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@DesmondSwayne That's fine by me.... give me all my NI contributions back and I will buy my own annuity. I think the 10% per week I have been paying for 44 years, plus interest etc. should be a pretty penny by now.

If, like me, you were born in 1956, you’ll receive almost £300,000 more in benefits than you’ll pay in taxes in your lifetime State Pensions make up a huge chunk of that Long term, we simply can’t afford to sustain the Triple Lock’s generosity Blog: desmondswaynemp.com/ds-blog/1956/?…

@OverclockersUK Power over Water

@OverclockersUK That's POW

Uhh... is this normal? 😅

@Kairo_Anatomika Our lice evolved and adapted with us. The original lice were whole body lice when we had full hair all over. Over time they evolved into clothes lice, pubic lice and head lice

Okay so.... humans are the only known host for head lice. The species of lice found in human hair are not found on any other creatures..... they don't survive on other creatures. Archaeologists have found head lice on Peruvian mummies..... so this implies that they actually came from the americas. So then, does that mean before Europeans began colonizing North and South america, there was no head lice in europe? So medieval peasants, ancient greeks, ancient egyptians didn't have head lice? Did head lice evolve in the americas, or that they cross the bearing land the bridge into North America with their human hosts?

@4thOfJuly365 Your own guts after you have been stabbed

Some will say Legos. I say a Hot Wheels car.

@PaulMarcoe I don't know about the US but here there was Nuclear War, Electricity sub stations, Being burned to death, being kidnapped, being run over getting an ice cream - all courtesy of public information films.

4 things I think most GenX was afraid of. Acid Rain Quick sand Bermuda Triangle Amnesia What else?

@FelipeLupion That's not a LAN party. Where's the pizza, beer, quake server and token ring network?

Nem fodendo que isso aqui é real. Os caras realmente botam película na tela e cobertor na cabeça pra não ser telado em campeonato de lan house? Kkkkk Fala pra mim que isso é IA, por favor 😂 o último com o monitor deitado hahah

@DShamen @garyboy1477 @1972_rickyb @DaleAC93 Yes, 100%

@garyboy1477 @1972_rickyb @DaleAC93 The most influential Manchester area band of the past 50 years is Joy Division/New Order. However, as an independent label band for years, their sales don’t reflect in the same way (although they sold plenty). Never ever got the fuss over Oasis at all, load of shite.

Unless you are from Manchester noone calls Manchester the second city. Less than half the population of Brum.

@timdavies_uk A broken ruler is a bit excessive but a pencil sharpener, that's a different kettle of fish. The Monster Munch is left at base for when you get back, job done.

No lies detected 👍😅

@ThisIsIreland3 Nope

Are you on the list? 🇮🇪☘️🇮🇪☘️

@ReemAmirIbrahim Piss off, my taxes and NI contributions have been funding benefits for layabouts and scroungers all my working life. I just want what society agreed to give me in return.

Millionaires should not recieve taxpayer funded benefits. Why is this so controversial?

@SubRosaMagick Native English speakers will know most if not all and will have used / heard some of them quite regularly. I personally have used about 7 or 8 of them this week. If you're not a native speaker or you are a child of someone who is not a native speaker, then good luck catching up.

Be honest… does ANYONE actually use these words in real life? 🤣 Bamboozled Flabbergasted Discombobulated Shenanigans Cattywampus Lollygag Malarkey Kerfuffle Brouhaha Nincompoop Skedaddle Tomfoolery Flibbertigibbet Pumpernickel

@Saskiaaa_____ Wages rises are only guaranteed to public service workers and those on minimum wage and benefits. The rest of us have to suck lemons. No pay rise for 10 years and counting..... almost level with minimum wages, so crossed fingers.

£26436.80 is the new min wage annual salary (40 hrs p/wk). And as the min wage rises, regular salaries don't. So many people will begin to ask themselves 'why am I working this highly stressful job that needed qualifications and a tonne of bullshit paperwork and police checks just to earn 5k more a year than I would stacking shelves at Lidl?'

