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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 months

Buy my book!

Animal Lovers

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

One shouldn't laugh I suppose

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Rob Palk

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6 months

Would like to see this applied more generally

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Rob Palk

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14 days

Fuck

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Rob Palk

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4 years

*combs hair, puts on best shirt*

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Rob Palk

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28 days

No one has heard of anything now

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Rob Palk

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28 days

Lots wrong with this of course but I'm fascinated by the American belief that having a therapist is something everyone should have, a minimum requirement, like being able to tie your shoelaces

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my hot take is i don’t think anybody should be dating until their shit is together. eating healthy, working out regularly, having a morning routine, a spiritual practice, a therapist, financial discipline. things like that have to come first.

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Rob Palk

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4 years

Keir Starmer always looks a bit like he's seen you drawing cocks in your exercise book and while he expected that from your mate there, come on, you're a bright lad

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Rob Palk

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3 years

Remembering the 80s, when they tried to sell Weetabix by making it look like it was going to fuck you up outside a flat roofed pub

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Money well spent

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Rob Palk

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11 days

Being a modern conservative must be quite stressful cos you're encouraged to be a complete psycho but apparently there are limits, only nobody tells you what they are. Like being in some dangerous prison drinking game

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Rob Palk

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1 year

I fucking despise this shit

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Rob Palk

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5 months

Big "thought provoking interpretation of Macbeth at the NT" vibes

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

16 days

I like how you can tell from the devil's face that this has happened before

History Calendar

@historycalendar

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The Virgin Mary punching the Devil in the face, painting from c. 1240.

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

Are you pitching a sitcom

The Associated Press

@AP

1 year

King Charles III lives in a palace and is one of Britain’s richest men, but his life is complicated. There’s a second wife, an embarrassing brother, and strife with a son and daughter-in-law. He will hope to keep a lid on those tensions at his coronation.

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 months

Make something up to sound human, they said, don't make yourself sound like some mad controlling king trapped in a gilded asylum they said

Politics UK

@PolitlcsUK

2 months

🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak says he goes up stairs in the middle of his work day to check if his wife has made the beds [ @DailyMirror ]

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Rob Palk

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9 months

Disappointing

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

Never really understood this school of thought, they're incredibly similar

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

4 years

I am genuinely pissing myself, just heard a pal in the Kink Kommunity had a set up of Class Play with a posh lass where he was her Bit of Rough & in the end she stopped it cos he took it too far & kept banging on about the state of the NHS

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

6 months

Hi, historian here! Ridley Scott's Napoleon film lasts for two and a half hours but the real Napoleon lived a lot longer that

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

This is such an insane origin story

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 years

Nice to see the unknown soldier who haunts all former PMs in a rare public outing

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Rob Palk

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1 year

You'd feel a bit grubby doing coke through a picture of your nan

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Rob Palk

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2 years

Film idea, there's a bomb in the coffin and Corbyn somehow finds out, obviously he wants to stop it going off but who would believe him, so he has to somehow get it out, with hilarious/ thrilling consequences

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

4 months

You'll never guess who this is about

Chris Webb

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4 months

@robpalkwriter For some reason she always reminds me of Ewan McGregor.

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Rob Palk

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5 months

Whoever heard of a French woman with a chic gamine hairdo

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Rob Palk

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2 years

Venn diagram of people scared Labour would turn the clock back to the 1970s and people saying food shortages and cold houses are brilliant

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Rob Palk

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3 years

Nobody .... Poet in a bank advert "Let's hear it for the sausage eaters The pork tube treaters Butchers shop depleters"

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

11 months

Just repugnant people really

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Rob Palk

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11 months

Sorry but this is amazing behaviour

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

3 years

I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received and that consequently this country is at war with Netflix

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

Like if you met them you wouldn't think "wow freakish mismatch". You'd think "am I on Radio Four"

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 months

This apology is also AI isn't it

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Is this guy just benignly explaining Art History for Beginners or is he a fascist, so hard to tell these days

The Cultural Tutor

@culturaltutor

1 year

This may seem like an ordinary portrait, but look closer. That grey mark at the bottom is actually a skull when viewed from the right angle. It's The Ambassadors, painted by Hans Holbein the Younger nearly 500 years ago, and one of art's greatest mysteries...

