MysticBear Profile Banner
MysticBear Profile
MysticBear

@bear_mystic

Followers
316
Following
384
Media
633
Statuses
14,520

Country cook - it's not a euphemism, I checked. Bad puns and mediocre football. "Paddington McGuinness" - Gab Sutton

Hebden Bridge, England
Joined August 2018
Don't wanna be here? Send us removal request.
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@MollyJongFast @DineshDSouza @Polymathically Englishman here. We pronounce it "Tie-Land"....as do Thai people here in England. As do people in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. As does every Asian (Indian, Pakistani, Bangali etc) person I have ever met. Dinesh. Just stop. Even you must be getting embarrassed now.
53
205
3K
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@VictorPPetrov @steven_seegel "These are white people." Would have saved him a lot of words.
10
69
2K
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@ilya_poet @ykomska A friend of mine in Kyiv told me to the best thing I could do for him yesterday was give him a blow-by-blow account of the Spurs game, as he couldn't get it live. People keep being people.
1
50
757
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
Tweet media one
4
11
691
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@KyivIndependent World leaders shutting the door on Russia and Bill Gates closing the Windows...
9
72
617
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@joshgad Generally I agree, though it does depend on the context. If people have been described as exclusively dark skinned, or pale skinned, or red haired, or anything else then it seems pointless lobbing in variety to make a point. If it's just "some folk" then lob away.
48
4
578
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@TcAt16 @GaryLineker @alanshearer Tricky things to lace, boats. Always getting tangled in the propellers.
4
4
560
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@KNWAFOX24 All those jokes that "Beyond Meat" sounded like a reference to cannibalism were, ironically, on the nose.
7
26
533
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@SheRatesDogs This strongly reminds me of when a friend of mine came over and drank an entire bottle of wine whilst recounting how the guy she'd just slept with demanded that she "squeak like real Japanese girls do during sex."
1
0
398
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@jessiwhiteside @TomBossert "Moderate" Republican Twitter terms: We're in trouble = Coronavirus What about Ukraine? = Election interference He was kidding = Fascist president Record job growth = Massive unemployment If you want to really understand Florida voters = Brain eating Amoeba
8
27
381
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@unfortunatalie There hasn't been a male queen in 70 years. We finally get ONE and suddenly the matriarchy is under attack.
4
1
367
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@BeardedGenius It's being marketed as "Mature Jeddah" from now on.
7
3
356
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
@davidfrum It's not really a company any more. The point of a company is to make money. The point of 'X' now is social engineering.
9
33
315
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@_DHOTYA My 18-month-old daughter read this and laughed, "Oh, father. Does she not know that Claudette Colvin initiated the bus seat protests, but civil rights leaders deemed her unworthy of the being the face of the movement? For shame!" She then returned to her recital of Mozart.
2
1
295
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 months
@_The72 A sporting event so amazing more people talk about the half time show than the game.
9
1
298
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@FootyScran @udechile The only real difference between this and a matchday hotdog is that people in Chile aren't lying to themselves about what they're eating. Plus it probably tastes better.
6
8
270
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
@Euan_MacDonald “If she wants to give an account of her actions, she can do so in The Hague.” Always lovely to see peak British snark from the diplomatic corps.
3
12
265
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@lubilafdewali @meenaharris No, but a friend of mine was "let go" after he took paternity leave. It was made clear to him that he should have put the company first.
6
8
261
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@evielong13 @joshgad No. I thought I expressed an opinion.
4
0
240
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@RandyRainbow Throwing pots and throwing shade, just Seth living his best life.
1
1
241
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@KarenAttiah There'll be hell toupée, no doubt.
8
7
242
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@AccidentalP You need a new "Intentional Partridge" account for this one.
1
0
232
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@JoJoFromJerz @gtconway3d @SpiroAgnewGhost "Brazilian" is probably one of the few words that makes Trump pay attention.
7
7
214
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@RBReich If you con people out of $200 you're a criminal. If you con people out of hundreds of millions you are....the 45th president of the United States. Amazing how being influential can change people's view of your behaviour.
4
10
222
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@christogrozev @Euan_MacDonald "I live here. I want to film the trees." Another legend.
2
12
209
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@jdawsey1 @maggieNYT It's the humour beforehand that got me. "Should I tell him to go fuck himself?" "Yeah, just in case." They killed people you'd be lucky to meet in a bar on a Friday night.
