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He sounds like someone who means business. If I was a foreign nation set on waging war against the Royal Navy and found out he was in command, I'd give up straight away even if I knew nothing about the man.
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Accidentally got into the passenger seat of my car and couldn't figure out why I didn't have a steering wheel.
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Oh boy. There's advocating for eugenics but trying not to say the word, but that account is out-and-out saying "Eugenics! Hell, yeah!"
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People who incorrectly use reflexive pronouns really annoy myself.
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Re: Point 3
Started running during lockdown. Before that, I was quite prone to just randomly putting my back out - I'd be walking down the street and all of a sudden a random muscle would decide it was going to do something unspeakably painful.
Running just... fixed it? No idea why or how.
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I'm more likely to use an ad blocker than to have pants on, to be fair.
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Is it any good? He interviewed me as part of his research - not sure if I was any use mind.
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When shall we three squeak again?
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Cosy.
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Nobody does being a sycophantic little turd quite like Kanye.
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If someone wants to set up a Youtube channel where they describe the Tesla stock price chart every day, using a swannee whilstle, I'd absolutely subscribe to it.
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Wait, you mean they don't actually use syringes that size when they do lip filler?
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Guy Garvey might disagree.
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I'm far enough north (and just far enough away from civilisation to escape the worst of the light pollution) that it never gets totally dark at this time of year. Scandinavian style midnight sun it ain't, but it's definitely not pitch black.
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I'd love to be a news media picture editor.
"No, no - not those pictures. Get me the one where he looks like he's just shat himself. That's perfect."
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My advice, as an ADHDer, is that is you should carry on not eating for the next few hours, and then cram an incredible amount of food down some time around 10pm when you suddenly realise you're really hungry.
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Nice to see HAL 9000 keeping an eye on things too.
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There are certain people who you hear on the wireless and just think "I bet he's a lovely bloke in real life".
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Not sure he's going to need those binoculars.
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As the saying goes, if you met an arsehole in the morning, that person had a problem. If everyone you meet is an arsehole there's a good chance you're the problem.
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The day I took my first dose, I was trying to do something and felt my mind wander and I said "No, this isn't the time - I need to concentrate" - and I did. I was able to actually choose to stop my mind wandering, which I didn't realise was a thing that people could do.
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I was quite taken with what Ron Mael from Sparks has on his keyboards.
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My mate, who's definitely in the "People who shouldn't be given a label printer" category once sent me a photo of a box that he'd labelled "Naga Munchetty's Ethernetty Spaghetti"
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Oh, wait. Your manager said it not you. Never mind.
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You need to style it out - pretend it's a well known phrase where you're from.
Bonus points if you're actually from the same place as your manager, and you keep insisting that everyone uses it round your way.
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Also: Hear The Drummer (Get Wicked)
Most memorable bit of the tune being the saxophone part.
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My god, I've got an idea.
Smartwatches know when the wearer sleeping. So, an app that you can set your bedtime in. If the wearer isn't asleep, say, 60 minutes after bedtime you turn up and dart them.
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I'm sticking with Pope Idol.
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Newcastle upon Tyne has a few streets with Bridge in the name. This is High Bridge, and there's no obvious sign of a bridge there.
It was actually a bridge hundreds of years ago but the four small rivers that run through the city centre have been wholly covered and are totally underground today.
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You'll be familiar with this, I presume? www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO6d...
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Yup, bean juice touching the egg - or even (and some people have extremely strong opinions on this one) the yolk and bean juice mixing.
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Where do you stand on beans and fried eggs?
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It's the "Seriously? This again?" look on its face that does it for me.
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"As the blow progresses, the slag becomes more basic" is one of the very few things I remember about the chemistry that goes on in a blast furnace.
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I once had to make an insurance claim after a horse ran into my car.
Make of other vehicle: Horse
Model: Brown
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That was my thought - we sometimes have a falconer come to my workplace to try and put the frighteners up the seagulls and pigeons that normally hang around.
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I suspect that years of working in technology delayed my ADHD diagnosis - because I'd look around and see a bunch of people who were very much like me, and were therefore totally normal.
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I remember - before we all got sent home - seeing how many people in my office had no idea where the soap dispensers were in the gents.
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When the message went from "Clap for the NHS" to "Clap for key workers", I'd sit on my sofa and go "Yeah, that's me that is. Well done, me."
I was a key worker who was working from home - but I was a hero, damnit.
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Have been to that car park many times - if we needed to buy something that wasn't available locally, we'd either go to Merthyr or Abergavenny... and Merthyr town centre, at least 20-30 years ago, was not a great place to spend an afternoon. Haven't been to either for a good few years now.
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If that was real, the merciful thing would have been to smother it at birth.
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I've been doing reasonably well out of finding crises that weren't of my own making, sitting in the middle of them, calmly going "Right - let's get started, shall we?"
Unfortunately, before treatment I had to create my own crisis to get started on anything if there wasn't one already in progress.
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Having received some quite exciting work-related news has been tempered by the realisation that, if I ever bring my LinkedIn account out of hibernation I really should do it now.
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Congratulations seems like a strange choice of word, but I can't think what else to say. Diagnosis and starting treatment was literally life-changing for me.