When you're trying to paint a bedroom, but the dog feels you should be playing with him.
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Martin W
@MartinW@mastodonapp.uk
mastodon 4.6.8Singer / Bass Player and #Boro
fan. Teessider living in Chester. #UTB
Big #VinylJunkie - mainly into metal, indie and industrial
I play in the last Old English #Bagatelle league in the world, and I am on a mission to save the game from extinction.
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Joined November 07, 2022
Born In:
Middlesbrough
Grew Up In:
Guisborough
Now Live In:
Chester
Went to uni in:
Birmingham
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#dogsofmastodon
I don't normally bother with Record Store Day, but when I saw this come back into stock at Banquet Records, I couldn't resist. It arrived today. Nice surprise when I got home from work.
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@TheVinylApe@cupoftea.social
I do actually own a copy of this on vinyl. I manged to pick it up on Ebay a few years ago. Not listened to it in ages. I need to give it a spin.
Some days my cat really doesn't seem to want me to get any work done. Here he is early today, on my lap and in my face.
In most walks of life, changing your opinion when you learn more information about a subject, is seen as reasonable and being open minded.
In British politics it is a "U-TURN!!!" and must be ridiculed and scorned.
It's not healthy. It's just lazy rage bait journalism.
You've got to practice that human empathy thing
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@TG_Esq
You missed the biggest influence for me: swapping cassettes with friends from school, and copying them at home. Somebody's big brother or sister probably bought an LP which 30 odd kids ended up with a copy of.
It's beer garden weather! Cheers!
Today I will be mostly listening to Therapy?
#90sMusic #vinylrecords
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@Curry@theforkiverse.com
You boosting Cory's post has inspired me to get back on the RSS train. I have downloaded Feeder and am loading it with feeds now.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social
I once worked for a company that was very proud of winning a category of the British Travl Awards every year.
Coincidentally, they also always paid for two tables at the awards ceremony dinner at £10,000 each.
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@jake4480@c.im
I have seen them a few times since they reformed, but I do regret not seeing them back in the 1990s.
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@TG_Esq
It took several years for my collection of vinyl and CDs to outgrow my collection of copied tapes.
Yesterday we took our dacshund on a sausage dog walk along the prom in Llandudno. The best bit is seeing the smiles on people's faces when they see about 20 dacshunds approaching. They are like little real life cartoon characters.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social
I do think it really is that high. After all, Russian bot farms can't vote.
When the cat leaves me alone for a while, the dog turns up and insists I play with him.
RE: https://mastodonapp.uk/@bbcnewsfeed/116074650481107076
Congratulations to Forest on their 4th manager of the season. We eagerly look forward to his sacking in April.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social
I used to work in a little pizza, burger kebab shop back in the early 90s in Teesside. We sold a pizza which had chicken, pineapple and banana on it. It obviously wasn't the most popular, but we sold quite a few each week.
Never seen anything like it on sale anywhere else. Probably for good reason.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social
I grew up in Teesside. At university I would patiently try and explain to people I met from Cheshire, Liverpool and the so called North West, that they lived in the Midlands. They wouldn't have it. Deluded.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social
I have just looked up on their website. They don't sell it any more, although they do a chicken, pineapple and sweetcorn.
The company I work for has "point of sales" machines, which in the documentation get abbreviated to "POS".
When I am read the docs, in my head I always automatically translate that abbreviation to something else. I must have spent far too much time on the Internet.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social
I feel this post only exists to troll Bristol
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social
In Chester, the Fountains roundabout on the ring road was traffic light controlled for many years. The council ran an experiment to turn the lights off and see if the traffic flowed better without them.
The improvement was amazing, and the lights have now been removed.
Fair play to the council for actually trying the experiment and following through. It makes you wonder how many other sets of lights are causing more harm than good.
RE: https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116076604239978614
This is the most succinct description of the current state of the UK I have read in long time.
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The UK isn't a country; it's four raccoons in a trench coat. Only one of them is a brown bear that outweighs the rest by 9:1 and keeps dragging them places they don't want to go, and the fourth raccoon has dissociative identity disorder and is self-medicating with cocaine because it's Northern Ireland.
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@fesshole@mastodon.social
I worked in a small town pizza / kebab / burger shop when I was at 6th form. Every weekend you'd get to shout out "69" to a shop full of beered up locals who would all give a massive cheer. Highlight of a dull job.
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@anon_opin@mastodon.social
What a load of shite.
"I can't see the attraction of football so I assume everyone else is lying about liking it".
I don't like watching rugby or golf, but I can accept other people genuinely enjoy it.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@anon_opin/116115564522697509
My next door neighbours have this done every week by a bloke who come round in a white van, not long after they're emptied. He tips them over (onto a wooden frame he has custom built in the back of his van, allowing two bins to lie, side by side), blasts them with a jet washer for three seconds and is soon on his way.
It fascinates me for two reasons.
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My neighbours are so concerned about their bin hygiene, that they'll pay someone to wash them out every week. I find this unrelatable. As long as my bins don't smell, I am unconcerned about how clean they are inside.
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There are so many people like my neighbours, that there is a bloke with a white van able to make a living from doing this. I find this unfathomable.
Am I the strange one? How many other people are happy spending money on having their bins washed every week.
I've been watching How To Get To Heaven From Belfast.
At first I was a bit disappointed because I'd wrongly assumed it would be a straight up comedy like Derry Girls. Then I was getting a bit put off because some it was was a bit too daft.
Just finished watching episode 6 and I am cursing that I need to go to bed because I've work in the morning. I need to know what happens next.