donsayers.bsky.social
Retired technology teacher, likes steam engines, cars, clocks social justice. Vaccines work.
Married to Tamsin @tornadovolcano.bsky.social
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Can't be that good if I can watch it on YouTube for £3.49.
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But it's not ENGLISH, it's something almost but not quite entirely unlike English.
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So what do they use? What do they believe?
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I have long since made my last Christingle.
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But have you had to source and make 200 Christingles at 24 hours notice? Have you ever tried to buy Dolly Mixture when every other church is hunting round for them to make Christingles?
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Obviously some ammo cooking off in the car.
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A bit of a niche interest.
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Teaching in the technology department at a school in St Albans, our head of department used 'outstanding' to mean overdue, whilst the rest of us deliberately used 'outstanding' to mean excellent. Much hilarity ensued.
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That's not how car cooling system works at all. The radiator uses air to cool the water, the water does not go on getting hotter.
This is a non story.
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My car is water cooled, it doesn't 'use' vast quantities of water, because the water is cooled by the radiator and goes around again. Surely this is how the water would be used to cool a data centre?
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What about the camera icon on British road signs? Cameras have not looked like that for 60 years or more.
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Even the ordering screen in McDonalds (I know, I know, don't judge me.) refuses to accept my finger prods.
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Some of my books and my mess.
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This is why I left me account open, can't get reused.
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That's a bit of a niche post.
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Paywalled.
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They were cutting edge, but oh so expensive, now they are old hat and still expensive. The Chinese are beating him hollow and once the likes of Ford and VW gear up Tesla is toast.
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Sad.
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In my career teaching I met a handful of boys that we all knew were going bad and that we were powerless to help. The results were one serious GBH, one extensive arson luckily without loss of life, one kidnapping and extortion with ABH, and a double rape. None were terrorists. No help available.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefr...
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Wiki is quite good and as ever points to better sources. Here is the map of the genetic relatedness of modern citrus fruits.
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The genetic make up of modern citrus fruit is very muddled, all of modern citrus fruit including the grapefruit having been bred from the mandarin orange, pomelo and citron, thus it is not possible to say with certainty that a given citrus fruit is not going to interact with your medication.
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I had a MySpace account under the Mr Sayers. First name was Mr. I did it deliberately.
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This is nothing new, in Scarborough hospital, I came round after a general anaesthetic for an operation on wisdom teeth, in half a corridor, one half was bricks and mortar, the other half was a single polythene sheet with January frost on the outside. Eventually I was taken shivering to a ward.
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Mastodon, it's name means literally boob tooth.
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The pronunciation of the word cuneiform seems to have changed in my lifetime. It always used to be kjuː.nɪ.fɔːm or kjuː.nə.fɔːrm.
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Lets not forget shewn either.
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Loaves, hooves and dwarves too.
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I would always say strove and not strived.
We seem to be in danger of losing learnt and dreamt as well.
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My prescriptions.
Medicate good times, come on.
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Asleep? She's stoned out of her head.
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SOP
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Playing Scrabble with ghosts.
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So what?
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I have a Good Housekeeping from my Mother circa 1954, not a trace of Fanny, and all the pictures look like that. think it's the photographic colour rendering from that time and the limitations of the printing process.
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The last thing I want from food is to be haunted by it.
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Meccano set 6, I think I had one in the 70s.
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This is the site you need: nextbase.co.uk/national-das...
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Because she is the one with the previous porn career. Unless there's a nude photo shoot with Hilary I've not seen?
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And right there I learnt a new word.
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Whatever the truth in P'Terry's words, in real life it relies on being able to distinguish expensive quality from merely overpriced tatt. are you paying for quality or merely the brand?
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Wordle 1,273 4/6
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Correct. You need to make sure that all the two way overlaps are catered for.
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It's a matter of how petty not pretty, I'm being pedantic, if you want to include all the possible combinations of four things then the diagram at the top just doesn't work.
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That is not how you construct a four way Venn diagram; some regions are missing. There is a region for just Brave new world AND A handmaid's tale without anything else but there is no region pictured for Brave new world AND Fahrenheit 451 without anything else. Should be constructed thussly:
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Not a proper four group Venn diagram.