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Did you know that if there was no such thing as the Ordnance Survey you never would have made it to the Ordnance Survey. Partly because there would not have been a place to go to, but also because you would never have had a map to the place where it didn’t exist. True story.
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Maybe that could have been a bicycle and walking tunnel to actually reduce cars on the road.
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Exactly. Remember for example when someone built a new road tunnel for cars that will only result in more traffic because more people will choose to drive a car, but then last minute they pretended it was a green policy by adding an obscure bus to carry bicycles to somewhere with no bicycle paths
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It’s all fine. It means a wider audience get to see the wacky adventures of Wife President
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I have partaken in esquivaliance on a much more temporant basis in my early juvenasness.
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It would be interesting if a fake word that was added to a dictionary as a copyright trap had enough people start using it after they read it in the dictionary that it then become a legitimate word.
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I’m not sure. I have heard that some of those stories from Canada may not be reliable, and I just can’t imagine the government is secretly planning on expanding this to something unreasonable. What is being proposed seems reasonable. If they suggest something worse in future I would reassess
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As much as I don’t want to distract from the seriousness of the article… that runner is really enjoying that run…
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I suppose you’re right. At the risk of getting cancelled, all red heads look the same to me. There I said it
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It’s always amazing when people are attracted to people who look just like them. That guys wife is the spitting image.
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That is how I tend to see it too. Although I can understand concerns around control and cohesion, or in protecting people from themselves when they’re going through rough times.
But certainly when someone is in the process of dying painfully they should be allowed to choose to avoid suffering.
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🤦♂️
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As long as there are good sturdy controls I think assisted dying can be a very good thing for those who are suffering a long painful death. I understand people have concerns that it could expand into dangerous things, but that is true for any law. I think people have the right to not suffer.
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Don’t forget to bring us all back some Churro’s and maybe a dipping sauce
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Why do those potatoes not have any trousers on? I can see the bottom part of the potato in all its glory!!! I hope you both don’t podcast in this fashion?
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True. Very much an empty threat. But to be honest, I don’t care if they do. They tend to hoard their wealth anyway.
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Wow, that was cooler than my totally not made up meaning. History is an interesting place
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Although the joke doesn’t work so well as “check” is spelt in the incorrect American way, not with the correct amount of q’s, and Americans don’t often say “mate”. But… I tried. And I found it funny which is the most important thing.
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I was only just this many years old that I found out that “checkmate” actually just refers to your friend who is going to get the bill. Or much earlier, it just meant to let your friend know that the chess game is over and you guys should get the bill for your drinks so you can go. True story
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Or… tax rich people properly. If they threaten to leave the country then let them. There will be a hole in whatever market they were in and someone else will fill it.
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Is it just me, or is it spooky that if you rearrange the letters of Alasdair, but then leave out most of them then you’re left with AI… maybe all this time he was the first chat bot hidden under all that hair.
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Agreed. Sensationalist scaremongering seems to have permeated many aspects of society as an easy tool to gain a following in the political and social media environments. Quite difficult to combat as it plays on people’s fears and people become conspiracy theory minded.
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Haha that’s true. Selfish skydiving would be an achievement though
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I don’t think they meant that she was selflessly skydiving. Just that she was a selfless person day to day.
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Glad the US are standing up to this nonsense in a peaceful but passionate way. All the support from here in the Uk
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Also “Grandfather Clocks” used to be called “Pendulum” or “Longcase” clocks. But it become “Grandfather Clock” after a song “My Grandfather’s Clock” in 1876… apparently. I’m not expert though. But interesting, if true. If it’s not true, why let the truth get in the way of a nice story 😆
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Yeah, and it’s the US government by a long long way. Then Saudi Arabia and Russia. But the consumption is also the problem. We need to stop using it
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This show brought me up. It’s why I’m not quite right and eat a lot of lentils.