Fergus @ferguswalsh - Bluesky Profile

Search 'faucet' on etymonline Search results for 'faucet' on etymonline

Looks like "faucet" was originally the tube while "tap" the stopper in said tube (in a casket e.g.)
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27.07.2025 12:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It's hard to hold eye contact and pour flour at the same time!!

01.06.2025 16:58 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Cruising the zero-waste shop (all the customers are gay boys)

01.06.2025 16:57 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

She was a material girl; he was an atomic boy

20.05.2025 20:49 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Versus Epicureani!

20.05.2025 20:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Happy VE Day. May you kiss every soldier, sailor and airman you meet!

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08.05.2025 08:27 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great shot!

07.05.2025 20:57 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Edward Carpenter The gay socialist writer Edward Carpenter had an extraordinary impact on the cultural and political landscape of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. A mystic advocate of, among other ca...

It’s such a good book! Inspired me to read this biography of Edward Carpenter too www.versobooks.com/en-gb/produc...

04.05.2025 19:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

👀

03.05.2025 09:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Boomers REACT to the Transport select committee !!

03.05.2025 09:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

“I filed updates to the British Tax Encyclopaedia for my mum (a professor of tax law at the LSE, later Oxford)“

Of course you did. You write for the FT, which tends to only employ such types!

03.05.2025 09:36 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Jack Shenker · Renters v. Rentiers Housing injustice, unlike most of the social ills afflicting our atomised society, has the potential to unite and...

“there are 2.8 million landlords in the UK: more than 5 per cent of the adult population. … twice as many landlords as NHS employees, four times the number of teachers, … Landlordism is the closest thing we have to a national industry.”

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02.05.2025 20:16 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“What this means is that the firms who rolled over to Trump’s demands could soon be fulfilling their contractual obligations by providing free legal counsel to cops who kill unarmed people.”

01.05.2025 20:00 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

🔥

29.04.2025 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Was great to hear you in person!

28.04.2025 17:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Very brave, Minister

25.04.2025 20:13 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

a woman in a gold jacket says sometimes things that are expensive are worse .. ALT: a woman in a gold jacket says sometimes things that are expensive are worse ..

25.04.2025 18:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My three moods: old, mild and bitter.

21.04.2025 15:31 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🌼

20.04.2025 19:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Watching "The Graduate" (1968) for the men's wear

20.04.2025 19:01 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

🫠

20.04.2025 16:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

an elderly woman wearing a floral jacket and a necklace is making a funny face . ALT: an elderly woman wearing a floral jacket and a necklace is making a funny face .

19.04.2025 16:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Fruit tea cake out the oven 👨‍🍳

19.04.2025 10:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s 30 years since the 1st public passenger trains ran through the Channel Tunnel. Let’s turn back the clock to the late 80s and remember the optimism, particularly from British Rail at the time, of freight & passenger services connecting from right across Britain. A BR newspaper advert from 1989

15.11.2024 07:29 — 👍 39 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 4

My sides are splitting!!

01.03.2025 20:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

They are bad films!

21.02.2025 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0