2
8
200
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
@guardian If you read texts from the past you will encounter things that are out of step with modern sensibilities. This is a feature and not a bug.
2
6
186
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@Baddiel If she agreed with the content of the letter why does it matter that Rowling signed it?
6
1
179
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
@peterbakernyt @MattHjourno The Reuters report from last week said he was suspended whilst the university gathered facts. The claim against him was he was referring to Palestinians, rather than just to Hamas. It's pretty normal for a university to suspend someone during an investigation.
31
8
183
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@BeschlossDC A lot of people assuming he misspelt "genteel" when he clearly actually meant "genital."
4
1
179
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
@NicolleDWallace Always cool when people are surprisingly good at stuff. The joy on his friend's faces is great. I'm the same way when people ask my wife to sing. She was first soprano in an award-winning choir and people's reactions are so funny.
0
4
180
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@JasonIsbell Imagine what we could all do for him, now, if we backed up our words on Twitter with action in real life. Imagine 1,000,000 people taking up his mantle.
2
11
167
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@peachesanscream I make an excellent roast baby swan. It's my cygneture dish.
3
4
172
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@Baddiel Whether a person experiences discrimination isn't dependent upon how they define themselves, it's dependent upon how the bigots define them.
4
6
168
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@Baddiel @thetimes People who say things like "he lacks Eton charm" either don't know anyone who went to Eton, or themselves went to Eton and don't know what other people think of them.
4
11
163
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@McNaughtonArt @jaketapper Do you accept payment in Confederate Dollars?
6
0
144
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@CNN A little Black girl just watched her father die and people in the comments think scoring points against #BLM is the go-to move. Kind of makes #BLM 's point perfectly.
21
11
152
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
@AdamJoseph____ @TikiTakaConnor Well, you can count. We all have to give you that much.
1
0
148
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
5 months
We've won 15 of the last 20 games and drawn 2. We've scored 52 goals in those 20 games. In the last 10 it's 9 wins, 1 draw and 29 goals. Some #BWFC fans were still having a dig at players last night. Sort your lives out.
8
11
154
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@qikipedia He'd have loved Twitter.
0
3
148
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@BBCNews Whilst I'm all for civil protests, I can't help but think it would have been funny if everyone had just moved to another room and left them there.
3
3
148
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@emrazz Tempted to move there with my pregnant wife and just keep turning her in every week until we've enough for that island we always wanted. Would she have to sit through some evangelical lecture? That might be a deal-breaker.
4
2
140
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
@EinatWilf A friend of mine was made to sign a letter by her ex stating he wasn't abusive. She used it as evidence when she got a restraining order, to demonstrate the control and abuse she was subjected to. Same vibe.
3
15
138
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@qikipedia So that's the moment the future was Seti in stone?
2
0
136
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
Hats off to #oufc . Deserve to be where they are in the division and gave us a scare in the that first half. Don't think they'll have seen many teams better than us this season, but I think we can say the same of them. Best 0-0 I've seen in ages from two footballing sides. #bwfc
13
4
141
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@rachelparris @poorgirlblues @Intarblawyer "Go lie in that box over there for the rest of day, dear. You died in childbirth."
2
2
138
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
5 months
Colby Bishop non-penalty goals - 1 every 264 minutes. Big Vic - 1 every 182 minutes. Just shy of Alfie May on 179 mins per non-pen goal. Think that makes him 6th overall for League One. He's taken 18 shots...Bishop and May over 50 each. Lad's lethal and will improve. #bwfc
8
10
133
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
10 months
Santos will follow Dobbin into the carpark after the game and just push his car door shut every time he tries to open it. #bwfc
2
6
134
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@DarbyFreeman2 @michaeldweiss A few less than that now.
1
0
127
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
For expert analysis on the threat of violence and sexual assault immigrants pose to local communities, we turn now to Conor McGregor, who will tell us the stories of those "grand nights out" that led to him being accused of both, whilst an immigrant in America... #DublinRiots
1
11
129
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@nhannahjones @PoliticusSarah Patriotism means fighting to make your country more perfect, not pretending it already is. Patriotic education would teach kids about the nation's failures, so they can help fix them.
2
17
123
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@lamour @yashar It hadn't really struck me how cold this summer has been until now.
