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@bencjenkins

Writer. Presenter on The Checkout. Host of . Co-hosts Free To A Good Home and Dragon Friends. Currently in NYC.

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Joined November 2008
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    28 Jul 2015

    can you confirm you said this? I have listened to some recordings and I have my doubts.

    2:15 AM - 28 Jul 2015 · Details
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  2. 10 hours ago

    This seriously looks like a cardboard cutout of

    2:12 AM - 12 May 2016 · Details
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  3. 10 hours ago

    Talk page on the Wikipedia article "List of soups"

    1:24 AM - 12 May 2016 · Details
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  4. 11 hours ago

    "A man? With a chair? At a station!? Well this is highly irregular but I'll allow it"

    A man with a chair at a station.... What is he doing? Find out tonight on at 6PM
    16 retweets 7 likes
  5. 12 hours ago

    Playing round with a polaroid, accidentally captured this image of my dog entering The Void.

    12:00 AM - 12 May 2016 · Details
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  6. 14 hours ago

    WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING I WAS PLANNING AND READYING MYSELF FOR YOUR ATTACK I CANNOT BE STOPPED I ALSO WATCHED NINE MOVIES.

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  7. 14 hours ago

    ive been trying to work out the best way to spell this noise. i'm going with "mmmmmmmmmmmNNNNnEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeee"

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  8. 14 hours ago

    I'VE BEEN UP FOR 35 HOURS SOMEONE TRY DESTROY ME YOU CAN'T YOU IDIOTS BECAUSE I AM INVINCIBLE

    3 retweets 19 likes
  9. 17 hours ago

    SMH: Anyone Remember Ducktales? Well, Maybe This Election is Like an Episode of Ducktales?

    👏🏻 find 👏🏻 a 👏🏻 different 👏🏻 tv 👏🏻 show 👏🏻 than 👏🏻 game 👏🏻 of 👏🏻 thrones 👏🏻 or cards 👏🏻 to 👏🏻 use 👏🏻 for 👏🏻 political 👏🏻 metaphors 👏🏻
    4 retweets 12 likes
  10. 17 hours ago

    Here are some Very Distracting Generic Google Alternatives for your bad tv show: Find U Net Webbler Gribgrob Jooooooortz FingleFlorp Gerg!

    7 likes
  11. 18 hours ago

    [to the tune of the hit song by the band smash mouth] why am iiiiii awake, why am iiiii awake, why am iiiiii awake, why am I awaaaaake

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  12. 19 hours ago

    Just learnt that in my absence, Craig's 9 year old filled in for me, running around demanding candy from everyone and halting productivity.

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  13. 20 hours ago

    pretending that's not what they want at all. Like "You'd certainly show us if you did this stupid thing! You bought him HOW good a toaster?"

    1 retweet 1 like
  14. 20 hours ago

    It's also this great thing where the right in this country can sort of brer-rabbit the left into doing really stupid stuff by (cont)

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  15. 20 hours ago

    Like, it's not that far off...

    3:59 PM - 11 May 2016 · Details
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  16. 20 hours ago

    Totally agree with this. Such a weird, cack-handed response. Almost like we're terrible at talking about poverty.

    The Oz campaign against Duncas Storrar is meanspirited but equally 48K raised for one dude is individualism gone berserk.
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  17. 21 hours ago

    this is the country that literally broadcast a fake story about an army of dole bludgers living in the sewers so this Oz yarn is about right

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  18. 21 hours ago

    I arrive back home to find The Oz just getting stuck into one specific bloke on the dole and it's great to know everything's as it was.

    5 retweets 26 likes
  19. May 11

    Did u guys hear the shocking, completely 100% real thing that happened to 's friend at the movie theater?

    11:13 AM - 11 May 2016 · Details
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  20. May 10

    Love to put on my jacket like a normal adult human male

    2:23 PM - 10 May 2016 · Details
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  21. May 10

    nepal—not content with an irregularly-shaped flag—is one of the few countries in the world with a quarter hour time zone. you do you, nepal

    8 retweets 10 likes
  22. May 9

    So many people starting podcasts. So few people editing podcasts.

