🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Graphic Design and illustration. Born in Ireland, raised in England, lives in Wales, likes Scotch.

South Wales, United Kingdom
Joined September 2015
For this they are vaccinating 12 year-olds...
Why hasn’t this footage of Whitty gone viral?
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Cada vez que se habla de África aparece el mismo argumento: ustedes nos colonizaron, por eso somos pobres. Y el europeo agacha la cabeza y paga, entre culpa y silencio. Pero los datos cuentan otra historia. Los dos países africanos que se libraron de ser colonia europea, Liberia y Etiopía, están entre los más pobres del continente, entre 900 y 1.100 dólares de PIB por habitante. ¿Y quienes son los más ricos? Sorpresa: todos son ex colonias: Seychelles por encima de 18.000, Mauricio por encima de 12.000, Botsuana entre 7.000 y 8.000, y detrás Gabón, Namibia, Cabo Verde y Sudáfrica. Si la colonización fuera la causa, esa tabla estaría del revés. Así que cuando te vendan el colonialismo cuéntales esto.
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It really doesn’t matter whether you belong to the Left Tribe or Right Tribe; we are at the point Ricky Gervais called 20 years ago. What we really have to do is ask: What sort of society finds itself having to remind grown men not to rape? He got the judges right as well. Forget the tribal excuses. A society reduced to explaining that rape is wrong and then arguing over whether it was wrong to say so needs to take a long, hard look in the mirror. What have we become, and how much further are we prepared to fall?
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Gervais called it 20 years ago. Got the judges right as well.
🚨 NEW: The Government is handing out posters to asylum seekers telling them not to have sex with girls or mutilate their genitals
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British humour at its finest. Well done sir 👏👏👏
A 26-year-old man has been arrested after dressing as the Grim Reaper and climbing onto the roof of a Welsh hospital to stare at staff and visitors.
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ABSOLUTE HERO
Seventy-two. That is how many separate wounds John Cruickshank had in him, two of them through his lungs, while he lined up a burning flying boat for a second run at a U-boat that had just shot his aircraft to pieces. Most men have one of those wounds and they are finished. He had seventy-two and he pressed the attack. He was 24, a former bank clerk from Aberdeen, flying a Catalina flying boat out of the Shetland Islands with Coastal Command. The job was the long, freezing, mind-numbing patrol, fourteen hours over the grey Atlantic hunting the U-boats that were strangling Britain. On the 17th of July 1944, far out over empty water, they caught one on the surface, U-361, and Cruickshank took the big slow flying boat down to attack. The first run failed. The depth charges would not release. Any sane man makes a note and turns for home. Cruickshank swung the aircraft around and came back for a second pass, low and straight, and this time the submarine's gunners were waiting. Flak ripped through the Catalina. It killed the navigator, wounded half the crew, and tore into Cruickshank again and again, those seventy-two wounds, two punching into his lungs, ten into his legs. And he flew the attack home anyway. Bleeding everywhere, in agony, with the fuselage holed and on fire, he held the aircraft dead level, aimed, and released the depth charges himself. They straddled the U-boat perfectly. It broke apart and sank beneath him. Then came the part that should have killed him. He collapsed from blood loss, and the wounded co-pilot, who had never landed a Catalina, took the controls for the long flight back. Cruickshank refused the morphine that would have knocked him out, because he knew the man flying needed him. Drifting in and out, he had himself carried back up to the cockpit again and again through the night to help nurse the shot-up aircraft down, and at dawn they got it onto the water safely. He had lost so much blood the doctors said he had no business being alive. He lived. He took the Victoria Cross from the King, went quietly back to banking after the war, and rarely spoke of it. And he kept on living, and living, and living. John Cruickshank died in 2025 at the age of 105, the last man on earth wearing a Victoria Cross earned in the Second World War. Seventy-two wounds over the Atlantic, and he outlasted every other hero of that war by decades.
