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patrickhadfield

@patrickhadfield@mastodon.scot

Photography, jazz, art, politics, whisky, wine and more.

Edinburgh, Scotland.

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TheBreadmonkey, to random
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Do you think there's ever been a sort of collective agreement in the history of humanity where most people have thought - yep, we're living through such a great period right now ?

I mean - 2012 felt pretty good to me. The Olympics. David Cameron left his daughter in the pub. Savile was outed. Malala survived a shooting. The Conservatives hadn't built up to full steam yet. That guy did a big jump from space. We had Gangnam Style. And that old woman ruined then hilariously repainted that Jesus fresco. That felt like a good year. Although Bieber and fucking Mumford and Sons were still going strong.

patrickhadfield,
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@purplepadma @TheBreadmonkey @JackTheCat whereas it took PSB to actually make banjos cool!

(Actually it was apparently a banjolelle. I've no idea what that is. But still.)

https://youtu.be/kSBMeWY5wmk?feature=shared

patrickhadfield, to random
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This is bonkers. On what planet is Natalie Elphicke a Labour MP? She's on the hard right of the Tories!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68976500

patrickhadfield, to random
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"Sperm whale clicks could be the closest thing to a human language yet.
An analysis of thousands of exchanges between sperm whales suggests they combine short click patterns into longer sequences that could convey a wide range of meanings"
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2429941-sperm-whale-clicks-could-be-the-closest-thing-to-a-human-language-yet/

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, this might sound weird, but this is what I'm thinking of today. I'm assuming most of you know the idiom, "Don't look a gift horse in the mouth." I know it's about looking at the horse's teeth to check it's age and health, but in my heart I have an alternate history where it's about The Trojan Horse, which doesn't really even make much sense, but it's still living there rent free.

So, does anyone else do this, make up alternate histories for words or phrases? If you do, I'd love examples!

patrickhadfield,
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@RickiTarr @Peternimmo Garibaldi biscuits are also know as "squashed flies" and (though I didn't know this until two minutes ago) "flies graveyard".

What wikipedia fails to mention is that they remain my favourite biscuit!

patrickhadfield, to TheArchers
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Catching up with last night's .

A gentle, relaxing fifteen minutes.

patrickhadfield,
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@Wen I've been listening to for over thirty years, so I'm afraid I find that rather difficult to comment on! I'm well and truly addicted.

patrickhadfield, to Cat
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Saturday night Talisker.

patrickhadfield,
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@ColinHaynes I love Cabin Pressure, but I can't imagine the role for Talisker!

patrickhadfield, to random
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There was a Tory MP on the (radio) news saying it was too early to write the Tories off. He used a football analogy - that you wouldn't call the result of a football match when there was still thirty minutes left on the clock.
He's clearly never been at a football match and seen the home team fans streaming out of the park thirty minutes before time - when they're 10-0 down, including three own goals...

patrickhadfield, to random
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So the Tories spin that they might have a close finish or even win London mayor proved to be stuff and nonsense. Sadiq Khan increased his vote share to 43.8%; the Tories meanwhile lost vote share, to 32.7%.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68609732?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=66364cf938c2cb61e098901f%26Sadiq%20Khan%20officially%20wins%20London%20mayoral%20race%262024-05-04T14%3A58%3A02.068Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:33507364-a8cf-4dc2-8943-b80cefec36b9&pinned_post_asset_id=66364cf938c2cb61e098901f&pinned_post_type=share

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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I'll say goodnight with three words a lot of you will like to hear:
NO
OVERALL
MAJORITY
🥳 🥳

https://news.sky.com/story/sky-news-projection-labour-on-course-to-be-largest-party-but-short-of-overall-majority-13128242

patrickhadfield,
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@fkamiah17 that be good news! Though of course we'll have to wait and see, since Sunak seems to want to hang on as long as possible!

patrickhadfield, to random
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If I hear another Tory saying "we've got a plan. Labour don't have plan!" I'll bloody scream.

Frankly, the Tories have been in power for 14 years. If they've got a plan, maybe they should have put it in place during that time?!

Also: I screamed. The cat ran out of the room...

patrickhadfield,
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I woke up realising why the Tories repeating the mantra "we have a plan!" is so annoying!

It's because even if they do have plan, it's shit.

Boris Johnson had a plan, an oven ready plan, and it was rubbish: it crashed the economy.

Liz Truss had a plan, and it was worse, losing tens of billions of £s and raising interest rates overnight.

Sunak's plan seems to be blame immigrants, blame ECHR, blame doctors and nurses, blame the poor and disabled.

Just go! And take your damn plan with you!

patrickhadfield, to random
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I'm watching the BBC election coverage.

I think they've taken "The Day Today" as their model!

kim_harding, to random
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“If I am ever asked... to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am… then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it” - Boris Johnson in 2004

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/3613116/Ask-to-see-my-ID-card-and-Ill-eat-it.html

patrickhadfield,
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@kim_harding never one to keep his promises! I'm still waiting for him to die in a ditch...

patrickhadfield, to random
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"let's go back to pictures of people counting bits of paper..."

patrickhadfield, to random
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Boris Johnson introduced voter ID when he was prime minister. Even Jacob Rees Mogg admitted it might backfire...

"Boris Johnson turned away from polling station after forgetting to bring photo ID" https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections?CMP=share_btn_url

patrickhadfield,
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@NormanDunbar gorgeous, isn't it?!

patrickhadfield, to random
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The state of the nation.

patrickhadfield, to random
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Way to go, Tories!

"Minister ‘sorry’ as veterans find ID card not valid for English elections"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/may/02/minister-sorry-as-veterans-find-id-card-not-valid-for-english-elections?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

patrickhadfield, to random
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Apparently I most identify politically with... Count Binface!!!

https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

patrickhadfield, to photography
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‘I was lying on the ground beside a wall of cops’: student photographers’ best images of the campus protests
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/may/02/university-protests-gaza-student-pictures?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Geri, to UKpolitics
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I have been following for more years than I care to mention but this scheme is, by far, one of the worst things that my government has embarked upon.

I feel great shame and intense anger.

FUCK YOU SUNAK FUCK YOU

Lady in a fetching gaberdine macintosh. She is flicking her finger up iin an 'up yours' gesture

patrickhadfield,
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@Geri it is such bollocks. And repressive bollocks at that!

patrickhadfield,
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@Geri I'd missed that. I'd have imagined that was a deprivation of human rights. No wonder they want to get rid of the HRA!

patrickhadfield, to random
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"It was the first of May", and so I feel compelled to share this, like I do every year!

Plus it features the wonderful, much-missed, Benjamin Zephaniah.

https://youtu.be/7bIvFg5fXUM?feature=shared

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