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cpuk, the main character

@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

Chris Arrant → SDCC

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1 year

Comic industry people: What's something about your job that you wish more people understood?

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cpuk, the main character

@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

There’s a scene in the Rugrats where to show the passage of time they focus on the house as trees bloom, the sun rises higher, leaves fall off & then it snows. Standard stuff. Then it cuts to Drew greeting Stu saying “crazy weather we’ve had this week.” That, to me, is cinema.

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1 year

@bristowbailey @johnlees927 9pm is *pick up*. You’re not eating until at least half ten.

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@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

What makes it perfect is the context, I think. To those kids a week might as well be a year.

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

Reminder: default black swatches are generally #000000 . And that is a garbage swatch for printing. What you want, if you want a nice deep & even coverage, which you do, is #161411 (CMYK: 40/40/40/100). Not too much coverage (<250%), nice & even, with solid backfill. Nice.

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1 year

*tapping intensifies, because I have so many fingers*

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11 months

Please do bear in mind that it is nearly thirty years since I last watched this episode.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

It’s so hard to discern the true politics of this mercurial genius.

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

He’s making a file He’s checking it twice He’s gonna make sure the canvas extends 1mm thrice Santa Claus is setting his bleeds Santa Claus is setting his bleeds (O yeah!) He sees when yr exporting He knows it takes all day He doesn’t want you to have to redo You better use CMYK

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@ComicPrintingUK

8 years

Reminder: Rickman's first major movie role was Die Hard. He was 46. Maybe don't give up on something you love if it takes a while to happen.

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2 years

Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed, says he feels alienated from his kid. Doctor says "solution is simple, marching band is in town! Take little boy to see it, don't get weird about anything."

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@ComicPrintingUK

3 years

Designed by @BAILEYDRAWS was it?

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

After a long and intensive search I am happy to introduce you to the newest member of the CPUK team. Special thanks to Dr. CPUK for leading the recruitment process.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

This guy’s gonna be devastated when he hears about Alan Moore.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

I regret to inform you that somewhere out there Ed Sheeran is writing a song about how lockdown is really tough, but made much easier by your beautiful smile or eyes or whatever.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

tfw her vision is based on movement

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@ComicPrintingUK

9 months

I swear to god comics artists have “depressed”, “horny” and no other moods.

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7 years

Hello Darkness, my old friend.

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6 months

Sweet Jesus that’s a flaying.

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1 year

@johnlees927 @bristowbailey Fellas is it gay to distinguish between a date and a kidnapping?

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@ComicPrintingUK

7 years

Hi, just a note. If you’re one of the people directing abuse at @comicsandcola don’t ever bother asking for a quote. Get out of comics.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Dealing with someone who “doesn’t agree” that stapled books need to have page counts divisible by 4. Lord forgive me for doing what I must do.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 months

Oh god. I’ve been a fool.

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@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

@IanKacprzak It’s just a fantastic sight gag. I’m surprised the Simpsons never did it.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Honestly I don’t see how it can be worse than what we have now. I say give her a chance.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 years

Quick reminder of the ground rules for Inktober: 1. You *must* use an analogue pen and ink. If you don't, you actually can't draw after all. 2. If you miss a day that's fine, but yr mother is secretly disappointed in everything you do. 3. Don't have fun. This is not about fun.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

HEY YOU. YES YOU WITH THE DECLINE FROM MCM. YOUR WORTH AND ABILITY ARE NOT DEFINED BY A CONVENTION ATTENDANCE. YOU MAKE STUFF THAT NOBODY ELSE COULD MAKE AND I FOR ONE AM GLAD YOU’RE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Why does twitter still exist when the best tweet was done five years ago?

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9 years

here’s a picture of me scaling a rock face http://t.co/lxd2LSBGeC

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

It’s not that I like chaos or anything but at some point before the bird app dies we should probably talk about that Tales from the Quarantine kickstarter that everyone contributed to in good faith and never delivered.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

For my 37th birthday I am the end cinematic for a JRPG

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

That thing of “would you fight or fornicate if you were locked in a room with a copy of yrself for an hour” is dumb. The obvious answer is “I would sit him down with Photoshop and we would get stuff done.”

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@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

IMO the only stretch goal should be “more money for the creative team”. I’m not even kidding.

Rik Worth

@RikWorth

11 months

I’ve been saying it for years, but the crowd funding system is simply unsustainable at levels people ask for. We should normalise including industry rates as standard in targets, and reduced stretch goal labour.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

“Abandoned” is doing some incredibly heavy lifting here.

