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ok so if you're selling summat on ebay you should take a photo of that item, right? not just lift a photo of whatever you're selling off the internet? my copy of sleeping dogs arrived, not in a plastic case, but in a…
Four rounds? WTF? Are you the new boss of the bank of England or summat???
There must be summat in the Masterchef contract that says presenters need to gurn, grin and nod like an imbecile because Anna Haugh is doing it too and it’s put me reyt off her.
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Something. "Summat up?" = "What's the matter?" Quintessentially Yorkshire/Northern.
“ok so if you're selling summat on ebay you should take a photo of that item, right? not just lift a photo of whatever you're selling off the internet? my copy of sleeping dogs arrived, not in a plastic case, but in a shiny cardboard sleeve which has been beaten to shit.”
“Four rounds? WTF? Are you the new boss of the bank of England or summat???”
“There must be summat in the Masterchef contract that says presenters need to gurn, grin and nod like an imbecile because Anna Haugh is doing it too and it’s put me reyt off her.”
"Want summat to eat?"
“ok so if you're selling summat on ebay you should take a photo of that item, right? not just lift a photo of whatever you're selling off the internet? my copy of sleeping dogs arrived, not in a plastic case, but in a shiny cardboard sleeve which has been beaten to shit.”
— Bluesky· May 2026“Four rounds? WTF? Are you the new boss of the bank of England or summat???”
— Bluesky· May 2026“There must be summat in the Masterchef contract that says presenters need to gurn, grin and nod like an imbecile because Anna Haugh is doing it too and it’s put me reyt off her.”
— Bluesky· May 2026
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