main characters - were just unceremoniously flattened by a juggernaut was a gut punch that 8 year olds don't often have to deal with.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 10

To be absolutely clear I wish no ill to anyone here. I hope the bullet is dodged tomorrow night and that everyone gets home safe. But I really fear that one year, it won't be.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 10

This is not a joke and there is no political undertone to me saying this. Just look at the things! Cannot think of any more dangerous practice anywhere in the UK public realm. Multiple serious injuries or even deaths are a very real possibility.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 10

Enormous, completely unofficial, built by volunteers absent any safety or design requirements, usually on small patches of open ground in built up areas. Never mind the fire aspect, that fact that some of them don't collapse beforehand is a miracle - see picture.

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jul 10

I do not have any dog in the fight of Northern Irish politics but the Unionist bonfires are objectively a huge Health and Safety risk that would be banned without a second thought in any other part of the UK.

Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · Jul 10

Bonfire: Police declare site a major incident

There had been concerns that the power supply has been put at risk at two major hospitals because it lies near a major electricity substation.

www.bbc.com

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Matthew Holehouse @matthewholehouse.bsky.social · Jul 6

My email from a few weeks ago. EU diplomats’ worst-case scenario was a “dirty Brexit” of Britain simply ignoring laws in a disorderly unwinding of membership. It would have been a bad idea - but one that, tellingly. never seemed to occur on this side of the channel

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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · Jul 1

Why hasn’t someone in Cerne Abbas started a fashion brand called Tommy Hill Figure?

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LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jun 30

a man wearing a hat that says a 's on it

Alt: a man wearing a hat that says a 's on it, Jonah Hill in Moneyball

media.tenor.com

LunchBreakInTheBookies @lunchinthebookies.bsky.social · Jun 26

Ah, Project Truss!

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