Eric and associates

Labotomies all round!

Asterix na nGallach (Asterix the Gaul) Asterix the Gaul When Roman Centurion Crismus Bonus finds out about Getafix’s magic potion, he kidnaps the druid to force him to reveal the recipe. So Asterix joins his friend in captivity and togethe...

These are brilliant. I'm reading this now. Although sceptical about the real value of this, I always read this when I'm trying to learn a new language, through habit. And because almost no-one was made less happy by reading an Asterix book.

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I agree on the funding. But if the purpose was intimidatory, perhaps the money was not wasted.

I particularly enjoyed the idea of the Cabinet Office investigating a politician running the Cabinet Office.

- Did you do anything wrong, Minister?
- No.
- Ok, thank you.

Investigation ends.

You're on spotify and here at the same time. Mysterious.

Lib Dems: the politest, nicest.....

lying scum

you'll ever get post from.

Nice to see some very cool images from my ‘Classicizing the Gaelic’ chapter on the visuality of Irish manuscripts included in this Irish Times write-up of the book Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity 👇

So, the toolmakers son will lead the tools onwards. To gurning Nigel.

He'll be lucky to walk: some who upset them leave in pieces.

He's gone full Chinese dentist.

Keith as fucked as Floyd often was. Much worse man, and cook, though.

Keir today, Gone Tomorrow

Your first sentence notably absent from the "decent man" narratives peddling by limp, lying (or daft) fuckers.

Taxi for Keith, and take your daft quiff with you, you prat!

Part 3 of bookshops which we have in common: www.tomblandbookshop.co.uk Excellent Folio Society section here, welcoming owners. Stairs slightly exciting for me, but narrow enough to prevent death. You must have been here?

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@alexjenkinspoet.bsky.social I was thinking about bookshops. This is Scoob-like, maybe bigger? I hope it's website is just down and it remains open. You should go, if you haven't been, it's in Felixstowe: www.google.com/maps/place/T...

I once spent 4 hours in there, tranfixed, as a pizza oven was winched into place in the San Mareano restaurant opposite. Skill, finesse, professionalism, and their opposite, opposite.

I go to Skoob, and double back to the Lord John Russell pub. There I sit, a shabby old man, drinking on my own, in the day time, reflecting how different I am to the shabby old men drinking on their own, in the day time.

Very good for stuff you just don't see anywhere else.

Your first sentence is the best definition of the (Whitehall parts of) the civil service I have seen.

"unlikely"

He's camp enough.

Oli Dugmore ® INS @OliDugmore • 1h Mandelson was mentoring McSweeney From the aftermath of the Hartlepool by-election to everything that followed - from the reshuffles and internal feuds to the candidate selections and Downing Street manoeuvrings - Mandelson has been there, available to advise the Starmer operation. As one person who worked with McSweeney in opposition puts it, "Morgan wouldn't breathe without consulting Mandelson first." "They talked all the time," observes another. Mandelson was a frequent visitor at McSweeney's home in rural Scotland. The once-close pair have not seen each other since Mandelson's sacking, according to two people familiar with the matter, and are no longer in regular contact.

1 And lo, there came upon the land a time of great Noticing, and many things were Noticed which had gone unseen 2 And the Hacks spake, saying, Whom could’ve known the taking bribes and wrecking his party with bullshit terror adviser guy was a Mandelson plant 3 And, it is a show, that is made of shit

It's too late to crack down on her migration, surely? She's already here.

Stuff your emotional healing, and pay your staff properly, you simpering ghoul.

Betfair haven't even put up the "what month does WW3 start to cover up the noncing" market yet. February would be may be 1.2 - 1.4 perhaps?

(Weird world when making money from killing people is considered laudable, but speculating on it's timing is offensive).

"massive"
😉

delete "lemons with"

"Everyone"

Whatever might persuade this specimen to shoot himself in the head deserves thoughtful consideration.

Why is Polly? Why?

All these fuckers look exactly like you think they would: smug, over-fed, suggestive of a disturbingly knotted family-tree.

It's fascinating.