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Roland Bates

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YOU MUST CHANGER YOUR VIE. Let's have a bread! Queuing for crumble. Feckbro. British Pork, it's got the lot. Daughter wanted to open a tin of baked beans. No chance

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10d

Me and my granddaughter Jabbo Petts

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

I guess this was his attempt to maintain A SUNNI DISPOSITION

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

His family escaped a totalitarian theocracy in fear for their lives... he did jokes for another totalitarian theocracy where people fear for their lives. What a funny fellow!

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

His family escaped a totalitarian theocracy in fear for their lives... he did jokes for another totalitarian theocracy where people fear for their lives. What a funny fellow!

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

It's rubbish.

John Self @john-self.bsky.social · 10h

I've never read Charlie Mackesy's book(s), but given this spread was on the BBC News site, I'm assuming it's real and not a spoof of bumptiously sentimental tosh?

Coloured illustration across two pages of a book, showing a horse, fox and boy (and a mole presumably, though I can't see it) approaching a river. Text reads

"Do we know where we are going?" asked the boy
"Not really," said the mole.
"Are we lost then?"
"No," said the fox, "because we have each other."

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Birmingham 81 @birmingham81.bsky.social · 10h

Delta 5 performing Mind Your Own Business at Hurrah, NYC in 1980. This and other Hurrah concert recordings are available on a pay-to-view basis at artclips.free.fr/PRIVATE-STRE...

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

Just remembered Omid Djalili! Those were the days

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

He had the choice to go with Labour. Say no more

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 15h

My secret evil plot to ‘destroy Britain’ has been unveiled by (checks notes) the same paper that endorsed Liz Truss.

If I don’t know better I’d say we’ve got them entirely rattled.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Greens who want to save the world by destroying Britain.

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

As I have already pointed out, their names are magically preserved on Wikipedia. People who do not care where the money comes from.

Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

Love that song

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13h

let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God

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Historic Cricket Pictures @picturesporting.bsky.social · 1d

A good photo by any standards, but given the equipment of the day a sensational one. Surrey allrounder Alan Peach loses his middle stump to Warwickshire's Harry Howell in the drawn Championship match at The Oval, June 16th 1927

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Roland Bates @rolandbates.bsky.social · 10h

Who will be the first one to do an Edinburgh show about doing the Riyadh show

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Stanley Bad 🦆 @stanleybad.bsky.social · 10h

The terrible end of the Dulwich Hermit just popped into my head. I used to roam around those woods, supposedly doing conservation (as it was an alternative to the horrors of rugby).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_...

Samuel Matthews (hermit) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Charlotte Mandell @avecsesdoigts.bsky.social · 10h

Today's Sawkill, after much-needed rain last night

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 10h

Bondi also wouldn’t answer whether she’d seen photos of Trump in the Epstein files around half naked girls, as a witness alleged they’d seen. She must resign.