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Ben Clarkson

@btpclarkson.bsky.social

Kentish Yorkshirephile. Blade 🔴⚪. Father. Chief Finance & Operating Officer at Parkinson's UK. Trustee of Contact (for families with disabled children). Runner and bloody cyclist. ND. Opinions mine and many

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Underage? You can't have been a full member of the golf course, then!

01.03.2026 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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15.02.2026 10:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I once had a temp have a similar "personal item" delivered to the office after she'd finished working for us. Due to the nature of her role the package was assumed to be work supplies. Fair play, though: she returned to claim her parcel!

15.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Just wait until they find out what the gingerbread man is.

31.01.2026 19:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Absolutely brilliant match at @lc-lionesses.bsky.social today, with the cherry on top of a 4-2 win being Linari and Goodwin signing balls for the kids... Issy picked my youngest, at her first match, out in the crowd for hers and made a point of coming over. Once a Blade, always a Blade!

09.11.2025 17:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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08.11.2025 22:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Finally got a fess published! @datakilljoy.bsky.social

08.11.2025 21:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

On my dog walk I often chat with right wingers. I pretend I am an ex-Reform voter put off by the utter fuck up of our county council. Then they see me as one of their own, don't get defensive and shouty, and start to question their own opinion of Reform. Honey, not vinegar.

06.11.2025 12:20 — 👍 1791    🔁 153    💬 34    📌 13

I don't think my poor brain could cope with correct grammar... The absurd seemed more likely!

16.10.2025 18:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Oh that's not nearly as fun

15.10.2025 20:41 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Both tyres? I think your "car" may be a motorcycle.

15.10.2025 20:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

My wedding has gone down in legend for the serving of takeaway curry and pizza. Pizza naan, anyone?

25.09.2025 19:59 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Living funerals are a thing. Probably hilarious having everyone try and say nice things about you as if you're dead, while you're sat there with them!

25.09.2025 19:48 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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09.09.2025 21:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Leave him? I think you need to get him locked up!

09.09.2025 20:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sounds a bit like how my train app wishes me "Congratulations! You're going to London Terminals" when I buy my monthly commuter's season ticket.

09.09.2025 20:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is incredible! @lewisgoodall.com surely the finest journalist of his generation and here is further proof.

The secret court that silenced The News Agents...until now www.audible.co.uk/pd/B0FGK17S7...

15.07.2025 20:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I just have a sign on my pannier with the camera road sign image on it. Much cheaper than a camera but it tends to discourage people from driving too close.

12.07.2025 21:19 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I read a job application tonight that stated, "I hereby declare that I have read and understood the job description in full". It's a shame I'm not recruiting for a Town Crier, really.

10.07.2025 21:44 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Going to school in Bexleyheath in the mid-late 90s, and being a geek, wasn't fun. But being there today, the bar that was popular with all the Trendies is now a geek shop!

Feels like we won, just like Jarvis Cocker said we would.

06.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I used this trick to get my eldest to change his nappy 🤦🏻‍♂️

29.06.2025 20:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Whoosh

20.06.2025 21:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Expect your wife will shortly ditch you for a like-for-like replacement, same style, colour etc.

20.06.2025 18:42 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

(and honestly I don't know why I don't sit and eat by breakfast there more often! A great start to the week).

02.06.2025 07:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Both parts of Leading with Ed Miliband are fascinating, but his passion for the climate agenda shines through in this. A perfect antidote to populists' cynical negativity. So good I had to stop and eat by breakfast by the lake in St. James' Park to keep listening. #NetZero

02.06.2025 07:30 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I don't think I've celebrated a goal like I celebrated that one. Such a sweet hit. Hugging my boy, who had his first experience of "limbs", as well as complete strangers. VAR ruined it. I knew at that moment we'd lose.

24.05.2025 21:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Who would be a Sheffield United fan, eh? Officially bad for your health, giving me an abnormal heart rate alert! #BSkyBlades

24.05.2025 21:10 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Congratulations to Crystal Palace. A phenomenal performance and result. And most of all, well done to the legend that is Dean Henderson!

DEANO! DEANO! DEANO!

#FACup
#CrystalPalace

17.05.2025 17:40 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That's brilliant Lee. We might have lost that day, but what a match!

17.05.2025 15:50 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Image shows the virtual view from a particular seat in Wembley stadium. The image shows the lush green pitch from a central, low down position. Surrounding the pitch, the red seats can be seen in three large tiers.

Image shows the virtual view from a particular seat in Wembley stadium. The image shows the lush green pitch from a central, low down position. Surrounding the pitch, the red seats can be seen in three large tiers.

Very excited to be taking my son to Wembley for the first time next weekend... Hopefully he'll be a lucky charm and see the Blades win their for the first time in 100 years! And what a view! #BSkyBlades #Playoffs

17.05.2025 12:57 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0