He's the bloke who looks like the kind of bloke who stinks of piss, and he's usually found rooting around the VHS section, deliberating between Chucky and a Blockbusters bloopers tape.
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Thank you, Patch, mate, for the snake-clearing and for giving people around the world an excuse to drink their own bodyweight in stout because they met a bloke who'd met a bloke who knew a bloke who used to live in Kilburn whose great-great grandad had spent a fortnight in County Mayo a while back.
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Depression affects men and women, so let's start shining light into darkness and start celebrating being a bloke whether you're Loyle Carner, Grayson Perry or the bloke that comes to fix the fridge.
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I moved for love after marrying a handsome Aussie bloke.
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What happened to the "I've had enough of me" bloke?
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I saw the same bloke shagging a farmyard animal pic.twitter.
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Our irate breadstick bloke then attempted an aggressive fighting stance.
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But breadstick bloke wasn't going to be denied his retribution.
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His stand fits with his longstanding "just a bloke" appeal.
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As Norman shows, McCartney has worked so hard at seeming an ordinary bloke that it is easy to miss the least ordinary and least bloke-ish thing about him: the magnitude of his melodic gift.
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A bloke tried to mug me when i was at university.
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He is not my first experience of a flirty older bloke.
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It rightly belonged to a bloke who couldn't love it enough.
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" Dad says:[Of Paul Simon himself] "He's a very talented bloke.
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Surprising. UFC seems like such a bloke thing to be into.
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Then there was one utterly stunning bloke in the 9th Regiment.
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We're told the bloke was busted for drunk and disorderly conduct.
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Then a bloke shouted "SCHHHHAAAARRRRVES, GEEEEERRRTTCHHHYAAAA SCHHHHHAAAAARRVES," and normal service resumed.
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Let's be honest—Goldie is a bloke who likes to talk.
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He was "a very caring, very wonderful, happy bloke," he said.
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He was sorry for the bloke, but he couldn't restrain himself.
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"[He's] not the sort of bloke I'd get along with," he said.
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"[He's] not the sort of bloke I'd get along with," Jamie revealed.
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I chose this weird voice based on my friend Danny, a bloke.
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Here is a bloke your da has a secret "man crush" on.
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The bloke, Rameez, tweeted to Ramsay asking him to 'rate' his food photo.
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The bloke I worked for used to be in the army catering service.
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Were they just like, you know what would be better than "Iron Bloke"?
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While you may feel sorry for the poor bloke, you'll be laughing, too.
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Well the bloke in that got sunstroke and the girl looks after him.
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That bloke with a goatee from marketing sipping an IPA at his desk?
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He seems like a good bloke, a Essendon man, but I'm not sure.
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The bloke with the binoculars and the slightly grubby look in his eye.
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People fleeing #LondonBridge but the bloke on the right isn't spilling a drop.
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Ears taped, mouthguard in, I held on to another big bloke and pushed.
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Which isn't a bad thing per se, but he was a fifty something bloke who recorded tracks like this with the queen of filth, Peaches, and looked like the sort of bloke who'd get out of breath walking up the stairs.
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I'd agreed to swap a CD I'd bought on a trip to London by seminal noise group Wolf Eyes for a mystery package, courtesy of a bloke from Leeds who knew a bloke who'd killed a prostitute with a brick.
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This whole thing would be much tougher on a gay bloke, in that respect.
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It was funny because the guy who did it is the most placid bloke.
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"I am deeply sorry for the embarrassment caused to the poor bloke," he concluded.
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"William has become just another middle-aged bald bloke in a suit," he said.
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I want to be a strong woman, l don't want to be a bloke.
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Fucking Bradley Wiggins is a mod, the bloke off Gavin and Stacey's a mod.
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A bloke so ridiculously hard he actually turned down a role as Charles Bronson.
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I couldn't see but luckily the security bloke let me perch on the barrier.
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"I've got to be the bloke sitting at home who shouldn't have been invited."
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She then directed her attention to the bloke ... and things went downhill from there.
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I know it's a bit scary to see an Arab bloke walking into a theatre.
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"I know a bloke who has been in temporary accommodation for 17 years," he says.
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"Ghost lovers tend to be more sensual and adept than the average bloke," she explained.
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He left a hefty tip for Nobby, & like ALL Polish people, was a brilliant bloke.
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Britain's Misogynist-in-Chief Piers Morgan mocked her and said she "can't get a bloke".
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"So obviously it can be human quality if you like, just think like a bloke."
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But as it turned out, he's quite an affable bloke, in his own special way.
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Somewhere, some poor bloke probably looked at a radar screen and thought he saw something.
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"Any bloke would fancy her — she's an absolute corker," he said of Miss Aston Villa.
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Leishman, 33, is used to hearing spectators saying "who's that bloke," even in his homeland.
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When it comes to D&B, Ant TC1 is a bloke who resolutely knows his shit.
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In "Sorted for Es and Whizz," Pulp buys tickets from a "mashed up bloke" in Camden.
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There's nothing inherently good about watching a bloke prod a few buttons on a Kaos pad.
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Remember that bloke young Ned stabbed in the back during the first Tower of Joy flashback?
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Local resident Bray said Prince Harry would be "just another bloke on the street" in Victoria.
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It's bumps of coke and Wetherspoons and dancing in the living room of some bloke called Paul.
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Pellegrini seems like a decent bloke, a football manager blessed with a genuinely thoughtful, self-reflective attitude.
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At first, I dismissed the bloke as a geek suffering from some sort of mid-life crisis.
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Matthew Herbert—the boffin of the booth, the brainbox of Berghain—is a (presumably) very busy bloke.
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"He was a really nice bloke, a lot of stars wouldn't have stopped to help," Videcette said.
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He's a lovely bloke, really nice guy, but I tell you what, he can look after himself.
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I remember my wrist grazing the bloke next to me and we both snapped our hands away.
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I must have looked slightly suspicious as a bloke approached me asking if I was selling anything.
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Remember when that bloke took a shit on the floor of a nightclub in Wigan last year?
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Goldie's also a bloke steeped in the power of how clubs can shape communities and reinvent cities.
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However, I'm not convinced this bloke and Knightley's story arc merited this fire track quite so soon.
