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2 years
@chainey44 @fesshole The fess said "someone homeless", not "a Bullingdon Club member".
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@only_ohm_again
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9 months
@fesshole Won't someone think of the poor managers and how terrible they feel about plunging people into destitution?
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@only_ohm_again
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11 months
@madhgtaloney "parroted many of the same arguments as the UN" - in other words, "remained in touch with factual and legal reality".
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole <Mischievous> It is astonishing how many more prominent people graduated from Cambridge University in the 3-year period after the university stopped making its graduation lists public, than in the 3-year period before that.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole Surely you'd make some enquiries to establish the other party was into that sort of thing before, y'know, placing an order, buying wrapping paper,...? No?
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@gabrielledrolet I'm too distracted by wondering whether it's squash as in pumpkin-like vegetable or squash as in concentrated fruit drink.
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@only_ohm_again
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8 months
@fesshole Somewhere, there's a rational bit of my mind that knows "skirt on the wrong way" probably just means back-to-front or something, but I can't help visualizing her wearing it on her head.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole I'm no animal behaviourist, but going by the cows I've met on cycle paths, I'd have thought they'd find it quite entertaining to have some archaeologists to watch.
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@only_ohm_again
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@babybropatto @AndrewAvent @J4m35c4mpb3ll @BjCruickshank @MaureenPickeri5 @BothyCat53 @LesBlair53 Heck, I live south of the Wash, and even I know the Scottish government was on the verge of running a deposit return scheme perfectly well until Westminster stuck its oar in.
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@only_ohm_again
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11 months
@fesshole If only people on trains were able to carry a portable electronic device for which alarm clock software is available.
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@fesshole This tweet has been up for 13 minutes, and I can say with some confidence that, even if you were the only one 14 minutes ago, you're not the only one now.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole We asked you to name someone from whom you'd want to conceal your Ann Summers order. You said "the postman", our survey said...
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@kobldexe @Sorrelish "Not following protocol" is a euphemism for conducting research on human remains with no ethical approval or consenting process, right?
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@only_ohm_again
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8 months
@fesshole Glancing at this thread, I see lots of people believing that the couple can't be happy or love each other unless they're shagging each other silly, but nowhere near as many people as there should be worrying about the consequences of only clipping one's toenails once a month.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole I mean, romantic relationships aren't my bag, but I feel on fairly safe ground guessing that it's best to open with "you sound like you're in pain, are you OK?" rather than with "the sound you make irritates me".
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@auroch______ @fesshole This is FessHole. EthicallySoundHole is the next door on the left.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole I mean - you refer to her as "a local councillor", not "a defeated council candidate", so I guess she in fact has rather more than two votes.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole Have all their accounts recently been unexpectedly muted?
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2 years
@fesshole Don't be fooled by the broccoli I got; I'm still Fessy from the block.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole 'He sent proof', thus earning himself 6 months in chokey under section 66 of the Representation of the People Act 1983.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole ... and that was how I lost my job in the Waitrose cafe.
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@only_ohm_again
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10 months
@AndyLaneAuthor Rebounded willy? I don't think it's that kind of show. And it can't be duly wired Noble, because she didn't drink the coffee.
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@fesshole 46 years of time and space and no woman has ever asked me that. I suspect my experience is not untypical.
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2 years
@fesshole This is the good kind of keeping secrets from your spouse, right?
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@only_ohm_again
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11 months
@fesshole I mean... an obvious solution suggests itself. No, not murder, Jake.
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@adacable We're talking about Sunak's latest attack on trans kids, right? Not only is the guidance not legally binding, I suspect there will be cases in which following the guidance is illegal (GDPR, Equality Act, statutory curriculum).
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@only_ohm_again
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@ask_aubry In addition to existing insightful replies, I'll leave you with the thought that, in a lot of houses, the shower drain doesn't go to the foul sewer, but to a soakaway in the garden.
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@only_ohm_again
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8 months
@fesshole Wait until OP finds out about yoghurt. All the flavour, but with the selection of bacterial species carefully curated so as not to kill you.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole And now we know the difference between an electrician and an electrical engineer.
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@jewishstudent1 @sgbuggs ISTR a UN report not so long ago found that Hamas get most of the explosives for the payloads of their rockets from unexploded Israeli ordnance dropped on Gaza, which does rather suggest a straightforward way to put a stop to the rocket attacks.
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2 years
@ask_aubry Do we think OP has also told his female friends why he suddenly unfollowed them all?
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1 year
@ReemAmirIbrahim @carbdiem Proposition: "Networking" is not a skill, soft or otherwise; it's just a posh name for using personal favours as a bribe for privileged access to the graduate labour market.
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@simonharris_mbd The three-pin kettle lead's an IEEE standard, isn't it? I can't imagine Brexiteers standing for that sort of overweening regulatory harmonization.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole Is it just me, or is there a big leap between "married men kept coming to the gym to have sex with each other" and "we had to put a hidden camera in"?
