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Horace Dorrington

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"He combined the vitality of a weak shandy with the joy of a decaying tooth."

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · Mar 12

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

You may care to check out the Spanish pronunciation of taco and then ask yourself why a country which has a land border with Spain might use that pronunciation.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

I'm reminded of the American Who fan who called Roger Delgado Latino and then called everyone who said that he was in fact Anglo-Spanish a racist.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

Fancy us pronouncing a Spanish word the Spanish way on account of Spain being our nearest Spanish speaking country. How racist.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

evening

Doug Garrison @dhgarrison.bsky.social · 2h

I think the way British people pronounce “tacos” is racist. Like c’mon folks, you use the rounded A (a) sound for just about every voiced A you’ve got. But suddenly “tacos” gets a short A (æ)…

Feels deliberate.

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David, Host of The Cold War @coldwarhost.bsky.social · 2h

YT Comments...left on a video about the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.

I don't even know what to say...

It Amazing How Ignorant The Deamonrat Useful Idiots in America Are ! They Have No Idea, How Evil & Brutal Communism is, The Education (INDOCTRINATION) System Teaches Nothing About This or the 1968 Czechoslovakia Russian Invasion !

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Tilt Araiza @tiltaraiza.bsky.social · 5h

Doomwatch series 2 episode 1

An old, sepia-toned picture of a man in a chicken suit. It's really very detailed and well made, the illusion is only shattered by his regular human face sticking out. No beak or anything.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

The SE6 remained in production until 1990, latterly by a firm named Middlebridge. Very few Middlebridges were made, although naturally it did supply one to that most loyal of Scimitar owners Princess Anne.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

Scimitar owners always flash their lights at each other. No matter what I'm driving I still instinctively do it every time I pass a Scimitar, no doubt to the bafflement of the person behind the wheel.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

"I bought a house opposite a school and for some reason there's a load of cars outside twice a day." Well no shit Sherlock.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

Or who move to a village and try to get the church bells silenced, or buy a house next to a steam railway and complain about the trains.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

Saw a very grubby one in Llangollen Aldi car park a couple of weeks ago, evidently still in daily use.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

My dad had two SE5s, one after another. My granddad had a Gilbern Invader Mk III. Those were the days.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 2h

And appropriately to your interests all three Scimitar models were for some reason named after Royal Aircraft Factory biplanes. That's the SE6. The earlier GTE model was the SE5. The original saloon was the SE4.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

What's the matter? Don't you like Gerry Davis treating the audience like morons?

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William French @wtfrench76.bsky.social · 3h

As ever, better to skip the News at Ten and read @roberthutton.co.uk instead. "Whatever else you can say about Badenoch, she doesn’t let anything hold her back, not her record, not her ability and certainly not reality." thecritic.co.uk/one-small-st...

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Jamie @vanjpes.bsky.social · 5h

How I respond when people ask me why I write horror and not 'proper' literature

Intertitle reads "Anybody can write the stuff this critic means. Mine is the work of genius---real blood curdling situations---plot and counterplot---hair raisers!"

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Michael Glasper @michaelglasper.bsky.social · 3h

Me reading your posts.

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waltydunlop @waltydunlop.bsky.social · 3h

Been watching the Reginald Perrin sketch from "The Funny Side of Christmas". There's a tramp wanders in to complete Reggie's Christmas torment and BLOODY HELL IT'S MICHAEL RIPPER. Splendidly boggle-eyed and bonkers he is too. Oddly reminiscent of Arthur Haynes.

Screengrab from "The Funny Side of Christmas" - the "Reginald Perrin" segment. Having been driven to distraction by the sudden arrival of all the other cast members, the final blow is delivered to Reggie's Christmas by a random tramp, played by Michael Ripper.

Michael Ripper's tramp from "The Funny Side of Christmas". Looks oddly like Arthur Haynes.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

Nice of Levine to save us the bother by making his own Jimmy Waffle On.

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Dan McPainInTheKnees @danmckee.bsky.social · 6h

Levine entering his “posting like trump in truth social ” era

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

"They've found ten copies of The Savages episode three but they're all in Serbo Croat." Oh fuck off Ferre you fucking Uriah Heep.

Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

The Peter Cushing South African radio series and Matthew Waterhouse's audition tape.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

All we need now is for Adrian Rigelsford's vicar on Earth Scott Ferre to chip in.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

You're all going to feel pretty silly when the recovered Doctor Who episodes turn out to be from the David Burton Season 27.

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Horace Dorrington @mrtrellis.bsky.social · 3h

Oh good it's The Indiana Jones Of Being A Cunt.

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