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 ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0@ghat.bsky.social
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 ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I 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 ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Amazon 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 ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I don't think pleasure was an option in the mid-80s.
17.09.2025 17:18 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Business - 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 ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Belgium, 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 ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0The 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,...
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 ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Arbeit macht Frei
04.07.2025 09:35 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And to bundle is to continuously bund?
13.06.2025 23:24 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0That was naรฏve. ๐
09.06.2025 07:43 โ ๐ 5 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Only 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 ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0The only one big enough for his ego.
23.05.2025 14:41 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0And it's not a mistake the presumably French-speaking cab driver could make in that language...
15.05.2025 22:02 โ ๐ 3 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0And UK's been set adrift and floating away northwards.
Dover's moved inland too.
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 ๐ 3 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Blackpool-sur-Seine รฉvidemment.
21.03.2025 11:25 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Russian flag: ๐ท๐บ
Serbian flag: ๐ท๐ธ
Spot the difference...
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 ๐ 4 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐๐ฝ๐คฃ
12.02.2025 14:37 โ ๐ 529 ๐ 121 ๐ฌ 32 ๐ 10And continuing to use Fahrenheit is just barmy!
18.01.2025 23:45 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Just 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...
Wasn't he in Monty Python? ๐ฌ
29.11.2024 01:10 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0They're both verbs and nouns.
29.11.2024 01:07 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0My 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 ๐ 11 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0I thought his middle name began with H.
11.11.2024 13:37 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0But they'd only go up to the next pier and back again...
09.11.2024 13:21 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Baby 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.
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22.10.2024 23:30 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0Some of us first saw those back in the early 60s!
05.10.2024 16:59 โ ๐ 1 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0