Rhydian

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Un égoïste est quelqu'un qui ne pense pas à moi. — Labiche

Green cover of a language guide: WELSH MADE EASY A SELF-INSTRUCTOR FOR USE IN THE HOME BY CARADAR FIRST PART WREXHAM HUGHES & SON
A tired man smokes thousands of cigarettes simultaneously
Reduced, rich and oh so delicious meat sauce with tomatoes, peppers and the rest
Same pan, just richer and redder in content. Polpa di pomodoro has been added as well as about ⅓btl of Tuscan red wine
A gently simmering own of freshly minced steak, onions, diced carrots, celery and garlic with white wine, so I can hive off half of it for my chilli con carne (yes I know) and the rest into a sumptuous ragú qlla Bolognese
A shot of whiskey poured out in solidarity
A nighttime shot with long exposure of the snow-dilusted scene from my balcony. Stark, almost black trees look sugar-coated with snow crystals, while in centre foreground the warmer cream light from my reading lamp indoirs illuminate the plant holdera hanging on the balcony frame. There is a calmness, and small glow of warmth amid the ice. The post text alludes to Italo Calvino's brilliant, If On A Winter's Night, A Traveller... which you should definitely read Taken on an S25 with 3s exp.
Doppio espresso sitting in a flared white porcelain cup decorated with a Piet Mondrian style geometric display of hard black lines around blue, red and yellow rectangles
Rob Reiner as Marty DiBergi interviewing Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel in the great 'rockumentary' comedy This Is Spinal Tap Reiner is wearing an ecru safari jacket, black trucker's cap with yellow wrintjng, and jeans, facing right. Across from him, Guest sits cross-legged in pristine white, Cuban heel cowboy boots, black tight trousers. sleeveless t-shirt with bright green graphic. Guitars on stands form a backdrop circling behind them
The Dukla Prague away kit, obviously Yellow short sleeved shirt with burgundy trim onolkar and sleeve. Three interlocking red circles on the chest have the works DUKLA in written across them, while a royal blue ribbon beneath displays PRAHA
Two red deer stand on hind legs among seven tall trees. One is looking at the target symbol on his white chest. The other says, "Bummer of a birthmark, Hal"
Ten sticks of rock in classic pink with white interior, arranged in a triangular stack
A smudged, blurred image of a fresco of Jesus looking more like a capuchin monkey
Liam and Ryan McPoyle from It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, played by Jimmi Simpson and Nate Mooney respectively
Crispy pork noodles w/ Chinese cabbage and peanuts, alongside beef and peppers w/ ginger and cashew, sitting in a red rimmed flat bowl, with red ceramic chopsticks to the right. The bowl sits on a blue place mat atop a cherry wood dinner tray with inset metal handles in a Japanese style
THE STONER
THE STONER
Black-and-white picture of Frida Kahlo, left, black tied back and large earrings handing from her lobes, looking down at something out of shot that is curious, possibly amusing. Next to her, right if frame, is Leon Trotsky, wild hair standing up, and with a similar expression on his face.
CBS News Bluesky profile. Bio reads: "Your source for original reporting and trusted news." lol
Teak dinner tray with inset chrome handles, blue place plate, and blue edged plate. To the right of the plate is half a baguette, and on the plate sitan echallion shallot, a wholelittle gem lettuce and a still wrapped camembert
Matt King as Super Hans in Channel 4's Peep Show. He is a white man in his 30s with scruffy brown hair worn slightly long over the ears and a trimmed goatee mustache and beard. He is wearing a dark pin-striped suit jacket and a light blue Henley over a bright yello tee. In the scene Hans and Jeremy (Robert Webb, unseen) are in the rundown pub they have bought. Jeremy has suggested they sell lager and nuts because, "people like lager and nuts." Hans responds: "People like Coldplay and voted for the Nazis. You can't trust people, Jeremy." And he's fucking right. Especially about Coldplay.
Donal Sutherland as Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce in Robert Altman's M*A*S*H He wears a camo-print bucket hat and rimless tinted glasses. A black towel is draped around his neck, underneath that is an olive drab jacket and tee
The exquisitely etched blade of a Japanese knife made by a master craftsman
A dinner tray with, to the right, a white plate topped with homemade fries, rare cooked sirloin, morcilla and fried egg, with chimichurri in a smaller side dish to the left
Perry's Victory on Lake Erie by William Henry Powell, oil on canvas, 1865 The painting depicts Commodore Perry transferring from the 'Lawrence' to the 'Niagara'
Black-and-white image of Hector Berlioz in tail coat, waistcoat with pocket watch chain, and bow tie, slumped with one arm resting on a piece of furniture and head supported by his balled hand, looking askance and with so much disdain it's like he's just read this skeet
Me at 19 Like a hybrid of Jim Morrison and Simon Armitage
Me, in a darker tee, which pictures a rising fist and the the words, TRANS RIGHTS OR FIGHT NIGHTS
Screenshot of statement from Trump's spokesperson which reads: "This show hasn't bern relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread in a desperate attempt for attention... President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country's history — and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump's hot streak."
BBC notification eoththe quotation, " 'If England beat Sweden they will reach Euros final' " followed by, "where tonight's quarter-final, live on BBC, will be decided"
Me, a bald man with white pepper stubble and clear framed glasses, wearing a Boca Juniors shirt from the Diego Maradona era (royal blue with a gold horizontal stripe).
