Jacques Le Singe

@John_the_Monkey

A small bicycling monkey, pound shop surrealist, Jazz Outcast, famed for louche athletic casual ambivalence. I am not the champion of East Flanders.

Joined October 2008

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    15 hours ago

    proust was basically a posh peter kay wasn't he, "who remembers cake?", "spangles? that takes me back!"

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    14 hours ago

    I would simply defeat Godzilla in the market place of ideas

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  3. 7 hours ago

    Test Cricket in the mornings! And on weekends, you get Six Nations Rugby after a short break. The most wonderful time of the year, etc

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    Word of the day is 'obganiate' (17th century): to be tediously repetitious; to annoy by saying the same thing over and over.

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    23 hours ago

    This can't be repeated often enough!

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    19 hours ago

    Here’s what children need to “catch up”. They need: - More libraries - More swimming pools - More school playing fields - More Sure Start centres - More space at home to work You know, all the thing Tories have been voting to take away from them these past 11 years.

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    Fun fact: The £21m paid to a middle man to arrange a £70m deal with a jewellery company for PPE which can’t be used is roughly the amount it would cost to feed hungry kids this half term.

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    Anderson career phases: First 45 Tests (2003-Jan 2010): 156w average 34.8. Next 46 Tests (May 2010 to end of 2013-14 Ashes): 187w at 27.2. Last 66 Tests (since 2014 summer): 268w at 21.1. An extraordinary narrative of personal improvement.

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    22 hours ago
    Replying to

    "We're desperately trying to set up shell companies and offshore accounts in time".

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    22 hours ago

    Before Buttler + Bess, this was England's most attacking innings in 🇮🇳 since records began. Then they started blocking, and everyone got cross. And yet, their WinViz only dropped from 54%, to 50%. Piece on declarations, and all the fuss around them:

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    23 hours ago

    Elon Musk: See you later alligator Twitter: Haha, omg, outrageous, let's buy some alligators

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    Unfortunately we’ve had to remove several monarchs from the line of succession, edit 30-40% of literature out of the canon and can’t really talk about politics, the military, society or culture anymore. History is now just crop rotations and shouting MAYBE THEY WERE CLOSE FRIENDS

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    Feb 8

    💥No 10 reveals that NO contracts have yet been agreed with hotels - even though mandatory quarantine comes in *a week today*. "We're working closely with hotels close to ports and airports and will continue to undertake that work but as of now no contracts have been awarded."

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    Feb 8

    People like to talk about social media “bubbles” but my experience of Twitter is that I encounter 100 stupid opinions I would have been blissfully unaware of in any other era, every single goddamn day.

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    Feb 8

    me trying to find the eggs in any British supermarket

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    24 hours ago

    NEWS! Utter pricks now calling themselves ‘disruptors’

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    Feb 7

    The right would like to extend rights, privileges and protection to the statues of people who did not extend them to real people in their lifetimes. Very coincidentally, the right would like to not extend rights, privileges and protection to real people in our lifetimes.

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