Patrick Lenton

@PatrickLenton

4 years

Millennials have killed the stockpiling industry

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@ComicPrintingUK

7 years

That Terry Crews thread *is* good. And I’m very pleased that we all automatically believe him. Now let’s do that, but for women.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

Note the open hand. Final confirmation that paper beat Rock.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

How I imagine Matt Berry feels when he’s just trying to do the shopping or other normal stuff.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 months

Oh my.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

“I didn’t realise I was famous enough for my predatory behaviour to be a problem” is not even a good first draft.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 months

Fuck it. I’ve worked hard this con season and I’m treating myself.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

They’re pissed that you’re stealing the collective work of millions of artists and acting like you’re Picasso for the c21st. They’re bewildered that you can’t see how offensive it is to equate your hour of image search & text prompt with lifetimes spent honing talent.

Suhail

@Suhail

2 years

If AI art was truly not art by its detractors, they wouldn't be so fervent to minimize it—come up with every edge case possible to describe art. They would shrug it off as a relatively low quality useless technology but somewhere deep in their gut they know it's revolutionary.

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@ComicPrintingUK

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@ComicPrintingUK

3 years

Watchmen is an awful comic to suggest as a way into the medium. A fantastic book, of course, but it’s like saying if you want to get the hang of mob movies you should skip all the foundational stuff and go straight to The Sopranos.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Can we get cheers for the @ThoughtBubbleUK team & the redshirts? Without them we ain’t nothing.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 years

So I said I’d have a little announcement for you today, didn’t I? Well, I’m a man of my word...

A note on competition and costs.

Hello! So in the last couple of weeks we’ve been hearing from a lot of people a variation on the line “hey, have you heard about [established, but newly aggressive, competitor]?” …

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@ComicPrintingUK

3 years

Look, there’s a lot of Discourse going about and I can see some of you getting wound up and sad so I’d just like to say that “I did this because it was important to me and I didn’t make a profit but I didn’t spend more than I could afford and doing it made me happier” is valid.

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@ComicPrintingUK

10 months

I mean, what can you say?

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@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

Wow this blew up check out my soundcloud (buy an indie comic)

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 years

(•_•) <) )╯ You won’t / \ ( •_•) \( (> Believe what’s crashed / \ (•_•) <) )╯ unless you believe “photoshop” / \ (•_•) ~) )╯ in that case / \ (•_•) ~( )~ Yr right on / \ (•_•) <) (> the money / \

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

Also, yearly serious tweet: If you did not get into @ThoughtBubbleUK this year (or any con) that does not mean you are bad at comics. Even with the bigger venue there can’t be room for everyone & hard choices have to be made. You keep yr chin up & keep going, ok? OK.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

Here’s the thing: I don’t think that there’s going to be a way to make comics on an indie scale and stay morally uncompromised.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Teachers are already heroes. I don’t need to see a single one of them die to prove it.

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@ComicPrintingUK

8 months

Innocent until proven guilty is all well and good until you confirm that your standard of proof is “if I wasn’t in the room when it happened it didn’t happen.”

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

If I were running a tremendously successful kickstarter that was being undermined by grotesque shipping costs I would simply engage a handsome and charming comic printer based in the UK to do a secondary run for all my UK backers.

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@ComicPrintingUK

7 years

Please be sure to check out my article “Why is there no British & Irish comics industry?” published in tomorrow’s Guardian.

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 years

Had a good day.

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2 years

When you think you’re the one who is doing ok, but you are really really not the one who is doing ok.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Support - and I cannot stress this enough - yr scene.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

“Full English” is how Scottish twitter refers to yr da refusing to wear a mask.

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@ComicPrintingUK

11 months

Man goes to doctor. Says he’s depressed. Says he feels rizzed up by Livvy. Doctor says “solution is simple! Drip King Baby Gronk is in town tonight. Go see him, that should cheer you up.” Man starts to cry “but doctor! Most of those ARE NOT WORDS.”

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

This is the first time in living memory I’ve seen something on Facebook worth sharing.

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

*taps the “expecting people to work for free is morally repugnant” sign*

The Folio Society

@foliosociety

2 years

Some very exciting news, we are launching the Folio Book Illustration Award! This new, free-to-enter competition is open to illustrators who have not previously been commissioned by Folio. #FolioBIA entries will open on Wednesday 4 May. .

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@ComicPrintingUK

3 years

What if we settled on 80 and let spoons go under?

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4 years

Little life hack for you.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

Sure, he exclusively tweets hard right memes, but balanced against that he has said he’s a centrist. A real conundrum.

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@ComicPrintingUK

7 months

I’m sorry, but if you are a grown adult who genuinely believes “Mr. and Mrs. Dursley of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.” is the greatest opening line in literature you desperately need to read a second book.

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2 years

This is an Art Attack.

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2 years

CPUK has left the building. Thought Bubble is *ahem* in the books.

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5 years

Prince literally made Purple Rain.

