David Moray

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David Moray

David Moray

@david_moray

Katılım Kasım 2017
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@ladygreenkirtle I’ve seen same hairdresser every six weeks for 20 years, more often than I see many friends. Conversation (via a mirror!) is always quite pleasant and unforced but I lose track of time. I thought I remembered she’d installed a new kitchen recently but was 15 years ago.
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The Lady of the Green Kirtle
The Lady of the Green Kirtle@ladygreenkirtle·
I have to get my haircut today, possibly my least favourite thing to do 😭I hate thinking of things to say to the hairdresser, I hate people poking around my hair, and I hate staring at myself in the mirror until I notice all the things I don’t like about my face
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@QcWynter On the whole I’d prefer at similar quality level two different 3 bottle cases to one 6 bottle case just for variety so suits me.
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Colin Wynter KC
Colin Wynter KC@QcWynter·
The 3 btl case of wine has long been with us but in same way as the 6 bottle case exerted dominance over the 12 btl case in around 2009 (I stand to be corrected as to precise date), the 3 btl case now seems to be trying to displace the 6 btl case. All to do with price of course.
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@PhilipHensher In second sentence I would prefer to write : He said ‘It was quite mad.’. but I would be looked at askance.
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Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher@PhilipHensher·
I've just been overruled on a punctuation point. Apparently if you're quoting an incomplete sentence, it ends inverted comma full stop; if complete full stop inverted comma. Did everyone know this apart from me? He said it was 'quite mad'. He said 'It was quite mad.'
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@holysmoke @MannGeorgia These Reithian strictures are uncalled for. Georgia imparts a fair amount of interesting musical information and observation with a gently humorous touch. It’s a good programme.
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Damian Thompson
Damian Thompson@holysmoke·
@MannGeorgia Sorry to be rude but it’s just awful to hear the new house style of Radio 3.
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Nikki da Costa
Nikki da Costa@nmdacosta·
Tomorrow, the Lords debate another personal appointment the Prime Minister will make. An Assisted Dying Commissioner who will oversee the whole system and personally appoint the panels. A sensitive role subject only to the PM's judgement. This Bill is a mess
Kate Ferguson@kateferguson4

Peter Mandelson’s appointment as US ambassador was a political appointment by the PM. Therefore, there was no “fireside chat” to check things out. Civil servants told it was the decision of PM and to be enacted. (Revealed to Commons by John Whittingdale from FCO committee)

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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@daisyldixon I'm sure you're right. Mill has early feminist credentials as author of Subjugation of Women. People (men) can and should be exhorted to be better but what should be the focus of proscription and legal remedy if all AI can do this?
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Dr Daisy Dixon
Dr Daisy Dixon@daisyldixon·
John Stuart Mill, a father of freedom of speech, whose philosophy I’m sure would seem reasonable to many of the people accusing the crackdown on X/Grok as an ‘infringement’ of this right, would probably *not* be ok with you all digitally undressing children and women
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@VictoriaCoren @BBCTwo Could have been better constructed. You should have started with four winning third place playoff teams, then you would have two new semi-finals followed by a crowning third-place playoff between the losers
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Victoria Coren Mitchell
Victoria Coren Mitchell@VictoriaCoren·
The last new #OnlyConnect special of the year is on tonight! Even more important than the Third Place Playoff, it’s the THIRD PLACE PLAYOFF PLAYOFF! If you like threesomes, tune into @BBCTwo at 8pm.
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@hoffman_noa She also came over as much more in command of her role than Lindsey Hoyle has ever done. Does a much better job.
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Noa Hoffman
Noa Hoffman@hoffman_noa·
I don’t want to give any air to or share the disgusting racism against Nus Ghani But I do want to add my voice to the number of women admiring her absolute slay of a look while in the Speaker’s Chair yesterday Make up, earrings and tie looked SO good 🥰
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Science girl
Science girl@sciencegirl·
What’s missing
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@providenceluvr Both Houses, and even more so the Scottish Parliament, are drunk on sententiousness and no longer capable of drafting considered nuanced legislation likely to command general assent
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@daisyldixon Sunsets seem to be enhanced rather than diminished by photographic or painterly representation. Like bowls of fruit, it (naively) occurs to me
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Dr Daisy Dixon
Dr Daisy Dixon@daisyldixon·
sunsets are often used as examples to show that beauty is in fact not in the eye of the beholder but is an objective, communal, and ancient experience that we all share
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@BarbaraRich_law @CharlieHowarth1 Whatever the pressures giving rise to guilty plea, it’s hard to credit that she really did intend to incite racial hatred. And hard to see how such intent could have been demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt had she not pleaded guilty.
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
@CharlieHowarth1 The Court of Appeal heard from her and thought she was quite intelligent enough to understand what she was signing. And she had quite a long time to think about it - it didn’t all happen under time pressure on one day
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Barbara Rich
Barbara Rich@BarbaraRich_law·
In her Daily Telegraph interview today (screenshots 1, 2), Lucy Connolly claims that the 31 month sentence she received was “a huge shock”. But the Court of Appeal (screenshots 3, 4) disbelieved her evidence that she did not understand the consequences of deciding to plead guilty
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@Joanna__Hardy Friend of a friend was pulled aside because x-ray had picked up a large kitchen knife done the back of their laptop. Response was ‘Ooh I wondered what had happened to that.’
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Joanna Hardy-Susskind
Joanna Hardy-Susskind@Joanna__Hardy·
Grave faces at airport security. They all look at me. A supervisor is called. They pause my bag. They pull me to one side. They ask about circuit boards. About electric switches. The culprit?
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Science girl
Science girl@sciencegirl·
Choose a name for this cat
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@ArmandDAngour Then there’s Caesar salad, presumably to be pronounced in an Italian style after its inventor Caesar Cardini
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Armand D'Angour
Armand D'Angour@ArmandDAngour·
@UpdatingOnRome Can’t stand this kind of pseudo-pedantry. There’s a long tradition of pronouncing Caesar to rhyme with geezer. Similarly Tiberius, Claudius, Nero, Titus - all different from ancient pronunciation. And Jesus, of course.
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@providenceluvr Oysters look delicious. Do you shuck them yourself? I don’t buy them but only because I don’t think I can!
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David Moray
David Moray@david_moray·
@BidC1 @FraserNelson @lara_spirit Probably taken for granted you have to pay. Or maybe your health insurance there will pay for assisted dying rather than continue to sustain the costs of meeting claims to keep you alive. One wonders.
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