Is that sing
or 'sin'?
I have my preferences.
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LordManley twitter.com/LordManley, Sat 14 Jun 2025, 8:58,
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"Buy high, sell low" is CRAZY business!!
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 15:43,
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^^^ this
oh man, so many people hear other people say "should've" and think they heard "should of" and just carry on forever like that, thinking it's correct. These people are allowed to vote.
It's like those dummy yanks that say "could care less" when the situation requires "couldn't care less". Why are people like this? Stop it! Right now!
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Tue 3 Jun 2025, 13:15,
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it can happen
i was under the impression all of my life that the informal goodbye was toodle loo. Did a british crossword recently where it was toodle oo. I might have been hearing and saying it wrong all this time. Not that the alternative makes anymore sense than mine
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 4 Jun 2025, 9:30,
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always good for a rewatch
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 13:05,
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It popped into my head early this morning.
Maybe it was because i went into a bargain clothes shop the other day.
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Man fights 2000 year old hardened warriors. Wins
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 3:37,
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Hardened man 'pushed and pulled’ 2000 year old warriors
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 9:18,
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you wonder how lenient the chinese are to vandal tourists with the 'fucked in the head' excuse?
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 9:26,
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Why wonder when you have DeepSeek
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 11:15,
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Fuck those cookie options
- "accept all" or "reject and subscribe"?
That's the opposite of GDPR.
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Invisible Wizard - 12th Level Errorer, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 20:45,
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always wanted to know how ublock started
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Wed 4 Jun 2025, 9:32,
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A Gun For George (2011, Matt Holness, 17 mins).
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 16:26,
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How have I never heard of this before?
web.archive.org/web/20160206230526/http://thereprisalizer.com/The_Reprisalizer/About.html
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 17:36,
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Because Matt Holness is a stealth genius.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 1:22,
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I knows it’s a pea. Still, we can but hope.
Unhand me you metal pricks!
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jonbob loves you, Fri 30 May 2025, 21:54,
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If only
Unfortunately, they seem hell bent on reducing the viewership down to Russel's mates and his mum.
I would absolutely start watching again if they had a Doctor like this.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sat 31 May 2025, 10:13,
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Can't we keep the present Doctor and just drop Disney?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 31 May 2025, 15:47,
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Drop RTD and take it from there, sanctimonious bore that he is.
Gatwa is alright but I wish he’d dial down the camp a notch or two.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 31 May 2025, 17:12,
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I just want RTD to have someone above him in the editing process.
He still has both amazing ideas and shit ideas, but then makes all of them. About 30 of them at once in tonight's episode alone. I mean, it's been very watchable since he's been back, but also frequently utter bollocks.
Really hope there is a new Writer's Tale, as I'd be fascinated to hear some of the thoughts behind a lot of the decisions.
Don't particularly mind the sanctimonious stuff, myself. Sci-fi has always been a good way to slip sermons in and I prefer RTD angry to soppy.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 31 May 2025, 21:16,
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The trouble is that he has the subtlety of a brick to the face.
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jonbob loves you, Sat 31 May 2025, 21:28,
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Sometimes that works.
A mix of soap opera and unexpected profundity can really work if you get the balance right. Twin Peaks being another example.
He's been responsible for quite a few gut punches in his time. And also a lot of "oh for fucks sake!"s.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sat 31 May 2025, 21:37,
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This.
For every Children of Earth there's at least one Miracle Day, so to speak.
Some of his rushed/compressed/dense hour-long 1-parters could be good in the classic 4-part 23 minute style, with space for characters to emerge and time for actors to act.
I think he needs a Terrence Dicks to his Barry Letts. Better yet an Eric Saward to his JNT. Possibly not a popular opinion, but I think the show could use some more gratuitous death scenes here and there. A bit more stark, depressingly hollow reality to contrast all the the camp positivity.
DW has always been woke sanctimony with a brick to the face. William Hartnell was constantly lecturing his companions about cultural relativism while guiding oppressed peoples to overthrow their authoritarian overlords, ffs. The satire has never been subtle, it's written to be understood by children.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sat 31 May 2025, 22:54,
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Moral relativism is one thing.
'Everyone is going to die, but it's okay because they're all racist' is just fucking lazy, and they he doubled down with the teenager who says "girls can't do maths" (FFS), gets turned into a monster and, again, it's okay for him to die because apparently he was an evil incel all along.
