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28 May
Knock, knock !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 28, 2026
Muffled, inappropriate laughing.
Knock knock ! !
Ditto.
Knock, knock, knock ! ! !
Sorry - if that's you, Hermann, I'll be there in two ticks... !
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) May 28, 2026
A : Hey, why are you looking so down at heel ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 13, 2026
C : You would, too, if you'd abruptly just had to swallow a duck !
'The nonsensical reply', came the reply... ;)
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 13, 2026
Never mind what an 'A:C dialogue joke' denotes ! ? pic.twitter.com/iNqFT3cfCG
In Under Milk Wood, was 'Organ' Morgan based on a cousin of the playwright's called John ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 14, 2026
As best shown by quarantining some of the words, this is sheer fudgery :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 14, 2026
'Though no [major] sources [directly] confirm a [specific] cousin John as the basis for Organ Morgan'#aisplaining
Amongst the #aisplaining, both the inferences (e.g. A's likely age and that of the person whom A addresses with what he believes that C told him) and the account of who said what to whom / who saw what are 'interestingly' odd ! pic.twitter.com/KACSqorMox
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 17, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 18, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 18, 2026
Despite all that guff, i.e. #aisplaining, it really had no idea whether, if there was a joke there, what the joke was...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 20, 2026
Using the words 'a concise dialogue', when each says only one thing, is priceless. :) pic.twitter.com/ZUqj2khmB5
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 20, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) June 24, 2026
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 1, 2026
Here, any analysis (worth such a name*) largely constitutes repeating the text of the Tweeet.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 3, 2026
* Simply ignoring the dubious attribution (without, this time, troubling to find any basis or rationale for it). pic.twitter.com/Crq4qISQxO
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Its utter folly's to treat two words in French as if from a competent French speaker** and reply :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 16, 2026
Merci beaucoup, passez également de très bonnes vacances !
Then a pitch :
Si vous avez besoin d'aide pour organiser votre séjour, trouver des activités locales, n'hésitez pas...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 16, 2026
https://t.co/PsOPHKG5D7 pic.twitter.com/roNDnHDJye
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 25, 2026
https://t.co/14ov9RgibL
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 25, 2026
'Toddlers evacuated from holiday club as fire swept through Port Talbot school'
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'Toddlers rushed to safety from holiday club after fire erupts at UK school'
2 / 2
1) Well, the 3x3 grid of dots gyrated for considerably longer than 7s...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 23, 2026
2) The Tweeet does not *feature* a dialogue ‒ it consists of, and in, one, and nothing more.
3) No, the named person was not the referent.
4) No #ElegantVariation, then, in para. 3's characterization. pic.twitter.com/zMlVlAMKIi
1) Just by not bothering identify a specified (if fictional) referent, the rest of paras 1 and 2 became irrelevant #aisplaining drivel.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 28, 2026
2) Nothing to do with Lola Bessis (of whom or whose career Th'Agent was unaware), but, in claiming this identification, has it libelled her ? pic.twitter.com/4g2mOIpT4I
5) The rest's history...
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) July 29, 2026
6) In this sense : existing with no meaningful sense of time (having no apt spatio-temporal co-ordinates), there's no history* to lean from !
* Though some of these lyrics, heard in a literal and ironic way, seem applicable : https://t.co/QZzd7DhuNm. pic.twitter.com/xSNRzocnpE
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
² Motor-Cycle Maintenance for Weary Greek Warriors.
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
As #aisplaining sagely opines :
— THE AGENT APSLEY #ScrapUniversalCredit #JC4PM2019 (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) August 1, 2026
'If you meant a different phrase or a real administrative term, please provide the correct spelling or context so I can give you an accurate translation' https://t.co/5TH9k35sCw
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Unless stated otherwise, all films reviewed were screened at Festival Central (Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge)
