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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 52m

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Paul Arthur @brinkly.bsky.social · 1h

That's not the only tune it can be sung to.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1h

Reminded of one of the old classics

Tweet by ‘Fresh Oats’, 20 November 2017: “I'm so stressed that sunlight hurts. I am gods mistake”. QTed by the same account with the words “Sing this to the tune of "Old MacDonald"”

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 1h

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?” Yes, I have learnt this, and it has improved my quality of life

St. Scandalbags @alfaguru.bsky.social · 2h

You can sing "honey monster genitalia" to the tune of "deutschland uber alles" should you so wish.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

I can raise that as something to discuss in the office!

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Chris Gomm @gommster.bsky.social · 2h

How have I only just learned about these.

Picture of Spar branded Neighbours Harold Bishop's Spicey Spuds flavour crisps

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 2h

Well, now I have an answer to the original question, because I have read this conversation and am pondering honey monster genitalia

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

And the concert he refers to was in 1986!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 3h

I wrote a report this year which quoted an expert on the housing market on the subject of stamp duty (because as soon as I saw that sentence, I knew I had to use it, obviously). Getting rid of it would be widely supported. The question of what you do instead does seem… pretty crucial, though

"Stamp Duty regularly tops a crowded field jostling for the dubious accolade of the country's worst designed tax"
Rory Coulter
Associate Professor of Quantitative
Human Geography at University College London, Understanding Society Topic Champion, Housing

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 5h

On an ordinary day, you asking it that would break it, though

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

Search is fucked, then

Screenshot of search result: suggests I have never used the word ‘silly’

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

This is an extraordinary bit of writing. Painfully honest, and very sad

Adam Roberts @adamroberts.bsky.social · 11h

That's Lessing's son Peter.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...

Jenny Diski · Why can’t people just be sensible?

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

Splendid footnote:

Dr Lucy Carolan @icarousse.bsky.social · 7h

When I read the Pepys diary extract below I thought, sounds familiar, stylistically... did Beckett read him? Answer: yes!

Two refs to Pepys (the only two) in Dirk Van Hulle and Mark Nixon's 2013 book 'Samuel Beckett's Library' (Cambridge University Press)

Paragraph listing Pepys' diaries amongst other English auto/biographical books from Beckett's library

[Footnote] 17. Beckett read Pepys throughout 1978, despite admitting that he was 'bored to death' with him. Quotations from Pepys's diaries already appear in the 1930s 'Whoroscope' Notebook (WN72r).

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

Wonderful alt text! Tommy is most put out on such occasions, too, of course

A cat sitting on a patio table, looking unhappy with the state of things

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 6h

Oh, he will. Eventually

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 11h

So: happy 362nd anniversary to this entry from the Diary of Samuel Pepys, in which he... remains constipated

8th. So, keeping myself warm, to the office, and at noon home to dinner, my pain coming again by breaking no wind nor having any stool. So to Mr. Holliard, and by his direction, he assuring me that it is nothing of the stone, but only my constitution being costive, and that, and cold from without, breeding and keeping the wind, I took some powder that he did give me in white wine, and sat late up, till past eleven at night, with my wife in my chamber till it had done working, which was so weakly that I could hardly tell whether it did work or no.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 7h

*updates bio again*

Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 7h

Tripe Purveyor, painting by Glen Williams, Huddersfield-based artist raised in Rotherham. #NorthernArt

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 8h

Oh, the deprivation! Such cruelty!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 8h

“These ‘facts’ that you have put to me, that your wife has given me a snack already, and that I will guilt trip her into giving me another when she has her own lunch, are immaterial, and disputed. No, I will not point to my sources. Do your own research. What do you mean, “saw me eating”? Bastard”

A gingery tortoiseshell cat with white bits, sitting on a kitchen floor, facing away from camera, but turning to look. In the background, a dish she has just eaten off

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

I would absolutely go if I could

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

With thanks to @jonathancoatman.bsky.social, a footnote. (I took out a quote from Mike Carmichael about the baseball being like an artwork, but maybe I should have left it in…)

From the archives: A rose is a rose, but not when it's covered in 10,000 layers of paint | CBC Arts

Eric Cameron paints objects until they become sculptures, and his Thick Paintings take decades to create. Watch a clip from his 2005 episode of Artspots.

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, thank you. Hadn’t heard of him. Fascinatingly weird!

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

Oh, yes. Focaccia was invented quite recently, I think. (And, obviously, there’s good cheese everywhere, including America, but Cheez Whiz was not invented in Europe…)

Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

a man in a suit and tie stands in front of a wall of television screens with the words friends on it

Alt: Les Dawson dancing a little jig as a joke lands

media.tenor.com

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 9h

Intriguing question!

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Coates is Odd This Day @oddthisday.bsky.social · 10h

Yes! "Look, I counted 28 fucking times. What more do you want from me?"

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