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George Bass

@georgebas5.bsky.social

Bouncer. Security guard. Sometimes write for @theguardian.com @washingtonpost.com @timeshighered.bsky.social @nytimes.com @financialtimes.com @newscientist.com Mostly at work opening doors and stopping fights.

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He’s lucky he didn’t end up doing bird.

11.08.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Looks like the kebabby who used to park outside one of the blocks we protect. Two buckets in the back of his wagon: one for fat, one for piss.

09.08.2025 11:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I feel bad for Rupert Lowe. It’s an honest mistake. He probably hasn’t felt this bad since the time the bulb blew in his walk-in wardrobe, and he phoned 999 saying he’d been knocked out and taken to Narnia.

08.08.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Greggs 2097

08.08.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

One of the biggest mistakes the BBC has ever made. And I’ve seen Don’t Scare the Hare.

06.08.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Junior division: ICE ICE Babies
Senior division: Cold Dead Hands

06.08.2025 17:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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When someone tells him that GPT stands for Genetic Parental Tracing.

06.08.2025 17:45 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œI really loved that disgraced financier.”

05.08.2025 19:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Has anyone tried asking it how much K is in Grok?

05.08.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œIdea for a drama-documentary interviewing Cornish coast dwellers misrepresented by The Salt Path. To be titled β€˜Into the Wound’ or possibly β€˜Sea Salt & Slander Vinegar’ provided we hear back from Tyrrell’s.”

03.08.2025 14:41 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/labour-worker-protection-bill-banter-bouncers-pubs-nightclubs-b2797939.html

Just wrote about being made to police language and how its needed more urgently online. β€œβ€˜Banter bouncing should be done digitally … Any detection of flagged language will result in the darkest secrets from your camera roll being automatically sent to your nan and/or mother-in-law.” t.co/RvaC5Vt6lg

03.08.2025 10:28 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Had fun writing this. Don’t worry: you won’t get chucked out for banter in real life. Not unless you’re reading 50 Shades out loud.

03.08.2025 10:04 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I’m a bouncer – policing what people say in pubs is a step too far A clause in Labour’s Employment Rights Bill aims to protect workers from β€˜third-party harassment’. With pubs and clubs closing at an alarming rate, door supervisor George Bass asks: Where will they fi...

I wrote about banter bouncers, and the idea of being one while working as a real bouncer. Contains naked sleepwalkers, late-night bin fights, some four-star language and @susiedent.com www.independent.co.uk/voices/labou...

03.08.2025 10:03 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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This was on BBC4 this week. Am sure it’s all just part of their nuclear week.

01.08.2025 20:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œThe White House is currently unable to host major functions … without having to install a large and unsightly tent. Available now at Four Seasons Total Landscaping.”

31.07.2025 21:47 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re on high nuclear alert. Here’s a history of near-deadly false alarms. From warnings of impending Russian nukes to the 2018 Hawaiian alerts of an incoming ballistic missile, we've had a harrowing array of near-misses.

Weird seeing nukes fall just up the road from me. If you’re on an American chicken farm you get to watch them fall for real. And they’re American nukes too: www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022...

30.07.2025 14:46 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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How we made the nuclear apocalypse TV drama Threads β€˜It was not the most comfortable of parts. I’m vegetarian, so the scene where we ate a sheep raw was pretty yuck’

Threads and The War Game are on BBC4 tonight. If you want to know how the first one of these got made, I spoke to Mick Jackson and Karen Meagher about going method and eating raw sheep, and why no-one in their right mind would want to survive a nuclear war. www.theguardian.com/culture/2019...

30.07.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œIt’s the 23rd of June 2016, and Britain is leaving the European Union.”

29.07.2025 18:22 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If the Lionesses got the same in the UK they could put the Β£100K towards the maintenance charge on the apartment.

29.07.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As part of the new Online Safety Act, anyone trying to get into a 24-hour gambling den should first robustly prove their age by watching porn in the doorway.

28.07.2025 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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I wish I could go back to the beginning of the season, put some money on England.

27.07.2025 19:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Incoming Bank Holiday in 3 … 2 …

27.07.2025 18:48 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œBrexit, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss, Donald Trump & Nigel Farage.”

27.07.2025 18:20 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWhere the scenery’s attractive/And the air is radioactive.” Three years later, a movie with an infamously high rem dose was released …

27.07.2025 18:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Same energy when doing pull-ups before my shift starts and After the Watershed by Carter appears on the playlist.

Playlist is called Ear Spinach.

27.07.2025 11:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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As someone who’s paid to be first response to fights, I’m really looking forward to seeing Farage and Yaxley-Lennon wade in first. Nothing says inspiring leadership like blokes who are scared of a Toffee Crisp McFlurry.

27.07.2025 10:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Queen Victoria’s Coronation Disaster President Joe Biden’s inauguration as president this week went off without a hitch. But the same cannot be said for the β€˜botched’…

Sometimes imagine watching her coronation, which sounds like such a shit-show that Sam Fox and Mick Fleetwood could have hosted it: joshwest63.medium.com/queen-victor...

27.07.2025 08:13 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œSo tell me, Future Boy: who’s president in 2025?”

27.07.2025 03:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œSay hi to your mom from me.”

26.07.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Hope Paul Verhoeven is watching this and pissing himself laughing.

26.07.2025 07:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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