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To your right is a bloke with a League One striker's haircut and a bottle of Ciroc.
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It could just be their partner or a bloke at a party going, 'Here, have half a pill.
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From late May to early October this bloke lives out of a sleeping sheath stuffed into a rucksack.
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As a bloke, the only thing you worry about is that you might lose your keys or your wallet.
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In times gone by – probably even last season if we're being honest – this bloke didn't really belong at Tottenham.
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Cersei was forced to walk naked through the streets of King's Landing by that weird bloke, the High Sparrow.
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But my dad was a country-dwelling type of bloke and shot things and sat in pubs with farmers.
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Now a bloke whom I knew from the pro-fight game in Bangkok has gone out much the same way.
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People say bad things about him, but from being in his company for an hour, he's a really nice bloke.
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Andy can't help that he's a fundamentally nice bloke who really loves his music, and gets on with customers well.
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There was some random German bloke in the line behind me so I was trying to speak German to him.
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We only get the bus to make sure we sit next to a bloke eating fried egg rolls at 7am.
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One of them is putting stickers up with a photo of a furious looking bloke who is missing a tooth.
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Other couriers allegedly referred to her directly as a "geezer" and "bloke" while sniggering and muttering comments under their breath.
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It's been a bloke for more than 50 years, I think we'll all survive if a lady has a go.
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Now, Skrillex seems like a really fucking lovely bloke and he also seems to have pretty decent taste in music.
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For the first five years, I was probably drinking 100 pints a week and I was a 20-stone bloke.
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She soon got the message when he saw her sexily dancing under the club's glitter ball with an amorous bloke.
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"So I'm gonna bloody make something of this, because if I was a bloke, I'd be damn well doing that."
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The difference there, of course, was that this poor bloke in London had to pay a thousand bucks for one.[CNET]
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And, again, like most people, I had no real idea of who this mysterious bloke with a plant fixation actually was.
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The only waft of Trump I get is from a bloke sitting near me who mutters something racist under his breath.
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They've got this stereotype of being an older bloke who's a bit grumpy—they can be quite full-on and abrupt.
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Often, he appears as gleeful as you that this slightly pudgy bloke from Hillingdon is sitting next to say, Jennifer Lopez.
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It turns out Britain's ancestor was not some Beatles-adjacent bloke—he had dark skin, curly hair, and bright blue eyes.
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It's just gone midnight and I'm stood next to a young French bloke who looks like he's enjoying himself a lot.
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He's a typical sporty-looking bloke with a lads' holiday Facebook cover photo and she's his equally dull, nice-looking girlfriend.
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The silver-haired bloke thumbing through his iPhone is Les Moonves, the CEO of CBS, considered the best TV programmer alive.
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One of my favorites was Berenice, a charming little yarn about a bloke called Egaeus who's about to marry his cousin.
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But my problem with him doing it, was that it was another bloke from another band with a recognizable sound producing Lush.
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We need a completely forgettable/serviceable bit of blue eyed soul sung by a bloke who looks like an angry mechanic called.
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A random bloke that respected media outlets are reporting as the real Dean Blunt – including the NME themselves on their live blog.
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We forget about the bouncers and the ticket sellers and the bar staff and the bloke who looks after the club's website.
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Any sensible, decent human born after, say, 1986 would rationally turn away from a bloke that can't count to four in Spanish.
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If you're lucky, said pub will have a bloke in a flat cap playing shit Balearic music at needlessly loud volume too.
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The bloke with the ponytail who sits joylessly pumping pound coins into the fruit machine night after night down your local pub?
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But here there is only one useless bloke on the sidelines named Claude (Richard Armitage), the informant who put Debbie in jail.
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Being this bloke tiredly chasing some version of himself that was relevant 20 years ago... It's important to evolve with your life.
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After what might have been a long hard day of cycling and museum-hopping, Bradley bumps into a bloke called Duke Hugh.
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YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AT THE LITTLE BALD BLOKE WITH A SERIOUS EXPRESSION DOING SERIOUS THINGS WITH SERIOUS HARDWARE YOU KNOW?
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They were having a serious Brexit debate and then some bloke comes on and talks about how he did a live stream.
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Besides his muttering of unintelligible phrases, two other things made this bloke stand out even more amid this tranquil cafe society setting.
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Adding to this odd sight, our bedraggled breadstick bloke was also attempting, with very little success, to roll a cigarette one-handed.
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Wenger and Dyche are heads and tails, black and white, night and day, urbane Frenchman and goatee-wearing bald bloke from Kettering.
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A few weeks before Christmas, Prince Charles had called Edwards "a jolly good bloke," at a celebration of the prince's 70th birthday.
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So here, in the service of that endeavour, are what I see as his main strengths and weaknesses: Strengths The ordinary bloke factor.
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I'd just found out about Olympique Lyonnais, and they had a Brazilian bloke in red Predator Pulses scoring free-kicks from 21993 yards.
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Thankfully Adelaide label Isle of Jura listened, and now even the bloke down at Oceana Wrexham on a Wednesday night's blaring it out.
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The Arab Spring, the global recession, BBC News 24 accidentally interviewing the wrong bloke on live television — a time of change and redefinition.
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She, through the heat of her sexually aroused vagina, is giving a "hot poultice" to this poor bloke who's got the Irish toothache.
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"Jeff Bezos is the richest bloke on the planet; he can afford to sort this out," said Tim Roache, general secretary of GMB.
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They occupy genuine roles within legitimate businesses and just happen to share these three data points with the 45th bloke at the top.
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" (2011) Bolsonaro went onto add he would rather his son "died in an accident than showed up with some bloke with a moustache.
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Just a bloke with the fairly reasonable idea of offering school kids more than chips-and-pizza or chips-and-sausage for lunch.
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The bloke next to you is watching an episode of Carpool Karaoke on his phone and muttering, "legend, absolute chuffing legend," to himself.
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Some voices are indisputably bad, Ward says—voices that deal with death, rape, violence, or are angrier and brasher than Old Posh Bloke.
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Here he is, dancing like a bloke who's practiced his moves in the mirror a thousand times but never actually danced in public.
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Among the men is Richard Horne (Eamon Farren) and a bloke named Renzo, who looks like he's arrived from somewhere in the Marvel universe.