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@mcmansionhell @Sorrelish Has it occurred to anyone that the reason this "not allowed to leave the neighbourhood" thing is in their heads might be that they have themselves been considering imposing something similar on people of social classes or ethnicities or genders they don't like?
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@_d0rk__ @fesshole I'm guessing speed+typo+autocorrect.
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@only_ohm_again
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3 years
@laternapoiss @ProfDcotton And _that's_ the difference between a ductile material, a brittle material, and a fibre-reinforced composite.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole The fess is not knowing the answers to the two easiest quiz questions ever composed.
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@only_ohm_again
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8 months
@willydunn Just a few days ago, the UK took military action to enforce the principle that an actor who controls the coastline of a narrow strait may not pick and choose what ships pass through that strait. I presume even the UK govt's hypocrisy doesn't extend to stopping this vessel ATM.
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@trakennyssa Yeah, and as a consequence the whole planet gets enslaved by the Master, so probably not much of an advert for misogyny.
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@only_ohm_again
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@Scuttlecliff 35 is the age DT would have been during the filming of The Runaway Bride. I presume that's no coincidence.
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@only_ohm_again
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8 months
@DrFrancisYoung I think we need to talk about the dividing line between "middle class" and "outright aristo".
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole If only someone had invented the idea of a multi-user operating system, where you and the kids could have separate accounts that don't have read permission on each other's files.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole Hee. I put my own hair and nail clippings in the local authority compostable waste stream, so there'll be traces of my DNA all over other people's gardens and farms.
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@OurMidden @kvnrogan The process ended with me, the departmental safety officer, and the departmental chemical safety advisor all standing in the room asking each other if we were starting to get a headache.
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@dandouglas The other advantage of the bin collection thing is that one can pretend it's an autonomous decision by local councils, so central government doesn't have to take any of the blame.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@Rawbonio @fesshole You can tell someone who's never had any links with local government by the way they think councillors get such luxuries as a desk.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole Sorry, are we saying that this is a marked-out football pitch with proper goals, and someone is sabotaging it by adding concrete blocks? Good case for aggravated trespass there, surely?
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@only_ohm_again
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@anon_opin Anyone want to comment on the unit "kHz per second"?
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@only_ohm_again
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1 year
@fesshole It'd be hilarious if more than one TV presenter replies to this confessing to being the graduate in question.
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@amandayoungdyke It's a wild world.
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@only_ohm_again
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@DimensionsInJen Ah, so you too checked the dates to see if we could rule out Rose being Ruby's mother by placing her a long way from Ruby Road on the evening of 24th December 2004. [We can't.]
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@ThreatNotation A job for a caesium fountain atomic metronome.
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@fesshole Perhaps I'm missing something, but that doesn't strike me as particularly challenging. "Y'know what movie I'd really like to see: the new Ninja Turtles one." Sorted.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole Yeah, there's nowhere near enough information there for the mate to identify you, it'll be fine.
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1 year
@DrFrancesRyan They also miss the (to me) fairly obvious point that, if someone is medically unfit ever to work again, it's right and proper that they should be incentivized not to risk additional damage to their health by struggling back into the workplace.
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@fesshole I've never been a member of Mensa, but I'm fairly sure it's got nothing to do with knowing stuff and everything to do with a certain very specific type of reasoning skill.
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@korovaoverlook Still bewildered by a painting called "Dante and Virgil" in which Dante and Virgil are the fifth and sixth most prominently featured people.
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@fesshole Isn't that just - perfectly sensible?
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@only_ohm_again
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3 years
@metageologist "No licking allowed"? Geology practical exams have changed since my student days, then.
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1 year
@ask_aubry Is blue offering cognitive behavioral therapy or...?
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@only_ohm_again
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7 months
@fesshole Took me a while to work out 1m was the length of the drill bit, not its diameter.
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2 years
@fesshole Now I'm worried about the tragedy of all those people who've found themselves with a deep love for a sheep they can't locate. (Not that kind of love, he said pre-emptively, knowing what the Fesshole crew are like.)
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@only_ohm_again
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@1goodtern The way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if they go further and threaten them with sanctions for poor attendance if they do stay home.
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@fesshole If the enemy snipers are too respectful of civilian lives to fire into a crowd, you should probably double-check whether you've picked the right side in this imaginary conflict.
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@only_ohm_again
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@anon_opin Any sort of surprise while someone is taking dinner out of the oven sounds to me like a major health and safety problem.
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@only_ohm_again
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10 months
@DimensionsInJen Wasn't Nardole already a cyborg? Maybe the cybermen saw him, realized he was a superior design, then went rampaging across the universe converting everyone into copies of Nardole.
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@veteris_insect @fesshole So - management were so disgusted by people taking videos in the toilet that they installed hidden cameras in the toilet? Checks out.
