Can't they just pay these people with the gazillions of dollars that Trump says the tariffs are bringing in? π
07.10.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0@simondo65.bsky.social
Software engineer at @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social, doing research in orthopaedics. Loves model trains, science fiction and vintage microprocessors, doesn't own an anorak. Also likes to cook and take photographs, not necessarily of my cooking.
Can't they just pay these people with the gazillions of dollars that Trump says the tariffs are bringing in? π
07.10.2025 15:23 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I remember when I was in the cubs or at school (can't remember which) in the 70s and we got a talk from the police they said it was their standard way to test their radio batteries.
I suspect this is not the standard method for more modern Airwave radio batteries.
Strangely not a title that shows up on IMDb, but seems to go for around Β£100 on eBay.
07.10.2025 08:27 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Well thereβs certainly FA going on in her brain.
06.10.2025 19:23 β π 7 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Did this really happen, or is it just a shagging, dog story?
06.10.2025 10:44 β π 16 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Signing my name, on the other hand is perfectly logical. The S for sinister is on the left hand end, and the S for Starboard is on the right.
04.10.2025 08:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0And just to confuse matters, when you do sign your name the R for right is on the left and the L for left is on the right.
04.10.2025 08:21 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I wonβt be repeating this joke as I actually have 3 vices in my workshop.
03.10.2025 23:50 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0And Trump approved posting in his name a video of him as a cackling lunatic? He's not right in the head!
03.10.2025 12:48 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Does that make her a high priestess...
... or is that just when the incense kicks in?
Your destination would be an Italian Baroque style village in North Wales.
02.10.2025 22:43 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Nor in my local shopping centre.
No shopping allowed for ICE in England!
I bet they PAT Test their equipment too at the BBC.
01.10.2025 10:43 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0The hoi polloi don't know any better.
01.10.2025 10:37 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0I first read that as Airfix bayonets!
(Airfix is a British manufacturer of plastic model kits, including soldiers with bayonets)
Problem with the food and drinks? Public display of sulkiness?
30.09.2025 18:34 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0"Affordable adequacy" π
Is this a modern spoof, or an April fool joke from the time?
This is the night train not crossing the border,
Bringing no one, by French fiscal order.
(with apologies to Auden)
...call it something other than 'diagnosis' if you want. You could call it, for example, 'classification' or something, but then I suspect you run into the murky world of eugenics.
29.09.2025 15:11 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Without a diagnosis how do you ensure that people find, or are given, the appropriate mental tools to succeed in a world that is generally not neurodiverse friendly? (you can wish it was, but wishing doesn't make it so)? ...
29.09.2025 15:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0"Needs Benny Hill music" was literally my first thought seeing it.
29.09.2025 14:39 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0If true, the anonymity of fesshole can be quite easily blown if someone recognises the somewhat unique event described.
29.09.2025 14:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0It is on my UK Netflix.
8 series of it.
Isn't Dexter on Netflix?
29.09.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Not that Iβd gloat or anything, but
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Given Trumpβs Scottish ancestry, giving Obama the Freedom of Edinburgh would probably piss Trump off more.
28.09.2025 18:27 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0She was obviously having rebound sex after someone ghosted her after a first date.
28.09.2025 11:54 β π 11 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Big enough to drown the Duke of Clarence in Richard III
βI'll drown you in the malmsey-butt within.β
The negative messaging is depressing. Instead of starting with βhere are all the ways digital ID can make your life easierβ, the focus is all about βhere are all the things other people canβt do without access to oneβ.
(All bollocks in the gray cash-in-hand cheap labour economy anyway)
Maybe itβs the name, but the styling always looks a bit American to me. I suppose they couldnβt revive the Great Central name as everyone would go off to Marylebone.
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