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Rob Palk

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2 years

This is how we handle things down in Toontown

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

It would be funnier if that was the entire show

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Rob Palk

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2 months

Like many people who aren't dead, i, an alive person, occasionally experiment with editing photographs of myself and my alive children, who are all breathing now, as am I

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Rob Palk

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2 months

I like how this sentence has an earthy quality, no Latinate words. You can imagine it being in Beowulf

Arndt You Writing?

@DanArndtWrites

2 months

Oh my god the Glasgow Wonka actor got milkshake ducked

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

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@idlewildgirl I'm not into Sesame Street

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

3 years

Oxford vaccine 70% effective but confident enough that everyone assumes it's 90%

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Rob Palk

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5 months

Look at her cheeky little face, she'd do it all again

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Rob Palk

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7 months

There's "hiding in plain sight" and there's "hiding in front of sell out audiences around the country and the DVD purchasers at home"

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Rob Palk

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1 year

It's very very difficult to make a case for High Culture, objective artistic standards etc that doesn't go round in circles, isn't snobbish etc, but absolutely fuck using faux egalitarianism to rob people of a free public good. Soulless money minded shits

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Rob Palk

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5 months

Now trying to decide which Boomer Rock icon has the most chaotic and unpredictable politics

Mary Najeddine

@MNajeddine

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Eric Clapton in London yesterday for Palestine!

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Rob Palk

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If you start watching Steamboat Willie at 11.55, it becomes your property for the last two minutes

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Cancel culture is when your bid to oust someone is enormously defeated

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Rob Palk

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2 years

This is the most exciting thing he's ever done and it's still quite boring

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Rob Palk

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5 months

I love the bridge burning energy of this sketch

The Harry Enfield Show

@HarryEnfield6

5 months

Panel Show

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Elon Musk

@elonmusk

1 year

Should I step down as head of Twitter? I will abide by the results of this poll.

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Rob Palk

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2 years

I wake up to discover I've been reported to the police! Currently seeking legal advice for defamation as a certain account is accusing me of all kinds of insane things. Thanks to those who kept tabs on this nonsense and those of you who can read

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Rob Palk

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28 days

Also feels quite American not to be deeply alarmed by a potential partner having a "spiritual practice"

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

1 year

On the last day of twitter they should reveal who actually needs to hear this

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Rob Palk

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1 year

If I'm criticised for stuff I usually get defensive first then after a bit think hmm maybe they had a point. This is a very extreme case of doing the opposite

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Rob Palk

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4 years

She's waiting for him to be a filthy gamekeeper and he's lecturing on how long you have to wait for Universal Credit, what a hero

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Rob Palk

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2 years

Ed Miliband's thirst for chaos almost sated

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Rob Palk

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4 months

Have said this before & can't remember where I saw it but apparently during the BSE crisis they almost stopped using this character in case people thought she was laughing because she was insane

ducki 🏳️‍⚧️

@dxckiii

4 months

this bitch is so cunty for no reason

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

11 months

Harsh words for Sophia Coppola's new film "It's Good That Elvis Did That, I Approve Of It"

I Could’ve Just Sat On In With Massa

@WrittenByHanna

11 months

I’m sorry she was literally fourteen and he was twenty four when they met is everyone insane

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Rob Palk

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5 months

Good god this is abhorrent

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5 months

Really?

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Rob Palk

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3 years

Wow, this letter from @IrvineWelsh to Danny Boyle is a masterclass in giving good author feedback

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Rob Palk

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2 years

This ...suggests that Paddington is Charon the ferryman?

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Rob Palk

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1 year

I think the problem with the change kids books when societal norms change argument is that Roald Dahl wasn't usually displaying unconscious bias etc. He was being a cunt on purpose and we should respect that

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Fuck it, I like Prince Harry. Seems a goodhearted flake with an above average capacity for opening himself up to new influences. & he hates the right people. Prefer him to the journalists reviewing his book in a tone that suggests they're both smarter and slightly posher than him

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Rob Palk

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11 months

Feeling a very mild twinge of sympathy for Partygate lass in the red dress, now immortalised for a rash moment of Pity Dancing with an absolute dork

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Rob Palk

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5 years

@johnnyfrohman @howlieT Uh

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Can't stop laughing at the idea of him going "ok then"

Page Six

@PageSix

1 year

Prince Harry claims William and Kate Middleton told him to buy Nazi costume

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Rob Palk

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1 month

Seen a few tweets saying The Talented Mr Ripley is good and yes it is but I am still unreasonably angry the 1950s characters somehow own a 1980s Miles Davis album