BBC Radio 6 Music

@BBC6Music

5 years

Name a better soundtrack, we'll wait. 💜 @prince x #batman 💜

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2 years

Now is the winter of our discount tents.

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1 year

Oh man oh man. It's really not his day. #thoughtbubble

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@ComicPrintingUK

3 years

Incredibly proud to announce the release of my first ever creator-owned comic.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

For digital thought bubble I will set up a zoom call that each of you are allowed to join for three minutes at a time before I say “ok, well great to see you, I gotta go mingle” and go stand one foot away staring blankly for a few minutes.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Look. I try not to swear on this account. But also this account is where I have the most followers who are liable to beat themselves up about not hitting unrealistic goals. So yr gonna have to forgive me, because it’s important. Ahaha hahahaha fuck you buddy. Fuck you sideways.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

Seeing Thought Bubble notifs going out. I am compelled once again to remind you that if you didn’t get a place this year that is a comment on how over-subscribed they are, not on your ability or worth as a creator.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

Getting massive “I sleep in a racecar bed” vibes.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Reminder: Jacob Rees-Mogg is a multi-millionaire MP with a national profile and a father who was both editor of The Times and chair of the arts council. And his book sold 734 copies. So unless you have similar resources yr achievement in selling out a run of 50 is a BFD.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 years

Client: "I don't understand why you insist on all these technical requirements. Our previous printer didn't." Me: "The previous printer who was cheaper?" C: "Yes." M: "The one you thought didn't do a good job?" C: "Yes." M: *counts to five under breath* C: "Oh." M: "Yeah."

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

OK, so I’m trying to put together a response to all this, and it has to be one that a) supports our scene & b) still pays Kid-PUK’s nursery fees. That’s hard, because those are a lot. But here goes: in light of con cancellations & stuff all existing quotes are hereby reduced 5%.

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6 years

Hey kids, my name’s CPUK *turns chair around* & I’m here to rap with you today about jpg artifacting. *sits on floor next to chair* Did you know that every time you save as jpg you degrade your artwork a little bit? Not cool! *puts chair on head* You guys get it. *swallows chair*

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 months

Fixed it.

Thought Bubble Festival

@ThoughtBubbleUK

6 months

Oh there is a comic convention happening this weekend!? Anyone fancy it?

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

Huge “kapow! Comics aren’t just for kids anymore!” energy.

The Game Awards

@thegameawards

1 year

The biggest movie of 2023 so far? Based on a video game. The biggest series of 2023 so far? Based on a video game. Video games 🎮 are just getting started.

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7 years

Morning all. No rant, some action. 10% of February profits for to Marie Stopes, 10% to Planned Parenthood in the States.

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6 months

I have to be way more selective than I used to be or would ideally want to be, but here’s my @ThoughtBubbleUK haul.

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1 year

I… i could apply for this. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a job in the real world that I could apply for.

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2 years

“Daddy, what was it like in the before times?” “Awful, son. Woke.”

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@ComicPrintingUK

2 years

Special offer: if you are exhibiting at thought bubble, MCM, or any other con you can send me your comic and I will print it for the low low price of full price.

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@ComicPrintingUK

5 months

BREAKING: Charlie Adlard detained at airport.

The Washington Post

@washingtonpost

5 months

Jessica Adlard said her bird, a cockatoo named Charlie, was kept at London’s Heathrow Airport for weeks because of a paperwork error.

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5 months

What we learned from this process is that you can subject Dr. CPUK to three years of mental torture and in the end you’ll have to give in to her. Force of nature - we are so lucky to have her.

Sophie Coulombeau

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5 months

We won.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

A fair number of people this weekend specifically said that they like the CPUK twitter feed. And I just want to say, from the bottom of my heart, that it is never too late to seek therapy.

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@ComicPrintingUK

6 years

It should go without saying, but that does not make it not worth saying: Comicsgate is a hate campaign, it is utterly without merit, and on the off chance you are associated with it your money is absolutely not welcome here. Don’t bother.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

I did not have “Gordon Brown calls for the guillotine” on my end of days bingo card.

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1 year

What a miserable little country. It needn't be like this.

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3 years

Finally finished writing my comic "64 Crowd Scenes at the Bicycle and Horse Race". Now to find an artist looking for exposure.

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5 months

“I do not like doing crimes” lies billionaire.

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@ComicPrintingUK

1 year

I did not get the KS job. This is not hugely surprising (although I did think I had a shot at an interview) and to be honest it is nice to have been officially told so that I can get back to focusing on my actual job.

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@ComicPrintingUK

4 years

Quick everyone retrain as a windmill.

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4 years

What’s the earliest you can have a beer on the day yr mostly estranged dad died? Is it about ten to four? I think it’s about ten to four.

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