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Dan O'Brien
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I'm anaspeptic, frasmotic, even compunctuous to have caused you such pericombobulations... Cricket, Whisky and Mountains, given half a chance.
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What is technically a W but feels like an L? I'll start...
Duolingo 1000 day streak. Yes, I've been doing this for a thousand days. No, I'm not confident I could handle most basic interactions in French. Même si, bonne journée mes amis!
December 29, 2024 at 8:12 AM
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"you'll be visited by three spirits"

The three spirits
Cricket match, Wicket keeper and two slips, edge likely going to hand
December 24, 2024 at 8:38 AM
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Saw some art today
The Virgin of the Rocks by Leonardo da Vinci at the National Gallery today. Commissioned in 1483 for an altarpiece in the church of San Francesco Grande, Milan. It was finally delivered, unfinished, in 1508 after years of haggling over payment (his first version was sold and hangs in the Louvre). Just goes to show people refusing to pay their freelancers properly and promptly is not a new phenomenon.
November 3, 2024 at 1:53 PM
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Theatre in that there London today
Poster for Guys and Dolls at The Bridge theatre
November 2, 2024 at 12:57 PM
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Did a rock climbing today
Dan in a blue soft shell jacket, high on a cold, sunny, gritstone arête, grinning to mask the fact that the next move looks scary.
October 27, 2024 at 8:47 PM
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We've reached the Find Out phase of the season #CountyChampionship 🏏
Me, in a group chat on 13th April predicting Lancashire's relegation, which has just been confirmed.
September 28, 2024 at 3:58 PM
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Tried max hangs this morning for the first time. Ran out of weights more quickly than anticipated so had to improvise #rockclimbing
A backpack with some dumbells but also a bottle of water, Vimto and cans of beans and tinned tomatoes.
September 15, 2024 at 9:14 AM
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Watching my birthday present tonight
DVD cover of Sharknado. Yes that's right. It's probably going to be shit. But it's an in joke and as a family we appear to be committing to it...
September 6, 2024 at 7:41 PM
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Me: Just an easy session at the bouldering wall tonight, don't go mad, listen to your body.
Also me: *goes mad for 2.5hrs*
This morning:
Holt from Brooklyn 99 saying "PAIN"
August 29, 2024 at 8:58 AM
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Thinking back to this from a group chat during the leadership election for no particular reason...
Screenshot of a Signal conversation from 21st July 2022 which says: "Bet365 are offering 9/2 on a Labour majority at the next General Election which seems a very good price assuming the next GE is 2 years away and we'll have 2 years of economic malaise and the country discovering how deeply weird Truss is...
August 27, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Ah, the two types of haircut
Sign of a hairdresser in Amsterdam called Basic & Extreme
August 21, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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Well if you're forcing me to choose
Sign from the Naturalis museum near Amsterdam which offers two options on their 7th floor. Seduction or Death. Pick your fighter I suppose...
August 20, 2024 at 11:51 AM
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Me and the four people who read my posts
Test cricket. A batter looks on as three slips and the bowler hold their heads in their hands after dropping a simple chance. Looks like England vs Pakistan during covid but can't be sure.
August 15, 2024 at 7:28 PM
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Me, realising that they change the demonstration sports every Olympics so Breaking won't be back for LA:
Casablanca meme, Ingrid Bergman saying "But what about Raygun". Bogart replies "we'll always have Paris"
August 11, 2024 at 6:55 PM
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Come on then. Cough up!
My bet on Labour winning the election to pay out £110
July 4, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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Pitch flatten out?

Yeah a little bit... #Cricket 🏏
Scorecard showing Gloucestershire v Glamorgan in the #CountyChampionship where they made 179 & 197 respectively in the first innings followed by 610d and 571-9 at the point the screenshot was taken
July 3, 2024 at 5:32 PM
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Always makes me think about this
Old tweet: "back in the day if u did a TV show called surf dracula you'd see that fool surfing every week in new adventures but in the streaming era the entire first season gotta be a long ass flashback to how he got the surfboard until you finally get to see him surf for 5 minutes in the finale"
June 30, 2024 at 7:35 AM
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Me seeing the Tories on 71 seats in the Survation MRP
Kylo Ren shouting MORE!!!
June 4, 2024 at 6:48 PM
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IQ distribution meme: Low: Throwing milkshakes at the far right is funny Normal: Nooooo this will only raise his profile we're playing their game we should be better than this High: Throwing milkshakes at the far right is funny
June 4, 2024 at 2:51 PM
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I did a rock climbing
Dan leading a vertical gritstone climb at Wharncliffe in South Yorkshire. Dan is making this reasonably easy safe route look harder than it is.
May 12, 2024 at 4:28 PM
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*running downstairs excitedly*

He's been!!
Screenshot of ESPNCricinfo with the card for Lancashire against Surrey scheduled to start at 11am today. C'mon the red rose!! Please don't rain.
April 5, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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Oh FFS #CountyChampionship #Cricket 🏏
Henry Cavil and Jason Momoa meme. Cavil is me, looking forward to the County Championship starting tomorrow and Momoa is Storm Kathleen.
April 4, 2024 at 1:46 PM
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Two years in...
Screenshot of duolingo with my 730 day streak. I'm feeling more confident about speaking French but also sad that it will be at least another year before I get to visit France again.
April 3, 2024 at 8:35 AM
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"Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing."
Nightmarish photoshop from 2018 where a family photo was changed to make people's faces look like terrifying masks by an incompetent editor - full article here https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/photoshop-family-photos-photographer-fail-zaring-missouri-a8160771.html
March 11, 2024 at 10:55 AM
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England rn #INDvsENG
Kombucha girl même. Batting against variable bounce is bad but bowling in the fourth innings is better.
February 25, 2024 at 8:44 AM