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@only_ohm_again
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@oldtrotter Perhaps there will never be a Tory MP born after January 2009, so the issue won't arise?
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@only_ohm_again
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@AtletchicBenbao @_d0rk__ @fesshole I have no idea, and I'm not going to go round the village asking kids to find out.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole The Yorkshire Dales? That's where Emmerdale is set, right? In which case I'd expect the soil and the riverbeds to be composed almost entirely of discarded engagement rings and concealed dead bodies.
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@only_ohm_again
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@fesshole So really, you charge £400 for two weeks' work, and £19600 for accepting the blame if it all goes tits up. Expensive if "the blame" in your sector means being a bit embarrassed, cheap if "the blame" in your sector means jail time.
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@BBCLookEast Does the govt have any legal power to insist? I'm guessing not, otherwise the project would have stopped last time the council and the govt had the exact same argument, several months ago.
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@only_ohm_again
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@DjGertcha @digsb @fesshole Yes, but I observe that, under section 172 of the Companies Act 2006, company directors are not allowed to do anything other than prioritize shareholders over customers: that _is_ the government intervening.
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@fesshole I'm hearing that, during an airborne pandemic, you go out of your way to get as close as possible to other passengers on public transport, after they've signalled their preference that it be otherwise.
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@MathewJLyons @theeyecollector 14 generations of fen-edge ancestry tell me to say it's not "bleak", it's "open". Recent experience tells me to note that there exists a certain type of farmer who, when their field contains a public right of way, likes to put an electric fence immediately adjacent to that PROW.
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@charIiedbm @fesshole Eh? I was suggesting the folks who put the concrete blocks there were guilty of a crime, not the kids.
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@jontrot9 @fesshole I guess driver sees _something_ is obstructing the way ahead, and there's no time to analyse whether or not it's something with which a collision will be harmful.
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@BestForBritain Clue: no, he's saying Labour is to blame for the existence of fire safety regulations which he'd rather were not there.
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@JCP_Photo @fesshole OP doesn't actually claim any causal link between the snog and the good mortgage deal.
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@Barcajim3 What was the alternative though? It wouldn't be done to boycott the Bataclan for having been on the receiving end of a terrorist attack.
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@fesshole Methodical yet delicate, just like the way you'd assemble a manganese evaporator.
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2 years
@fesshole I've told you before, prof, no journal will publish it without an explicit approval from the ethics committee.
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@20thcenturymarc Those are GWR colours, right? Nobody at the train operating company that covers the route from London to the West Country thought "people go on holiday there, maybe we should order rolling stock with lots of luggage space"? But yeah, let's blame the kids in the picture.
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@anon_opin There are water-jet cutters available that can cut through granite and steel. A bit of congealed Weetabix is not going to present a problem.
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@MarkSlater74 @offgridteacher @Sneakachu25 It's not about shaving. Aragorn can't grow a beard as a result of his distant elvish ancestry. Same applies to Denethor, Boromir, Faramir, and Imrahil.
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@RoadsideMum I think lidar would only show you the topography of the ground surface (albeit with incredible precision), not what's under the ground. For that you'd want ground-penetrating radar.
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@CooperHillier Some great face acting from NPH all round - highlight for me the Toymaker's face falling as he sees 14 and 15 side by side and realizes his own pointless brutality has put him in losing status.
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@OurMidden @kvnrogan That takes me back. Years ago, the carbon monoxide alarm in my lab kept going off, and since there was no obvious potential source of carbon monoxide in the room, we weren't sure if it was a genuine detection or an alarm fault.
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@fesshole For 43 years, I went to a great variety of barbers to have my hair cut, and not one of them ever massaged my earlobes. Now I feel like I've been missing out.
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2 years
@TLDRNewsUK The currency and bond markets are apparently part of the left-wing economic establishment. Who knew?
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7 months
@FergusCraig "Oh, darling! Sink my Belgrano!" cried Angela, but Roger was outside the exclusion zone and sailing away.
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1 year
@ACORNunion Also let's unpick "since records began". According to the BBC article, records - or at least "comparable" records - began in 2001. I think most people reading the headline will come away with the impression that it's referring to a rather longer period than it is.
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@fesshole Why not just rehome the spider somewhere safer? As things stand, one impromptu midweek cottons cycle and it's toast.
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@only_ohm_again
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2 years
@fesshole 'since the day we met'? That's one bold gambit for a first meeting. Respect.
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@fesshole If only there were a way to work around this.
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7 months
@DavidNautilus1 It seems to me that the common theme among this, the locked toilets thing, and the "send 'em in even if they have a dangerous infectious disease" thing is that the curriculum is so over-full that pupils being human makes it impossible to deliver it all.
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@ItsAndyRyan @weirzone ... but nevertheless, along with loving lots of contemporary stuff, I can remember being aware in the 80s that Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn and Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were really rather good.
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@fesshole Thank you Mr. Hancock, but the committee is more interested in your reasoning for awarding these PPE contracts.
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