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@Machooo @OnlyTheFacts111 @aedison been having this argument my entire adult life. I also went to a school called "X High School" and there are 12 named like that in my city alone. ppl always foam at the mouth like i'm using an americanism but ?? what do you want me to call it, it was written on my jumper ??

@OnlyTheFacts111 @aedison I went to HIGH SCHOOL in Lancashire, my school was literally X High School and people would say high school and secondary school interchangeably. Either way, what a weird thing to be so hostile about

funny that there are two full episodes of adolescence that basically don’t exist. they made two good ones, a really compelling procedural and a thrilling character study, and then an hour each of “british schools are unfit for purpose” and “man’s bleakest year ever gets bleaker”

@Alt_Auric37 @S75864926Judith @PannonianMantis nah I have the same thing. my last molar never appeared and neither did my wisdom teeth. dentist did x rays lookin for them and was like "oh. right. i read about this. huh."

@S75864926Judith @PannonianMantis that is objectively a lie

Never, and I mean NEVER under any circumstance get your wisdom teeth removed

@bj2rn @pitdesi @TheHouse385 why would you need to buy contacts abroad?? there are dozens of websites that do next day delivery contacts in the UK?? you literally just select your prescription and put it in the basket

Eyeglasses aren’t opioids. There’s no reason we should need to see an optometrist to buy glasses. You don’t in the rest of the world, and you didn’t in the US either until optometrists lobbied aggressively under the banner of “public safety.” For decades, opticians, trained with just a few weeks of coursework, tested vision and sold glasses directly, just like they still do in Europe, Asia, and most of the world. Outside the US, vision correction (opticians) is kept separate from medical eye care (ophthalmology). In the US, we created the field of optometry and then they lobbied hard to take over vision correction because there is more money in selling glasses than in doing medical tests. By the 1970s, every state required prescriptions, shutting out opticians and cementing an optometrist monopoly. The result: in Europe you can walk into a shop, get tested, and leave with glasses for about $50 all-in. In the US, you are forced into a $200 exam and $300 frames. What should be simple and cheap has been turned into a racket, and consumers pay the price. Much like barber licensing (some states require 2,000 hours of training just to braid hair), this kind of gatekeeping drives up costs without protecting consumers. Vision correction should be cheap and accessible, not locked behind a monopoly!

@virginmedia @nieuwenhui2 VERY liberal use of the term "from time to time" there lol. Over a MONTH of no TV from the TV company 💀 Customers in the area are still paying, so where's that money going? Might be a nice idea to use it to pay some engineers to fix the issue!

We do apologise that you're currently impacted by an area outage and that the estimated fix time has been pushed back. We can assure you that it's not the level of service we aim to provide. Whilst we do our best to keep any faults and downtime to an absolute minimum, unfortunately sometimes service issues do happen from time-to-time. We'll always aim to have you back up and running ASAP, but, in some instances, this can take longer than we'd like. You can read about our auto compensation scheme (virg.in/autocomp)

This is getting out of hand, @virginmedia …WTAF is going on? Now without proper TV for a month! And these bland messages only make it worse. How about an actual explanation for a change?

The Madleen, a UK-flagged aid ship heading to break the illegal siege on Gaza, has been threatened by the Israeli government. @GretaThunberg, @RimaHas & others are on board. The UK must act: defend the ship & crew or remain complicit in Israel’s blockade, aggression & genocide.

@JimJones1425 @dav64635 @eff_hey no lol. I mean when I did the coach journey obviously. twelve hours on a megabus is no way to live!

@Oh_ItsJustKim @dav64635 @eff_hey The flight was twelve hours?!

gotta be honest here, my sympathy for anyone flying from London to Edinburgh is very very limited

@JimJones1425 @dav64635 @eff_hey when I did it, it was TWELVE hours 💀

@dav64635 @eff_hey Lmao. Imagine doing that when you can fly in an hour

@FennieBee @eff_hey @Sneb79 8-12 hours vs 1 hour 15 🙃 Used to be a Megabus Gold sleeper coach, but they dropped it. Can take even longer if you get stuck with a coach with no toilet and have to make scheduled stops all the way up the country 👌👌👌

12 gays of christmas 2024 is LIVE and we're starting with a number from @adamaganza and @HarleenStuff that I have zero context for but did enjoy the hip action on: youtu.be/zxEjTNyYzL0?si…

@CaptainKrail take em to a cobbler

I swear to GOD shoes are getting made worse and more expensive. These are my 4th pair in 2 years and were $200. I got them 2 MONTHS AGO!?!!

@NotLikeTheCar absolutely love the choice of pterodactyl!!!

@Seanchuckle it was the ULEZ cameras that did it!

Where did the conspiracy theory that 15min cities will mean 15min radius cells that you're not allowed out of originate?

@CaptainKrail don't even know how to explain to people that the delivery of these two basic sentences made me laugh so much that we quote them almost daily

@CaptainKrail SO good. and stephanie koenig is genuinely one of the funniest people i have ever watched in every single thing she does. she can dominate a scene with a single facial expression. i am such a simp

Truly one of my fave shows of the year, it's so funny and immediately has been put on my rotation, this truly is the Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo

@Millair444 actually, if you chose to buy a new car each year for 15k, I'd think you were absolutely mental, hypercosumnerist, financially careless, and probably a really bad driver.

If I chose to buy a new car each year for 15k, no one would bat an eyelid. Because I choose to spend it in fees because I don't want the council telling me where my child will go to school, some people insult me for it 🤷🏼‍♀️

My husband and I didn't have children until we were 38,so we'd be at a stage in our careers where we could afford ind. school fees.There was no luck or privilege involved. It was a plan that we worked hard for, because we thought we lived in a country where hard work/plans=choice

I better go superviral for this...

@CaptainKrail @adamaganza omg not the ✨️Mites Caused by Condensation✨️ !!!!

@adamaganza And we found a new species of bug which were Mites caused by Condensation

@calumofstewart omg YAAAAAAAAAS Cal!!!!!!!

@robolger @noahfinnadams 5'5", blue eyes

@noahfinnadams I'm looking for a no an finance

such a new and creative way of spelling my name

@DelBoyHazard @alexarmstrong No. By tourist tax he means tourist tax. The kind implemented by the places listed in his tweet. Where tourists are charged a flat fee per person per night on arrival to their accommodation.

@alexarmstrong Explain how... if by tourist tax you mean higher prices in cities frequently visited by tourists then London matches that quite comfortably. Apart from that I never had to pay a tax for turning up.

Why don’t we introduce a tourist tax for the UK? In 2023 we welcomed 38 million tourists. If they all paid £30 we would generate £1.14 billion in revenue. This is common practise in the EU and hundreds of places over the world.