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The good old days! 🤣
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😂 This Harry Hill’s TV Burp clip on “Muslim Driving School” is brilliant. Harry mercilessly takes the mickey out of the entire premise and a few Muslim traditions while he’s at it. First he zeros in on an 18-year-old, born and bred British girl who was married off in an arranged marriage to a man her parents chose in Pakistan. Harry, completely deadpan: “Hmm… the arranged marriage. How’s it going?” Cut straight to the narrator: “As an 18-year-old divorcee…” 😭 The audience loses it. Harry just pulls that classic awkward face and goes, “Sorry to hear that. Oh well… plenty more fish in the sea.” Then later, with a different woman whose husband is “very confident” she’ll pass her test, Harry gets ready to crack open the champagne… only to be disappointed when she fails, but quickly adds:” “It’s non-alcoholic… yeah, I’m sensitive.” 😂 Little polite jab at Muslims and alcohol. Nothing vicious, just lighthearted teasing. This was mainstream television. ITV. Peak-time. And there was no outrage. People took it exactly as it was meant: good-natured, sharp British jesting. That was just over a decade ago. No way on earth you’d see a clip like this on mainstream TV today. Times really have changed… and not for the better when it comes to being allowed to laugh at things. Bring back TV Burp!
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Great fun
Love this. Porch Pirates pay the price. FAFO.
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I wasn’t there, however this guy was: "I’d like to put the record straight, because I was there. People often forget how the Argentine troops were treated after the Falklands War. We treated their wounded, and many would not have survived without the medical care they received. They were fed, and their officers were even allowed to keep their sidearms for their own safety. After facing each other in battle, that wasn’t easy, but it was the right thing to do. They were fed, cared for, and many were transported home on Canberra. We also cleaned up the mess that had been left behind. There was no complaining—we just got on with the job. Many of the Argentine troops were exhausted and relieved to be going home after experiencing the reality of war. They were defeated and demoralised, and many couldn’t even look you in the eye. Many of those young soldiers were more afraid of their own officers and the military junta than they were of us. They had been sent into an impossible situation by leaders who would never share their hardships. The Falklands’ climate and terrain are brutal, and the weather is unforgiving. I saw young men who were hungry, frightened, dirty, wet and cold, longing to be back with their families in Argentina. Many I spoke to, while sharing hot drinks and sweets, told me they never wanted to be there in the first place. So before anyone starts abusing me, my family or my brothers-in-arms, remember this: we were there. We experienced the full cycle of war, and we also witnessed the immense relief of the Falkland Islanders when the invaders finally left. To those in Argentina who still believe the stories told by defeated generals, I’d simply say this: many of us were there, and we know what happened. Don’t confuse propaganda with the reality witnessed by those who fought and those who surrendered. The war is over. Britain won. History cannot be changed. It’s time to stop reliving old arguments and instead focus on building a better future for the people of Argentina rather than making repeated claims over the Falkland Islands. As my grandmother used to say, “Children should be seen and not heard.” Sometimes it’s wiser to listen to those who were actually there. War tests not only courage in battle, but also humanity in victory. I am proud that we showed both. Feel free to share and comment “war is not a political football “ maybe you should try it sometime it’s not advisable Lives broken families destroyed Respect to those lost to war and those who are still fighting a war long ago." Shared as requested. Falklands #FalklandsWar #veterans
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facebook.com/reel/1527779182… When I tell people that the most productive wine producing vineyard in Roman Europe was in York in the north of England where it is now impossible to grow grapes, as it is nowhere near warm enough! And when I inform them that viking farmers and their farm equipment have been discovered under the now permanent frozen permafrost of the plains of Greenland (please do your own fact checking) - people are confused. “How is this possible!?” There are 2,000 scientists who have produced accomplished work in the climate space who have signed the ‘Clintel Agreement’ stating that ‘There is no climate emergency’. These scientist will all point out that it was around 5 degrees centigrade WARMER in Roman and Viking times whilst there was a negligible amount fossil fuel burning and life thrived in these much warmer temperatures!
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… kit historically associated with coccaine fuelled cheating dwarf. They must be so proud.
Argentina will wear their navy blue away kit to face England in the semi-finals of the World Cup. Their navy blue kit is historically associated with World Cup wins over England in 1986 and 1998.
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How the hell is Ringo Starr 86 years old? He looks like he's in his mid-fifties.
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British tennis wildcard Arthur Fery has beaten French Open finalist and 9th seed Flavio Cobolli in straight sets 6-4, 7-6, 6-0 to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals. Absolutely brilliant performance. His standard of tennis was off the scale. 🎾🇬🇧
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Goal of the tournament so far?
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