Paul Smith (StandandStare)

Paul Smith (StandandStare)

@str1der70.bsky.social

#BRFC S/T, 45 yrs happily married. Grandad of 5. Music, hill walking,gardening, photography, reading, sci-fi & real ale :) Eccentric. Gemini

234 Followers 493 Following 151 Posts Joined Nov 2024
8 months ago
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9 months ago
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Day 56. ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

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I was fortunate enough to chair a Sure Start in my area and can vouch for the value, inclusion and overall positivity they engendered within the community. A sad, almost irreplaceable loss when they were cut.

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9 months ago

More chaos?? Rovers never make it easy for anyone. What now?

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9 months ago

Sometimes when everyoneโ€™s being hysterical over not a lot you need to look at the stories getting no visibility. The Covid Inquiry yesterday declared 180,000 Brits died because Johnson and Hancock ignored expert advice. 180,000 people.

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9 months ago

I don't know which is more maddening, his complete kow-tow to "populism" or my own gullibility for believing he could actually be a force for good change... he's just a marginally(very marginally) lesser evil now as he is being swallowed by his own machine.

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9 months ago

Totally agree...cannot understand him

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10 months ago

My son swears by this.. he's always advising me to try apparently bland films ...and he's usually ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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10 months ago

More than likely Ant....I'm already looking forward to Sky bu**ering up the fixture times and dates again....probably even worse than before ๐Ÿ˜ก. Could be our new sponsor will be Melton Mowbray ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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10 months ago

Very brave of you Ant, I suppose I'll get mine and Archie's soon ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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10 months ago

Been following #Andor Season 2 with interest...thought eps 1 & 2 were relatively slow but 3 was epic... absolutely brilliant...the running juxtaposition of life for Mon and life for Cassian was so good...especially the last act as Cassian returned in the nick of time (not) and Mon whirled in anguish

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10 months ago
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๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ

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I'm this old ๐Ÿ˜€ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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10 months ago

Shaky green ink ๐Ÿ˜‚

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10 months ago

I notice he's upped his game this year as well ๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค

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10 months ago
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Journalists quite often get emails written in exactly this style, often sent to scores of recipients on multiple publications, and the sadly reliable assumption is that the irate sender is miserable, paranoid and probably unwell.

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11 months ago
Trig point on Bridestones, Yorkshire Evie ( our dog) looking out over Bridestones into the rising sun

Nice out today ( in deepest darkest Yorkshire ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ) ...

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11 months ago

God knows ..I'm in the same camp..... it's almost like I feel I've got to have a regular hefty dollop of abject misery to balance out the good things in my life. It's like picking a scab, you know it will do you no good at all, but you still do it ๐Ÿซค

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11 months ago

I've given up reading/listening to anything @Rovers put out.... they're worse than Trump's ๐Ÿ’ฉ.... can't believe a word ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿคฃ.. but, as you say, hey ho ๐Ÿคท๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ

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11 months ago

Which is what I am doing ๐Ÿ˜ƒ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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11 months ago

See you Tuesday โœŠ๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค

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11 months ago

Thought hard about renewing my #BRFC ST, about all the cr*p ownership / management saga, but, in the end I feel this. If there is one, just one Blackburn Rovers lad out there, trying his utmost in any game, then I will still be there at Ewood for him, the badge & history. #COYB #Teamnotregime

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11 months ago

One of our better signings Matt....always gives 100%...if that volley had gone in it would have been goal of the season ...I think despite all our managerial and owner problems it's the raft of injuries which have but**ered us up most...

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11 months ago

I can feel the sky clouding over for Friday night Ant ๐Ÿคฃ๐Ÿ’™๐Ÿค

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11 months ago
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As he breaks Strom Thurmond's record filibuster against the the Civil Rights Act of 1957, Sen. Cory Booker says that he's "not here though because of his speech, I'm here despite his speech. I'm here because as powerful as he was, the people were more powerful."

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No oneโ€™s suffering should be used as content. Prisoners are not backdrops. ๐Ÿ›‘

This is a terrifying normalization of inhumanity. ๐Ÿคฎ

#HumanRights #Dignity

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11 months ago
Total domination does not allow for free initiative
in any field of life, for any activity that is not entirely predictable. Totali-
tarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of
their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence
and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.u

This seems like a good time to remind folks of what Hannah Arendt once wrote:

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Can't beat a cool drink on an unseasonably warm Lakes afternoon ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

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11 months ago

Yep, the very same ๐Ÿ˜ก

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