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I had leveled with that soon after I came on board with the project—some rich bloke was always going to buy this album.
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He's the bloke Channel 5 cast in the lead role when they make some knock off fantasy drama to bandwagon Game of Thrones success.
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But one of my weird thoughts is: I'm a straight bloke who's never tried anal sex, but that door will never be open again.
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It's got Charlie Bit My Finger, it's got the hamster, it's got the rainbow guy... it's got the bloke from the Will It Blend?
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Photo Bloke shows a clean-cut figure in a pink suit paired with white Nike Air Force 1 shoes and a matching pink background.
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At least, that's what the bloke I chatted to once in my Stories and Storytelling in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds module reckoned.
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Now, it's important to stress that there's a lot more to Cluj-Napoca than a pale bloke with a big collar and pointy teeth.
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"Self-partnering means you can't get a bloke, right?" suggested British TV host and, we can only assume, self-appointed relationship expert Piers Morgan.
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"You don&apost think anybody who&aposs a blokey bloke would have the balls to come here," said Anna Russell, a 53-year-old writer.
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Got to be that one that Eats Everything is really Elton Welsby, the bloke who used to present the football on ITV in the 90s.
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I was there to listen to Best of Deep & Tropical House Music Mix 2016 Summer Vibes #1 | 100K Special | by a bloke called Anthony Gerrard.
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The bloke from next door says you can have your ball back, by the way, but you've got to listen to Black Secret Technology first.
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I'm a single bloke, I've got no kids, I've got a few good friends in the record collecting realm, but I've got no extended family.
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Like, more than the bloke you see darting around in the bushes outside the overground station on your way home from work in the evening.
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And who but an aristocratic British bloke would decorate the space with chandeliers, armchairs, Oriental rugs, lacquered chests, flickering candles and other drawing-room accouterments?
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"Tyson is a very mature and sensible bloke, a good student of boxing, and he knows what he's got to go and do," Warren said.
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The cover of "Flashman, Volume I" featured a swaggering bloke in uniform with a bare-breasted maiden of "exotic" background, in, of course, the background.
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Before Jamie Vardy rose to prominence with Leicester, Lee "Chappy" Chapman was just a bloke who looked a bit like that Stocksbridge Park Steels player.
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It's unclear how anyone could damage the image of a bloke who once racially abused a Japanese man in a casino, but there we are.
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This, and other appearances on late-night shows, such as Jimmy Fallon's, helped to foster an image of a good bloke who could take a joke.
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With just a few clicks you could be the incredibly annoying bloke on the back of a bus jamming a James Ferraro ringtone at full blast.
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It's like one of those old Punch cartoons of this Victorian bloke leering round the corner at two women in petticoats and it's just hideously rendered.
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The real Dean Blunt, if he's even watching, is presumably pretty chuffed with the simply efficient prank of sending a random bloke to collect the award.
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We're at a steakhouse 30 minutes northwest of Dallas, a day before Canelo Alvarez's body-snatching win against an English bloke in the Cowboys' massive stadium.
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Recorded with Sean Lennon and that bloke from the Black Lips, it's perhaps simultaneously the most polished yet deprived track we've heard from them so far.
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When Dave and his chums gained their Parliamentary majority last year, it wasn't because voters thought he was just a bloke like us off the street.
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On the one hand, he is every bloke you've ever met on a Saturday night in a high street club sipping neon cocktails and chirpsing girls.
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In honor of this event, and in honour of him genuinely being an all-round good bloke and great DJ, he's sent us this guest mix.
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It's not every day you look up into the sky and see some random bloke with a jetpack casually whizzing past the birds and building tops.
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"As a bloke, I'd like shaving cream exempt, but I'm not expecting it to be," Mr. Wooldridge, a Liberal Party member, told a reporter that January.
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There were obviously concerns being raised and not properly investigated, with people going on a gut feeling of: 'Well, he's a nice bloke, he wouldn't do that.
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He may run a firm that is worth $175bn, but Mr Jope seems the sort of bloke with whom it would be easy to have a pint.
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" The 210-year-old animal rights activist is the sort of affable man forever doomed to be described by everyone he meets as a "really nice bloke.
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The bloke, though, the partner administering the shagging, brutally, and I mean brutally shoves his dick right back in her and gets straight back to his shagging.
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And, no, it wasn't this timeless clip of a bloke falling off a table in Wetherspoons after what seems to be about 12 pints of Shipyard IPA.
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Why be a miserable old sod when you could be a bloke waving a plastic sword around and wearing a leather kilt and a Sutton Hoo mask?
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Jack Shainman "Photo Bloke" (2016), by the Pop-realist portrait painter Barkley Hendricks, depicts a man in a pink suit and white sneakers against a pink background.
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Unsure of how you got there, you find yourself talking to a bloke called Kenny, with the frame of a bear and the face of a bat.
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The reason why we're so besotted with the bloke is simple: he's spent the last two decades making some of the most original dance music ever produced.
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"Setting informs plot," is how Harper put it, when asked about her skill in conjuring up a familiar type of Australian bloke, at once taciturn and tender.
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A privately educated military man, a bloke who joined the army because he liked the film Zulu so much, Floyd lived a life slightly out of time.
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For example, we helped a local bloke locate his girlfriend after a night of unanswered text messages, and once rehoused several families whose apartment complex caught fire.
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"High fives to the English bloke who fired up Mitch with some banter at breaky...onya legend," Healy, the Australian women's team wicketkeeper, wrote on her Twitter feed.
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These are the antics of the old bloke everyone tries to ignore down the laundrette, even though he's slowly edging towards the basket with your socks in it.
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He might now be known best for being a bloke who didn't get into Berghain, but there was a period when Felix Stallings Jr was everyone's favourite producer.
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What about someone like me, someone who cringes at the thought of even thinking about considering maybe attempting to try and flirt with a bloke in a club?
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It's in the same key, at the same tempo; it's the same macho, bloke mumbling in the verse, and a big chorus with loads of extended vowel sounds.
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Just this weekend, our conception of clubbing was irrevocably, violently altered forever because a bloke in England took a shit on the dancefloor of a club called Reflex.
