Vine wrangler & dilettante

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Hee is a better physician that keepes diseases off us, than hee that cures them being on us; preuention is so much better than healing because it saues the labor of being sicke. THOS ADAMS, 17th C preacher
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Farage is such a lying, dissembling, disingenuous fuckwit.
FULL INTERVIEW - Nigel Farage: Brexit was the greatest day of my life, but now it annoys me A special interview with the leader of Reform UK, 10 years after the EU referendum: why Europeans’ rights in Britain must “be renegotiated”, why he does not regret his words “pure, cold rage” after the Belfast riots, why Rupert Lowe’s party “will fall to pieces”, and why he wants to be prime minister (or maybe not). repubblica.it/esteri/2026/06…
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Apart from when he's being openly, explicitly racist, of course. "The root of our problem is, if one's being brutal about it, Pakistan. I mean, it's a disaster, literally a disaster, and that's not just economically, that's culturally as well."
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"[...] if you look at these inner cities where radical Islam is taking hold, where welfare dependency is just off the charts, where first cousin marriage now perpetuates generation [...] after generation, with all [...] the health impacts of that. It's the Pakistani Kashmiris."
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For anyone who needs a def con 3 warning, there are A LOT of the terminally self-absorbed in this week's #TheArchers.
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Ben Jennings @BJennings90 on #DavidHockneyRIP #DavidHockney @officialinews – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.c…
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And broadcasters / podcasters. PLEASE.
If retailers can ask us punters if we want to opt out of campaigns for Mothers' / Fathers' Day, could they not give us the same for the football?
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Somebody's going to come and take our tittles next, aren't they?
Une camarade de 3eme vient d'expliquer à l'un de mes jumeaux que "mettre un point à la fin d'un texto, c'est froid et distant"... Un ami lituanien me dit, de son côté, que les jeunes lui déconseillent fortement de mettre dans ses messages une majuscule en début de phrase, voire de ponctuer son texte. Car : "Quelqu'un qui écrit avec une syntaxe et une ponctuation soignées peut être perçu comme condescendant..." Et quand j'interroge Grok, pour savoir si c'est une maladie très répandue, cette bestiole m'explique froidement : - "Écrire tout en minuscules est devenu un marqueur stylistique de relâchement assumé. Cela signale : je ne fais pas d'effort rhétorique, je parle comme je pense ." Bref, cela signale que je suis cool et sincère... Génial. Nous avons donc, en quelques années, régressé de mille deux cents ans. Au moins. -Au départ, les Grecs et les Romains écrivaient tout en majuscule, sans séparation entre les mots, sans point en fin de phrase. Ce qui rend leurs textes extrêmement pénibles à déchiffrer. - Ce n'est qu'au IVe siècle après Jésus-Christ que les scribes commencent à inventer les lettres minuscules. - Au VIIe siècle, les moines irlandais copiant des textes latins commencent à introduire systématiquement des espaces entre les mots. - Au VIIIe siècle, Charlemagne, lui, instaure la majuscule en début de phrase, le reste étant en minuscules (ce qui permettait de placer plus de texte dans une seule page, donc d'économiser du parchemin, ce matériau étant extrêmement cher) - Au XIIe siècle, les Universités inventent ensuite le paragraphe, qui permet de donner un peu de respiration à un texte. - Et ce n'est qu'à la fin du XVe siècle que le génial Alde Manuce, imprimeur et humaniste vénitien, invente la virgule et le point-virgule dans ses éditions des grands textes antiques (c'est aussi lui qui crée l'italique : trop fort🙂). Bref, du Ve av. J.-C. au XVe siècle ap. J.-C. : il a fallu 20 siècles pour rendre nos textes lisibles. Mais aujourd'hui, des zoulous de la "Gen. Z" ont décidé que tout ceci était "froid et condescendant". Le raisonnement est délicieux : les points en fin de phrase, la majuscule en début... font perdre un peu de temps, quand on pianote sur un écran. Certes, cela rend les messages bien plus lisibles, pour celui à qui le message s'adresse; mais cela demande à celui qui le rédige un petit effort supplémentaire. Et ça, c'est pas cool. Résultat : si je refuse de faire un effort pour les autres, et que je les oblige à en faire un... je ne suis pas une grosse feignasse égocentrique. Non : je manifeste, tout au contraire, combien je suis cool et sympa. Question de génération, surement. Ok boomer, tout ça, tout ça... Mais j'avoue, pour ma part, que je trouve ce genre de philosophie un zest paradoxal. Voire un peu agaçant.🙂
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That is EXACTLY the level I would expect from Pink Floyd fans.
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Good to see @EmmanuelMacron and @bundeskanzler knows who comes out of downing street first.
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Spend £1 with a local independent and much of it stays in the local economy. Spend £1 on Shein and the manufacturing, design value and profit flow to China. 11,341 independent UK shops closed in 2024. We choose what survives.
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The problem gentlemen is you think "rapist" means scary man in a hoodie lurking in an alleyway at 3am. Of course you'd block that guy. But it's the boyfriend you really loved who was angry that you hadn't wanted sex for two days and pinned you for the bed and then felt really bad about it. It's the really sweet guy backstage who you loved working with for the whole production who knew you only wanted to be friends and then got you drunk at the after party and raped you in a dressing room. It's the husband who whined and pleaded for sex long after you've said no for hours and refused to take no for an answer until you gave in every night for four years until you realised what it was. It's the childhood friend who knows your parents and is your brother's best mate who suddenly attacked you when you were 17 and then told you he'd be thrown out of Oxford if you said anything. It's the kind colleague who offered to drive you home from that conference when there was a train strike and then forced his hands into your pants in a lay-by and then threatened to leave you there at 3am if you didn't stop being a cockteasing bitch. We're not dumb. We see the constant attempts to make anything short of stranger with a knife made up, regret, our fault really, a matter of the woman not being clear. We know why you keep trying to make this 'not rape'. Because if coercion, marital rape, pressure, manipulation and exploitation count, then the comforting fantasy that rape is only ever a stranger with a knife falls apart.
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If retailers can ask us punters if we want to opt out of campaigns for Mothers' / Fathers' Day, could they not give us the same for the football?
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🚨IMPORTANT JOURNALISM ALERT 🚨 We're looking for the most affordable bottle of house vino in the capital, and the country at large. Let us know your entries in the comments below.
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I do enjoy a good British approach to dimensions.
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