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[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@wretchardthecat 'Powerless to detain him'. It's Canada so couldn't they at least have offered him assisted suicide?

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@cremieuxrecueil Tell me about it! Friend (Oxford grad, high-level museum professional, lover of literature) asked me to look over an essay he had written. My only comment was to correct a misuse of 'disinterested'. He refused to accept, insisted it was correct use (it wasn't).

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@FischerKing64 One Halloween at my workplace was confronted by a member of the public dressed as Austin Powers. I said in my best Dr. Evil voice 'welcome to my underground lair'. He looked at me in genuine bafflement: 'What are you talking about?'

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@FischerKing64 In Australia they were sold under the brand name 'FAGS' (oz slang for cigarette). The name had to be changed to FADS before being banned altogether. There were also 'Big Boss' candy cigars, whose trademark was a cartoon Al Capone. Innocent days...

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@RitaPanahi Still, think what a great story she now has for her next book/wine club meeting.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@Babygravy9 The previous drone speed record was set by an Australian engineer/hobbyist, Ben Briggs, building his own drone from 3d printed parts. Amazing stuff.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@Babygravy9 South Park did an episode about this.

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@GrayConnolly Seriously, that female officer should get a decoration for having to pretend to listen to someone who by rights should be manning a cash register in a halal charcoal chicken shop.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@RitaPanahi Had to check that that building is for real. It looks like an Abu Dhabi casino. Or a stack of stack of discarded sixpack holders.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@SolBrah Pitching a script for an apocalypse road movie with you and RFK Jr: it's like 'The Trip' with roadkill instead of restaurants.

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@wretchardthecat Well, quite a few have gone before where he has gone, but it's the bourne from which no traveller returns.

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@Babygravy9 or even the times tables, which are probably not taught now. I enjoyed reciting them as a kind of poetry: seven elevens are seventy-seven.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@DrewPavlou No pay grade could compensate for being 'grilled' by a girl whose proper place is behind a cash register in a halal chicken shop.

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@DrewPavlou Those are some of the most powerful fists I've ever seen.

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@Babygravy9 Find a woman who will eat something, anything, full stop. Who doesn't spend 20 minutes agonising over a resto menu while the waiter keeps making hopeful return visits, then asks 'I don't know, what are YOU having?'

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@Babygravy9 B-b-but those rolled-up sleeves, that open-necked shirt! He's ready to roll! He's practically Rosie the Riveter.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@GrayConnolly Seriously, though, the fact that there were no race-swapped characters in the most recent Sense and Sensibility (2026) really does mark a quiet turning point in the chronicles of Wokeness.

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@GrayConnolly Same woman probably thinks Heathcliff is dreamy. Netflix? So which character will be black? And how much of a babe will Elizabeth Bennett be? She's supposed to be the kind whose quiet beauty steals up on you - not Keira Knightley.

[Gerardo @Palazzo_peasant]

@john_macgowan "My largely pro-bono career" - gonna file that one.

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@GrayConnolly One man's terrorist is another man's journalist...