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"Put quite simply he is the bloke that saved Tesco, which should go down as an enormous achievement in British retail history," said Shore Capital analyst Clive Black.
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In the 2011 movie "Albert Nobbs," she played Hubert, the swaggering, cigarette-smoking bloke who captures the heart of the eponymous Nobbs, a hotel butler in Edwardian Ireland.
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I secretly hoped that he was a huge dance head, the kind of bloke you see stood by speaker stacks on his own at techno nights, totally sober.
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The virtues of the average bloke on the street — even the ones who resort to shady means to get by — far outpaces the corruption of the high-born.
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Yes, Jay Z is one of the most successful artists of all time, and yes he's probably a nice bloke too, but look at this photo right here.
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Costa is his evil henchman, the sort of bloke who would engage Bond in a 15-minute knife fight before being accidentally impaled on a conveniently placed forklift.
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And now, now in 2016, two thousand years after a beardy bloke snuck out of a cave, this is what we're left with: pancake parties in massive London clubs.
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Customer testimonies of Bloke, a restaurant-lounge located only several blocks away from EFS, are peppered with accounts of reservations vanishing when black clientele showed up at the door.
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Now, true fans of either bloke will know that this pair of Harrys actually met once before, back in November 2015 at the annual Royal Variety Performance in London.
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Bradley Gunn: Well, I was just at an all day rave in Bristol doing my thing, dancing away, and a bloke came up to me to have a chat.
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One bloke tells me that the Roman goddess Venus used the soup to put husband Vulcan to sleep, allowing her to get down and dirty with fellow god Mars.
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The Israeli bloke introduced us to two Laos ladies, but the Johnny Walker wasn't doing much for my chat, and I started spewing the worst game, horribly basic stuff.
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So to find them belting out their own hits, while belted up and stuck in traffic beside some affably laddy bloke from England, is a special kind of delicious.
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I've run this story through my head a million times: One of my best friends—an unnaturally talented writer and a top bloke—slowly began to recede into himself.
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For a bloke who looks pretty moody in nearly every photo I've ever seen of him, Leeds lad Paul Woolford's developed quite the knack for knocking out summer smashes.
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Despite meeting a stranger on a train, MacCauley isn't exactly your standard Hitchcockian ordinary bloke, inasmuch as he was a cop, we're told, before he decided to switch careers.
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It quickly becomes apparent that the video consists of one bloke wandering about the King Power Stadium, sticking a camera in fans' faces and filming their largely bemused reactions.
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" Murnane pointed out Murnane Bay, a notch on Victoria's southern coast said to be named after his grandfather, a prosperous dairy farmer: "Nasty old [expletive] of a bloke. Tom.
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"There was a feeling of who is this bloke from down south looking down his nose at Northerners and thinking he can chuck us into one basket," Hayman said.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads PARIS — Alun Williams is a barmy British bloke who roams the backstreets of cities and towns, stubbornly signifying historic citizens with slapdash splotches.
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This article appeared originally on THUMP UK. Ever since Matt King—AKA the bloke who plays drug-addled delusional oddball Super Hans in the long-running sadlad sitcom Peep Show—announced that he'd decided to break the 4/4 fourth wall by DJing in real life, people have been getting very, very excited about the prospect of seeing a bloke from the telly behind the decks for reasons we can't exactly work out.
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The harp is typically associated with chubby naked babies with nauseatingly flawless curls, a skinny bloke wearing tights circa 1300 A.D. or, for the completely cultureless, a mediocre Irish lager.
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The hard-nosed Aussie had hitherto been known for his "dog-whistle" slogans: "How would you feel if a bloke on early release attacked your daughter?" ran one from 16.5.
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The 'TWAT' in DJ TWAT stands for There Was a Time which is somehow worse than it just being the word TWAT shouted by a bloke who's stubbed his toe.
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" "Where I grew up, gay men were called poofs, queers, everything derogatory under the sun," he told the Daily Mail, adding that even now "having a bloke around is unusual.
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Known to a million mums worldwide as the bloke who sung on "One More Time" by Daft Punk, Romanthony's back catalogue is stuffed to the gills with screamer after screamer.
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Certainly, in south London, a pirate station is usually a bloke up a tower block with a transmitter playing bad music at 3 AM. At least, that's my childhood memory.
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On a Sunday morning, while the average bloke is dipping into his soft-boiled egg, two groups of young men are in a railway station giving each other a beating.
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You mention in the film that a bouncer thought you were in possession of drugs, presumably because you dance like a bloke who's boshed a small country's GDP's worth of ketamine.
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So I walked to the counter and told the bloke who I liked and what I was into and the first thing he pulled out was Breaking the Frame by Surgeon.
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This Bouncers opens with the immortal line, "I've broke more jaws than fuckin' Valentino broke hearts," spoken by this bloke: What more could you want from a late night telly programme?
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But now we're home, Ynot is cancelled, getting out of the carparks is chaos, one poor steward bloke stood in the mud by the gate trying his best to manage the traffic.
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Seriously, these are seriously roomy bathrooms, the kind of toilet set-up that you can imagine someone like Richard Branson or the bloke who played Shadrach Dingle in Emmerdale having at home.
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" Scott, who described Leishman as "a great bloke," added, "You wouldn't wish that 12 months on anyone, but it's nice to see a guy like that take something good away from it.
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There was the guy who had "That's Not Me" on his foot, closely followed by the much lauded bloke whose pelvic nod to Skepta managed to get him dumped by his girlfriend.
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Harris is, as you'd imagine, a busy bloke, so it was with a sense of trepidation that I gave him a call during a brief foray back to his hometown of Wigan.
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With this mix Harvey, a bloke who looks a little like Jesus, and quite possibly has a touch of the messianic about him, took his rightful place as the best fucking DJ around.
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He portrayed himself "as the good bloke, the good father, the buddy, the mate that Australians would like to have," said Patrick Dumont, a professor of political science at the Australian National University.
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Finding the Most Important Word Now, where I come from, we call a bloke like this a jobsworth — that is, a person who delights in acting in an obstructive or otherwise unhelpful manner.
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Meeting him reveals the truth of the divide between the real bloke and the role he's played in public life for the last three decades, or rather that there doesn't seem to be one.
