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Isca Augusta
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@BertDalziel Is the bandana a new thing? Ours had one on his last groom - never had one before.
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@54JohnBull Ah, my Dad had a “Granada 2.8 Ghia X” - memorable as each word/number was a different font and/or size. As standard.
Mad.
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My choice for a car from the 1980's would be a 1985 3L Ford Granada Ghia like my dad had.
It went like an express train with a kick down acceleration that blew you socks off. Every accessory you could think of from heated front seats to an LED fuel range computer.
Rob Boyd, Esq@AvonandsomerRob
If you could go back to the Eighties to choose a free new car, which would you pick?
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@66Steph82 Didn’t expect him, of all people, to come out for the reimposition and expansion of the British Empire
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@PatrickChristys I wouldn’t put it past Sir Keir to throw in the Isle of Wight to really seal the deal.
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@BradfemlyWalsh For years I misunderstood the lyrics to Walking in Memphis where he goes “W.C. Handy, won't you look down over me?” As referring to a toilet being close by.
Read an interview and it clicked.
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Until about 10 years ago, I thought some of the lyrics to Smells Like Teen Spirit went 'well, this lifestyle, it sustains us' and not actually 'with the lights out, it's less dangerous' - and I know other people who thought those were the lyrics too 😆
Eric Alper 🎧@ThatEricAlper
What’s a lyric you misunderstood for years — and what did you think it said?
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@66Steph82 Same. I used to life a few hundreds yards from where the Supermarine factory used to be in Woolston and always thought it odd that the only public acknowledgement of this was a vague allusion via a feather.
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I love the Pumpkins but you can’t deny that Nirvana had, and continue to have, far greater commercial and cultural impact
Robb Skidmore@robbskidmore
Nirvana’s music does not stand the test of time. But the Smashing Pumpkins does. So ultimately Billy Corgan won out against Kurt Cobain. Nirvana was hugely popular but I never listen to it anymore. I find Smashing Pumpkins more musical and listenable. Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness is a truly great album. Nirvana’s best was probably Unplugged. What say you @batcountry1980 ?
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@Telegraph Get a grip. I am a critic of Modi’s India’s urge to remove its history but this is a bridge they are replacing - a perfectly normal piece of infrastructure upgrading
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🔴 An Indian bridge built by the British a century ago has been demolished to make way for a motorway.
The Elphinstone Road Overbridge, which was built in Mumbai in 1913, was knocked down overnight as India continued to purge its colonial legacy.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
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Getting very hard to deny the claims we’re living in a simulation.
The person running it has clearly got in from a weekend on the lash and thought “Right, let’s turn up the crazy”
Disclose.tv@disclosetv
NOW - Trump says that his frustrations with NATO "all began with, if you want to know the truth, Greenland. We want Greenland. They don't want to give it to us, and I said, 'bye bye!'"
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It’s going to get to the point where countries will be concerned that Trump *hasn’t* slagged them off.
Tuvalu : Hey! We exist! Remember us?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar
Trump: "You know who else didn't help us? South Korea didn't help us. We've got 45,000 soldiers in South Korea to protect them from Kim Jong Un, who I get along with very well. He said very nice things about me. He used to call Joe Biden a mentally retarded person."
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@SartorialThug @Amy_90_x Middle mag boasting the lesser spotted “EXOTIC CHICKS WITH DICKS” subhead in the wild. An inclusive, eclectic, selection.
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@albieamankona One doesn’t “involuntarily” release a song titled Heil Hitler
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I went out to bat HARD for John Davidson after he shouted the N word at black actors and producers at the BAFTAs; against many in my own community. Davidson apologised, and his use of a racist slur was explained by his disability and I extended grace and forgiveness.
So here is the uncomfortable question. Kanye West has bipolar disorder. He has said his antisemitic outbursts are linked to it. He has apologised, more than once. Yet the reaction is entirely different.
Let me be clear. West’s antisemitism is vile. It is not edgy, it is not excusable, and it causes real harm. In the same way, a white person using the N word does. Both should be condemned without hesitation.
But condemnation is not the same as consistency. If we are prepared to treat disability as a mitigating factor in one case, we cannot simply ignore it in another because the individual is more controversial or the offence feels less convenient to forgive. Either disability meaningfully shapes responsibility, or it does not. Either apologies carry weight, or they do not.
If we only extend grace selectively, it stops being a principle and starts looking like preference.
Politics UK@PolitlcsUK
🚨 NEW: Diageo, owner of Guinness and Captain Morgan, has followed Pepsi in pulling its sponsorship of Wireless Festival due to Kanye West headlining
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“Anyone who drives a Tesla knows that a well-designed touchscreen is far better than a million buttons and knobs.”
Spectacular, and I mean *spectacular*, selection bias.
You’re just saying people who chose a Tesla prefer a Tesla. This isn’t some deep design insight.
As a counterpoint to what you perhaps meant, my wife chose an i-Pace specifically because she didn’t like the Tesla user interface ( even though she loved the rest of the car )
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In 2007, there was a popular opinion that nobody will use a phone without a mechanical keyboard.
This is identical.
Anyone who drives a Tesla knows that a well-designed touchscreen is far better than a million buttons and knobs.
Top Gear@BBC_TopGear
"A large touchscreen doesn't work in a car": Sir Jony Ive on designing the Ferrari Luce's interior ➡️ top-gear.visitlink.me/yTpZer
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@HifiSean They’ve all been updated recently, so you should be all good.
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@wight1984 Agreed. But taking that map, Thomas Lewis way could arguably bear being a 50 for most of its length and The Avenue is now a blanket 30, rather than the 40 indicated - which is too slow.
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We need to ditch this cultural idea that it's okay to habitually drive 'a little bit' over the speed limit and start treating the speed limit as a maximum speed for driving.
Let’s be part of the solution@let_part
@Boenau People never say a drunk driver was creeping over the blood-alcohol limit. They do actually understand what a limit means - but when it comes to speeding, they just choose to break the law and disregard it
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@SimonM_72 @jamie_th @tomhfh I know I’m being picky, but it was initially Acorn/Acorn/VLSI with no controlling ownership. It was then dual London/NY listed with the majority of institutional investors being US based.
It’s still based in Britain, so either it was never British or it still is.
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People forget that in the 1990s, Britain was the fourth biggest manufacturing economy in the world.
Through the 1990s the number of jobs in manufacturing *increased*.
From 1993 to 1998, British manufacturing employment increased from 4.1 million to 4.3 million. Not unrelatedly, across the same timespan, electricity prices dropped by 22%.
Our manufacturing crisis today is above all an energy crisis.
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