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Inspiring slogan on colourful background. Probably part of a whale. Not a journal. Made in Turkey/Hindiden Üretilmiş
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'Still J O N E S'.
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'I cant quite remember how to spell your name'.
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Chez nous, on dit ‘eau qui pique’ (ou bien ‘okipik’): 3 syllabes.
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OTOH, who the hell harvests hay in early June, and why has it taken me upwards of 40 years to ask this question?
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Post a banger that’s not in English images.app.goo.gl/5Pk6kAyCjVAk...
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Or bereaved.
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You know you’re getting old when European Cup winning football clubs start looking young. (This is an excellent fact btw)
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Is Red Leicester a socialist cheese?
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One can only imagine the opprobrium that would attach to someone who fell into all three categories…
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According to this document it is, though it is worth mentioning that there are also ‘slack bobs’ whose primary sport is something other than either cricket or rowing - eg squash. (Apparently this is worse than being a socialist or an atheist…) www.etoncollege.com/about-us/eto...
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Punnifying Dis Content: The Melancholy Rhetoric of Academic Titles.
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Of course, it's no longer the case that we regard inquiry into someone's moral character as irrelevant in this context (if it ever was) - though we perhaps don't regard it as *especially* relevant to a moral philosopher.
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I'm inclined to think that Master of Balliol is not an academic appointment in the sense that MacIntyre had in mind. (And that it wasn't at the time.)
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37 since mine... Fwiw, compound verbs of motion were my Achilles heel.
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Except for adjectives, no? 21 red potatoes has red in the nominative plural.
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Well, ask yourself whether it is also useful for everything you do, and you’ll have your answer.
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Engels to Marx, after viewing a property in Crouch End: “Nice house, but what were those antique Stradivarius fiddles doing in the WC?” Marx: “Oh don’t worry - those were just the violins inherited in the cistern.” 😭😭
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Ursula Andress
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William Tell? Rousseau?
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Classes offered only in Fen?
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14 Brides for 7 Brothers
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Episode 4: A New Hop
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Remove a letter, ruin a movie Tar Wars
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Unimpressed by the malt:Milton coefficient on this one.
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Haggis pakora.
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The problem with this formulation is that it makes Labour's choices and motivations seem random and incoherent, whereas in fact they are anything but.
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The Holy Father did a Holy Ghost.
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As Joanna Russ once said to me and Teresa in conversation, "Homophobia isn't there just to keep gay people in line. It's also there to keep everybody else in line." Switch in "anti-trans hatred" and it's just as true.
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Meet the neurotoxic worms same as the…
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So you’re also in an intersection?
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Some of my best friends…actually, you know what, you’ve got a point.
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This is known by aficionadoes as a 'milkshake penguin'.
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Obviously no-one would protest in the capital of Turkey, right?
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I think it’s an open question as to whether there will be an opposition candidate, let alone a close election. But leaving that aside: what evidence is there for the existence of a significant number of Trump favoring voters who would put any kind of principle ahead of their support for him?
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None of them.
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Grocers apostrophe's especially.
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Its in the programme.