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Robyn Vinter [email protected]
@RobynVinter
North of England correspondent @guardian, council estate dweller, injustice complainer, joke attempter. Fellow @risj_oxford 🏳️‍🌈
Leeds, England
Joined January 2010
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    For the pin: I'm not really using this hellsite currently. If you're that one person who reads my work (thank you), every depressing story is on the Guardian app. To contact me, [email protected]. If you're after bants/japes, I'm doing my best over on insta 💪
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    Person at an event: oh hi, I know you from twitter Me: ...sorry remind me? Person: *says his name, full job title, things we talked about* Me: ...er...? Person: my profile picture is a banana? Me: Banana!!! How are you?! So great to meet in real life!
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    Weird how black people protesting are "rioters" but white people rioting are "protesters". English is such a quirky language
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    Do you remember when Gordon Brown wrote a handwritten letter to the mother of a dead soldier and his handwriting was bad because he's blind in one eye and it occupied a week's worth of headlines, with The Sun calling it "shameful"? Seems like a different world
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    Britain be like Drive: 40 min Public transport: 9 hrs 25 min
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    One of Enid Blyton's more adventurous stories
    Five arrested after 110mph police pursuit in North Yorkshire bbc.in/2WeFKO6
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    I recently learnt a fun fact: the reason the streets on the Monopoly board are a mix of well-known and obscure London locations is because the UK rights were bought by Waddingtons, based in Leeds, and they had no idea about London. They decided it all based on one research trip
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    Inspired by this BBC piece, I would like to see the last normal pic on your phone
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    This guy sits unelected in the House of Lords
    The moon rising in the Artice circle between Russia and Canada
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    This was debunked by Snopes in May 2021: snopes.com/fact-check/gia…
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    Sorry but this cannot be a new concept for Americans
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    Oh hai, it's Camilla, the producer on a TV show. I'm casting a debate about the Premier League. Is there anyone who has never seen a football match, has never played football and who doesn't think football exists? You'll be up against a professional footballer and we need balance
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    The last 60-year-old ex-miner I met was a Corbynite who cycled round his ex-colliery town because he was passionate about climate change. Working class northerners are not the bigoted people you're looking for
    Tip for Labour: care a little less about the views of 19-year-old gender studies students and a little more about those of 60-year-old ex-miners.
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    My mum and dad coming back from a weekend away in 2005: "why is the windowsill broken and this picture smashed?" Me: "I understand and share the anger but I have been assured there was no party and I apologise unreservedly for the impression given"