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Philip Hawkins

@phawkins1990

Food, sport, history, leftward leaning. Father of 3, husband of 1. Ex-hospo now Head of Ops. Views my own.

Bath/Newcastle Katılım Ocak 2011
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Zito
Zito@_Zeets·
So, you can suspend a player for violating a code of conduct separately from what might happen with the police and the courts. I was told that this was impossible and that managers and teams have no choice but to continue fielding and championing the player.
AFC Bournemouth 🍒@afcbournemouth

Club statement: Álex Jiménez

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Tony
Tony@TonyB_1997·
@TiceRichard Stupid. Modern dryers cost about 30 quid more to buy and save you around 1 quid per load in electricity. Banning them is a win/win. You’ll be campaigning to bring back asbestos next.
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NBC Sports Soccer
NBC Sports Soccer@NBCSportsSoccer·
PURE PASSION. 📸 Newcastle fans showed out with an unbelievable display before kickoff against Sunderland in the Tyne-Wear Derby.
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Madeline Grant
Madeline Grant@Madz_Grant·
Depressing week in UK politics but Viz Magazine's finest letter never fails to raise a smile
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Old Downbadians RFC
Old Downbadians RFC@OldDownbadians·
This Genge pre match speech from Le Crunch is absolutely incredible. Easy to see why England came out so fired up. I have goosebumps sat at home watching this!
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Rana Ayyub
Rana Ayyub@RanaAyyub·
What a lede
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Vittorio@vittorioangelon·
Okay okay here’s the clip
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Callum Mason
Callum Mason@CallumCMason·
1) They take £31k, not 40 2) VAT is included in the £30k price 3) You can invest £20k/yr tax-free 4) No IHT unless you pass on more than the threshold 5) You can sell £1k of stuff tax-free 6) Correct tbf 7) You can take 25% of your pension tax-free. Apart from that, good tweet.
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
Went down the rabbit hole on this one. The answer is actually wild. 5,000 years ago, Sumerian merchants in modern-day Iraq needed a number that's easy to divide. They picked 60. It has 12 divisors (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 12, 15, 20, 30, 60). Base-10 only has four. That's 3x as many ways to split something evenly, which matters when you're dividing grain and wages and can't handle repeating decimals. The counting method is the best part. They used their thumb as a pointer on the three bone segments of each finger. Four fingers, three segments, that's 12 per hand. Track multiples of 12, on the other hand, and you hit 60. No pen needed. Merchants in parts of Asia still count this way today. The system spread from Sumer to the Babylonians, then eastward to Persia, India, and China, and westward to Egypt and Rome. By 1800 BC, Babylonian students were using base-60 to calculate the square root of 2 to six decimal places on clay tablets. One student's homework from 4,000 years ago, now at Yale, holds the most accurate computation found anywhere in the ancient world. The Greeks adopted it for astronomy, which locked it into navigation, cartography, and eventually clocks in the 14th century. People have tried to kill it. During the French Revolution in 1793, France mandated decimal time: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. New clocks, new laws, the whole thing. Lasted 17 months. Workers hated getting one day off every ten days instead of one every seven. They tried again in 1897. Scrapped by 1900. The metric system replaced feet and pounds across most of the world. But 60 minutes in an hour? Untouchable. 60 is just too good at being divided. You can split an hour into halves, thirds, quarters, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, or twentieths and land on a whole number every time. Try that with 100, and you get ugly decimals for thirds, sixths, and most common splits. 5,000 years of civilizations looked at that math and came to the same conclusion: 60 wins.
Yunie ૮ ․ ․ ྀིა@Hyeyunie

I googled why one hour is 60 minutes and one minute is 60 seconds and the answer wasn’t even that exciting

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Gerry 🏇💨💨💨
Gerry 🏇💨💨💨@gerryd84·
Never in my life have a heard a French Geordie accent until now 😂😂
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Sierra
Sierra@Sierra_rak·
It’s not the Winter Olympics without watching this clip (sound on) at least a hundred times Oh monsieuuurr
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Jon E
Jon E@JohnJoh53849444·
The question of underperformance comes up regularly when #nufc struggles on the pitch. I dug into the underlying club performance data to try to answer this question from an off the field perspective. I focussed on the period from 20/21 to 25/26 looking at: - club revenue 1/8
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