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The Jean Louis Christmas advert is a shoo in though.
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To boldly go?
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It's an astonishing place but I find it hard to think of as a city in that it doesn't really seem to have a life of its own, rather it's a sort of park dedicated to its own history which as a city leaves me pretty cold.
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I guess that's destroyed enough to count as destroyed
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Aachen? Cradle of Europe to place that you drive past to get to Cologne
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That said, even pre-pandemic we turned up to a very nice restaurant and a table sat next to us on the terrace then immediately pulled out a phone and playing music because they didn't like what the restaurant had on.
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It also feels like a behaviour which has crept into a range of other public spaces. One which drives me to spluttering apoplexy is folk turning up in pub beer gardens and playing music on their phones. It feels like there's a notion that existences needs a soundtrack that grew over that period.
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Should you ever find yourself in the NE on bonfire night, the Cumberland party is centred around their rapper teams in a way that makes for a very pleasant evening.
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I think most of the music we had was probably "scottish" albeit with most of the joy sucked out.
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Yeah, Barn Dances were still the thing in Cumbria in the 90s and we'd have called it Country Dancing.
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Lucky enough that The Cumberland is my local pub, arguably the epicentre of the tradition these days.
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Wikipedia has a surprisingly large amount of information about Welsh Morris dancing mind.
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I can't speak so much for Yorkshire but in Cumbria Morris is definitely not in any way a part of the traditional makeup of things. I just looked it up and the oldest Side in Cumbria was set up in the 60s.
In Yorkshire I think tradition is primarily long sword dancing and in the NE it's Rapper.
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Agreed, thought that subset is also broadly irrelevant to much of the North of England too.
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It was a shame to leave my job as ferryman midway through my first shift but you know, you can't cross the same river twice.
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I want to update this to point out that Gaddings Dam - home of West Yorkshire's premier beach - was built 10 years before Wuthering Heights was written.
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I quite like Marina Hyde's theory on this sort of thing that it's a desire for the respectability of being perceived as a successful businessman rather than merely one of the most successful men of all time in the vastly meritocratic thing you're actually good at.
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See also, ten years of utterly interminable TMS discussion about the workings of WinViz. Yes, someone hitting 23 off an over does actually change the likelihood of that team winning.
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Feels like all the teams will take something from this year. Hope they can build on it.
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100% agree (though womens' rugby refereeing is still a few years behind understandably).
The depth and fitness still isn't there but they have a lot of talent to build around and they seem to really understand their game, in a way that even England often don't.
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Clara Vale sort of holds out against the sprawl (along with West Wylam and a few other bits) in feeling like a little self contained community whilst all around Wylam, Crawcrook etc. definitely feel like suburbia. I'm not sure why but I'd definitely have described it that way.
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Not sure on that, Clara Vale definitely feels closer to pit village than suburbia to me* - much more so than some of the places further away. "South" is an interesting failure to understand geography though.
*Though it's 10 years since we lived out that way
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I'm now imagining pissing myself next time I'm making a presentation at work. Great.
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Diapers against Despotism!
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Yes! I'd forgotten that. Definitely a feature all games should offer.
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Ultimate Soccer Manager 2 - Ceefax, choosing between burger bars and carparks, Terrible under-12s-chase-ball match animations... The peak for me.
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I deleted an interval session off my garmin training programme and its confidence in my success went up as a result. Which seems to set rather a poor precedent.
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Oh god, I forgot... I was about 100m away, trying to think of something to do and I forgot about this so walked home instead. Next time.
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My instinct would be that that might be part of why they could reduce accidents for other users. They're highly visible and quite chaotic so they tend to increase vigilance quite effectively as a defensive measure.
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basically basically? Don't post whilst on work calls.
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I found the one above became almost too easy, the hands became basically irrelevant and I basically lost concentration. It wouldn't get you past Ante 13 though, that requires a big jump!
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Blue Joker, Blueprint, 2x Hologram, and Certificate... swapping Blueprint back and forth between Cert and Hologram each round. Ended up with several hundred cards in my deck.
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I had one totally absurd set of jokers and my top hand is $2,000,000,000+ and now every run is chasing that high (extremely unsuccessfully).
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Nee smalls unslavered
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Tripped over eating a white chocolate magnum.
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Chris Cunningham circa 2005 would be making a mint in royalties.
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haha, I think it's more indicative of a trying morning!
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Bezos is kind of interesting because he was pretty much hated long before opinion shifted against the Tech oligarchs more generally. He also has never seemed to have any cool factor within the industry, even whilst Amazon has retained some respect as a place to be an engineer.
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The orientation of this map has upset me so much. I spent literal minutes trying to work out where you'd been before I worked it out.
ps. The sleet got into my headphones in the middle of Rising Sun and somehow meant that I had one same Daft Punk track on loop all the way back to Heaton.
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I enjoy that we have a plaque in Newcastle to Gladstone Adams, inventor of the Windscreen Wiper. A mild enough claim to start but it transpires at least three people invented it before him and his was never actually put into production.
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He's literally leaning on a guardrail.
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WHY DID YOU NOT CHANGE THE PHOTO?!
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Well that ate up the last 20 minutes of the week.
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This is one man with another man's face badly photoshopped on, surely?
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Fair play for being on brand though, he's at least bought one of the shitty "live-laugh-love for gamers" tshirts that are the mainstay of the Twitter advertising economy.
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This is somehow the most "7th place at Eurovision" song I've ever heard. The video even looks right.
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Some very early documentary photography of the event too.
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I just assumed he was doing the "woo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oo-oooo-oooo" from Jet whenever he typed it.
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Good list of great fires, disappointed that Newcastle and Gateshead doesn't make the cut - partially local pride but also it's such interesting microcosm of industrial revolution life and the early years of forensic investigation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_f...