• This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Speaking of Waller-Bridge:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebe_Waller-Bridge

    Phoebe Mary Waller-Bridge was born in Hammersmith, London, on 14 July 1985, the daughter of Michael Cyprian Waller-Bridge, founder of the electronic trading platform Tradepoint, and Theresa Mary, daughter of Sir John Edward Longueville Clerke, 12th Baronet, employed by the Worshipful Company of Ironmongers. The Bridge, later Waller-Bridge, family were soldiers and clergymen, who came to rank among the landed gentry of Cuckfield in Sussex. Her grandfather, Cyprian Waller-Bridge (1918-1960), “a Wodehousian sort of character… ‘the eccentric son of an eccentric vicar’”, was an actor and BBC announcer. On her father’s side, she is a descendant of the Revd Sir Egerton Leigh, 2nd Baronet, and a distant relative of politician and author Egerton Leigh, Conservative MP for Mid Cheshire from 1873 to his death in 1876

    Baronet? Worshipful company of ironmongers? Cuckfield? British as fuck.

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      7 months ago

      And more writing talent in her left nipple than the entire panel of writers that churned out that god-awful Indiana Jones tripe