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He seems like the sort of bloke who wears polo neck pyjamas to bed, has a seven-step moisturising routine and can identify any given bottle of Beaujolais by region merely by tasting it.
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Finding out that the bloke who's told a nation we can't afford a welfare state has benefited from his father's dodgy offshore tax arrangements, and not bothered to pay his share got me fuming.
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Instead, the car feels like it was built by a British bloke on a country road who knew that, after he was done flogging the car, he'd need to go pick up his wife.
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It's about as relaxing as taking part in a nettle eating contest with Joe Pasquale, Christine Hamilton, and the guy who played Mickey in the Head & Shoulders 'everyone knows a bloke like Mickey' advert.
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Harry Styles has a nice turn as a surly bloke ready to throw a French interloper overboard from a sinking ship—shades of Brexit indeed, though cooler heads prevail and the Frenchman is spared.
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Fans of video games have a big problem with translation, just like whoever the Italian bloke was who decided "traitor" was a nice way to describe someone who's just doing his or her job.
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Of course not – but if they carry on like this, there's nobody better to lift a trophy on behalf of the team than the bloke who's a freak in between the sticks every week.
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As a late-night host, Mr. Jefferies can appear to be doing nothing much, but there's a tricky balancing act going on between his ordinary-bloke persona and his sometimes savagely raunchy punch lines.
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Centered on four Catholic school girls and one English bloke named James, Derry Girls is a sitcom in the truest sense of the genre, finding humor in a reality rife with conflict and fear.
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Before I started in the job, I had the same image of the campus guard in my head as you did: a bloke too fat for the cops, or a mixed martial-arts nerd.
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To your left, gawping out of the window, is a middle aged bloke in a Donnay polo shirt and slightly too tight cream short shorts, his portly paunch popping out over the belt strap.
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He seems like the sort of bloke who spends six hours polishing his car bonnet every Saturday, before spending the rest of his day silently putting up the shelves he made with his vintage lathe.
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MCDE's played it out, so's Todd Terje and so has Caribou, AKA Dance Music's Nicest Bloke Dan Snaith, who dropped it in his sensational Essential Mix for BBC Radio 1 way back when in 2014.
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He's here to strike some other kind of deal with Gotham's richest man and resident bloke-in-a-batsuit, and knows what buttons to press in order to get our protagonist heated under the collar.
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Played by the bass-baritone Greer Grimsley with a hangdog mustache and a weary slouch, Sweeney is here more a disaffected bloke than a wild-eyed psychopath: a Todd who might have voted for Brexit.
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Yep, that's right, Steve Davis, the bloke off the snooker, is DJing at one of the most prestigious techno festivals in Europe and he "can't wait" to be on the same bill as Holly Herndon.
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Big Sam is the sort of bloke who would march into the interview room, deliver a knuckle-crunching handshake, stick his gum under the formica desk and ask exactly when he'd be expected to start.
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They had a bloke called Kasual Kev that delivered to the house in a Honda Civic, attended by his wife, who had the build and demeanour of five bouncers rolled into a single human form.
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As a crowd gathers enviously outside the window (at least one bloke pops his head inside before being gently informed that it's a private evening), a deep-fried sea bass is brought to my table.
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"I saw this so-called special done by a bloke, Dick Clark, and I'd already come to the conclusion that Dick Clark's shows were hopeless and I could do better," he said in the documentary.
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The devastating illness, which began three years ago, and the extraordinary response of Mr. Lewis, captivated Britain and turned the laid-back pub owner — a "regular bloke," as he describes himself — into a national figure.
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" Vaughan Smith, who had been a longtime supporter of Mr. Assange and helped put up his bail money, said that "Julian's a big bloke, with big bones, and he fills the room physically and intellectually.
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From Todmorden to Totnes, voluminous swathes of young revelers spend the working week eagerly awaiting the kind of release that only the sight and sound of an unsmiling German bloke playing pitch-black minimal can offer.
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What brings a balearic icon, everyone's favorite stoner, and a bloke I'm pretty sure lives on a permanently-sailed boat party just off the Croatian coast is Dennis Edwards, The Temptations Review featuring Dennis Edwards' frontman.
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It also hosts regular metal "club nights"—AKA a bloke called Dave chucking on some Megadeth and Slipknot via Spotify—making it a key fixture in the city's metal scene and its independent, music-orientated community.
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He was a bloke who went to the grave wearing linen trousers and a Panama hat—a sad, sorry tuft of baby-thin hair poking from under the brim, dickie bow unfurling in the stiff wind.
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My point being, unlike the color black, there are endless types of goth, each incarnation from various times and places, dating all the way back to 1967 when some bloke used the word to describe The Doors.
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While he's not necessarily averse to subtlety, as songs like "Resistance" prove, HudMo's a bloke known for liking the bold, brash, and bolshy in this life, and it's that route his taken with this Twitter released remix.
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Outside I get chatting to this Gio-Goi clad bloke and his Mrs and he's telling me how he works at the big Cineworld on Renfew Street and I've never heard anything so amazing in my life.
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She also performs a bunch of deep cuts that you, if you're like me, will care about deeply because you would sell your right lung to some weird bloke on gumtree to see Britney perform in Vegas.
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You'll be stood in the queue at Aldi, clutching a batch of courgettes and some Brillo pads, and you'll notice that the bloke queuing for the adjacent till has a nose that looks just like a cock.
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"I love that through the use of short comedy sketches, teens are getting a bigger point across than most lengthy, informative articles posted by some old bloke who we can't relate to in the slightest," she explains.
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Part of that was hype—the chef behind it was well-loved TV personality and all-round top Kiwi bloke, Al Brown—but most of the excitement was simply because Depot gave us something all of our own.
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"I said, 'I'm the bloke who rang you up, I've got two bags of dinosaur bones here,' and they looked at each other like, 'Here's another one' — they get people coming in all the time," Mr. Foster recalled.
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"The role of the 'bloke' in our society is one that's been venerated," said Tracey Spicer, an author who has been writing and talking about sexual harassment and assault in the Australian media for more than a decade.
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. Unsurprisingly, given the subject matter, this article includes full-frontal nudity, as well as a video clip of a middle-aged bloke dancing a naked jig at the Super Bowl.
