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@HopNApple

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I support the current 'thing'. Old school lefty. Patriot. Husband. Father. Businessman. Good at lifting heavy objects and putting people to sleep. Plus actor.

Joined March 2014
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@HopNApple
BenjaminB
4 months
@rakibehsan @MummyMay58 In fairness it sounds identical. This chap should apply for citizenship. I don't see why he can't? It's not clear from the article.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@Skrillexican @thewillchoy Says an American 🤣🤣🤣
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4 months
@nasdaqgaspack @Steve_Laws_ Only 73% in England are white British. It was 95% in 1991. Deny that trajectory?
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BenjaminB
2 years
@planetjedward Main one being you weren't asked because you're a talentless pair of clowns whose five minutes of fame ended over a decade ago?
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BenjaminB
10 months
@fesshole I ridiculed my father when he gave me a secondhand shirt from a charity shop as an Xmas present. He looked gutted. Looking back he must've been skint. I've felt bad ever since and feel really bad now he's gone. I never did apologise. If you've the chance, make it up to him.
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BenjaminB
9 months
@ZiadMurica @ghostbrowser8 @AfricanHub_ My local cathedral is a thousand years old. Didn't need slaves, Empires or colonies to build it:
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BenjaminB
1 year
@NorbertElikes @NoContextHumans Half of those are British inventions...
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BenjaminB
2 months
@raczylo @Bob_cart124 Might be a reason for that, chap...
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BenjaminB
2 years
@NqununuZA @fesshole Actually it's only in the US where the barbaric practice of genitial mutilation is observed for non-religious reasons; and contrary to medical advice on the matter, too.
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BenjaminB
9 months
@ZiadMurica @ghostbrowser8 @AfricanHub_ Deadly. Unless Britain had slaves and an Empire a thousand years ago (it didn't), I don't see why this would confuse you. Africa wasn't conquered and colonised until th late 19th century. Big Ben was already 50 years old when it happened 🤣
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BenjaminB
1 year
@janm18459 @exposing_white Who said anything about skin colour? Half the Channel hoppers are from Albania.
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BenjaminB
2 months
@OwenJones84 Owen "on the right side of history" Jones strikes again.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@FlorenceHRScott No respected historian I know of would be this subjective. Bizarre.
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BenjaminB
4 months
@HanTheHippy @fesshole And underestimates the fact that men will sleep with any old hog, so all women will always outperform men in that department if they want to.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@KellyKinetik @fesshole The honour actually belongs to Starbucks.
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BenjaminB
2 months
@RandomTheGuy_ @ykkswb The dude celebrating his "win" is cringe.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@BenjaminSpider @Skrillexican @thewillchoy Eh? You Yanks live on a stolen continent and have museums full of looted stuff. Pipe down.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@MaryForeshore @darrengrimes_ Bang on the money. The African slave trade dates to antiquity and was instigated by Africans. Slavery in Africa itself had been an endemic for all of recorded history. Britain stopped it.
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BenjaminB
10 months
@TherealNihal @govindsethunath Sellout because he doesn't support your racist rhetoric. Talk about clumsy langauge...
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BenjaminB
2 years
@bartis_audrey @ihateyuu2 @chaneltruffles @StassiLanoir @_Khaleelah Britain is 20 miles from France but I seldom meet French people...
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BenjaminB
9 months
@ZiadMurica @ghostbrowser8 @AfricanHub_ And the world's first sky scraper in northern, slave free, USA was 20 years old. Colonisation of Africa was far more recent than you seem to think, and brief as well, lasting under a century.
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BenjaminB
10 months
@kmacraeplockton @MichelleMone @CommunityNotes Nothing in that note is disputed. Both citations are factually accurate and from primary news sources.
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BenjaminB
4 months
@nasdaqgaspack @Steve_Laws_ You don't need to care, just acknowledge it's the truth. How this impacts the country is another matter, but denying it's even a thing is it odds with reality.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@OlowoErioluwa @FCB_ACEE @TeamCRonaldo No it isn't. It genuinely isn't.
