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Philip White-Jones

@phil_wj

TKI at Virgin Atlantic. Organist at Lancing College. Occasional views of my own but mostly retweeting silly things.

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Tony Turner
Tony Turner@tonytiger67·
“Have you got everything for the match love? Tickets? Keys? Binoculars? Ghillie suit?”
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WhoRemembersPod
WhoRemembersPod@whorememberspod·
Election day today, so great excuse to post the greatest campaign video of all time
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InfoGram
InfoGram@_InfoGram_·
This is Massive from Italy 🇮🇹 🔥 A 49 year old Women is becoming the BIGGEST HEADACHE for 79 year old Trump 🔥 🇺🇸 Trump at 2:00 PM : “Meloni is not the old Meloni. I was shocked by that. I thought she was a brave person, but I was mistaken.” 🇮🇹 Meloni at 10:00 PM : Italy is not interested in what Donald Trump says. Italy has upheld all the commitments it has signed and done this especially within NATO. 🔥🔥 Spine is so strong that it refuses to bow down 💪🔥. Massive Respect 👌
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Philip White-Jones
Philip White-Jones@phil_wj·
@LindzzeB Latest stupid FAA rule is that I, as a qualified pilot and employee of an airline with a valid airside ID can’t be on the flight deck in American airspace. So no more observation flights for me.
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Lindzze
Lindzze@LindzzeB·
Do miss sitting up front, I always learnt so much 😍✈️ #avgeek
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Lyn🦋
Lyn🦋@_ayandamay·
Someone called Dr. Pepper "BBQ Sprite" and i can’t stop thinking about it...
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
The cathedral in this video is only standing because of one man. In 1906, a deep-sea diver in a 200-pound suit climbed down into pitch-black water under the building and started laying bags of cement by hand. Six hours a day. In total darkness. For five years. His name was William Walker. By the early 1900s, the cathedral was sinking. It was built in 1079 on what used to be a riverbed. The medieval builders knew the ground was soft, so they laid the foundations on wooden logs. That worked for 800 years. Then the wood rotted. Cracks opened in the walls. Some were big enough for owls to roost in. Stones started falling from the ceiling. The architect's report said the east end was going to collapse. The fix was supposed to be simple. Dig out the rotted wood. Pour concrete. But every time workers dug a trench, it flooded with groundwater. Even powerful steam pumps couldn't keep up. So the engineer in charge, Francis Fox, suggested something nobody had tried. Send a diver down there. A man in a sealed suit, breathing through a hose from the surface, could lay sacks of cement at the bottom of the trench. Once the cement set, the water could be pumped out and bricklayers could finish the job. Walker took the contract. He worked 20 feet under the surface. The water was so muddy that even at noon he couldn't see his own hands. He worked by touch. By 1911 he had laid 25,800 bags of cement, 114,900 concrete blocks, and 900,000 bricks under the cathedral. All of it by himself, in the dark. Every weekend he cycled 70 miles home to South London to see his wife and kids. Every Monday he took the train back and got back in the suit. When the work was done, King George V handed him a silver bowl in front of a packed cathedral. Walker said the whole thing made him uncomfortable. He died six years later in the Spanish flu pandemic. His gravestone in London reads: 'The diver who with his own hands saved Winchester Cathedral.' The statues in those alcoves were also carved much later than the building. They went up in the 1880s and 1890s. The medieval originals had been smashed in the 1540s. One of the new statues is Queen Victoria. So that feeling of 'this is incredible for something 500 years old' is only half right. A lot of what's in that frame is from the 1880s. And the building holding it up is only still standing because of one man and a hose.
World Scholar@WorldScholar_

It's unbelievable how this level of detail is possible today, let alone 500 years ago. How do you even fathom building something like this? Winchester Cathedral, England.

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Mr Pål Christiansen
Mr Pål Christiansen@TheNorskaPaul·
Oh he will like Italy, the men are very ‘handsy’. .🥴 I wonder if @GreggAWallace can speak Italian though as they are a bit funny about that. .
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Andy Bush
Andy Bush@bushontheradio·
What's the best PUB QUIZ TEAM NAME you've ever heard?
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Andy Bush
Andy Bush@bushontheradio·
Ripped my shirt on the corner of the 'egg shelf' in Waitrose. What's the most middle class injury you've ever had??
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Philip White-Jones
Philip White-Jones@phil_wj·
@VeryBadLlama If Paulette takes me I’ll join you and we can write ghostly sensible names in the condensation on the bathroom mirrors.
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Janel Comeau 🍁
Janel Comeau 🍁@VeryBadLlama·
the 2026 Atlantic hurricane names have been released, and I need to tell you all right now that if I get swept off this mortal coil by a storm named Kyle I am haunting the halls of the World Meteorological Organization until the end of time
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