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I had a bloke come up to me in the street a couple of months ago and ask me if there was a pay phone around as his van had broken down and his phone was out of battery.
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Having met at a DJ Harvey gig in Ibiza last summer, Gerd Janson and the bloke who played Tinhead on Brookside strike up a friendship, resulting in the pair of them going B2B at several major European festivals. 18.
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Ian Pooley is the name of a local plumber or a lower league left-back or a failed restaurant owner or a bloke you see in the local paper because his winning lottery ticket turned out to be fake.
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The story of Bloke Clonks Into Other Bloke's Hand was reported by some of Britain's most prominent journalists, including senior political editors and correspondents at the BBC, as a Labour-supporting protester punching a Tory aide in the face.
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One of the few things that could be said of their mysterious and possibly fictitious creator, Opdebec, was that his name rhymed most usefully with mec (roughly "bloke"), a hard little word somehow apt, too, for his hard little wooden inventions.
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I tried ringing on several occasions and everytime he answered, he sounded like a bloke busy doing his job who didn't really want some tosser from a website ringing him up to ask a few questions about nightlife and loneliness.
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At which point you will 100% bump into that smug bloke you went to school with, with the nice shirts, the one who you can't quite explain to everyone else why don't like him but you just know he's a wrong'un.
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You might find the idea of a late night journey home soundtracked by a bloke playing grating FruityLoops techno from an iPad pretending that a tube carriage is his very own nightclub incredibly annoying, but that'd make you a curmudgeon.
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As Tourist, William Phillips releases club-infused pop that comes on like James Blake if James Blake was a bit less James Blake and a bit more of a Bloke Who Might Actually Have Laughed at Some Point in His Life.
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Secondly, the bloke who enters the shot and blocks the worm is so painfully upright that you start to worry about him as a person: it's the kind of stiffness that only arises as a physical manifestation of extreme uncomfortableness.
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Kevin Williams, a 56-year-old van-driver in West Bromwich who voted leave in the EU referendum, called himself "a typical working class bloke" and said he had previously only voted Labour but had switched to the Conservatives this time.
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Then again, if you suddenly mutated from being a dweeby bloke from the highlands into a ripped, handsome, Armani-pant modeling stud with a bank balance bigger than the GDP of most European countries, you'd probably be a bit aloof too.
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In the queue for the toilet—you just want a nice innocent piss, obviously, and you don't really fancy stepping into the uneven set of paving slabs outside for an al fresco attempt—you accidentally stumble into the bloke in front.
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I also write for my kids; I've tried to document parts of my life for them so when I'm no longer here one day, this blog will be here forever and they can look back on it and remember this old bloke.
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You can see what I look like jumping very awkwardly off a trampoline—looking for all the world like a bloke who's just eaten a massive fucking roast dinner, or an unmasked Darth Vader, or Shaun Ryder after a long week—below.
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" One critic's review of the band riled guitarist Tony Iommi up so badly that upon coming face to face with him in a hotel in Glasgow, according to Osbourne, he "swung his fist back and just about put this bloke in the hospital.
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"I usually don't go and see Nile in Manchester or London because he doesn't need his old man showing up when he's doing his thing," says Marr, as if he were an average bloke going to watch his kid's five-a-side match.
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Which turns out, in the end, to be that he's a just thoroughly decent bloke from Coatbridge who was more than happy to chat about the squeaky sepia of the past and what he's been up to over the past 10 years.
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You probably wouldn't need a reason, but if you did there are plenty: exuberance, celebration, intoxication, frustration, protest, attention-seeking, taunting the opposition with an impromptu display of gymnastics, whatever the hell this bloke was doing, memorabilia collection – all human emotion is here.
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"Without that emergency beacon the poor bloke faced a much longer and more dangerous wait in the water for either a passing boat to see him or to be reported missing," RACQ rescuer Arno Schoonwinkle was quoted in a media release as saying.
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It could just as feasibly be the night that I was Jazzy Jeffed out of a house-party in Bermondsey after the mum of the bloke who's house it was heard me say that 'Bermondsey is a shit-hole' on the phone.
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He just wants to be an ordinary bloke, and Mr. Ryan, working with the director Nash Edgerton ("Gringo"), deftly and dryly exploits the gap between Ray's violent occupation and his efforts to be a good father, boyfriend, brother, ex-husband and mentor.
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"He was an extraordinary mixture of a sort of slightly autistic bloke from the bush and, at the same time, one of the most intelligent and creative people that you'd ever known," one of his publishers, Michael Duffy, said in a telephone interview.
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Noel Gay's music hall-flavored show from 1937 became an unexpected Broadway smash when it was presented in 1986 — in a production starring Robert Lindsay as one 'elluva jokey bloke who learns he's the heir to an earldom — and ran for three years.
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Andrew Bridgen, a senior Conservative lawmaker who campaigned for Britain to leave, described the exchange as akin to a "pub brawl" when "you hit the biggest, most dangerous-looking bloke as hard as you can and hope he doesn't get back up again".
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They are also places where you are reduced to your marketability or threat-level, where the length of your facial hair can be a deal-breaker, where you are seen, and hence see yourself, in reductive labels – never as 'just a bloke called Dave.
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"It must be about 3 degrees in London ATM, cold enough that the bloke actors have to wear coats and scarves to their press call and yet poor Jennifer Lawrence is wearing a small amount of fabric some might call a dress," one person tweeted.
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Making a joke about tech-house over an IPA or in a Facebook message is no more or less interesting than one about Mrs Braithwaite's pronunciation of the word "glacier" in a year 8 geography lesson, or a bloke you once saw on Only Connect.
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I mean, it's still annoying—in the same way getting flicked on the ear's annoying—but it's not as annoying as the bloke next to you on the bus eating an egg salad, or being stuck next to a group of vloggers in the pub.
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The bus breaks suddenly, you jolt forward, the headphones are disconnected and the entire 172 turns to look at the bloke listening to this... That in itself is an abhorrent embarrassment, and a moment you'd probably never recover from, but it goes beyond that.
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George Harrison: I've always hated Lee Marvin, and listening on acid to that other little dwarf bloke with a bowler hat on... I thought it was the biggest load of baloney shite I'd ever seen in my life; it was too much to stand!
