Chris Lewis
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Chris Lewis
@TenaciousCEEE
The demon is a liar. He will lie to confuse us; but he will also mix lies with the truth to attack us. His attack is psychological and powerful.
Warrington Sumali Mayıs 2014
614 Sinusundan357 Mga Tagasunod

@cqcqcqdx ... which then would disappear the moment you powered down.
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🚨BREWDOG COLLAPSES INTO ADMINISTRATION WITH £500 MILLION DEBT — EQUITY FOR PUNKS INVESTORS TOTALLY WIPED OUT!
The once-rebel craft beer empire founded by James Watt has officially been placed into administration after racking up debts exceeding £500 million (£553.8m owed to creditors).
A pre-pack rescue deal to US firm Tilray for £33m (brewery + 11 bars) left a £480m shortfall.
Thousands of small investors who bought shares through the heavily-promoted “Equity for Punks” crowdfunding scheme have been told their stakes are now completely worthless.
38 pubs closed and 484 staff made redundant.
The anti-establishment brand that once valued itself at £2bn is in ruins.
£500 million pound debt...wow
James Watt and wife Georgia Toffolo (below)

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@AvonandsomerRob Since they don't define to what these numbers refer one could safely assume they are not prices. It would be interesting to test this is a court of law.
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@tomhfh If the engineer is unsure of the reason behind the fault, it may be cheaper to buy an entirely new unit. Unfortunately they don't operate on a "no win no fee" basis.
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🏴🇬🇧 1829. Five machines. One mile of track.
The world was never the same. 🚂
In October 1829 the Liverpool and Manchester Railway held a competition. The world's first inter-city passenger railway was nearly built. Nobody knew what should pull the trains.
The directors wanted stationary engines fixed to the ground. Hauling carriages with cables.
George Stephenson disagreed. The directors said: prove it.
A £500 prize. One mile of level track. Rainhill, Lancashire.
Ten entered. Five showed up.
One was powered by a horse. 🐴
The crowd favourite was the Novelty. Small, elegant, built in London. Never tested on a real railway before the day.
Then there was Sans Pareil. Heavy, dark, powerful. Built in Shildon, County Durham.
And the Rocket. Built in Newcastle by Robert Stephenson. George's 26-year-old son. Quietly confident.
The Novelty went first. The crowd erupted. Then its boiler joints failed. Then failed again.
Sans Pareil ran powerfully. Then its cylinder cracked.
The Rocket kept running. Day after day. Run after run. Hauling thirteen tons.
Then on the morning of the 8th of October they uncoupled the load.
And the Rocket ran free.
Thirty-two miles an hour. 🚂
The crowd had never seen anything move that fast.
The Rocket was the only locomotive to complete the trials. £500 prize. And the contract to build every locomotive for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.
One year later the railway opened. A Member of Parliament stepped onto the track. William Huskisson, the railway's most passionate supporter, became the world's first railway fatality.
The railway opened anyway. History doesn't pause.
The Rocket became the template for every steam locomotive built for 150 years. Within twenty years Britain had six thousand miles of railway.
It started in a field in Lancashire. With one family from Newcastle who believed a locomotive could win.
Did you know this story? 🏴🇬🇧
Nobody thought a locomotive could do it.
One family from Newcastle proved them wrong.
We tell the stories because we think they matter.
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Be Proud Of Us. 🇬🇧
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@zoomafrika1 The Mercator map didn't just distort sizes it shrank Africa to soothe a colonial inferiority complex. When your tiny peninsula looks bigger than the cradle of humanity, you start believing you're the center of the world. Classic white fragility in 16th-century ink.
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@Fontybits1 I normally keep a portative aluminium smelter in my knapsack. Raised a few eyebrows on the 1841 from Oxford road.
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@AdrianSalageanu @MyronVernis The elderly are being completely disenfranchised by modern tech. You can't even park you car without an app, and my mother does not own a smart phone...and if she did she would not be able to use it.
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honestly, watching my elderly parents and in-laws struggle with touchscreen tech, a return to the basics would be ideal for many people, especially in the cars.
bring back the familiar and simple to operate interfaces. Steering wheels with many small buttons and large touchscreens with submenus and updates all over the place seem nice but they are quite frustrating to use for the older generation
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@MyronVernis The late nineties. Peak in-car technology era. Modular ICE, basic mechanical controls. Functional. Upgradeable. Repairable.
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@thesundaysport Yes North Cheshire comes out smelling of roses once again
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@WhartoniteWG @VisionaryVoid If the lower bomber's controls were left in a neutral position, then inputs on the top bomber's controls would have had some overall effect on the pair.
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@VisionaryVoid Did Everyone survive?
How did he have any control of the lower bomber?
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The Pilot Who Landed Two Planes at the Same Time
In September 1940, over the skies of New South Wales, two Royal Australian Air Force bombers collided mid-air at 1,000 feet. A catastrophic crash seemed inevitable. But instead of exploding, the two Avro Ansons violently locked together, stacking like a horrific metal sandwich.
The engines of the top plane died instantly. Yet, beneath it, the lower plane’s engines kept roaring, essentially turning the entangled wreckage into a bizarre, accidental biplane. As the lower crew bailed out, their roaring engines were left completely unmanned.
This left 22-year-old Leonard Fuller stranded in the cockpit of the top plane. Realizing he had no engine power but fully functional flight controls, Fuller decided against parachuting out. He boldly took control of the entire screaming monstrosity.
Using the lower plane’s thrust and his own flaps, Fuller flew the locked aircraft for five agonizing miles. Miraculously, he executed a perfect wheels-up landing in a nearby paddock, saving tens of thousands of dollars in military hardware. Both planes were patched up and returned to active service.

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@JulesBywaterLee @364690 Sequestration of CO2 (the gas of life) is effectively evil.
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@364690 the underground storage will remove 3-4 million tonnes a year- a hectare of woodland once established can remove 3 tonnes
there are only 24 million hectares of land in the UK
it would require 1 million hectares just to deal with these cement and lime works it is being built for
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@narindertweets @SpeechUnion You must have been listening to a different interview.
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@SpeechUnion Matthew Wright handed her arse back to her!
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Matthew Wright proves our point on LBC this morning.
The official definition of Islamophobia — now repackaged as “anti-Muslim hostility” — is already silencing legitimate debate and criticism of Islam and its practices. It amounts to a de facto Muslim blasphemy law.
The treatment of Nick Timothy by Labour MPs is deeply sinister. The Shadow Justice Secretary criticised mass Muslim prayer in Trafalgar Square, was reported to the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, branded “Islamophobic”, and faced calls to resign from Labour MPs and even the Prime Minister.
This morning, FSU External Affairs Officer @_ConnieShaw was invited on to discuss the comments made by Nick Timothy. Matthew Wright didn’t want to hear it.
After the interview, he told another guest he had “closed her down” because she was “putting out anti-Muslim hatred”. Farcical.
In a crowded field, Matthew is this week’s runner up as for chief enforcer of the blasphemy law this week. 👏
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