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Schnuckster

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Sport, music, alcohol, books, South East London.

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Schnuckster , to random
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Rooney looks about 60. 😳⚽️

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway Proper ale gut just 2 years after retirement too. 😬

Schnuckster , to random
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Fond memories of BBC Sport running a pretentiously-shot interview piece with Joey Barton aimed at presenting him as some kind of working-class philosopher. Simpler times. ⚽️🙄

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway That he didn't distance himself from his brother after he committed a racist murder flagged him for me a long time ago.

Schnuckster , to random
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TikTok prankster should also be a capital offence.

https://news.sky.com/story/mizzy-tiktok-prankster-given-community-order-after-stealing-womans-phone-and-fleeing-police-13152639

RolloTreadway , to random
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Today has been way too hard.

Schnuckster ,
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@RolloTreadway Have a scotch. Do you drink? If you don't drink, I'd also recommend a scotch. 🥃

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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I've only read one Ian McEwan book, On Chesil Beach, donkey's years ago, and I'm afraid I didn't see what all the fuss was about, but the premise of this one looks interesting, and it's short at least. @bookstodon

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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I saw this dreadful neologism in Oxfam Islington. @bookstodon

Schnuckster OP ,
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@glc @bookstodon Why not call it 'fance'?

Schnuckster OP ,
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@whybird @bookstodon 😳

ElleGray , to random
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Father's Day is coming up and my advice for gift giving is: BINOCULARS. And I'm not kidding at all. Versions available for every budget and everybody loves them. Concerts, stargazing, lying in the grass and looking at bugs. I've bought them for people aged 3 to 89 and they were always a hit 🙂

Schnuckster ,
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@ElleGray I bought them for an uncle who liked peering through neighbour's bedroom windows, but we won't talk about that...

Loukas , to random
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I'm such a bad anarchist. What alignment are you? https://www.idrlabs.com/moral-alignment/test.php

Schnuckster ,
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@TheBreadmonkey @hannu_ikonen @Loukas If you score Lawful Good, are you even a Scouser?

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Just finished that Hendrix book. Intriguing how people who die unexpectedly sometimes do have death on their mind immediately before. Is it coincidence? There's no indication his death was anything other than misadventure, but do people perhaps get more, wrong word but still, careless in such moments? His career was at a crossroads, similar but also differently to say, Ian Curtis. What would he have become? His music was possibly heading out of fashion. Glam and producer-led teeny pop was around the corner. Bowie was the new superstar. How would he have adapted? Some of his later writings namechecked Wagner and Strauss. The possibilities are tantalising. The waste of talent is what remains, though. #books #bookstodon @bookstodon

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@keefeglise @bookstodon There's a sentence where he says he wants to get his head down and study music theory and composition. He clearly had big visions. Whether he could've achieved them though...

futurebird , to random
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Kittens, have met their match!

Eartha Kitt with Cats.

(photo by Gordon Parks, 1952)

Schnuckster ,
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@futurebird Have a break, have a Kitt cat.

Schnuckster , to random
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Brutal, MND. My nan died of it, and her pride meant she wouldn't allow us to visit her towards the end.

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway Ta. Grim, isn't it.

TheBreadmonkey , to random
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Rees Mogg has been asked to do reality TV and Gove is going on Strictly

Schnuckster ,
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@RolloTreadway @TheBreadmonkey You've taken away my blissful ignorance... https://youtu.be/5F212quQ1KI

Schnuckster , to random
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It seems that TNT Sports is not permitting a free YouTube stream of tonight's Champions League Final, unlike previous years, further illustrating the growing greed in elite #football and its myopic distancing from the fans which sustain it. I honestly don't know why anyone bothers any more. Put your money into #NonLeagueFootball, where it's genuinely appreciated. ⚽️ #NonLeague #MastodonFC

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway Discovery? I thought that was mostly lions fucking? How very odd.

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Current reading is this anthology of Jimi Hendrix writings, interviews, letters, and lyrics, presented chronologically in lieu of an autobiography, and largely it's working so far, about 40% in. Jimi comes across as the all-round good egg you'd expect, and his rise seems to define overnight success - from band formation to the Monterey Festival in under 9 months. He was also clearly someone who took popular music seriously, both his contemporaries and his predecessors, and his insights on other acts are frequently insightful. 📖 @bookstodon

Schnuckster , to random
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Just noted Surrey took a slamming. 😲 🏏

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway @eleanorrees Quite correct! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first-class_cricket_centuries_by_W._G._Grace?wprov=sfla1

Glastomichelle , to random
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On a misty morning in Somerset, the three decide to meet at sunrise. They meet on Glastonbury Tor, what happens next?

Schnuckster ,
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@Glastomichelle Giant bong?

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Just finished another short novel that Benjamin Zephaniah wrote for teenagers. Read two so far. They give an insight into young people's lives for an old sod like me, but more than that, they're just really well constructed, and sensitively and subtlely written. It's not a genre that attracts due credit, but the man excelled in it, clearly. 📖 @bookstodon

Jgbird , to random
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Island scrub-jay

Schnuckster ,
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@Jgbird He's seen some shit, eh.

TheBreadmonkey , to random
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So, having missed a few weekday runs the last few weeks, I'm taking a hard line with myself and insisting that I go. Unfortunately I've just found out the club changes to cross country in the summer and it is also absolutely bucketing it down. So I'm about to run around some mud in the driving rain like an IDIOT.

Schnuckster ,
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@RolloTreadway @TheBreadmonkey French Foreign Legion! Perfect!

randahl , to random
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Today I saw a number, which I will never forget.

During this war, Russia has launched 5628 Shahed-136 drones towards Ukraine.