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This it how it ends: you, your best mates, and that weird bloke you met in the smoking area who was convinced he knew one of you and stuck around for so long that you all felt terrible about sacking him off when the club closed.
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You waddle over to the bathroom, braving the acrid stench of old piss and freshly cut coke, tramping through the ominously dark puddles on the floor, standing shoulder to shoulder with a bloke talking to himself, sweat threatening to send him the way of the Snowman.
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Here is a working-class bloke raised by street markets and pub lunches, who went on to become famous for roles as a boxing promoter, maximum-security con, and "premiere wheelman" among others—basically, the kind of man who would end you for glancing at his girlfriend.
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It used to be enough to hire out a decent club, put some speakers in, wire-up a pair of decks, ask the bloke down the road with the big headphones to play a few records, charge a fiver on the door, and let the clubbing commence.
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"I mean, here's this bloke from England who's a little overweight, with his zaftig charisma showing up, taking the latest slot that potheads and college students watch, and suddenly he's become a viral sensation that's global," Mr. Fielden said, a trace of his Texas twang poking through.
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The new Amazon series "Fearless" is a solid, atmospheric but unsurprising exercise in a British perennial: the old-boy's-club conspiracy thriller, in which an ordinary bloke discovers that the aristocrats and technocrats who run the country will go to murderous lengths to cover up their indiscretions.
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Jarrod's death last August at age 221 unleashed a global outpouring of emotion and support from people whose lives he touched or who were touched by the story of a seemingly regular bloke who had absorbed life's — and golf's — bad breaks with grit and good cheer.
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No, probably not, because he was a bloke called Matt Terry with a quiff and a brown leather jacket who looked like he had cut off Louis Tomlinson's face skin and stretched it over his own, which I feel is a pertinent metaphor for X Factor itself.
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In a province where a bloke perhaps named Patrick O'Brien might actually be a unilingual Francophone, while un mec called Olivier Duchesneau might actually be an Anglophone, where origins and loyalties have been mixed up over centuries of living together, referendums split families and people right down the middle.
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It is impossible to maintain the tension of breaking news every hour of every day, in much the same way that King Lear would probably lose its dramatic resonance if it was reduced to a bloke getting his eyes stabbed out for a full two and a half hours.
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Have you watched the video where a bloke from Margate shouts about what a legend he is before threatening to "kick it the fuck out of" a number of Network Rail staff, a couple of lads from Millwall and the small woman trying desperately to calm him down?
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After her defiant microphone moment, Gillan's character, Liusaidh (pronounced "Lucy"), picks up a bloke, has a quick round of sex, goes to the chip shop, stuffs her face with its product, then walks the back roads of her neighborhood until she meets Alistair (Matthew Beard), her best friend.
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Rewind A brash working-class bloke gets a new job in a new town, wages a calculated campaign to seduce and marry the local tycoon's daughter, entangles himself in a passionate affair with an older woman, and finally gets what he wants — with nearly everyone living unhappily ever after.
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Perhaps he is signalling that the ritual sacrifice can begin or to start the sharpening of knives, because for all I know I could be being walked out into a trap by some bloke I met only five minutes ago who seems to know these woods a little too well.
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How do you explain the feeling of 83 AM drizzle on the nape of your neck as you realize that, yes, everything is shut, and yes, the only way of extending the night is with that bloke from the high-rises who wants to talk about hunting knives and Brexit?
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This YouTube version of an old tape features bands like Xasthur, Blut Aus Nord, and Anaal Nathrakh and is a jolly good listen at work on those intense days when you forget that you've got an existence outside of the shitty partition you share with a bloke you fucking hate.
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The ordinary bloke Calvin Harris of "The Girls" and the equally sickly "Acceptable In The 80s" is almost unrecognizable as the plain T-shirt wearing GQ-covering Calvin Harris we see working with Frank Ocean in 2017, but ironically this was probably the closest he's come to defining an era.
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The kind of news that normal people hear about and might read about over a sandwich at their desk at lunch, or while taking a shit during the 4.30pm lull, the kind of news that features Craig Charles sweating or Ronnie Pickering doing something or a bloke dancing on a motorway.
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No disrespect to Jamie Jones here because I'm sure he's a lovely bloke and he probably bought his family some really nice Christmas presents and I heard he bought a Big Issue once and he wanted to vote Labour at the last election but he forgot to go to the polling station.
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And the probable reason why Sheeran both irritates critics and delights fans—who, fair enough, enjoy his relatability—is that he's just like any other kind of mediocre bloke you went to school with, or know from down the pub, just with an uncanny, almost unnatural knack for writing a catchy hook.
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They are interesting enough for the discerning members of your office – the ones who bring their own tea plungers into work – upbeat enough for the living-for-the-weekend crew, and nostalgic enough for that lovely old bloke you pass on the way to the toilets who always tells you about his motorbike.
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Some of his most striking portraits followed, notably "Photo Bloke" (2016), depicting a black man in a shocking pink suit and white tennis shoes, posing against a solid pink background; another, the timely "Roscoe" (2016), shows a young black man wearing a T-shirt that makes a profane statement against Fox News.
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Even Hannah's dad, initially enthralled by the erotic dreams of meeting a man online and coming to New York to sleep with him, has to deal with the more drab reality of meeting an old bloke who looked nothing like his dating profile and the awkwardness of leaving his wallet at his house.
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You'd think that a bloke living in mainland Britian's last village before the wide expanse of the sea consumes all in sight and the world vanishes into nothing but gunmetal grey and the bright white of an odd floating milk carton, would appreciate the comfort of another human voice reaching out over the ether.
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The truth is, in an age where every facet of experience has been injected with an invasive irony-serum, the very idea of finding emotional solace in a record featuring songs called "Why Don't You Boogie," and "I'm a Dancer," sung by a bloke who's boner featured in titles like Captain Lust, is senseless.
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Ya know the type who stumbles 'bout the towns With off-timed jokes invariably that flop, And so becomes a target for the slop— For when your talent's barely juggling birds It makes a bloke a bull's-eye for the turds— Not metaphorical and not from fowl But actual poo found in a human bowel.
