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Palais de Chaillot or Trocadรฉro to get that view: the Champ de Mars is visible on the other side of the tower.

15.11.2025 22:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't imagine there's anyone who studied STEM subjects at A level that coupled them with English. Maths yes, but English?

14.10.2025 14:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Amazon Web Services. If you've ever heard of cloud computing - this is Amazon's offering in that market where companies rent computer power and space off someone else rather than own their own computers.

22.09.2025 22:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't think pleasure was an option in the mid-80s.

17.09.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Business - when I was living in France. Ramadan was interesting: lunch was only available via room service (out of sight, out of mind).

17.09.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Belgium, Netherlands, Germany (BRD and DDR), Austria, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Greece, Sweden, Latvia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, India, Japan, Canada, USA.

17.09.2025 17:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The Indian visa website crashed when I tried to put in the full answer to the question "which countries have you visited in the last 10 years". It worked OK when I left a few out.
Otherwise: all UK countries, Ireland, France (lived), Spain, Portugal, Monaco, Italy, Switzerland, Luxembourg,...

17.09.2025 17:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Illegal migrants who didn't fancy claiming asylum in Dover, Deal, Ramsgate, Margate, Southend, Harwich, Felixstowe, Southwold, Lowestoft, and by the looks of it Great Yarmouth...

08.08.2025 08:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Arbeit macht Frei

04.07.2025 09:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And to bundle is to continuously bund?

13.06.2025 23:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That was naรฏve. ๐Ÿ˜

09.06.2025 07:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Only found that out a couple of weeks ago in Greece - despite having used Greek letters in maths since school.

09.06.2025 07:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The only one big enough for his ego.

23.05.2025 14:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And it's not a mistake the presumably French-speaking cab driver could make in that language...

15.05.2025 22:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And UK's been set adrift and floating away northwards.
Dover's moved inland too.

01.04.2025 21:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's simply that we are not "customers" of public services: we can't take our custom elsewhere - especially HMRC!

23.03.2025 14:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Blackpool-sur-Seine รฉvidemment.

21.03.2025 11:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Russian flag: ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡บ
Serbian flag: ๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ‡ธ
Spot the difference...

16.03.2025 11:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Nice try but several inaccuracies on the terminology and current practices of change-ringing. Change ringers generally frown on those who call themselves campanologists (pretentious ****s!?).

23.02.2025 23:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Post image

๐Ÿ‘‡๐Ÿฝ๐Ÿคฃ

12.02.2025 14:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 529    ๐Ÿ” 121    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 32    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

And continuing to use Fahrenheit is just barmy!

18.01.2025 23:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Just replace "AI" with "automation" and it probably make more sense.
Also trying to treat users of government services as customers is fundamentally wrong: we can't take our custom elsewhere - especially HMRC...

11.01.2025 11:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Wasn't he in Monty Python? ๐Ÿ˜ฌ

29.11.2024 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They're both verbs and nouns.

29.11.2024 01:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My daughters often recall the time the family were strolling through Dijon and some lads called us "Rosbifs". The look on their faces when I replied "Et alors, grenouilles?" was priceless.

16.11.2024 09:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I thought his middle name began with H.

11.11.2024 13:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But they'd only go up to the next pier and back again...

09.11.2024 13:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Baby fish are called chips?

Not all English is American English yet gulls eat potato fingers regardless.

They eat pommes frites in France and sglodion in Wales.

๐Ÿ˜

28.10.2024 07:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or newspaper ๐Ÿ™‚

22.10.2024 23:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some of us first saw those back in the early 60s!

05.10.2024 16:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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