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Thread 27 Starmer: He's a very clever cat

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DuncinToffee · 11/07/2025 18:03

A nod to the Chief Mouser

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cardibach · 12/07/2025 16:59

Jason118 · 12/07/2025 16:38

I think I might be a goose.

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🤣
i certainly have my goose days…

placemats · 12/07/2025 18:20

PickAChew · 12/07/2025 12:30

Geese can be right arseholes. They're up there with magpies.

We have deer in one of nature reserves close to me but I've never seen one. Probably because I usually visit with DS2 who couldn't creep up on anyone or anything if he tried. They got bold during the pandemic and started to venture out onto the main roads.

I love magpies and geese. Loyal and fierce. Also very beautiful. Yes arsey but that's me sometimes. x

SerendipityJane · 12/07/2025 18:35

placemats · 12/07/2025 18:20

I love magpies and geese. Loyal and fierce. Also very beautiful. Yes arsey but that's me sometimes. x

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I've been pranked by our local magpies.

cardibach · 12/07/2025 18:47

Watching Live Aid on BBC2. Nostalgia fest. The music stands up I think. Also interesting to see the lack of media savvy and the fact you could be a star without being good looking/ripped. Good times.

Karistyleaftea · 12/07/2025 18:57

@cardibach I am too, 40 years , how can that be?

Cattery · 12/07/2025 19:08

My cat tax

Thread 27 Starmer: He's a very clever cat
BIossomtoes · 12/07/2025 19:28

bombastix · 12/07/2025 16:01

Geese have a longstanding arse reputation; the Greeks and Romans used them to guard houses. They make a very loud noise if displeased

They used to use them to guard a distillery in Scotland.

cardibach · 12/07/2025 19:46

No idea @Karistyleaftea
I’m surely only 25??.

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DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:01

SerendipityJane · 12/07/2025 18:35

I've been pranked by our local magpies.

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You can't leave it there, how?

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DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:04

40 years ago Shock I was a teenager.

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cardibach · 12/07/2025 20:12

DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:04

40 years ago Shock I was a teenager.

I was 20.

pointythings · 12/07/2025 20:15

DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:04

40 years ago Shock I was a teenager.

I was 17.

LlynTegid · 12/07/2025 20:29

I heard bits of Live Aid from my grandmother's back garden, as she lived about five miles away.

itsgettingweird · 12/07/2025 20:41

DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:04

40 years ago Shock I was a teenager.

I was 4!!!!

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DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 20:42

We did Sunday Bloody Sunday in English lesson, still remember all the words.

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BIossomtoes · 12/07/2025 20:53

I was 31.

Cheguevarahamster · 12/07/2025 21:02

I remember when U2 came on and introduced "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and my dear mum said "That's not very nice is it" 🤣🤣.

Cheguevarahamster · 12/07/2025 21:11

Cheguevarahamster · 12/07/2025 21:02

I remember when U2 came on and introduced "Sunday Bloody Sunday" and my dear mum said "That's not very nice is it" 🤣🤣.

She had form. When my sister went ab sailing, my mum asked if she was going to wear a life jacket. God, I love my mum.

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DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 21:12

😅

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PandoraSocks · 12/07/2025 21:34

Karistyleaftea · 12/07/2025 18:57

@cardibach I am too, 40 years , how can that be?

🙀

God. One minute you are 20ish, the next...

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DuncinToffee · 12/07/2025 21:35

Queen

I had just started Uni when Freddie Mecury died

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Evenstar · 12/07/2025 21:42

I know I was so sad, eldest DS was a baby and he’s 35 in August, hard to watch this and think it was only a few years later 😔

Saucery · 13/07/2025 09:11

I love that DMA told Reform they were, of course, welcome to watch the Gala along with everyone else but not welcome to appear on the official platform as their values do not align.

PickAChew · 13/07/2025 09:48

Quite. They don't invite the lib dem councillors onto the platform, either.

One of our arsehole magpies was trying to take on a young weasel, this morning. It would probably have run into the house had the back doors been open. It eventually found safety under our geraniums. Jackdaws are my corvid of choice.