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BenjaminB
10 months
@MarcDavenant Little bit of diversity never hurt anyone, but we're getting to a point where it's overtaking native cultures.and peoples. This isn't acceptable.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@AndrewGuilford Fact check: we do not give the Royals £345m a year or anything even approaching that figure. The Sovereign Grant is based on Crown Revenues. £80m last year. 75% of the Royal Estates operating income is taken by the government (approx £260 last year). That's right: they make £
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BenjaminB
10 months
@fesshole I've a great relationship with my 17 year-old but my 13 year-old is very much like this and it is depressing. Fortunately my youngest is six, so I still get to be his hero and overgrown playmate.
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BenjaminB
8 months
@SholaMos1 More patent nonsense. Want me to list black on white murders, many of them racially motivated, that you've never even heard of because the media subdues such reporting?
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BenjaminB
1 year
@narindertweets For someone who doesn't think themselves a foreigner you've sure used 'you' and 'your' a lot when referring to Britons. You've also referred to yourself as Indian more than once. Then there's the flag thing. What you think and feel, I sense, suggests otherwise.
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BenjaminB
8 months
@narindertweets Lol, the amount of lefties and minorities outing themselves as the cowards and traitors under that thread is amusing. And we're told they're as British as we are 🤣
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BenjaminB
2 years
@conservmillen So glad I now live in the UK, where the absolute worst outcome of such a confrontation would be a fist-fight and I don't have to worry about whether or not someone is packing.
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1 year
@JacobWh51879099 @HalAtTheMoon @JamesEsses What protections do you need? 🤣🤣
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BenjaminB
2 years
@beaueak @bartis_audrey @ihateyuu2 @chaneltruffles @StassiLanoir @_Khaleelah I should also add that 200,000 French people live in the UK yet, again, I seldom encounter any. Anyway, point being that geography doesn't automatically dictate exposure to other people and cultures.
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2 years
@KaeleyT As a man I can tell you that warm water does not do that.
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2 years
@AntonioSabatoJr I fucking love Chris Rock.
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BenjaminB
3 months
@KirkdaleBooks Hire her then, and she can lay waste to your collections
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BenjaminB
1 year
@BQComics @historyinmemes Shame he didn't listen to Churchill, who warned him of this invasion weeks before it was launched. He refused to believe it even when it was happening and sat in stunned silence for days.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@21stCAnglican @KonstantinKisin Amusingly, she was offended becauee she's British, but then took offence to her hair being moved to reveal her name tag due to 'cultural' reasons, when no Brit would ever take offence to this.
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5 months
@abdussalaamMMA @TRobinsonNewEra How do you know he's non Muslim? And white? He's light skinned but could easily be Albanian or Kurdish etc.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@nygee973 @TalbertSwan He was a Middle Eastern Jew and had a Hebrew name.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@fesshole Some of us have worked hard to live a dull life. Spent 20 years on the doors to supplement my income and clear the mortgage. Gave it up 12 months ago and often miss all the drama that came with it, but have my weekends back to spend time with the family and do normal things.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@narindertweets Do we think it might be for her own good? What kind of life can she expect to live here after that behaviour? She'd never get a minutes peace. Also, being born somewhere doesn't make you something. It's not just a bit of paper but how you feel. No chance she felt British.
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BenjaminB
8 months
@SholaMos1 @Femi_Sorry Says the descendent of slave owners/ traders, Dr Shola. The word 'slave' isn't the preserve of black people. It's not about you.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@lou_markets @jedapro19 @LayahHeilpern London has 80 Michellin Star restaurants. That's more than most countries. Never met anyone who doesn't love the food on offer in London. Doubt you've even been there.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@ClarityMediaCom Who's Tyler Perry?
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1 year
@DrProudman The people of Tuvalu have already addressed this. It's part of their culture and it would be a grace insult to refuse.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@jamesbirch11 @Suzanne11202 @LeoKearse @thezoeiqbal They're anti illegal-immigration but very much pro legal immigration. Learn the difference.
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BenjaminB
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@pbleic @Sargon_of_Akkad The British Empire isn't Britain. Will blow your mind to discover that even during its zenith the average Briton knew little about it and cared even less (according to Orwell and many others). Was the preserve of the upper classes
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11 months
@whitmorejon991 @fesshole Disparaging the Bro Code is a bootable offence.
