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Stephen Quadling

@squadling72

Love my wife. Love my boys. Love sport. Love music. Must try to work less and relax more. All views my own (unless I steal yours).

Katılım Nisan 2013
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Stephen Quadling
Stephen Quadling@squadling72·
@LiamJKennedy23 I know it’s daft, but if we had won the two games against Sunderland (which we deserved to lose because we were terrible), we would have finished 7th on 55 points and Sunderland would be 13th on 48 points.
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The full story.
Hidden History@HiddenHistoryYT

85 years ago today, in the freezing grey water between Iceland and Greenland, the most famous warship in the world died in under three minutes. HMS Hood. 48,000 tons. The pride of the Royal Navy for twenty years. The ship British schoolchildren drew in their notebooks. "The Mighty Hood." She was hunting the Bismarck. At 05:52 on 24 May 1941, Vice Admiral Lancelot Holland gave the order to open fire at 26,500 yards. He was closing the range hard on purpose, because Hood's weak deck armor could not survive shells falling from above at long range. He needed flat trajectories, and he needed them fast. He was three minutes too slow. Bismarck's fifth salvo straddled Hood as she turned to bring her rear guns to bear. A single 15-inch shell punched through her thin armored deck and detonated her aft magazines. Witnesses on Prince of Wales described a column of flame that rose higher than the mainmast, eerily silent at first, the sound arriving a moment later. Hood broke in two. Her stern rose vertically out of the sea, guns still pointed at the sky, and slid under. Her bow followed. Of 1,418 men aboard, three survived. Signalman Ted Briggs, Able Seaman Bob Tilburn, Midshipman Bill Dundas. They floated on a raft of debris in near-freezing water, watching their ship's oil burn around them, until the destroyer Electra found them two hours later. Briggs was 18 years old. He lived until 2008, the last man who had stood on the Mighty Hood. The Bismarck won the battle. But Prince of Wales, only just commissioned with shipyard workers still aboard fixing her main guns, had landed three hits before retreating. One ruptured a forward fuel tank. Bismarck began trailing oil across the Atlantic like a wounded animal. Churchill's order to the fleet was simple. Sink the Bismarck. Every available British warship turned to the chase. Three days later, at the edge of the Bay of Biscay, a Swordfish biplane from HMS Ark Royal, flying through a gale at near sea level, dropped a torpedo that jammed Bismarck's rudder hard to port. She could only steam in a slow circle, straight back into the Royal Navy. King George V and Rodney closed at dawn on 27 May. They fired on her for ninety minutes. Bismarck absorbed over 400 shells and at least a dozen torpedoes before she rolled over and went down with roughly 2,200 of her crew. The Royal Navy answered for Hood in 72 hours.

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Hidden History@HiddenHistoryYT·
HMS Hood in stunning color footage. What a beautiful ship she was 🇬🇧
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@NUFC Terrible end to a disappointing season. Lots of work to be done in the summer.
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Defeat in our final game of the 2025/26 season. ⏱️
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Stephen Quadling@squadling72·
@Keir_Starmer Why is this match any different to any other match? TNT pay a huge amount of money for the tv rights, why should they give it away for free?
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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
Football should bring people together, not shut them out. For the first time since the competition began, fans won’t be able to watch the Champions League final for free. That’s not right. This is bigger than wanting to watch Arsenal in this historic final. It’s bigger than one club. Hardworking people shouldn’t have to fork out for a subscription to watch this match. I urge TNT Sports to reconsider and make the final next Saturday free to watch.
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Ian Miles Cheong@ianmiles·
Another Tuesday in Bradford. Milad Panjshiri, 22, an Afghan asylum seeker, walks into a Morrisons with a six-inch knife. He taps it against his leg. Waves it at a female worker. Knocks over the wine shelves and starts stabbing tinned goods. Staff pull the fire alarm and evacuate weeping customers. His grievance, apparently, is with King Charles. Police arrive. Panjshiri is arrested. In court his lawyer pleads mental health, and notes that no member of the public was actually attacked, only the cans. The judge calls it "a very troubling offence." Panjshiri declines to attend his own sentencing. He gets 18 months and will be out in nine. This is the settlement Britain has arrived at. A man the country did not invite brandishes a blade in a Yorkshire supermarket, screams about the King, and walks out with a sentence shorter than a car lease. Staff go back to work. Customers go home and explain to their kids why mum was crying. Panjshiri understood the arrangement best of all, which is why he could not be bothered to show up to court.
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Stephen Quadling@squadling72·
@AllisonPearson This is what pisses me off, they take all of our money off of us, give us a little bit back, give themselves a massive big pat on the back and expect us to be grateful.
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Allison Pearson@AllisonPearson·
Does the Prime Minister know how many families are cancelling summer holidays because energy bills and increased taxes have cleaned them out? A few bus fares for kids won’t touch the sides of the cost of living crisis caused by his criminalily inept government.
Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer

Every family should enjoy the summer without having to think about the pressures of the cost of living. That’s what our Great British Summer Savings package is all about.

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Keir Starmer@Keir_Starmer·
Nine years on from the Manchester Arena terror attack, my thoughts are with those who lost their lives, the survivors, and their loved ones. Last year I was proud to deliver on my promise to Figen Murray to introduce Martyn’s Law, in memory of her son Martyn Hett. Martyn’s Law will help save lives by making sure venues and event spots have clear plans in place and are ready to act if the worst happens.
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Stephen Quadling@squadling72·
@NUFC Well done lads. Gutted for Lewis Hall though, easily the best English left back.
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Dan Burn 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Anthony Gordon 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Tino Livramento Our Three Lions heading to the World Cup! 🙌 Congrats, lads! 🦁
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The Inbetweeners Fans@InbetweenrsFans·
Every British PM as told by The Inbetweeners
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@ColinBrazierTV I assume that the British Police were totally unaware of this until they were informed by their Belgian counterparts 🤷🏼‍♂️
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