@RobLooseCannon We all know what the British establishment thought of the Irish at the time. telescoper.blog/2018/09/04/cha…

Today in 1849, hundreds of starving men, women, and children set out on a harrowing overnight death march from Louisburgh, Co. Mayo, to Delphi Lodge, a hunting retreat nestled deep in the mountains. They had no choice. Two government officials had arrived in Louisburgh to determine whether famine relief, an essential lifeline of grain, would continue for the destitute. Yet, without conducting an inspection, the officials departed for Delphi, ordering the desperate crowds to follow. Their names were Captain Primrose and Colonel Hogrove. The people were given a deadline. Present themselves at Delphi Lodge by seven o'clock the following morning, or be struck off the relief list entirely. A timed ultimatum, dressed up as procedure. In the darkness, hundreds of emaciated people, described as "living skeletons", struggled through the treacherous Doolough Valley. The brutal wind and rain showed no mercy. Some were found afterwards with grass still in their mouths, eaten in a final, desperate attempt to keep moving. By morning, at least 16 lay dead along the roadside, their bodies abandoned to the elements. Among them was a woman named Dalton, found lifeless with her son and daughter. Two unnamed men, who perished just a mile from Louisburgh, were left exposed for days, prey for dogs and ravens. Those who survived the march and reached Delphi Lodge were told the officials could not be disturbed. They were at lunch. When the meeting eventually took place, the people were sent away with nothing. The whole affair might have been quietly buried in that mountain pass, forgotten like the dead, were it not for a letter published in the Mayo Constitution, signed only as "A Ratepayer." The local relieving officer, Michael Carroll, was later dismissed. His books were not in order, which was offered as the official explanation for why no inspection ever took place at Louisburgh. Carroll lost his job. Primrose and Hogrove kept theirs. The Doolough Tragedy became a searing symbol of government neglect and cruelty during the Great Famine. A memorial stone near the lake now stands as a solemn reminder, etched with the haunting words: "How can men feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings?" From 1988 onwards, the harrowing inhumanity has been remembered with an annual Famine Walk, retracing the desperate route of those who perished. Figures such as Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Waylon Gary White Deer of the Choctaw Nation have walked in solidarity. Their nation donated to Irish Famine relief in 1847, having survived the Trail of Tears themselves just years before. In 2013, Delphi Lodge, once the site of such inhuman indifference, finally acknowledged its past. For the first time, it welcomed the walk onto its 1,000-acre estate, stating: "By opening our gates to the Afri Famine Walk, Delphi Lodge is acknowledging our part in what happened in 1849, instead of ignoring it." Today, a Famine Exhibition Centre in Louisburgh tells the full story. Support the DTM Book ko-fi.com/buchanandublin…

@JayDelhiBoy @bo66ie29 Please don't blame the ordinary British people for this. The British ruling classes did the same to their own people just to make a few extra pounds.

@bo66ie29 The UK, then, was used to enjoying the theft and loot that didn’t belong to it, like there is no tomorrow. Now the reality of life has found them. U ppl are paying for your sins and it has only just started. U caused the Bengal famine and starved millions to death. Time’s up!

The same street, 70 years apart. Hale Road, Walton, Liverpool. It looked immaculate in the 1950s compared to today. Why did people stop caring about their communities?

@JohnCleese I'd settle for a croque monsieur.

And from the French. They colonised us for three centuries ! That's got to be worth a few baguettes

@MedievalScholar Mac Fhíodhbhuidhe

People speak often of what your favorite sword says about you, your favorite helmet and so on. Pick your favorite coat of arms, it says a lot about you.

@justmanutd4u One of Tony Curtis' best films in my book. Great film, great cast and so enjoyable to watch when I was a kid.

@chefsevenn Yes

Liver and Onions... Yes or No? 🤔

@Oceanbreeze473 One of my hobbies is cleaning up and refurbishing old tools. This lot would occupy me for quite a while so all I see there is lots of fun.

First thought?