Angus Thomson

Passionate about Man City - 1st game in 1971, Guinness, coffee & smoking food on my BBQ. Drive a Tesla & it’s fantastic! #CTID

[Angus Thomson @theAngusT]

@jasonllevin If ever there was a Rhetorical question……..

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Sarah Everard was kidnapped, raped and murdered by a WHITE Police Officer.

Nigel Farage called for calm.

But when he can use racism he calls for Cold, Hard, Rage.

[Angus Thomson @theAngusT]

@PintsBeauty I wouldn’t wash my socks in it

[Nick Tubb @ntubb]

@PintsBeauty

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@legsidelizzy I was a tad worried with three down yesterday mind!

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@Gianl1974 What an utterly wonderful descriptor of the POtuS

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@Just_Janine_ @Gianl1974 I’ve just reread it on the style of BlackAdder, as though he were addressing Baldrick.

Even better now!!!!!!

[Angus Thomson @theAngusT]

What a wonderfully articulate and succinct appraisal of the 🍊🤡 that goes
By the name of Trump. He of the bone spurs.
The 🇺🇸 POtuS
💩

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Parody Nigel Farage @Parody_PM]

Just spotted Lee Anderson among the protestors in Southampton.

[World Bollard Association™ @WorldBollard]

Only bollards can deliver this much happiness.
#WorldBollardAssociation

[Angus Thomson @theAngusT]

@MittensOff All deform/reform tribute acts. Copycat suits and looking for generous benefactors from overseas with deep pockets and loadsa spare ££$$€€

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@Lea_EFC 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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@1cornishblue Gruel and swamp water days ahead. Yippeeeee

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@Lea_EFC So sad that such a guaranteed and nailed on Quadruple didn’t happen isn’t it…..

NOT!

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@London_W4 Indeed! Rained so hard that the visibility was proper poor. Cars and trucks moving so slow there was no roadspray!

Like sitting inside a drum with hailstones bouncing off the panoramic roof!!

Canal will be a bit deeper now!

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@romfordroy @Parody_PM I think his security detail are just making sure that his hacked mobile device had all incriminating evidence taken, wiped and re-formatted. Then they will reissue “our Nige” with a new set of shithousery values to spout about

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@highland_blue2 Hopefully someone has seen you now! If it’s super urgent, you’d be seen in double quick time! 😉👍🏼

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@TechOperator @TeslaJigsaw Fantastically TRUE all too often!

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@TeslaJigsaw @ChargingFamily But full FSD isn’t here in the UK yet is it. When it is, it will be much more worthwhile. To those that want that kinda thing!