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🇪🇺 Software Test Engineer @BJSSLtd . My views, etc. Father of daughters. Busy. I talk about my day job—sometimes—but I mostly just react to politics and memes.

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If being different is important to you, it's not hard to achieve. I think Groove Armada were onto something with that song...
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The age of average. My latest article is now live! TLDR: From film to fashion creative fields have become dominated by convention & cliché. In every field we look at, we find that everything looks the same. Welcome to the age of average. Let’s dive in.
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@msloobylou I've never understood this. A tenant paying rent at a lower rate is better than a no tenant at a higher rate, surely?
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@Tim_Oldland I hope it runs off a separate battery because if the car's completely dead and needs charging and... well, you finish the sentence!
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@angryaboutbikes People who think this is a numbers game that can be won by volume or attrition annoy me. Preparing and submitting an application is emotionally exhausting, if you care about the job you're applying for, and it's unrealistic to expect people to be able to do that daily for months.
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I love it when the Twitter timeline aligns:
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@Weeton64 Whereas everyone reading this knows the reason why: they were intentionally deleted by the user.
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@BerniceKing "Somebody's going to get something out of it, and it isn't 'going to be you." I'm borrowing that.
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@gregisenberg Do you know what would save even more time? Never applying to work for the kind of companies who think this would be an acceptable hiring practice.
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@fio_piccolo_ Pray they never procreate if that's their attitude to children.
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@Natt @MrKenShabby The first one. It's a non-starter because you used "rural" and "buses" in the same sentence. *Checks timetables* Yeah, we're safe.
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@depthsofwiki (whisper) It should be spelt Wikipaedia.
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@GeneralBoles Bloody Normans. Coming over here, enriching our language, establishing our legal system, compiling a big book of everything...
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@distinguishthat @brokenbottleboy Truly couldn't make it up, though Miss Money-Sterling comes close:
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@StevieBuckley @DorothyDotfiles And Dubai as a holiday destination. Holiday. Destination.
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@The_SummerMan Typo in first line: should be Oftorsten.
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@politic_animal Leeds bus station is on York Street before it becomes New York Street 😉
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@lkchdschh One of those canards that needs swiftly and forcibly debunking whenever it arises: there is no right to parking outside your own property.
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@brokenbottleboy Well, they do know their readership: decaying, declining, moneyed Shire Tories. That or they've been infiltrated by Viz and no-one's noticed.
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@JonnElledge I live within sight (and, on a quiet night, sound) of one of the oldest onshore wind farms in the UK, in upland Yorkshire, and it's just beautiful:
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@alisonkatebr I would be surprised if the cost of administering it, to try to weed out fraud, didn't far outweigh any losses that would otherwise accrue. Meanness, spite and nastiness ingrained in the system pour encourager les autres.
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@imdorissaturday @anxietyridden82 If that wasn't directed by Terry Gilliam then the director is clearly a fan of his.
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@sturdyAlex @ManCityCouncil What the Hellas going on?
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@WorldBollard This is Albion Street in Leeds. To the left (under the camera) is a multi-storey car park.
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@CRobertsonUK @brokenbottleboy @ReRead2021 Except Alexi Sayle: someone who has kept the faith.
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@tomthegrinch @NormandyOrBust Shroedinger's Immigrant (simultaneously taking our jobs and claiming our benefits) disappeared in a puff of logic.
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@brumcyclist @RantyHighwayman This was Leeds last year, days after a new two-way cycle track was completed. Note physically segregated carriageway (not just paint), and double yellows, and still they did this:
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@gdholtby @SwiftOnSecurity Also: ❎ Show hidden files I decide what gets shown.
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@PhilBuxton2 @fesshole The other £240 covers knowing exactly which part to get, how to get it, getting it, fitting it correctly, removing the old one, checking it all works again, ownership and guarantee of the work done, time, labour, overheads... but you do you.
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@LKTranslator "...and that explains my habit of hiding in freezers!"
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@Gustave_Lefevre @angryaboutbikes Bots don't understand the human condition.
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@jabba_steve @mlothianmclean @novaramedia Paid for your blue tick, did you?
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@CitizenUddin In this context, yes: when your green light shows, is your way clear? Don't proceed until it is. In any case, remember the hierarchy of road users.
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@IBLRG @SimonCalder As someone who lives in earshot of the Penistone Line, good luck with that!
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@Wombletom Little explainer for the hard of thinking: if you commit a crime, however minor, you are a real criminal.
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@miffythegamer The Wrecking Crew.
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@jodyaberdein And it was in Book1.xlsx on a pen drive all along.
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@SamFacto It's not for everyone but Wuthering Heights by Kate Bush never fails.
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What is the point of Ofgem?
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@IPhillips79 Really unfair portrayal of Bradford. It's much worse than that.
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@carljokl @goulcher @_SteveThornton Windsor and Eton have a Slough postcode so revenge is sweet.
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@ejhchess I don't say this out loud very often but the softer coup is the one which actually happened where everyone in a position of influence, when faced with the very real prospect of some mild socialism, did everything they could to stop him while pretending that they weren't.
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@VictoriaCoren The one and only response from the advocates is always "never did me any harm" thus proving it did, in fact, do them harm.
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@jnmaccoll @unfortunatalie @JonMarkDeane Could be. However, the only pub in our village closed four years ago but is due to reopen soon and there is talk of little else!
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@robmanuel Move to Scotland!
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@mikegallacher1 I guarantee there's a legitimate place to park within 5 mins of that spot.
