Francie Brady
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@crazyforruthie @northumbriana @theiaincameron Aye there’s a bit of a circle, Banknock is the north east extent, then it curls round into those wee Coalburny bits of Lanarkshire where they say seeven and eleeven and the like, and down through wherever in Ayrshire the line is.
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@AngusMacTout @northumbriana @theiaincameron Oh, not sure, deepest darkest Ayrshire does a very fine line in ken too, but definitely wean and not bairn.
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Those of a certain age in Scotland will need no introduction to McCowan's Highland Toffee. The reassuring sight of the Hielan coo on yer play-piece* meant assured tastiness. But, the bovine symbolism of McCowan's was not accidental. In fact, it was historic acknowledgement.
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* Highland cow on your playtime snack
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@realhansard Folk that use tattooist disposable gloves to put toppings on baked tatties
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Items / descriptions that annoy me in pub menus:
- “Slaw”
- “hand-cut chips”
- “sriracha”
- slates, trolleys, baskets and other assorted items instead of plates.
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the roko's basilisk guys are so funny bc they correctly intuit that our lives will be controlled by a psychotic, amoral algorithm that hates humanity but they think some nerd in SF is going to build it on his macbook. it was already built, in 1602, by the Dutch
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@RobertSkvarla @DrJerroldCoe That logic is definitely ingrained in many other areas of the economy
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@DrJerroldCoe Look, it's fine if it wasn't made on US soil!
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I've never bought the claim that snuff films were only an urban legend. Not an above ground industry, certainly, but for nearly 70 years there was a market for stag films operating in near total secrecy. I find it hard to believe nothing rougher was ever made.
Jason Pargin, author of John Dies at the End, etc@JasonKPargin
Kids did you know that before the internet, it was highly unusual to see a real person die on video? They used to have urban legends about it, they called them "snuff films." Now we get autoplay videos of exploded soldiers & bloody mass shooting victims beamed right to our pocket
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@edenbound_ @jeevanrai They only exist to get better tearooms at English Heritage sites so unlikely
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i mean… are lib dem members not just bored of this twee, how-quaint-are-we act by now?
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🚨 WATCH: Ed Davey competes with Lib Dem MPs in a Bake Off competition to launch the party’s local election campaign
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@barneyfarmer Just like drug dealers scales were always broken in their favour 😄
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All the slip-ups go one way as per.
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🚨 NEW: The Met Police will reopen its investigation into the theft of Morgan McSweeney’s phone after admitting it logged the wrong address Officers reviewed CCTV from Belgrave Street in Tower Hamlets, not Belgrave Road in Pimlico, despite the phone containing the PM's number
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@RopesToInfinity They never want to fix it - who are they going to blame then?
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One of the problems Reform types will increasingly encounter with this apocalyptic rhetoric is that if you actually believe all this stuff, then their immigration policies are simply not going to be hardcore enough for the audience they're whipping into a frenzy
Ally Fogg@AllyFogg
Oh wowsers. I'm tempted to use the Simpsons "Stop, stop he's dead already" meme but tbqh I can't get enough of it. Would happily read a dozen of these archive.is/LPFyz
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@CaptainPog1 @usmanakhtar00 It’s on here if you search his name. If it was even a little funny he’d maybe have some defence, but it’s just sheer rotten bastard patter.
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@usmanakhtar00 Where is it published? Thought journos were saying was too bad to be published.
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just read the lord offord joke, much worse than i imagined
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@RobbieTravers @paulhutcheon @Malcolm_Offord Search on here rather than jumping to chew his boot. It’s not only in rotten taste, the joke was pish into the bargain. You’d be disappointed if a teenager told you it.
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@paulhutcheon Could you actually tell us the joke, please? Rather than rushing around smearing @Malcolm_Offord, could you publish the words so we might decide for ourselves whether a drunken bad taste joke in 2018 is worth destroying his entire career over?
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NEW: Scottish Labour say Reform Scotland leader Malcolm Offord must consider his position after telling a vile homophobic joke about George Michael.
I know what the "joke" was, and it is off the scale awful.
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@northumbriana @theiaincameron The ‘ken line’ is somewhere between Kilsyth and Banknock, but I think you might need to hit Denny before bairns come into the equation 😄
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@theiaincameron Oh indeed. And you need to map the ‘Bairn-Wean Line’ for us …
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"Who do you think I'm answerable to?"
Piers Morgan responds to Prof Marandi telling him he's at the mercy of 'the people that keep him on air'.
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@piersmorgan | @s_m_marandi
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Mark Levin abruptly cuts to a commercial break after telling Joe Kent to “talk more slowly” and focus on “one point at a time.”
JOE KENT: “Secretary Rubio said there was no imminent threat coming from Iran against the Americans.”
MARK LEVIN: “He corrected that.”
JOE KENT: “There was an imminent threat coming from the Israelis, who were going to attack [Iran].”
MARK LEVIN: “Hold on, hold on. We’re going to do it honestly. One point at a time.”
JOE KENT: “The Iranians had observed an escalation ladder. They hadn’t attacked us under President Trump.”
MARK LEVIN: “Can you do me a favor, and I don’t mean to be rude. Can you talk a little more slowly? I’m having trouble hearing. Take your time. Go ahead.”
JOE KENT: “Sure. When President Trump came into office, the Iranians knew that President Trump wanted to get a deal.”
“They observed the escalatory ladder very carefully.”
“They stopped having our proxies attack us like they were attacking us under the Biden administration.”
“And they got to the negotiating table with us about the nuclear agenda.”
“When the 12 Day War kicked off, and the Israelis started that, the Iranians still didn’t attack us.”
MARK LEVIN: “We have to take a break.”
The Vigilant Fox 🦊@VigilantFox
🚨 BREAKING: Mark Levin puts Joe Kent on the spot and repeatedly asks if he leaked any classified or confidential information. He asks him straight up: “Were you a leaker?” Here’s how the exchange unfolded: MARK LEVIN: “Were you a leaker?” JOE KENT: “I never leaked any classified information.” “The stories you’re reading are stories from leakers who are leaking… an investigation about me being a leaker.” MARK LEVIN: “So nobody has contacted you from Justice or the FBI or anything like that?” JOE KENT: “Nope.” MARK LEVIN: “Did you ever leak confidential? Let me do it this way.” “Did you ever leak classified information? You said no. Did you ever leak confidential information?” JOE KENT: “Nope.” MARK LEVIN: “Never?” JOE KENT: “Never.” MARK LEVIN: “You’re on the record… That’s a good thing, Joe.”
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@breadandposes I’ve recently cycled the mini ones into the snack slot of my meal deal.
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A food designed specifically to keep an oversupply of pork storable for longer rather than taste good has fallen out of favour drastically since we invented fridge freezer. More as we get it
Aidan James@mcandidate
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@RealismHelps @ostschlampe @FHawksworth Their budget was a quarter of a billion last year. They can create a few part time jobs if they want - that’s the bottom line.
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@RealismHelps @ostschlampe @FHawksworth You’re the one asking stupid questions. How tf am I supposed to know Southampton city councils budgets. I’ve just done a cost cutting exercise and created three jobs. Right wing manna. You do better.
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And herein lies the problem. You can lead the horse (employers) to water, but you can't make them drink. 21 year old disabled man did 9 months as a bin man for free but was not employed by the same council when he applied for the same job. No doubt the
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