oncewassven.bsky.social
By the sea but not necessarily by the book
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I was glad that it wasn't around when I was in my bang for my buck booze phase. Special brew was enough without me having this available for less.
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We never had Tiswas in the Tyne Tees region or at least not for ages - I think we might have got it right towards the end of its run by which point I was just sleeping all Saturday morning
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Democracy was an aberration in Russia - they might not like dictatorship but they're used it
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1 photo & a maximum 30 second video per gig.
Above that and you're shot on the spot.
Harsh but fair I think.
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They don't call it a burrito because, well, Yorkshire but here you go
www.theyorkroastco.com
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Fans DO spend those kinds of hours. Fans will travel ridiculous mileage over a season and spend equally ridiculous amounts of money - trust me on this, I know.
Each to their own though.
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Most people over here would just call it a Yorkshire pudding wrap.
I suppose burrito just sounds more "street food“
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Travel to away games can take up an entire weekend if you're travelling from the north east to the south west for instance.
7 hours there, 7 hours back and an overnight stay.
It's not a competition to see who is most dedicated to their hobby but you're underestimating a fair bit.
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Yes they do.
They might say "I'm not really a...." because pretty much everyone has at some time done both but they do it so rarely it doesn't count now.
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But that of course was over 10 years ago and effective spending cuts since then have doubtless made it worse
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I think that if you don't live in a place or use a service regularly you don't always notice its faults and that works both ways.
London I think did get off lightly for most of the coalition austerity years, possibly because of Olympic related spending but mainly treasury cost benefit rules.
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I am too obsessed with football.
I was wondering what that all had to do with Olympique Marseille.
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I travel round England watching my football team play week in, week out and it costs me £1000s a year.
I do it because I love it but gaming would be hugely less expensive.
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It's possible that as a public sector employee he got incremental pay rises as he rose in seniority or took on more duties on top of a yearly rise - those were still in place when I worked in local government in the 80s and 90s.
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Average wage growth increased not because everyone got a pay rise every couple of months but because each company or organisation had different dates for their yearly rises to come into effect.
And yes, people did have to wait all year to catch up with and hopefully get ahead of inflation.
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Nobody had bimonthly pay rises.
It demeans your argument (which is basically correct) to state patently ridiculous things as fact
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You've got it propped and the second arch course above looks fine so sure it'll be fine until it's repaired
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Unless there's a lintel on the internal face that's not visible here, in which case you can you just ignore everything I said
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Little bit of structural engineer advice for free - get those bricks properly sorted sharpish. That arch is supporting the full storey above it and without those bricks properly fixed in place it's not actually working as an arch forcing the course above it to do all the work.
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Bless them for imagining that FIFA care about anything other than money
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Very faithful to the novel
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Heel or No Heel
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I know I'm not the target demographic and that's fine but I do have 2 teenage kids and i've genuinely never heard this as far as I know, not even in passing.
I've no idea whether it's good, bad or indifferent and if it's been number one for that long I feel like I really should have.
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Then you have the ICE director "not requesting, demanding" that politicians stop criticising his officers actions.
Feels like a matter of time before detention without trial spreads to political opponents when you hear things like that.
Absolutely mind-blowing that this is happening in the US.
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And last night they were back to shouting at each other to be quiet.
Neither of them were any quieter.
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That's the account that was responsible for the Sadiq Khan deep fake audio clip that did the rounds a while ago.
Far right account and not in any way an actual news organisation.
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Buy the dip
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His real name is of course Gordon Sumner and Bernard Sumner out of New Order is his brother though they don't like to mention it.
Honest.
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Whatever keeps you in a job longest.
Undoing then doing something again exactly like it was before is not entirely uncommon in the engineering industries mainly because clients don't actually know what they want quite often.
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I am very disapoofed by this
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It's so nice when you can idly wonder about something and immediately get a proper answer from someone who knows.
Doesn't happen very often on here or anywhere really.
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Oh definitely.
I'm not a religious person, don't think there's anything other than bones in the ground left there and yet I'd still feel like I needed to do right by the dead.
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I hate to break this to you but Sunday is a bit more than 2.5 hours away
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It's interesting that there's no specific regulation to cover stewardship of consecrated ground when a church is sold off like this.
I don't suppose it was really much of an issue until the last few decades.
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Thanks.
Whoever it is in the case they seem to be doing a decent enough job of it.
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Whose responsibility is it to look after the graveyard I wonder?
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I'm guessing it is judging by the "ask agent for details" on the energy performance certificate bit
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The Sheffield Wednesday away game reminded me very much of that Barnsley game and the Coventry away game under Wilder before he got sacked thinking about it - when you've lost the away fans you've lost it completely.
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I ruined the new Pulp song, Spike Island, for myself with similarly puerile lyric changing just yesterday.
I won't say how but it's not difficult to work it out if you want to do it to yourself.
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Presumably the preferred strategy would be to avoid doing maintenance and improvements as long possible before a mad panic just before something threatens to break catastrophically.
Just like real life.
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The ears!
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They seem to have made a real comeback even in the top leagues and it's not surprising - a good, flat long throw is way more dangerous than a corner.
Or that could just be against Boro.
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At risk of sounding like a twat I'm not having that.
There are way too many actively wrong choices in that journey to arrive here - Hartlepool is not somewhere anyone ends up in accidentally even travelling from Middlesbrough
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In between Highways Agency and National Highways there was also Highways England.
That lasted a whole 5 years before everything had to be rebranded again.
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Right I've listened now and if that's the sticky toffee pudding then I'm just off to kill myself
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They've got nobody better left
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Manchester on Saturday for me.
Have fun.
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Even if he flies to Mars alone there'll still be somewhere there who hates him.
He takes all those drugs to try and get away from him but he's still there when they wear off.