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@johnandi @RachelWardbooks Not enough. They need to not be able to set up nice cushy jobs for themselves when they leave office either, nor—while in office—be able to influence what their family, friends, acquaintances, etc might receive as a result of Government contracts, etc.
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@NicholasTyrone And yet there is still is, living rent-free in your head.
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@marybaphomet Fortnightly covers the other definition.
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@fesshole If he makes less than £85,000 he doesn't need to be VAT registered.
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@brokenbottleboy I had to read that headline a number of times before I realised it wasn't a parody.
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@Dylillama @PassPixi @metpoliceuk @MPSBromley @theJeremyVine @MikeyCycling @n00dles71 Can't wait to overtake yet paradoxically plenty of time to brake-check and even park up hoping for "a chat" - these people are unbelievable.
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@lorenzo_hermoso As all Cambridge residents surely know: you have a car (if at all) to make journeys *out* of the city.
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@brokenbottleboy Gen X here. They're not Gen X. Not that it would normally matter, but if you're going to open an article with a basic factual error then it does matter.
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@gnomeicide @Byclemore @ormondroyd How a person can be anti-cycling while living in, working in, and allegedly representing Cambridge of all places, is breathtaking.
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@thomashallett The road may be private but if it's a public bridleway you can pass on foot, pedal or stirrup whatever the unofficial signage might say.
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@SkiptomyLoulou I wonder if the replies from Head Office were along the lines of "Thank you for your letter. We pinned it up in the break room and haven't stopped laughing at it all week."
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@WhenIsBirths The autocorrect from Harrow to Karen is just 👌
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@terryambrose64 @MikeyCycling The more he gets out, the more he catches. Have you thought this through?
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@domjoly Imagine if they repeatedly said "we only speak to journalists" until the penny dropped.
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@brumcyclist @RantyHighwayman However the parking wardens are pretty sharp round there and things settled down quickly. Hope things calm down for you there too.
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@SamAllardici1 @big_man_joshy It's not even gentrification (which involves doing up old building not knocking them down for rebuilding anew) but social cleansing.
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@ReiMurasame @rosagilbert The question was essentially: "What do think about this totally reasonable guy we've been monstering every day in the press?" With an implied dig in the ribs. Of course, Trump didn't know but any other President would have declined the comment anyway.
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@andrewpconnell @garius That's the right idea. We could with more people like Tony Hart in the world.
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@PFloppe @theAliceRoberts They just need to be ignored and not listened to, thus removing their reason for existing.
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@outonbluesix Bring back Moviedrome and extend it late into the evening.
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@IBLRG Impossible without first double-tracking. (Used to be fully double-tracked but there's only a couple of miles of passing loop left.)
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@HJAcivillibs @jjsmclaughlin Just what will it take to get her out of office and, preferably, into prison?
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@baratheongirl The "h" they drop from "herbs" is redeployed into "Anthony" just to really grind your gears. As for "vehicle" they practically gag on the word, so some sort of restorative justice is meted out.
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@anon_opin Looks like someone never learnt to wash up properly.
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@LucyWoodslucy70 Money can't buy taste.
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@gregoryBertran2 @jzux That's normal. You don't remember it *because* it's the same route each time. A lot of driving is mentally automatic. Try changing up your routine every now and then.
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@Melv137879 @joncstone Basic human right but you do you.
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@ThatSouthpawKid @alisonkennedy65 @katheder They did and that's why we have the government we have.
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@anon_opin Tell me you haven't been without telling me you haven't been.
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@EleanorRylance @BBCNews What happened to BBC News is I stopped warching it.
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@EdgeCGroup @SoVeryBritish You're doing coffee wrong. 3/4 of those tea claims apply to coffee.
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@thoughtrecord @naomicfisher Yes, but they're not adults yet. That's kind of the point.
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@LayeredStrange If you could bottle that sass, that would go somewhere.
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@karltaro @SquidyUK Of course not but then they shouldn't be paid to write about things they don't know about.
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@adilray @bbcquestiontime Jon Stewart couldn't have put it better (or more relatably for those unaffected): "You're tired of hearing about it? Imagine how exhausting it must be living it."
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@DavidJMcGaughey @stuheritage The production process for Peter Rabbit is powered by Beatrix Potter spinning in her grave.
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@GeorgeMonbiot The 2010s really were the lost decade. Let's not have another one...
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@flying_rodent And the cashier said "OK, so this disposable, plastic, throwaway world I inherited just magically appeared overnight?"
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@_aimeeconnolly @garius Joking aside, this is why I almost always buy cards of art prints with blank inside for your own message.
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@JCaramac All the sign means is that someone has just put themselves forward as prime suspect should anything happen to your car.
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@EdgeCGroup @SoVeryBritish Mornings: coffee. Afternoons: tea. I'll be calmer later 😉
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@LiamThorpECHO I'm embarrassed for anyone who works for them, advertises with them, sells their paper, buys it, or even reads it.
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@adamtranter Side note: I'd have no compunction showing the number plate. They're in public, it's evidence of wrongdoing, they're fair game.
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@fesshole With luck they'll just ask you to repay the money without involving the police. It's fraud.
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@YPLAC Whitehall Road, Leeds. Every working day for countless years now:
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@DrunkOnCats @doodlemancy We weren't designed.
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@cymrurouge That's nice for them. Meanwhile:
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@lindaarella It's like a shaky grasp of grammar is an indicator of something...
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@carlafrancome Drivers are afraid cyclists will slow them down when what actually slows them down is traffic.
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@BarbaraSutton15 Just say you don't like Eurovision and we can all just move on.
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@CyclistSurrey Nice one. Got to love the objections from random commenters here on aesthetic grounds, as if that's at all important.
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