Wait til Mike learns about George Orwell, Cliff Richard, Mark Twain, John Le Carre and Cary Grant. Wait til Mike reads my twitter bio.

Pray for Mike's mentions.
Fun fact. Mike is actually called Archibald. Suspect Archibald doesn't have that man of the people zing.
Ah I think I've worked out why Archibald is touchy about mentions of Piers Corbyn
Well this hasn't gone well for Archibald Graham. Thanks for the lolz people. I must now do something far less amusing.
He's trying to style it out. Must stop looks but it just gets funnier
*rips internet out of the wall*
Delighted to report that Archibald is STILL digging. Lads got more staying power than a JCB.
I mean good for him. That's some hill to die on. Like a self-cursed Sisyphus.

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Nothing changes under the Sun.
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Several predictable morons in the thread suggesting that these people deserved to die because of their government and its foreign policy. There really are some fucking morons in this world.
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The Sun says they've been:

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