Tonight I successfully made triple cooked chips with burgers, and tiramisu.
Somehow I count this as a higher achiest most of my academic ones
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Tonight I successfully made triple cooked chips with burgers, and tiramisu.
Somehow I count this as a higher achiest most of my academic ones
I wonder if there are statistics out there on road traffic incidents involving pedestrians in London who were using their mobile phones and/or wearing headphones as they crossed roads.
Pay attention out there!
So glad that my wife and I both had our jabs this month.
11.10.2025 12:26 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0My mum was going to Diss from Liverpool st. 90 minutes
11.10.2025 11:29 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Ignore the London haters and racists
10.10.2025 11:41 β π 13 π 5 π¬ 1 π 0By contrast, need to travel to Norfolk from London and havenβt had time to buy at least 24 hours in advance? Thatβll be Β£69 please.
For an hour and a half journey.
Hop on a 43 north London to London Bridge. About an hourβs journey, less than Β£2
There are always issues, but overall itβs pretty good given just how large the capital is. Be a lot better if there were a lot fewer cars on the roads.
11.10.2025 11:08 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Whatβs your problem?
11.10.2025 11:04 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Iβm a tenured professor with an endowed chair.
Looking back, I donβt think the freshly minted PhD version of me could land a job in todayβs market. I was smart, I was driven β but mostly, I was lucky.
More of us in academia need to admit that.
Indeed
10.10.2025 19:32 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Is it too early to open a bottle of wine π·?
Asking for me
Scots wha hae! So pleased for Tierney
09.10.2025 20:41 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0I'm so sorry, I know how that feels
09.10.2025 20:20 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0As tweeted so many times before, UK now an outsider to EU & every other country in the world...as more turn inwards & more protective ..
EU etc can afford to do without UK goods; but UK cannot even afford to reciprocate its TCA border, never mind start any trade wars.
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Badenoch actually says the Tories would βshut down rip off [degree] coursesβ or βlow quality coursesβ. She mentioned none by name.
Vile speech yes, but the spin is from the right wing media
Putin a βcommunistβ? π
08.10.2025 13:08 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Was βDick_Headβ not available?
07.10.2025 16:05 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. Iβve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
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07.10.2025 11:46 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Listen to the earlier stuff. I didnβt get it at first
07.10.2025 11:27 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Jenryck wants to βtake our country backβ.
To life under Truss and Johnson?
To βthe warβ?
To 1934?
When Robert?
Sheβd be a perfect inept villain in Ankh Morpork
07.10.2025 07:34 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0Liverpool are βin transitionβ because of the new signings? But Arsenal βhave to win the leagueβ because of the new signings?
We see you British sports media.
I wish he would
06.10.2025 20:33 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Good to note the @M_Star_Online newspaperβs Monday sportspages carry Premier League reports from colleagues @JDNalton @RogerDom1 and myself from the north-west, the north-east and north London
06.10.2025 19:05 β π 4 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
He always wins a match in his second seasonβ¦
05.10.2025 14:47 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Forest proving a tricky assignment for Australiaβs finest
05.10.2025 14:46 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0We donβt actually know intent in most cases, especially when the murderer is killed before they can explain their motives.
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