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Je n'avais pas besoin de cette hypothèse-là.
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They should also build all those cables and what have you your maps also show. They are also good. I approve of them too.
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The expansion of the nuclear power station sounds good to me. I approve of it. It is a good thing. They should build more.
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(There’s a more believable read, “community relations”, which is not really the same thing - “these girls are not worth disturbing the Pakistanis, who riot at the drop of a hat”, but even then I’m extremely dubious this filters down to a granular level, what if these orgs were just very bad?)
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Currently standing outside tonypandy Asda
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I mean certainly possible but on the other hand, I feel the claim that - for eg - Yorkshire police and social services were paralysed in this manner *from the 1980s on* unconvincing. My read on reading the first major reports way back when was “shambolic and uncaring orgs and asscovering down below”
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I believe there used to be a camping outfitter in Venice beach called “the merchant of Venice” that used that line in its window
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open.spotify.com/track/13IWJv...
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Over and over and over
open.spotify.com/track/3RCj5f...
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I think you are overestimating given the TfL bus fleet, the 400 or so stations, the offices, the depots
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Between 4 and 5 million people use the tube! This cleaning contract is, essentially, 10p per footfall.
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Considering the amount covered in the contract (TfL have 8000+ buses! It covered gardening on grounds and all graffiti - bus shelters and bus stations anyone? - and offices and emptying bins and so forth) I reckon it’s absolutely doing it cheaply.
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The reality being that 400k a day considering the size of the TfL operation is *doing things on the cheap, like you guys want*
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See this story from Guido last week which conflated the 5 year future proof cleaning contract for the entire of TfL for the contract for cleaning up graffiti (to imply, what? “Evil Muslims grafting”, I assume)
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Yeah, No Kings is foundational to American democracy and no dictators is not
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Oh he’s shouting at some Egyptian policeman at the Gaza checkpoint I think. I’m not gonna watch that shit
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Less important than me but more important than Tony Hopkins? Sounds about right
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(FWIW I am not going to do anything to stop Adam Johannes of Cardiff Stop The War making a bit of a dick of himself)
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Prithee sir, a marijuana leaf grindeth'r
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I used to work with a guy who, after a 3-day bender, had decided to buy a "Legalise cannabis" t-shirt from a market stall in S-E Asia.
After he sobered up, he realised it actually said, "Legalise cannibalism"
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As James Ball says in another reply, he wasn’t engaged at that point.
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I’m sorry, this is Wales, we only celebrate Secombe’s birthday here, as is right and proper.
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“Strongly” as a modifier, though? Also he’s making these comments to the telegraph who are going to read them as “likely to win”, so either he’s lying to the telegraph or naive about their ability to read what he’s saying, neither a great advert for his expertise.
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Oh yeah, but you *were* aware of her, is my point. As would be my now deceased granny (in her 60s at the time). She had cultural presence.
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If your question is “who would people recognise, culturally”, then yeah, Jacko and Madonna. 91 wasn’t a great year for her sales wise though, she didn’t hit the top 20 billboard singles for the year (21, with justify my love, one of her better numbers imho)
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(Mind you, if that *is* the standard we use, the number of geniuses in popular music gets a great deal smaller. Which I am fine with, but I suspect marketing departments won’t be)
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Jackson gives us the multimedia video thing, I guess. That combined with being the first proper global megastar (singular) and half a dozen banging tunes?
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He gave a quote to the telegraph saying it was “strongly arguable” it breached the EHRC?
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Oh it’s a Brian Wilson obit. Yeah, sorry, by the standard it uses, he wasn’t either.
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I’d argue that if we use the standard it uses, Prince wasn’t a genius (in no sense did he invent the various genres he inhabited). On the fence about Jackson, but it’s even then tricky.
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Two types of men can have the forename “Shuggie” - black american
Musicians in their 70s and Glaswegian former convicts in their 50s
open.spotify.com/track/2u3HmB...
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I mean Tbf that’s more grounded in reality we’ve all been to the midlands
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“Intersex dogs and fat-shaming ventriloquists. Avant-garde hair. Leeks by moonlight. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Nuns playing ping pong. Cuddly toy. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Teasmaid from Netto. That’s right: you’ve won everything on The Generation Game conveyor belt!”
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Eh. I think my problem is he’s ok as this producer of weird documentary collages that make very little sense if you don’t take him seriously, but he takes himself so very seriously and there was a good documentary maker in there once (watch The Mayfair Set and The Living Dead)
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“Intersex dogs and fat-shaming ventriloquists to avant-garde hair. Leeks by moonlight. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Nuns playing ping pong. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Netto. That’s right. You’ve won Dusty Bin”
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"People are entitled to their sexual proclivities. Let a thousand blossoms bloom, Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Netto. But I ain't spending any time on it because in the meantime, every three months, a ventriloquist fat-shames an intersex dog"
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Adam, Richard and Ian all took such different roads.
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“Forces of anarchy. Intersex dogs and fat-shaming ventriloquists to avant-garde hair. Leeks by moonlight. Ken Dodd's suitcase. Nuns playing ping pong. Margaret Thatcher's handbag. A scanner from Maplin. Netto. Why do you think Windsor Castle is ringed with Nettos?"