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Which is quite good really because the world's a monotonous, bland, boring place most of the time so the last thing any of us need or want is another bloke who makes records that sound like the records someone else made fifteen years ago but not quite as good as those records were in the first place.
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There was that guy who tried to claim money from The National Lottery with a brilliantly fake scratch card, the man who photographed a loaf of crooked bread and posted it to Facebook, and even that bloke who somehow ended up in a three-hour rap battle with Pret A Manger after moaning about his crayfish flatbread.
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The best way to replicate the feeling of blasting through a week's wages in a dive bar in Williamsburg with a bloke who danced with Fischerspooner once it to buy some maldon sea salt, give it a good sniff, neck six cans of energy drink and smash this out of the tinniest speakers you can find.
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Some straight bloke in middle America might be listening to "Heaven Is a Place On Earth" while driving to work in his car thinking it's just a regular power ballad, but if he winds down his windows and a queer person overhears, they'll know that it is, in fact, one of this gen's most meaningful lesbian anthems.
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What keeps it all together is Hunnam, whose appeal has finally become evident to me after this film and (the much better) Lost City of Z. He slips easily into the role, with his mellifluous voice and Disney-prince handsomeness, and since his Arthur talks like a regular bloke, he never seems too self-conscious in the role.
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The simple answer would be to pigeonhole Alan Pardew as the sort of bloke who sings his own name, who calls himself "the king" while snaffling other people's dinners, a man who could well be convinced to get a 'Super Alan Pardew' tattoo on his arse cheek before exposing it in the dressing room after Palace's match against Sunderland on Saturday.
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Lena attached an email to her docs in which Peter says, "I am confirming that I agree to Lena Headey keeping our son Wylie Loughran in the UK ... if all parts of said deal are put in place ..." Apparently the deal has fallen apart, and now a judge must decide whether Wylie will be cosmo or just a young English bloke.
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It feels like just yesterday we were talking about how you should never bring food into the club, however tempting it might seem to sneak a few McNuggets in the back of your Cheap Mondays before telling the bloke on the door you're on the guestlist, and no, it's not you who stinks of breadcrumb coated, deep fried meat slurry, honestly, mate, it's not.
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Whether it's batting off some limp chirpser by the bar who won't leave you alone, having to keep an eye on your drink in case you get roofied, trying to avoid getting groped by some sweaty bloke on the dancefloor, or having to navigate your way through a space that has a serious and unaddressed problem of sexual assault, festivals and venues have never been neutral spaces.
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" Early on, the Guardian started a New Media lab, which struck a lot of people as frivolous, Rusbridger writes, because, at the time, "only 20173 per cent of households owned a PC and a modem," a situation not unlike that at the Guardian's own offices, where "it was rumored that downstairs a bloke called Paul in IT had a Mac connected to the internet.
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He's just like you or I, is Ed. Just a bloke who does a job to the best of his ability, just a nice lad with a dream in his heart and a song in his throat, just a regular joe who dates other mega-celebrities and makes Croesus look like a mechanic who was stung for two grand on Can't Pay, We'll Take it Away.
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According to FACT, "The pair conducted a 90 minute conversation over Skype before recording the vocals, and Jarre later travelled to Moscow to shoot a video with Snowden," and the result is going to be some very, very bad techno with a bloke who spends all day leaking in a hotel room in Russia talking about "freedom of information" and other exciting concepts over the top of it.
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We've still not read anything by him but we have heard a few of his stories, 'From Beyond' and 'The Hound', thanks to a new collaborative project from The Duke St. Workshop and actor Laurence R Harvey, (yep, the bloke from Human Centipede 2) who've come together to combine Lovecraft's macabre stories with a perfectly pitched soundtrack of super creepy, super slow Italo, ethereal ambient and modern classical minimal piano tinkling.
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Alright, fair enough, this isn't an actual remix per se, but anyone who thinks that pairing the denim-clad granddaddies of turgid two-chord pub rock with the world's most absurdly successful arena-sized hardcore act—fronted by a bloke who emits all the potent sexuality of a thick erection quivering at the point of orgasm—is anything but a 10/10 idea needs to take a long hard look at themselves.
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While his policies were painful to middle-class Australians, he subdued inflation and unemployment for years, and was regarded by his countrymen as "a good bloke," a blunt, trim, silver-haired cigar smoker with the wit of a Rhodes Scholar and the rugged features of an Aussie who loved horse racing and football, admitted marital infidelities and once bragged of downing two and a half Imperial pints of beer in 12 seconds.
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I can't help thinking that if it was Kimi Raikkonen who'd said this, the majority of F1 fans would be saying what a great bloke Kimi was and having "Here is the message for Charlie: **** off!" printed on their tee-shirts... I'm not condoning swearing at race stewards, but surely we want our F1 stars to show personality, wear their hearts on their racesuit sleeves and not be corporate robots who never speak out of turn, and therefore hide their true feelings?
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This structural problem is only going to get worse when (and if) parliament moves from the withdrawal agreement to the more laborious business of shaping our future trading relationship with the EU. Kenneth Clarke, who succeeds amazingly well in combining his twin roles as Tory grandee and regular bloke, recently gave a long interview to the Guardian in which he said that he repairs to the Kennington Tandoori every Tuesday evening on his own to enjoy a curry and read a copy of The Economist.
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If you've never read anything by Peter Ackroyd, imagine settling down in a pub, a proper pub, a pub that sells warm beer out of wooden kegs, a pub without music, a pub where you could probably smoke inside if the bloke behind the bar was in a good mood, a pub where the food options stretch to cheese and onion or prawn cocktail, the kind of pub that traps you in its glorious web for hours, days on end, the sort of pub that'll have you regretting every penny spent and every pint supped in every other pub you've ever frequented.
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I get it, I get it: the Stella's working its way around your body at a rate of knots and whatever dubious botch-job of chemical compounds you hastily ingested in a Wetherspoon's toilet are now coursing through you, and the club's a bit sweaty, and you suddenly feel quite dizzy and you've really, really got to tell someone something very, very important and the best place to do that is under a space heater, between a drug dealer and a bloke on a lot of ketamine, with one fag stuffed between your cracked lips, and another crumpling in your clammy hand—but do we actually have to go for another cigarette?
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