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Philip Clarke @ClarkePhil

Likes coffee, cheese and consoles. Teaches chemistry, and the joy of Pokemon. Abuses power by singing loudly at schoolchildren. Once came 75th on Rockband.

Joined July 2009
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Philip Clarke@ClarkePhil
22 Feb 2018
As a teacher, I knocked myself out headbutting ceiling pretending to be a particle, star-jumping off a desk. I've set my arm on fire when lit ethanol trickled down sleeve, from my hand. I've burnt my ear listening if gas was coming out of a bunsen. Please don't give me a gun.
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Waiting for the Daily Mail to make a link between Green Party Membership and European gas prices. @ZackPolanski
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Hey, @grok, who was the most famous person to visit my profile? It doesn't need to be a mutual, don't tag them, just say who it was.
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen.
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Fiat Currency: an explainer for Rachel Reeves Government with fiat currency can create new money to fund the public services and investments. This is done through central banks which issue new currency to finance government spending. 1/x
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If you're teaching A-Level Chemistry rates and talking about making a hotel breakfast, this is the rare-determining step.
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For those people that get triggered by apostrophes in kids' menu or parents' evening in the wrong place, this one might send you over the edge.
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In Italy and the £3.55 Too Good to Go was quite generous.
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Andy Murray should be honoured for his services by displacing Ruby as cockney rhyming slang for going for an Indian meal.
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The New York Times just compiled a list of the top 100 books of the 21st Century. I've only read 15. Must stop reading books solely about Paul McCartney.
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The top 20
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David Brown@MrDavidEBrown
26 Jul 2024
That entire #OpeningCeremony was staged as elaborate cover to get the two British Airmen from Allo! Allo! out of Paris.
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8AM: Me thinking I'm getting brownie points for an early unloading of the dishwasher. 9:30AM: Lots of anguished sighs and clattering of crockery and cutlery, due to imprecise placement.
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Made a Lego tribute to my favourite beatle, today. Might take as long as Let It Be to get the other three completed.
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Emma Dent Coad
@emmadentcoad
4 May 2024
So WHY isn't this news?? Indies, Green and RA councillors now add up to an incredible 431. Labour has 1026. This is HUUUUGE!!! Wake up MSM, talk about it!! We're not going away, however much you ignore us! #IndependentsRising
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Daughter stitched me up on her iPhone with a photo that makes me look like Alan Partridge.
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My main thought when I saw the promo poster for Ripley was 'What's Andrew Scott doing in my nan' s house? '
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With such a rich seam of literary genius, it's quite hard to pin down your favourite William Shakespeare quote. Here's mine.
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Versace revisiting the girls' school shoe of choice in 1993 when I started teaching. All that's missing is the green Kickers label.
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Word to the wise. If you work in a school and don't wash your car, prepare to face the consequences
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