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I'm a rather fat feathery owl called Sage
I'm not at all happy in fact in a rage
May also post about Sov Cits & FotLers 😁
Pluralist and Browncoat. I also follow people I may not agree with. Deal with it!
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Spoiler Alert please... I'm still on the first of this week's episodes! 🤣
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All true, but the original article I was responding to says a couple of (i.e. 2) days. That's just not true with a proper butter dish. My current butter has been out on the counter at least a week.
Keeping butter covered in a semi-insulating (like ceramic) container works very well.
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Butter... a couple of days on the counter? Clearly a nation that doesn't have butter dishes.
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I still love the Daywatch / Nightwatch series. Timur Bekmambetov could do it.
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There is an old "I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again" joke which I still makes me laugh:
"Blackmail is such an ugly word."
"Okay. How about 'fishpaste'? So it's fishpaste is it?"
There were more 😁
"The train standing on platform 9… please get off."
"The name's Hanger-Ending. Cliff Hanger-Ending"
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The world is still selling tulip futures even after all these centuries 😁
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What I like about physics is that we create models which explain how the world behaves, yet at every stage of my school and college life I discovered that a lot of what I'd been taught before was not true, even if it did approximate to the real world 😉
I suspect this will continue to be the case!
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The Met and CPS clearly do operate on that basis when they can't be arsed. There were far more blatant breaches during the initial pro-Palestinian marches which they wouldn't get involved in.
As a result this smacks of going after low-hanging fruit rather than any principled enforcement of the law.
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Ditto.
Nothing they've done since I cancelled mine has tempted me to renew in the slightest. In fact they've been getting worse.
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Trying to recover from reputational damage... the Washington Post would know all about that after their owner's interference in their editorial standards.
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Without giving too much away about how I know, there is also a "you can't actually legally do that" which permeates a lot of local government. 😁
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Exclusive... those plans 🤣
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I think we have an image of the new system in operation.
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And in that vein, Unlock is a great charity.
"Our mission is to support & advocate for people with criminal records in England and Wales to be able to move on positively in their lives."
unlock.org.uk
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Jones has gone the full Nawaz. Never go the full Nawaz!
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As a traditional TMS listener, when it was launched I was deeply sceptical in a "Not another format 🙄" sort of way, but I got hooked.
"C'mon The Brave!" 😁
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I was playing arty in World of Tanks AND watching Eurovision.
Learn to multitask! 😁
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I guess some people still think UK actually decommissioned all our WE177s 😁
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Luxemburg was robbed!
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Copium is a hell of a drug.
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There's a big mobile/broadband contract renewal vibe about Labour at the moment.
Chasing new customers instead of screwing over your existing ones by whacking their bills up at end of contract (checks my Talk Talk bill - 53%) would lead to far bigger customer, er I mean, voter retention. 😉
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A message like this would be all caps if genuine. 😉
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Future Documentary on BBC4 by Adam Curtis Voice: "But they didn't."
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And more especially, why is the nation's publicly funded broadcaster still refusing to at least have mirror accounts here? 🤔
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That's unfair. ELO also made a good career out of being a Beatles tribute band. No shame in that. 😁
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I also like that car manufacturers and software companies are transitioning towards once you've bought your car you need to pay an annual licence fee on top of that to continue to use it with hardly a murmur!
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I'm lucky, so I'm probably not a good general example but probably not alone.
I early retired in an index-linked occupational pension, so my savings only have to "last" as a top-up until I'm 67.
Just for fun, here's a plot my pension investments from when I was younger, including Schroders 😁
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Or you've retired, taken a tax free lump sum and can't risk the capital gambling on the stock exchange if you need it to live off!
(I absolutely would have invested in a stocks ISA if I was 20 years younger 😁)
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Warning: Look Out For Double Egg On Toast
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#QTWTAIN 😂
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I don't normally mind the phone option, but I was referred to my GP by A&E for unusually high blood pressure as an urgent case and was offered a telephone appointment.
"Er, you do know that I have to be there for a BP reading?"
I was given a same day surgery appointment instead 🤣
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For those looking for the infinite health cheat it's:
R1, R2, L1, X, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP, LEFT, DOWN, RIGHT, UP
😁
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Spaghetti with butter. It's all you need.
Grated black pepper and parmesan is allowed if you want to be all fancy pants about it but not necessary.
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Half of my family are from the sub-continent (not Pakistan) and are probably some of the most racist people I know. Most who now live in the US are Trump fans and UK ones get angry about people "jabbering on in another language" 🙄
We refer to it as "pulling the drawbridge up after us" syndrome.
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"That $55 fake plate will be just as good in ten years as it is now."
So worthless! 🤣
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See also the Kenco advert.
Depending on my mood it's an uplifting story of a father helping his daughter realise her football dreams, or an example of how female sport needs male support.
(Although, I do err on the "help realise her dreams" side more often 😉)
www.slrmag.co.uk/kenco-centen...
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Now I don't live in the US, and I know it varies, but isn't $55 more than the cost of getting real tags in most States? 🤔
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The current public perception of Starmer.
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😁
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…again.
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Still evergreen from Spitting Image 😉
www.dailymotion.com/video/x64b8uq
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I know it's just anecdotal evidence but...
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Provokes a reaction 😁