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Shannon Blackmore

@shayxin.bsky.social

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English teacher. Cricket tragic. Aston Villa fan. Sinophile. Wastrel of big words. Thee/Thou/Thine

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Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · 15d

I went to do a bit of my own thieving on a pilgrimage to London this year.

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Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · 22d

There are four different countries within D whose cuisines I would take over the entirety of any other section.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Sep 2

I believe that’s the reason it was called that.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Aug 23

How can you be a doom merchant when the boys are doing such wonderful stuff, like getting through 90 whole minutes without a red card!

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Aug 20

There’d better be a hell of an upgrade ready to be announced…

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Jun 2

He was manager?

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 17

I’ve been smacking myself on the back with a tiny whip as penance for ever having doubted the Professor.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 16

Still, credit to him for using a word as long as ‘atrophied’. We can call that growth.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 16

If you’re a high school student though…. Your writing also sucked, but you probably don’t care.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 16

Textus interruptus?

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 10

Chelsea to win 15-0!

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 3

But at least there is so much talent left to take over from him. Like…. Erm…

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · May 3

How people seeing that electing fascist, racist pricks has consequences…

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Apr 7

I did this (in Oz time), WHILE WATCHING THE VILLA GAME and it still took me a very slow 4.

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Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Apr 3

Did you mix up Nurse Ratched and Marcus Rashford in the pod? Is he messing with heads THAT badly?

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 29

They do something similar in touch rugby (but every 2 minutes, until it’s 3-on-3 and a score is inevitable)

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 19

Is old mate conflating the republican movement with the Republican Party?

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 16

The Overton Window has shifted so far to the right that in Rupert’s world, a centre-right party like the Democrats are called lefty extremists.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 16

Fixing the terms also means we don’t give the incumbent the massive advantage of calling an election when it suits them best.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 14

Just a pity he can’t do it in Paris just to make himself even more beloved there.

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Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Mar 1

Will the apocalypse be happening at the game?

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Feb 25

A miracle! We didn’t concede from our first shot*
*technically

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Feb 25

5:30am kickoff here and now my entire day is ruined. 8 hours or so until I can respectably improve my mood with a Guinness.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Feb 23

Very true. I read about this company that made the bells for city halls in Europe in the Middle Ages. They were such great quality that they went out of business because every town had one and they never needed another.

Shannon Blackmore @shayxin.bsky.social · Feb 22

Kinda. But that logic doesn’t work for whisky.