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7 months

Dracula is a tragic figure, a European who doesn't like garlic

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Rob Palk

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3 months

Last night a DJ sprayed my wife

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Rob Palk

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2 years

In my 20s I was a charity mugger and was in charge of a team on the Tottenham Court Rd on a rainy day. They needed somewhere to go on their break & long story short I had to go back to the office that night & explain my entire team except me had converted to Scientology

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3 months

He should talk about this more instead of all the toolmaker chat, constantly refer to it with audible relish

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Rob Palk

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1 year

There's a whole bunch of cultural endeavours I'm not into and I manage not to yearn for their disappearance, cos I'm not a dick (mostly) (sometimes)

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Rob Palk

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4 years

Can't really picture this woman

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Rob Palk

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2 years

Pity the poor culture warrior, having to pretend to love latter-day Morrissey albums, the Harry Potter books, Victorian statues, the Pogues Christmas song (but nothing else by them) & now, increasingly, slavery

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Rob Palk

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3 months

Kids today don't fashion shrines to Honore de Balzac like they used to

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Rob Palk

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1 year

If we're claiming there's a massive disparity in physical attractiveness may I point you to just about every other male/ female relationship in the world

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1 year

No website that delivers takes of this quality could possibly be dying

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1 year

*serious voice* Paul O'Grady always came across as having a fierce (and ultimately reciprocated) love for ordinary people despite living through periods when lots of ordinary people were dicks about people like him & that strikes me as a real moral achievement

Tides of History

@labour_history

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Paul O’Grady takes on the “Austerity Budget” live on TV in 2010… “We should let them know that we are not taking these draconian cuts lightly”.

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1 year

FUCK OFF

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Rob Palk

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1 year

WHY WOULD YOU WRITE AN ARTICLE ABOUT NOT FANCYING YOUR PARTNER AND GET THEM TO POSE FOR PHOTOS

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Rob Palk

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8 months

Every time I raise an eyebrow at the censorious finger wagging of nowadays discourse I do try and remember we're still reacting to the 00s era of berserk boorish amoralism, a time in which rottweilers in eyeliner were routinely celebrated as fey indie geniuses

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Rob Palk

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2 years

What is going on

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Rob Palk

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10 months

What the fuck though. I mean just...what the fuck. What the fuck

Can meeting up after 15 years bring closure on our toxic divorce?

Inspired by Carrie and Aidan's reunion in And Just Like That..., Liz Jones is eager to see if meeting up with an ex is a good idea. Yet, it takes barely no time at all for her to realise her optimism...

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Rob Palk

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1 year

Ah fuck I missed the "unfortunately" that's really got my goat. And I'm not Mr Opera by any stretch

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Rob Palk

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@MhairiMcF Not sure that would be the place to go if you were trying to avoid morning routine

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

4 years

My plans 2020

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 years

Russ in Cheshire "mayhap I'll have a glass of the old falling down juice with Supertanskii, I expect old Rees Moggs ears will be a burning as we call him a Victorian chugnugget!" His followers "I'm imagining you putting it in"

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Rob Palk

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3 years

Being a writer is wanting a bloody medal for absolutely normal things, like knowing what an apple looks like

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

3 years

Mate they're fucking everywhere, it's quite a long cult novel, most men have never heard of the fucking thing

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3 years

Enjoying the idea that Joe Biden, who is a 100 year old liberal, is "obsessed with genderfluidity"

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This destroys my image of Kafka as a happy and well adjusted guy

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Rob Palk

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1 year

If he was in Danish Arthouse films you'd all openly long for him

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5 months

Young Alistair Darling looking deeply unimpressed you haven't listened to his Marxist podcast

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Rob Palk

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11 months

Corbyn should double down and say he did write that Shelley poem

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

2 years

If I was off for a pint with someone and saw they'd posted this I would simply leave the country

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Rob Palk

@robpalkwriter

11 months

Are you out of your fucking mind

Tommy

@TommyTook

11 months

David Tennant met her on set when he was a household name and she was unknown. He was 37 and she was 22. The narrative of creeps and predators in Hollywood seems to be based more on popularity than genuine wrongdoing. He's a creep

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Rob Palk

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"there's a poet in everyone" was literally true in the 18th century (it was Byron)

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