    106 retweets 300 likes
  23. May 10

    This, like all stories Bill tells about random people recognizing and/or lauding him, definitely happened

    At pizza place in Penn Station: "You going to get us a better choice?" "Doing my best." "We're counting on you."
    15 retweets 103 likes
  24. May 9

    Neil Barker is the Greens candidate for McEwen.

    9:26 PM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  25. May 9

    love a politician that calls a spade a spade

    2:48 PM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  26. May 9 Manhattan, NY

    This looks like a poster for a terrible, terrible music festival.

    3:35 PM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  27. May 9 Manhattan, NY

    It bears repeating. For a person who is not a turtle, Mitch McConnell looks astoundingly like a turtle and it's driving me wild.

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  28. May 9

    albericie: can i just confirm ur on a unity ticket with the liberals on refugee policy albanese: [continues DJing]

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  29. May 9 Manhattan, NY

    There are MOMA-branded paper clips. The perfect gift for the man who has everything and also needs to get in the fucking sea.

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  30. May 9 Manhattan, NY

    TV EXECS, can I interest you in my pilot script for an alt-history series where Mark Latham was Prime Minister.

    1 retweet 16 likes
  31. May 9 Manhattan, NY

    I am still puzzling over who the fuck Michael Kroger is meant to be on that cover.

  32. May 9

    Remember when this website argued for a full day whether 'clown' was a gendered slur? Carve that whole thing into marble pls.

    1 retweet 2 likes
  33. May 8

    The progression is fantastic.

    7:30 PM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  34. May 9

    Ah yes Batman and his long time rival we all know and love Inexplicably Green Man.

    1:01 PM - 9 May 2016 · Details
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  35. May 9

    More options I thought of overnight: "I farm" "I am the one who farms" "Ah... farming" (with a knowing smirk)

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  36. May 9

    What is more realistic dialogue for a farmer character in a story - "I like to farm" or "I like farming"? Or just, "Farm...", while smiling?

    11 retweets 47 likes
  37. May 8

    God bless this incredible country I cannot believe I have to leave it.

    Tough choices
    3 retweets 7 likes
  38. May 8

    When you're shocked and dismayed by the younger generation's taste for ribaldry and ethnic food.

    10:10 AM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  39. May 8 Manhattan, NY

    woah, he is not taking this well

    7:25 AM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  40. May 8 Manhattan, NY

    I have given this some thought and I think the French probably call dacking 'A visit from the pantaloon sprite' or some shit.

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  41. May 8

    surely the real story here is that this man has been trapped on the same train for over three decades

    4:30 AM - 8 May 2016 · Details
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  43. May 7

    "...living in drains, and dedicated to ripping off the taxpayer"

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  44. May 7

    Snapchat:Oshergunsberg

    7:03 PM - 7 May 2016 · Details
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  45. May 7

    Not that impressive up close.

    11:52 AM - 7 May 2016 · Details
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  46. May 7

    If Hitler was alive, I'd be like "naw, brah."

    541 retweets 1,176 likes
  47. May 7

    Morrison Repeatedly Refuses To Apologise To Charity Over Coaching Of Self-Harm Allegations

    6:10 PM - 7 May 2016 · Details
    98 retweets 41 likes
  48. May 7

    please PLEASE remember to cover yourself in peanut butter before the show

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  49. May 7

    I have it on good authority that this show is just James throwing many buckets of ants on the audience. Dont miss it

    I'm bringing a brand new show to the . Three nights only. Get in. Tickets:
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  50. May 7

    Is there a French word for 'dacking'? Don't know why but the idea of this fills me with such joy.

    17 retweets 26 likes
  51. May 7

    [to XTC's "Dear God"] 🎤 dear mum / sorry to disturb you but / please stop electronic communication with my wife

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