GrumpyByName 🇮🇱

@mehercle @snapperup There weren’t back then. The literature paper was much more general. I have confirmed that since with my former teacher. Question one of the drama section was always answerable on a shakespearean tragedy but not s specific one, two on a comedy.

@LessGrumpy @snapperup There are prescribed texts . Otherwise you couldn't have an exam .

In secondary school in Aberdeen in 1979/80 we covered everything from Donne to Chaucer to Burns to MacCaig to Keats to The Beatles (She's Leaving Home) for Higher English, and a great deal more. The curriculum today seems more restricted. Why would that be.

@DominicFrisby How fantastic.

My grand-daughter with her great great grandmother. 5 generations.

@ParrotLegal Much like KCs giving you a win chance of 65% when you’re nailed on

@LessGrumpy "Most likely" is as good as you'll get from a doc!

The endocrinologist said that most likely the nodule is benign. I’m having an ultrasound on Wednesday (apparently the doctor doing that is an endocrine specialist which is good). If he doesn’t like the look of it he will do a needle biopsy there and then.

@ImtiazMadmood While his carrier group sits 200km away.

Trump declares NATO is a paper tiger, says helping secure Hormuz would be “so easy for them to do, with so little risk”

@RobDebenham 155 round here. 185 for diesel

Prices are going mad aren’t they.. This was £1.38 a litre (unleaded) only a few weeks ago. Still, it doesn’t really affect me, as I only ever put £40 in anyway..😉

@bemusedwithlife Thank you. I shall. I love to over share 😂

@JWhitebread1 In international diplomacy anyone who knows what they’re doing pitches things in the way that their guests’ culture finds acceptable.. It’s also rich for anyone to try and defend this sort of behaviour by mr tangerine man as he’s so notoriously thin skinned - Obama 2011 anyone?

Okay, I think I need to explain something to any Japanese listeners. In American culture, very close friends often express affection through a practice we call "giving grief" or less delicately, "bustin' balls." We insult each other, make inappropriate comments at the other's expense, often at very inappropriate times, etc. It is frankly, one of the surest signs of trust and closeness between equals. We wouldn't do this with someone who WASN'T a very close friend and confidant. You see this more amongst men, and more in informal situations. Admittedly, you don't see it much in professional settings, and it almost never appears in international diplomacy, BUT, Trump is built different. I have no doubt, that's how Trump meant it. It's too on the nose to be anything else. He's trying to say, we respect you and admire you greatly, and we can banter like this, because we are equals. The correct response is to utterly ROAST or insult your friend back in response. This can even evolve into what is called a "game of dozens" which is a friendly contest to see you can insult their friend with the best, most scathing insult. I think I will stop before I have to explain "Your Momma" jokes, but I think you can get the gist. Please feel free to utterly destroy America with a clever insult in response.

@RpsAgainstTrump A 3” gold coin would contain around 20oz of gold so cost of gold alone around 90,000

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

@PyramidHead76 I notice their carrier group still 200km away from straits in case they get into trouble by coming closer

Meanwhile in clown news

@Lauren_83_ Enjoy your holiday and sod them! What’s the temperature like in Rome?

My DMs are mental, look I’m sorry but I’m on holiday, I’m not being ignorant but DMs aren’t a priority right now 😬

@besthebeast Thanks Simon.

@LessGrumpy Fingers crossed for you

@CageFooName Thanks. She couldn’t feel it at all on examination which is good. And she knows the surgeon who did my parathyroid surgery a few years ago and said if it had been there then he’d have seen on imaging and removed it so it’s recent.

@LessGrumpy OK that's promising then. The needle biopsy isn't bad, just in case that helps!

@arthistorynews @DavidRobjant The us education system is notoriously weak on geography

@DavidRobjant Yes.

Help me out here - it’s 400km away, at the other end of the Persian Gulf?

@h2av8tor @GlobalCrisisIn1 @Osint613 You’ll need to remove all ICBM early warning systems etc from Europe then. Loses you those few crucial minutes.

@GlobalCrisisIn1 @Osint613 I fully understand what NATO is, and I fully believe it is time for the US to leave it. Why should we stay? The USSR fell in 1991. Time for Europe to do European things and we'll do American things.

Trump: NATO nations are cowards

@mynameisgill Not for me thank you kindly

@history99917180 I’m assuming he doesn’t talk back or shrunk her clothes in a hot wash.

We have a day off together. Guess what we’re doing? Sometimes I think Sam likes Dave more than me.

@AspireTechno @EdwardJDavey Ed’s party can’t define a woman let alone identity one.

@EdwardJDavey Imagine not noticing how there are no women at prayer, and those in that were in the square were segregated. Imagine thinking that you are a liberal progressive politician whilst turning a blind eye to this.

Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics. Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.