The part with the segregated diner from a few weeks back where he just says something along the lines of "things were different back then"? That's how you do it.
'Half a million years in the future it's illegal for nurses not to know sign language because we still haven't cured deafness'? Heavy-handed to the point it makes me cringe. It's supposed to be entertaining, not a bloody sermon.
Rant over. Something tells me after tonight's episode I won't be watching new-Who again for a while. I think I'll try to find one of the old B/W Cybermen serials.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 0:44,
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I don't recall the stories in your first sentence, sounds like I'd like them though.
There are many ways to do 'it' and maybe it's good for you to be taken out of your moral comfort blanket from time to time...
There are deaf people living today who view the desire to cure deafness as eugenics, as kind of genocidal threat to their culture. It's not a stretch to imagine them existing...
..But the people in that episode were Lombardics, not humans. They'd never heard of Earth.
It is supposed to be entertaining and also a sermon.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 2:56,
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The first is the one with the social media zombies from the last series and the second is the first episode of this series. Are you defending something you haven't seen?
If so by all means carry on; I'll take any excuse to put off watching the series finale. The Guardian already gave away that Gatwa was leaving at the end of this series (stop putting spoilers in the article's title for fuck's sake!), and then Aunty Beeb did the same thing with who he'll be regenerating into. I feel even more certain that I'll be skipping the next series now.
As to the deaf character, what monkeon said earlier is starting to make me wonder if she was there just because RTD wishes he'd thought of the subtitle badges* the last time he had a main character who was deaf. The episode with Greg Davies and the silently chanting ghosts.
* Which, to take a leaf out his book, are obviously ableist for assuming that deaf people can read. Or perhaps he was so keen to put his message across that he didn't have time to write a plot that makes any sense.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 3:53,
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I've seen every available episode (including the psy trance telesnaps), I simply didn't recognise your descriptions
because of the differences in our perception, I guess. I'd genuinely love an episode where the Doctor genocides a planet full of racists, but the closest thing we have to that would be the Time War arc...
The episode you're citing showed The Doctor in tears over the fact that the coddled and privileged RICH kids (for that is how they were described) refused help from an outsider and were basically killing themselves. It's baffling how some people interpret things with the subtlety of a brick to the face!
I'd only vaguely heard Gatwa was leaving, I hadn't heard who his replacement was, and I'm half convinced that we still haven't. "Introducing Billie Piper" is not the same thing as "introducing Billie Piper as The Doctor" and the last regeneration was a bit of a red herring too... But I'm fine with pretty much anyone playing the role as long as they're good and not a cunt.
Why do you say the assumption of literacy is ableist? Could you guide us through your thought process please?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 14:02,
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The one that made us suck our teeth in slightly was when Ruby was sat with the people with disabilities that Conrad had ignored and they just assumed that she didn't have a disability because it wasn't visible.
But anyway, I'm hoping that Billie Piper is just a stunt cast for a christmas special. The regeneration was atypical.
Ncuti was great, let down by rushed scripts.
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 20:53,
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The first one was "They're going to double down and allow
themselves to die rather than allow a black person to save them", wasn't it? The Doctor did a big blub over them iirc.
And also "You didn't notice everyone was white in this episode, you big racist". Which I thought was smart writing.
Don't think anyone will be watching any new ones for a while (unless you count that Russell Tovey thing), or else they'd have announced when the next episode is.
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monkeon schmonkeon, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 9:12,
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But also
It was bizarre that he said in the Nigerian hairdresser episode that it was the first time he had been black and then 20 minutes in he was replaced by Jo Martin and I know there is canon that he can't remember being her but still...
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 21:09,
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Billie. Fucking. Piper.
Of all the options they could have chosen...
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 3:42,
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He would have been good
but IMO he has too much Who related history with Torchwood.
My favourite one I heard recently was Richard Ayoade. The voice might need a little work, but he has the 'smart, eccentric, energetic' thing down pat. I would love to see a scene where the next companion makes romantic overtures, and he says it would be like getting romantic with a pet.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 14:07,
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Love Ayoade, hate Barrowman.
I don’t think he normally sounds like Moss.
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jonbob loves you, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 17:48,
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Ayoade as Doctor
Lawrence Fox as companion for maximum tension
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 22:16,
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Barrowman allegedly used to lay his penis on peoples shoulders and wait for them to turn round.