0
0
122
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@AislinnClarke @higglety1 @dduane This is why all aspiring daemonologists need to have change jars near their altars. How embarrassed would you be if you did summon the No.4 from Harristown to Monkstown Avenue only to realise you didn't have exact change. The real art to bus-summoning is in the prerparation.
1
7
124
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@BeijingPalmer @NataliaAntonova "This is one of the ancient languages I created, using elements of early Finnish as a base." "The beavers can just speak English."
1
6
122
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@thewolflawyer @DevinCow Are you suggesting he'd Phuket up?
0
1
119
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@RosieisaHolt @gazzamagoo The man is wearing Geri Halliwell's knickers on his face. He's fair game.
1
1
115
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
Believe in yourself like Laurence Fox believing he could be Batman or Bond when he couldn't even stop the guy who stole his chin. You too can live with the audacity of #Twatman Use your new powers for good.
Tweet media one
10
12
112
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@MiguelDelaney Mourinho just took Hassenhuttl to the cleaners there, Miguel. Spurs panicked under the press 1st half. Mourinho dropped Kane back to provide an extra man and had Son make runs against the high line. When the press broke Hassenhuttl lacked the ability to respond.
1
18
108
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@NoContextBrits Magic water is fine, but firing it out of a water pistol is "insane"...
3
3
108
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@jimmyfallon The Sopranos - The numerous difficulties of running a traditional family business in modern America.
1
0
109
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
@ShonaMurray_ @chrislhayes At this stage "Hamas command centre" just means "wherever we want to attack next." If the IDF runs out of doughnuts the command centre will be identified as under the nearest Krispy Kreme.
1
17
112
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@biannagolodryga I was on the way back from Costco with my kids in the back today and the eldest (9) said, "I'd talk about Putin, but I'd have to use a bad word I know." I said it was fine to swear when appropriate. "No, daddy. It's the bad word you don't know I know."
3
3
105
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@BBCNews @hendopolis Can we maybe not let sexual predators pick their own nicknames?
0
4
108
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@questlove I used to have a Smiths joke, but that joke isn't funny anymore.
4
1
105
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
The number of Bolton Wanderers fans on here who can't just take a win is amazing. Stop nitpicking the manager's comments and stop having a go at a player who wasn't even in the 11. Enjoy the win and congratulate the lads. #bwfc
4
2
107
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@iWroteKazaam @wsteaks @ABC The past is things that happened. History is the narratives we form about things that happened. The confederate monuments are expressions of entirely false historical narratives. I get that that seems pedantic, but it becomes important at times.
4
10
96
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@SkySports I'm sure Calvert-Lewin, who is trying to develop his England career and international goals tally, is thrilled to hear Henderson only really cares about himself in that situation.
1
0
103
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@TheRickWilson They're not real dead bodies. And if they are they are Russian civilians killed by Ukrainians. And if they're not then they're Ukrainians killed by Ukrainians. And if they're not it was an accident. And if it wasn't it was a rogue unit. And if it wasn't it was a rogue general...
4
4
99
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
5 months
Anyone slating Adeboyejo after that display is just very helpfully informing people that they know nothing about the professional game. Duly noted. #bwfc
5
1
100
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@davidfrum When you shill for dictators their money spends the same as any other, but then you have to keep living in your democracy and polite society needn't accept that. Shunning is effective. The media needs to stop "both sidesing" this one and put them back in their boxes.
1
4
99
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@maxiboy19641988 @Baddiel Even then it doesn't make much sense. If someone asked me if puppies were cute and I said yes, and then they asked the ghost of Stalin, it wouldn't change the fact that puppies are fucking cute. I might say, "Why did you ask Stalin when he's clearly a cat person?" But still
5
7
96
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@mrchrisaddison Talked to a friend of mine who works in a pub and he said a regular complained that he and his wife had flown to Europe and "been treated like foreigners." Another of the standard "not the Brexit we voted for" folk.
3
4
92
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@jayblackisfunny @MaddowBlog You're adding quotes from this administration? How many volumes are you planning?
0
2
92
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@RadioFreeTom @JayCaruso Yes, the phrase "punishing innocent Republicans" isn't ageing well at this point.
2
2
81
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@McFaul This is true, but the media blitz is shifting views in favour - although me and mine are also at a distance. Talking to our people in Russia, many are increasingly bullish about the "threat" of Ukraine. The fact Fox is spliced in is also seen as "proof" that the US is the cause.
