Evening activity time. Before the nurse arrives with the sleeping tablets you’ve all clearly been taking too many of.What’s the strangest or most memorable thing you’ve ever found in a house? In the late 1990s I was in a rented house that had some old shite left in the cupboard under the stairs and there was a Tupperware container that smelled exactly like the 1970s. Specifically orange squash before they fully understood the concept of adding many, if any oranges. Bonus points if you found a skeleton under some floorboards.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 16:59,
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I found a Tupperware of pure regretA single high heel, size 8, wedged between the boiler and the wall like it was trying to escape. No matching shoe. No body. Just the one shoe, looking at me with that "you'll never find out" energy.
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right, shoe on head. mr horrible, the only thing harder than that shoe is your brain. case closed, bellend.
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i think you're shoehorny for mr horribe(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:42,
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as long as it's consentual i don't see a problem with it(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:43,
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fair enough. just make sure mr horrible signs the waiver before the shoe goes anywhere
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what, like, in case they go for a walk of something?(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:47,
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yeah, the waiver's got a whole section on liability for impromptu strolls(, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:49, Reply)
I stayed in an Airbnb with holes in the panes of glass in the windows, a trapped rat in a cage outside the back door, and a drawer containing a bunch of wigs and one (hopefully fake) gun.The whole place smacked of Mrs Havisham from Great Expectations, crossed with a shit ITV drama.
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Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:06,
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Miss Havisham, was it not? Apologies for potential pedantry.I’d imagine if it was an itv drama there’d be a fairly beige but plucky detective making huge mistakes whilst a jilted old lady gets covered in more cobwebs before the unsettling mystery was solved.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:11,
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You’re right, it was Miss Havisham.I’m not super familiar with Great Expectations, having only read it once. It wasn’t as good as I’d hoped.
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Aardvark and so at last, I understood, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:13,
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It wasn’t my favourite but the bbc adaptation was quite good.Or seemed so when I was small.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:16,
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I think the most memorablewas a mouse skeleton in the water tank in the loft. Months after we'd moved in. I'd been showering in decomposed mouse juice.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:07,
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Ewwww.When I was about six I used the cold tap in the bathroom and two wasps came out, and my mum didn’t believe me, so my dad came upstairs and turned the tap on and three wasps came out. That was the day my dad went into the loft and deftly batted a wasp nest into a bin bag because he didn’t want to pay someone to do it for him.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:13,
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My late brother had loads of weird shit in his houseHuman skull, various bits of taxidermy, loads of books on serial killers. He was a funny old bugger
The police had already removed his collection of antique swords and daggers, my mum had to collect them from Luton nick
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Queef Richard's U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:13,
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I think I’d have very much liked him for all these reasons.Sorry for your loss, he sounds great. I had a serial killers special interest for some years, and taxidermy is fascinating (and odd). Do you know of Walter Potter? Famously did weird taxidermy stuff. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Potter
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:15,
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Yes I've definitely heard of him, most likely from my brother I've got his collection of Victorian midget postcards in my loft. I don't want to get rid of them
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Queef Richard's U r a 🔔🔚, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:23,
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And nor should you.Definitely keep them. Even if they aren’t your thing, it’s a link to him and that is nice however unusual!
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:25,
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I wasn’t counting.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:30,
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Oh, shall I see if they have it written down?We can’t leave poor ARSEHOLE wondering for much longer. Seems unfair.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:50,
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i would honestly ask them i mean, it can't do any harm
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MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:02,
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I shall.They’re already disarmed by my very existence. By which I mean sometimes they knock on my door to see if I’m alive or not, because apparently being a hermit isn’t normal. I’m having a lovely time, with all the wanking and that.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:17,
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not one of my neighbours has knocked me up in the last ten years! not one!*beams*
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MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:29,
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Let’s swap homes.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:32,
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It’s not mine, I think there are rules. Saddest of times.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:37,
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Dust, in fact.My flat is covered in a fine layer of dust, by Thursday it will be a thick layer of dust. Because the bastard contractors are failing to understand what keeping a door closed might actually mean for the rest of where I’m trying to breathe and exist. It’s hugely exciting, I can tell you.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:43,
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Sorry to overlook your NIN reference during my great sadness of dust(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:45,
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So generous.I love NIN very much.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:54,
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well if you stay here you'll certainly go... further down the spiral(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:02,
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If I become reduced to only saying good morning then I shall get closer.To exiting.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:05,
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That was uncalled for.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:08,
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Somewhere in the depths of my currently dusty and chaotic flat I have a Victorian porncard.Bet ya never expected that.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:38,
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Miss Havisham?You’ve changed. You’re all… cobwebby.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 17:45,
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Pics or GTFO.I seem to recall this, from way back when.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:52,
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i think that was reader's wives, m8talking of reader's wives, why don't you like our bot?
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MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:02,
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Why would I like your bot is what you’d like to know.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:15,
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jesus it's like talking to my dadis one of us using a ouija board?
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MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:26,
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Obviously I’m wanking for my neighbours to take notes on so have no spare hand.Gotta be you, matey.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:32,
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We just can’t know because I haven’t asked them yet.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:38,
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i don't know what to suasagefest(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:44,
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Porcelain doll with a smashed leg It was one of the ones with teeth, too. Creepy fucking thing.