I think his ship has sailed.
Loved him in Torchwood though
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 21:18,
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could have been on the great Time Gaylords
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 23:59,
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That would be quite good
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 14:09,
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I'd like to see those doctor twins from "operation ouch" play it together
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 23:57,
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Alright Hayers, once again defending the incel sex offenders, cool look.
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Thought I'd have a go at a period short film as a summer project
I made this!
Made a pretentious mood-board trailer to advertise the project to local talent, thought some of you might enjoy...
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You've mis-typed all the esses as effs but apart from that it looks wicked.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Sun 1 Jun 2025, 17:12,
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Jazz music mix
Apparently there is music as well (not bad if you like jazzy trip hop)
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 30 May 2025, 1:43,
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She's obviously of the right-thinking minority who hold that hounds should not be allowed upstairs. In fact, she probably puts the danes out at night into the kennel.
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After you my dear Alfonse No. After you., Mon 2 Jun 2025, 15:54,
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Beware the devil that sits on your passenger seat
the one that stirs the pot and pours poisoned whispers into your ears
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buffet_the_appetite_slayer ٩(●̮̃•)۶ jacked in to the ICE on, Thu 29 May 2025, 22:46,
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Love me some Ogmios
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Fri 30 May 2025, 1:21,
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I don't believe it!
Lovely house for sale.
Odd neighbors.
Old man buried up to his neck in garden.
Downstairs loo has a tree in it.
Funny smell near the sideboard.
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Ambegris likes his tea stirred anti-clockwise, Thu 29 May 2025, 21:56,
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I was
findthatlocation.com/television-show/one-foot-in-the-grave/location/83
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Mrs Warboys stabbing Patrick Trench in the downstairs toilet too
two-parter that one
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$$ ✅, Fri 30 May 2025, 10:44,
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Another one of these ... i'ts been a year.
NSFW
I made this!
This is utterly awful, but I'm posting it here on B3ta because there is that bloke here called Tony Hayers who always offers gentle encouragement, a positive critique and his sunny disposition never fails to cheer me up. Enjoy!
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...
... somewhat redundant because I already said it was 'awful'. But thank you very much for taking time out of my very busy day to share that with me, it's most appreciated. Hugs and kisses.
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I don't know what's what anymore
Is this an AI stream of non-consciousness?
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Varmint, Thu 29 May 2025, 16:27,
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Idiot sets himself on fire
Strewth, Skippy!
Watch: Moment man lights himself on fire in botched Melbourne arson attack
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Goodnesss gracious
small balls on fire.
The way he runs for the door is amusing.
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Replace the customers with robots and be done with it.
We should worry about bouncers and security guards losing their *legitimate* sources of income though.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 27 May 2025, 17:41,
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Sudden, crazy notion. The supermarkets find that home delivery, like Prime, generates a greater profit so they spin shops as being less safe to drive customers in that direction.
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Tesco value Daleks
They look a bit shit really. Also, at our local Tesco, if you want to nick something, you just walk out with it. No attempt to part pay at the checkouts.
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Cactus 1 doesn't care what you think on, Wed 28 May 2025, 17:14,
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Those have been around for years on building sites and whatnot. Someone realised you can stick a camera and a GSM thing in a bollard and pay one minimum wage bloke to watch the feed from two dozen of these rather than paying two dozen minimum wage night watchmen to walk around in yellow jackets.
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Wheeeeeee
See if you can spot any flying cows
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Mon 26 May 2025, 23:22,
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...and he never went hang gliding again.
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FeralCatMan Unusual disease collector., Wed 28 May 2025, 2:18,
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Worst thing about hang-gliding cows is the landings
so much risk to the udder carriage
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Last few hours of my candle day
Salutes B3ta
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spazzcaptain Misses Valin @, Mon 26 May 2025, 20:44,
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Festive Candlemas Day
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Mon 26 May 2025, 22:53,
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Merry candlemas spazz
:)
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amoebaboy chose for death by unga bunga on, Tue 27 May 2025, 18:19,
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They're OK
but they're no Flo Early
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 27 May 2025, 22:48,
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There's a Wallace and Gromit script in this.
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Jabberwoc misses D.R. and Quinch, Mon 2 Jun 2025, 2:03,
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