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BenjaminB
9 months
@DalrympleWill How is it Islamophobic when it's perfectly true? She's lying. She hasn't once condemned Hamas or October 7th. Feel free to check.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@fesshole This is sweet. My eldest is 17 and youngest is 5 and they have the most beautiful relationship. Adorable.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@BarneyMarsh2 @andrewdoyle_com @Glinner @UnleashedComedy Beard: Check Bespectacled: Check Moobs: Check Every time.
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3 months
@chrislowndes @robertagayna Been abroad a dozen tines since Brexit. Not had any issues.
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BenjaminB
6 months
@narindertweets @CarolTurn No it doesn't 🤣 It's just our flag, ya whopper. Bears no relation to anything but that. By your logic most of the flags on Earth have racist or other problematic connotations...
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BenjaminB
7 months
@KoutureMag @DillyHussain88 If this is true how weak were those countries by comparison? Being conquered by a little island thousands of miles away. Shameful.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@jiJonathon @PhillipsBurge @SkyNews Yes, but they're still a family and real people. They're under no obligation to choose partners based on ethnic box-ticking.
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BenjaminB
8 months
@LoonyLobster @TPointUK That above has nothing to do with tourism as well you know.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@GirlFridayOnWed @jadenewart2 @JTPatchett Lol, genuine mistakes. Also, success? An unknown actress being nominated for a British award (which she didn't win) is hardly successful.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@RedCollectiveUK @_DaveTalbot Lol, claimed to be front line staff during the pandemic when in fact you'd been sacked before the pandemic. Cringe.
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BenjaminB
2 months
@fesshole I've two perfect children, one of whom is off to study law at a Russell Group Uni and one of whom has likely just smashed his GCSEs. Then we've the youngest, diagnosed with ADHD two years ago, who's an absolute nightmare. Presumably this owes to our laziness as parents?
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4 months
@nasdaqgaspack @Steve_Laws_ Well you obviously care in a fashion since you yourself pointed out NHS demographics, seemingly unaware that they mirror national demographics...
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BenjaminB
1 year
@NesrineMalik Alexa: show me a parent who does their child's homework for them.
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BenjaminB
2 months
@raczylo @Bob_cart124 Fits the description of the group who've a long history of hijacking and blowing up/ attempting to blow up planes. Sucks, but they've ruined it for all the good ones.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@sheed_rock @Adam_Cann @MelonieMac Exercise isn't even defined in the article. What sort of exercise? Body building isn't the same as jogging, for example. Also makes no mention of other lifestyle factors such as diet and alcohol consumption etc. Unless all variables are accounted for then it's junk data.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@Narco_Polo420 @jordanbpeterson @guardian @DouglasKMurray No heroes here, and a better analogy would be a cop who became the first cop in history to decide something was morally reprehensible before not only ceasing what they were doing themselves but putting their life and finances on the line to stop others from doing it.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@darrengrimes_ Fish are dying due to heat? Weather's been shite for weeks 🤣
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BenjaminB
9 months
@Timtom123 @hotdrinkformat @NxlAnglo @firstlegioncomp Imagining siding with people wielding machetes...
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BenjaminB
8 months
@AntiNewDems @I_amMukhtar True. Can't blame them. But I hope they also remember this the next time they tell us they're "just as British as us." Yeah? Prove it.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@Room_F48 @planetjedward Imagine siding with Jedward lol
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BenjaminB
2 years
@thehistoryguy @maritimetrust Why are you looking for/ at old bits of wood in the week that climate scientists laid out compelling evidence for an existential threat to life on earth as we know it. Wild.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@JolyonRubs What's wrong with being white and privileged?. Seems to me you're both of those things. Attacking yourself.
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2 years
@tdp2612 @fesshole You're confusing wealth with celebrity.
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6 months
@rakibehsan @Gerdundula1 Tbf, having a good punch-up is part of our working class culture and heritage. Stabbing each other? Acid attacks? Not so much.
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BenjaminB
11 months
@Bushra1Shaikh This is a football chant sang at many England games. You know that, right?
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BenjaminB
8 months
@hol40900 So what you're really saying is: the NHS isn't fit for purpose and we should all go private?
