@scottishlinguist.bsky.social

Linguist; writer; politics/culture/media observer; reader; trivia expert; Scot; cook.
No need for Queen's English: I have my own, thanks.
Reasonable, not cheap.

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@katsuxbt Is "tears in my baked Alaska" a variation on "clouds in my coffee"?

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@JohnFielder1 Would the dialogue begin with "Hello, James. Got a new motor?"

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@BethRigby Anyone still being hoodwinked by this over-privileged lout's Man of the People stance deserves the consequences but unfortunately the rest of us have to suffer them too.
Farage isn't the victim he claims: he had a public stage to deliver his vitriolic propaganda uninterrupted.

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@CxzCatherine Emmylou Harris: Here, there and Everywhere
Phoebe Snow: Every Night

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@greg16676935420 Poirot; TinTin; 2Unlimited; Plastic Bertrand; fabulous chocolate; Le Mannequin Pis; beer (if you like that sort of thing); chips with mayonnaise; Magritte; Bruges lace... a fair few things, really, but I appreciate you were probably joking

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Farage trying to convince us all that he's really being heroic with a version of "It is a far, far better thing I do..." and that he has really only ever had the country's interests at heart.

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@hughlaurie @jan_murray I started watching House in May on the recommendation of my nearly 22 yr old son. I'm almost finished season 3 and loving it.
I'll stick with it (a) because I'm enjoying the story/stories (b) on the off chance Hugh Laurie will play the drums.
Life is formulaic. Art imitates it.

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@picturethis74 @BlondieOfficial @chrissteinplays @clem_burke I have this on a 12 inch single - remember those? - along with X Offender and In the Flesh.

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#EastEnders So, epilepsy, hostage taking, mental health crisis, self-harm, sexual assault...I might have missed something...it's A Lot for just under 30 mins, isn't it?

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This new Mitchell bloke is very hard on the crockery so far #eastenders

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@Hot_Pepper76 and this one, which came out a few years before Nothing Compares, is very listenable too
https://t.co/XnLsHbfF7a

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@Hot_Pepper76 The Prince song was her biggest hit, but I think this song is her greatest triumph:
https://t.co/RVRPAqngLI

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@GrantSRivers So if Becky is Rebecca Swain, did she take Lisa's name or did Lisa take hers when they married?
Enquiring minds obsessed with tiny details need to know. #Corrie

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@bagshaw2112 I listened to an audiobook of his autobiography a few years ago. It was really interesting, though also very sad in places. If you can find a copy, I recommend it.

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@suzycoos @chatswithem Haha! Too many marzipans and squishy fruit ones for me but I remember them well.

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@suzycoos @chatswithem Cadbury's Milk Tray.

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@suzycoos @chatswithem Oh, you might be right. That was obviously a bit of wishful thinking on my part, though it does account for the lime cordial 😀

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@BladeoftheS I think everyone in the 70s and 80s kept their newly-baked Christmas cake in a Quality Street tin, to be used year on year until it finally rusted, didn't they?

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@suzycoos @chatswithem Does anyone remember the Quality Street bar? 8 or 10 sweets in a block of chocolate? It was a wonderful, rare, treat even though I think I remember there was a lime cordial one, shaped like a little half-barrel. I don't know when they stopped making it - early 80s, perhaps?

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@LBC "Expensive and Vindictive" sounds like an excellent Johnson family motto.