6
11
81
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@rahaeli @pylonfan This and Skip Tracers/Bounty Hunters in the US.
0
2
85
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 months
We weren't expecting a replay. Make the tickets cheap and get as many in as possible. All the additional income is a bonus. Atmosphere an absolute priority. About time we won our 5th... #bwfc
Tweet media one
4
2
86
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 months
If you told me at the start of Jan we'd reinforce the flanks with Ogbeta and Ramsay I'd firstly have said you were dreaming and secondly done a little dance. Sensational business, Whites. #bwfc
Tweet media one
0
0
86
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@authorjaycellis @GebBillsKnicks @Aditiya_renee @evielong13 @joshgad What if the original author did describe a diverse world, but ethnicity mattered within the societies described? It strikes me that the less diverse the world is the less diversified casting is likely to impact the narrative, because the ethnicity doesn't impact plot.
2
0
85
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@reedgalen @TheRickWilson "we all gonna have to learn to Spanish" You all gonna have to learn to English first.
1
2
76
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@TomJohnson1965 @francesweetman @nytimes "Commonwealth subject countries"...the ones that had to apply for membership of a voluntary organisation they can leave at any time?
1
0
81
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@theAliceRoberts @ZJAyres "You're going to fail this exam and I'm going to enjoy that." From a teacher, as I walked into the exam hall for one of my GCSEs.
15
2
82
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@hughlaurie It's a measure of dilution. The other 90% being gin.
0
0
86
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
Any Morecambe fans or club officials still want to say this didn't happen? #shrimps #bwfc @ShrimpsOfficial @OfficialBWFC
Tweet media one
4
16
80
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
5 months
@sendvictorious @omid9 This is a common mistake, it's actually from "A Haaland's Progress" by William Hogarth and is part of a set of four works dating from the 1730s. You can see another example here.
Tweet media one
0
4
84
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@theAliceRoberts *12* is key for me. The government knows we need mass immunity, they are just prepared to gamble on rapidly infecting kids as the best way to achieve it. That means kids getting sick, some inevitably dying (there is no zero risk age), and then assuming immunity is long term.
6
24
79
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@terrelljstarr Be safe, Terrell. You are an easily identifiable target (for obvious reasons). You need to take a lot more precautions because of it. All the best.
1
4
79
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@jenny2x4 I'm assuming this is an American thing. I wonder if he thinks Italians are POC regardless of locale, or only when in America. A Spanish friend of mine used to say that she was white everywhere in the world except for America, where people demanded she list herself as "Hispanic."
2
0
74
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@carolelee @ckubeNBC It means they are talking to the Russians so they don't shoot each other. Which seems entirely sensible.
2
0
76
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@10KPooler @davidfrum The fact they're literally on television saying they support Putin?
16
1
67
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
6 months
@Baddiel Imprisoned in his homeland because the Nazis denied he was German and then imprisoned here because we insisted he was. An horrific irony. Awful. Hopefully he was released quickly.
1
2
75
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@michaelbirnbaum @davidfrum Is this the air-stock that was going to be phased out when the Lightning II shows up? If so what a fantastic last hurrah for those MiG-29s etc.
4
1
68
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@samklew @NataliaAntonova Jesus, you can't expect people to apologise for being rich. They have people for that.
2
1
72
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@iamgabesanchez @MeidasTouch They wanted a Russian Blue.
1
1
69
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@AP Plat-based milk substitutes cost more. I'm not sure I see the issue with them....er....costing more.
6
2
68
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
Is there a Bolton fan left who still doesn't love Kyle Dempsey? He and Bradley together were 3 men tonight and not 2. #bwfc
1
0
71
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
1 year
@BBCNews He's speaking in his capacity as a private citizen. He's also right.
4
0
72
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
3 years
@fcprosweat @England Absolute nonsense and I suspect you know that. They outplayed us and they had the harder side of the draw to get to the final. Deserved winners. Well done to them. Don't be petty.
4
3
68
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
4 years
@McFaul I love a good Trump-bashing, but he is clearly talking about N1H1, however inarticulately. He has been trying this crap for a while. Even with Trump's awful syntax it is obvious he is talking about two different events. Come on, Michael.
36
3
67
@bear_mystic
MysticBear
2 years
@Reuters If Elon Musk tweeted: "Why did the duck cross the road? To get to the other side", media groups would send reporters out looking for the duck.
3
7
65