That is 5628 times, civilians have heard a buzzing moped engine in the sky, and seen the Shahed-136 strike a civilian home, a power plant, or a school with its 50 kilogram warhead.

For comparison, Hitler struck London with 2857 V1 and V2 rockets — half as many.

I simply do not know what to tell future generations when they ask, why we did not stop the Russian terror.

Schnuckster ,
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@randahl I think it might be because Putin is a fucking headcase who would cheerfully resort to nuclear warfare given any excuse at all. His pronouncements with Xi this week make this abundantly clear to me.

Schnuckster , to random
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No mucking about today, straight to A82 of the Laker Balcony. Got the stand (almost) to myself. 🏏

The Laker Balcony, my seat cushion on A82, cricket bag on the floor along with bento bag because the seats are wet. One othe spectator in about F60, on the aisle.

Schnuckster , to random
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Heading to the Oval for the match between Surrey and Worcestershire. Here's a nice photo of the London-bound platform at Peckham Rye Station. 🏏

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway They keep messing about with the Saturday forecast. We're on standby to head to Crayford dogs if it takes a turn overnight.

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Finally finished The Great Game, which was superb. Moving onto something lighter. This writer is more my older brothers' age than me, so I may not know about the earlier stuff directly, but will have heard about it from them no doubt. 📖 @bookstodon

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@bookstodon Book is OK so far, if a bit '70s cliché bingo', and it helps he was a boyhood Evertonian. 📖

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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Still reading The Great Game, and a meeting between Younghusband and Gromchevsky, mortal enemies getting slashed and talking world politics on a mountain in the middle of nowhere, thinking this should be a two-handed play. Absolutely electrifying. @bookstodon 📖

RolloTreadway , (edited ) to random
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I have a question for people who speak English better than I do (even though it's the only language I've ever been fluent in):

If an individual uses they/them/their pronouns, do you tend to use themself or themselves as the reflexive pronoun? I can never make my mind up, sometimes I find myself saying one and sometimes the other.

Is there a standard accepted form here?

UPDATE: Thanks to all! I shall stick to themself in future!

Schnuckster ,
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@RolloTreadway As an English person brought up in the 70s and 80s, I had precisely fuck all grammar education. It took an Italian language class for me to realise, in my 20s, that these is the plural of this. 😬

Schnuckster , to random
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The long and winding queue... 🏏

Schnuckster OP ,
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@RolloTreadway Bit breezy here, but warming later, and no chance of rain.

Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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This paragraph though. 😳📖 @bookstodon

Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby of the Royal Horse Guards was no ordinary officer. For a start he was a man of prodigious strength and stature. Standing six-foot-four in his stockinged feet, weighing fifteen stone, and possessing a forty-seven-inch chest, he was reputed to be the strongest man in the British Army. Indeed, it was even said that he could carry a small pony under his arm. Another Herculean feat of Burnaby's was to grasp the tip of a billiard cue between his middle and index fingers, and hold it out horizontally, his arm fully extended and the butt end steady.
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    • Schnuckster , to random
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    Kent are going to fuck this up, aren't they. 😬🏏

    Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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    Just went to The Bookshop on the Heath, which was a location not once but twice for separate episodes of Spooks. Bought this, seeing it's all the rage... 😏📚📖 @bookstodon

    jimkane57 , to bookstodon group
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    Book review for 2024 is Steve Silberman's Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. A helpful and informative book on the unfolding journey of and...battles with/for, regarding people who interact with their world differently. I found this book to be helpful in understanding the rise of what we today call neurodiversity. ☕☕☕☕1/2 review. @stevesilberman @books @bookstodon @bookstodon #

    Schnuckster ,
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    @jimkane57 @stevesilberman @books @bookstodon @bookstodon I really enjoyed this one, and learned a lot too.

    Schnuckster , to random
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    The CCTV on this bus keeps showing us the driver's foot WTAF.

    TheBreadmonkey , to random
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    @Schnuckster

    I'm really hoping for some tips from you here

    https://beige.party/@TheBreadmonkey/112373070500963719

    Schnuckster ,
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    @TheBreadmonkey I see @RolloTreadway has helped too. I used to watch Bromley a fair bit in the mid-2000s when they were 4 divisions lower and getting crowds of 300. They get ten times that now. Solihull Moors were two teams in those days, both getting about 100 fans, but the merger went very well. I watched Bromley beat Altrincham on TV last Sunday, and they came from behind with some really good football. They'll probably have 20-25000 there at Wembley. Should be a good one.

    Schnuckster ,
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    @RolloTreadway @TheBreadmonkey Another factoid is that Bromley's historic rivals, Sutton United, are getting relegated back to the National League after two seasons in League Two, so that'll make it even sweeter for Bromley if they get promoted.

    RolloTreadway , to random
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    Right, I'm off to the chippy. Anyone want anything?

    Schnuckster ,
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    @RolloTreadway Has to be onion gravy, really.

    Schnuckster , to bookstodon group
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    Just taking a moment to say that, although the evils of 19th century imperialism are hopefully obvious by now, the writing in this book is almost obscenely brilliant. Not a hint of gung-ho aggrandisement, yet acknowledging the undeniable courage, skills, and outright chutzpah of the key players, it also manages to shed light on contemporary international politics despite being from 1990. A truly incredible work. 📖 @bookstodon

    luckytran , to random
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    Timely reminder that historically, has been a day of protest and upholding the right to protest. It says a lot that May Day isn't officially recognized in the U.S.

    Schnuckster ,
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    @luckytran Or the UK.

    RolloTreadway , to random
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    Bit of cherry blossom on a grey grey day.

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    @RolloTreadway Certainly true, goes south to north.

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