EastEnders scene, as the two Mitchell brothers face off against each other. Both bald, both angry, both dressed in black, they look like security at the Reform conference arguing over who hates people more
A wooden farmer's market tray on which sits a large slate mat in the bottom right corner. Atop that is an azure blue plate with crispy confit'd duck leg and a mound of golden duck fat roasted potatoes liberally sprinkled with sel de Guérande. Top left corner of the tray sits a deep teal bowl of romaine lettuce dressed with a honey, lemon and wholegrain mustard sauce. Out of shot is a large glass of 2018 Morgon, but trust me, it's there
Screenshot from Salary Sport which lists all player salaries for major leagues and shows the Paris wage bull to be a little over £123.5Mt the £560M some claim
Boca Juniors '81-'82 shirt as worn by Diego Maradona Royal blue top and bottom thirds dram a sunburst yellow middle
Same bald man, same glasses, different shirt (plot twist!) Royal blue with horizontal yellow stripe, its the Boca Juniors shirt as worn the legendary 1981-82 season by God* *Diego Maradona
A bald man in glasses wearing a reissue of the original Amsterdamsche club shirt, before the name Ajax was adopted
A microphone, with blubous silver crown and black handle
A black-and-white photograph of Gandhi
Post which reads: "Just saw someone say "The problem is 50 great writers each want $3-$25/mth. Most of us can’t subscribe to more than one or two", and I cannot stress enough that this is fine. Nobody is asking or expecting you to pay for everyone, just like nobody would have expected you to buy every mag on a shelf."
A picture of a blue sky with wispy white clouds. Or a picture of a stealth bomber leaving vapour trails. You decide.
A Cubist mug of coffee, white porcelain with protruding 3D nose and ear, two blue stripes around the base echoing Picasso's signature sweater, and a a large eye drawn in black between the nose and ear
T-shirt printed image of fist raised against backdrop of a trans flag coloured rainbow. Really badly cropped. Sorry.
Navy tee with writing in blue/ pink / white: TRANS RIGHTS (blue) OR (pink) FIGHT NIGHTS (white) Beneath that, unpicyured, is an image of a first raised in solidarity. Hang on...
A young Diego Maradona playing for Boca Juniors in the legendary 1980-81 season. He has long black curly hair, a blue shirt with broad horizontal yellow stripe, and silky blue shorts with a white no.10 on the right thigh
A near perfect cone sits in an aged iron ashtray, a tendril of blue smoke rising from its lit tip
A sketch representation showing two different pictures adopted by Christopher as Clark Kent and Superman respectively. Left, a more clearly defined S-shaped curve to the spine, rounded shoulders and neck pushing forward. Right, the curve is much less extreme, the shoulders are back and straight and the neck much more erect. The difference for Reeve was a full inch or more in height
The view from my balcony, which stretches the length of the apartment (fore- to background, right of picture. The scene is an array of lush verdant trees ranging from lime and acid greens to deep forest hues, and a tall slender trunk dominates centre-left of the frame. The sun shines from a pale blue sky above.
Bright orange tee with large black number 6 in Cyber Angel font (thin vertical one side, thick the other, thin horizontal), giving a very retro-futurist vibe. It replicates the shirt worn by the main character, Jonathan E. (James Caan) In the movie, Rollerball
The history of left-handedness graph, which shows a huge rise in left-handedness from 1912-195l60, at which it plateaus at around 12% of the popukation—because we stopped beating children to force them to be right-handed
Reworking of the classic Ladybird book meme, which reads Everything I Dont Like Is Terrorism Below the title a boy in a red sweater points at an engine and declares, "This engine is Hamas"
Joseph Wiseman as the eponymous Dr No from the first James Bond movie. He is wearing a white Nehru-style jacket, and has a cigarette holder and lit cigarette in his right, black leather-gloved, hand
An early picture of Elton John, in black and white, head and shoulders framed, stood in front of q brick wall. He has a long modish 1960s haircut (straight fringe, sideburns, hair over ears) and a full handlebar moustache reaching the jaw line. He is wearing round, wire-framed spectacles, and a shirt with long pointed collars, fastened at the neck, with a cartoon image printed on the fabric in an irregular fashion. Over that he wears a broad chalk-stripe blazer, white stripe on dark backgtiund(presumably three-button from the height of the lapels). It is reminiscent of old-fashioned school blazers.
Right, thick saag aloo, warm with cumin, garlic, fenugreek and ghee. Behind it sits a serving of brinjal (aubergine) gobhi (cauliflower) dhansak (hot sour curry). The saag is dark green mottled with olive stripes, the dhansak is a brighter umber
Ink on skin version of Cassidy from the Preacher comic, in the moment he, a vampire who leeches if people both literally and figuratively, faces God and bursts into flames, in an act of redemption to save his friend, Jesse. It's a tattoo which reaches from my right shoulder down to just above the elbow
Kurt Russell as Snake Plissken, character from Escape From New York/Escape From LA Russell has long wany brown hair, and wears a black tee and his signature vintage brown leather jacket. A black patch covers his left eye. He is sitting in a club style leather chair and a US flag can be behind his right shoulder, to indicate that he is in some official room.
The holy trinity of cognac, tarte aux abricots, and coffee