Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

Professor of Psychology and student of human folly 'For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?' All views my own. Joined September 2020

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

2 weeks ago

Is it possible that those MAGA caps are so tight they restrict blood flow to the brain? #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

2 weeks ago

I doubt Tylenol causes autism, but I'm beginning to think that golf may cause narcissism #r4today

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2 weeks ago

“I found a switch on their backs and turned them both off.”

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

3 weeks ago

Bryan Lanza's claim that "The UK Govt is throwing people in jail for talking real science" goes completely unchallenged. What is he talking about? #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

3 weeks ago

I'm going to watch 'Idiocracy' tonight. I feel out of touch with the world and feel the need for something to help me re-capture the zeitgeist

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

4 weeks ago

Has anyone ever tried one of the many recipes pushed on Twitter? They seem to share one thing, one missing ingredient, a defibrillator

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Variations on the oft seen headline "Joe Bloggs defects to join Reform" works even better with a name... "Defects to join Reform" #wato

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Vox pop are usually a waste of time but Emily Maitlis on #TheNewsagents nailed it in Clacton. MAITLIS "Nigel Farage says the UK is like N. Korea. Do you agree?" CLACTON RESIDENT "Yeah" MAITLIS "Why?" CLACTON RESIDENT "Too many foreigners" #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Oh good! Richard Tice is coming up after the news. Time for our daily does of brimstone and treacle #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Vox pop are usually a waste of time but Emily Maitlis nailed it in Clacton. MAITLIS "Nigel Farage says the UK is like N. Korea. Do you agree?" CLACTON RESIDENT "Yeah" MAITLIS "Why?" CLACTON RESIDENT "Too many foreigners" #TheNewsagents

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Robert Jenrick wants people to leave the country, does he? What an opportunity for him to show true leadership! if there's going to be a whip-round for his ticket, you can count me in #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

it was really nice to have an appreciation of 'In Our Time' and to hear from the great man himself. I was astonished to hear he comes from Cumbria. I wonder why he's never mentioned it?😉#r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

They say a diplomat is someone who is sent abroad to lie for their country. What do you call someone who volunteers to go abroad to lie about their country? #bbcpm

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

It sounds as though Angela Rayner acted in good faith throughout. Lets leave it to the Independent Adviser on Ministerial Standards to investigate #wato

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Have I got this right? Mr Philp says were in a national crisis of such magnitude and urgency that he'll tell us how to solve it in 4 week's time. It's like screaming "Fire!, fire!" then saying "Don't worry, I'll get my hosepipe out next month" #r4today

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Adrian Burgess 🌻🍁 @ap_burgess

a month ago

Just had the craziest idea of my life. What if we could all have our say without our voices being dampened by billionaire-owned right-wing algorithms or drowned-out by overseas authoriatian-funded bots. Perhaps we could call it 'free speech'. Crazy, I know. It'll never catch on