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Associate Professor, SWPS University. Welsh by birth. English by upbringing. Irish by design. Polish by choice. I am a lineman for the county.
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The only bit I found actively objectionable was the standard-issue unappetising description of the pork pie, which, as a God-tier foodstuff, requires much more reverent prose.
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In that you get about three crisps to a bag these days?
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I also missed the bits where it was sidesplittingly funny. I suspect the OP just saw “CNN on pubs, eh, this’ll be like the ‘cavorting in swamps’ thing” and fired off an immediate post.
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And uses the spelling “cozy”, which is the least cosy way to spell “cosy”.
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He has always struck me as someone for whom the fact of his having written an article remains in his view the most important thing about any article he has written. And given how little of substance there generally is, he’s probably even right about that.
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Britain: Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?
Italy: “Do you wish the abrogation of Legislative Decree No. 81 of 15 June 2015, concerning "Organic discipline of employment contracts and revision of the legislation…
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I suppose that’s what I’ll have to do then. Insist in advance on being issued with a PO and if they won’t do it, thank them politely for their interest.
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Are we simply jumping through all these various hoops because we’re too meek to argue?
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Laminate those and you’ve got yourself some nifty beermats
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Something along these lines
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The baller move would have been fluorescent Comic Sans and a Care Bears montage
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I’m not even sure her ultimate motives are political. She strikes me as one of those people who quite enjoy being petty and unpleasant, and politics can be a rewarding outlet for such energies. I see this a fair bit in Poland. People who went into politics simply to lord it over others.
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Astounding indeed if it’s only one. What confluence of circumstances is needed for only one to survive?
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Bloody woke censorship
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I’m sure King Heterodox was immediately on the phone to the editor to complain about this woke bowdlerisation of his careful research
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A friend of mine interviewed him and said that you could not wish to meet a lovelier fella. Nobody should have to suffer an injury like his, but if I had one wave of the wand I think he's the footballer I'd most like to give back the playing time he lost.
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Very much in “give it Big Sam until the end of the season” territory now.
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So going to use this at conference…
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I can’t get along with them precisely because they are harder work than reading a book. I don’t have to try to concentrate when reading, but I quite easily lose the thread when listening to an audiobook if I’m not trying hard to maintain my concentration.
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He’ll still insist he’s right, and that you’ve simply misunderstood him.
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I’d recommend putting a good couple of days’ distance between that trip and anything you want to cherish. I went to the salt mine (strong recommend) the day after going to Auschwitz, and something about the unfamiliarity of those surroundings helped me deal with what I’d seen the day before.
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A sort of visual equivalent of nominative determinism?
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Nothing says “I remember our special day” like…
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Except instead of donning a mankini she’s stolen a Victorian child’s pyjamas