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Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:00,
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Oh I hate those. Major creepy vibes.Filled with sawdust in the body, and just exuding sinister.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:05,
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Did remind me of a shared house (rented but sort of squatted by extra people) back in 1990And they found a Gay Bob doll in the attic, complete with a closet to come out of but no clothes. He was clearly a naturist. Every damned day you’d find that doll where he shouldn’t have been, nakedly sat on the toilet, or hovering by the sink, and one time submerged in his cold tea spa in a teapot. Definitely more amusing than a Victorian horror doll with teeth.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 18:19,
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That's brilliant 😂(
Smash Monkey lowering the tone of the whole internet, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:09,
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A few dead bodies in various states, porn collection of over 1000 magazines neatly stacked and catalogued around a bed. A collection of over a 1000 empty cans, 3000 used needles, 400 empty cornflakes boxes kept in a cupboard neatly pressed, piss jar collections, phlegm jar collections, a toilet piled high with wooden logs, a moped and a freezer used as a urinal. Just off the top of my head. Worked in housing for 20 years
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This is horrific but I thank you for sharing it.Can you come here and smack my housing association on the head before I make another musical about them?
Srsly, though, I am so sorry you’ve had to deal with that amount of Not Okay.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:01,
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Also thanks for the earwormBORN FROM AN EGG ON A MOUNTAIN TOP. Today’s favourite board sig.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:04,
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Brushing over thingsi think that as we get older, we accumulate the unpleasant detritus of our lives at the same time as the accumulate of wonderments. Im cool with what i have seen.I think musicals are the way forward but only based on the ethos of the making of Bugsy Malone
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I just made a musical.Not even joking, my housing association have been such utter garbage for the past several many years that I made a musical about their incompetence and stuck it on YouTube, and also a QR code to it on my front door, and sent it to Private Eye, and the CEO of the stupid housing association and I’m absolutely delighted with my stupidity. Next up, the Housing Ombudsman who are currently looking into the absolute shitshow of incompetence.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:52,
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My couch is a circus and I do tricks with a lighter, some of what you've said here sounds like foolish lies (
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:57,
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Oh does it. I can provide a link to my musical if you would like. Plus all the evidence. I mean, up to you mate.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:59,
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Oh no I don't care at all, I was just calling it as I saw it(
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:02,
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Well, that would be a you problem.If you’d seen what I’d had to deal with then you may be more convinced. I don’t mean the musical, just the entire hell I’ve been tolerating where I live that I have had to contact the press and beyond. I’ve had a sodding miserable time for a while. I don’t need to embellish it.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:04,
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the way housing associations/pfis were set up under Blair et al and beyond means that they a number of them would act cuntishly. His 'no third third way' policies were always doomed to bad practice and profiteering.
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George Peabody would be rolling in his grave, I tell you.Especially if he saw how much money the current CEO got paid last year. Capitalist vultures. Next door to me have had mould on their living room wall for 24 years now. Elderly man on second floor got flooded by the people above him and they are trying to tell him, a man of 84, to climb a ladder and strip his own wallpaper off (Victorian high ceilings) before they will repair it, the people above him had an ongoing leak from a hole in the roof for a year. So me whining on the ground floor is not abstract in the grand scheme of Peabody disasters, I’m just noisier about it and will hold them to account if it takes me another eighteen months, or years before they crack. Ah, they also accidentally left some poor woman dead for two years in one of their Peckham properties. Just fantastic all round.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Wed 11 Nov 2026, 4:53,
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who the fuck are you?musicals? most of the people here have trouble opening a can of baked beans
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MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:53,
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i don't know him well enough yet(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:59,
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who is your favorite forum member, you splendid fellow?(
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:59,
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... "mofaha, obviously. You're the only one here with the tact to butter me up before asking for favours, which means you'll get the answer before the rest of you wankers finish typing."
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i thought i was you're favourite. i'm always nice to you. you prick.(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:00,
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can we make that comment racist somehow?(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:45,
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well, at least you're not boring(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:47,
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i genuinely think we should save it you racist fuck(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 20:51,
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I'm not shut up, I'm just saving my breath for the Bumder rescue mission(, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 22:04, Reply)
when shall we rescue chunder's bumder?(
MiseryCunt *Save Chunder's Bumder*, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 22:18,
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It better not be. Or I will be Quite Sad.(
Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 19:55,
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Why are you trying to turn /talk into qotw, it died at least 15 years ago.I'm currently listening to Floodland after Mother Russia became an inexplicable earworm while taking the dog out for a poo earlier. Then bed. Good night everyone.
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The Hedgehog From Hell R.I.P. blackflag :(, Tue 10 Nov 2026, 23:08,
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My current earworm is Alaska by Maggie Rogers(
mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Wed 11 Nov 2026, 1:59,
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Because I was interested to know stuff about stuff.I wasn’t trying to be QOTW, it just seemed a bit desolate and I thought people might like talking, on the talk board. It’s not obligatory to join in.
I do love a bit of sisters, hopefully you didn’t do the goth arm waving bit whilst carrying a bag of poop, there could be consequences.
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Lu - my circus, my monkeys - dance, my pretties -, Wed 11 Nov 2026, 5:17,
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