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BenjaminB
1 year
@JolyonRubs I reject the BBC, I reject the notion of a licence fee that is mandatory. I reject all of the talentless pocket's it lines and represents. I reject totally that I have an obligation to pay for your livelihood.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@ArchRose90 I'm a remainer surrounded by Brexiteers and gave up caring about it years ago. Never an argument then or since. More than unites us than divides us. Odd people.
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BenjaminB
11 months
@OwenJones84 Where was your fury when Hamas invaded Israel, Owen? The best you came out with: "yes that was bad. Anyway..."
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BenjaminB
3 months
@ShubhamTrivedii @Leonarda_Jonie Wasn't, actually. Most Indian's went their whole lives without seeing one. Europeans accounted for about 0.00000001% of the population.
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1 year
@WilliamFaix @Culture_Crit That isn't a beautiful building.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@MUFCNewton @tmuirhead05 @QatariFC Key witness, the victim, refused to cooperate because she decided being the punch bag of a multimillionaire was the better option. We all heard what he said and saw the results of what he did.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@shak_ja Get a grip. Loads of people own one of those 'fancy cars'. Half my neighbours. It's hardly a Bentley or beyond the common man. You'll find it's bullet proof and used for security, for obvious reasons.
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BenjaminB
11 months
@dwarfland @SohailSNAhmed Jews have lived in the region continuously for over 3,000 years. It's their ancient homeland. Arabs conquered and colonised it so are no better. Arabs were twice offered the better end of the two state solution but rejected it and chose war. Again and again.
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5 months
@themuslimvoteuk Amusing to hear a Muslim whining about colonialism. Don't know your own history, evidently 🤣
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BenjaminB
4 months
@EPLnews24_7 @TRobinsonNewEra Keep Islamists out of UK politics.
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BenjaminB
2 months
@clairebubblepop @jayjay749 He's already done the taking away. The figure he's quoting is the net figure. If you want the gross then ADD 500k Yes, over a million new immigrants, three years running now. The Home Office are giving out NI numbers like lottery tickets.
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BenjaminB
11 months
@yousefiaa @IDF Ah, looking at the scoreline rather than who's causing the issue/ violence. Not Israel's fault it's better at conflict. Palestine needs to wind its neck in.
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2 months
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1 year
@thelefttake @david_okla @darrengrimes_ Yeah, unfortunately you not condoning those articles doesn't make them go away lol. Just admit you were wrong.
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BenjaminB
4 months
@fesshole Same. Young women, and especially one's with blue hair, also tend to spout rubbish. In fact, most audience members do, along with most of the panel. The whole thing is a waste of time.
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BenjaminB
1 year
@BladeoftheS Don't talk shite. Australia is the other side of the planet. Between travel there and back (48 hours minimum) and time it takes to adjust for time difference it's a minimum five day commitment to watch a 90 minute game, and one which will mess your body clock. Absurd expectation.
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3 months
@axaxaxasfml @T234565432 @ExiledSorbus So you've not heard of English Common Law, Magna Carta, Parliamentary Democracy, The Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution and Industrial Revolution? You've not heard of Shakespeare, Newton, Bacon, Locke, Darwin, Faraday, Dickens, Tolkien, Orwell, Berners-Lee (be here all day)...
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2 years
@Briano1711 @kindanew @lisaobeanz Nobody has claimed a Commonwealth, which is an entirely voluntary organisation btw.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@vsrsus 'Only the fifth Englishman to score for a non British club since 2019' has to be my favourite pointless stat of all time.
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BenjaminB
8 months
@DreadnoughtRN @guardianopinion Definitely didn't. Not a chance. These anecdotes are always in Guardian articles like this and are highly amusing.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@michaellore @SanJoseSharks I'm certainly not a homophobe and have gay family and friends to prove it. However, I hate being compelled to do anything, never mind if it conflicts with any other beliefs I may have. If someone has to be compelled to do something then that's not acceptance. It's fascism.
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BenjaminB
2 years
@kelvmackenzie Issue wasn't that she told her to get off the pavement - the issue was that she forced her off of the SHARED pavement into an oncoming car when there was plenty of room for both to pass one another without incident.
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