Music (mainly prog), veggie, scifi, tech and all things LOTR (after first reading it nearly 60 yrs ago) loving cat butler in Hertfordshire UK. Ex soldier (Royal Artillery) and other trades. Left leaning - atheist - TBC…
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Workers might have to ditch the 9-5 for 6-2 because of climate change, University of Oxford study says (fortune.com)
Do you tend to say "can" or "tin? Is this a regional thing?
I’m a southerner, but recently noticed I’m the only one who seems to say “tin” rather than “can”. I think I got it from my Dad, who’s from Birmingham. Meanwhile, my Mum (from Winchester) prefers “can”....
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Alright dudes, what’s going on in groovetown?...
Christmas ads and it's barely mid-July
Just went to the Met Office website to see what the weather is going to do for the next few days here in “the except the North and West”. Right at the top of the page…banner ad from Royal Mail for Christmas deliveries! It’s not even mid-July!
Tory minister gives virtual reality tour of 40 new hospitals as they don’t exist (www.mirror.co.uk)
First edition of the Hobbit found in charity shop sells for £10,000 (www.theguardian.com)
Boris Johnson announces arrival of sixth, seventh, eighth or maybe even ninth child (newsthump.com)
A spokesperson for Boris Johnson has announced that the former prime minister and his current wife Carrie Symonds have had another healthy baby boy
Austerity has led to NHS quality of care declining in key areas, study finds (www.theguardian.com)
"The research refutes Rishi Sunak’s insistence that the pandemic caused the record number of 7.2 million people waiting for treatment – for example for hip and knee replacements – that hospitals are facing. Covid has simply exacerbated a decline in quality of care, especially in access to urgent and emergency care, that...
Holiday dilemma (feddit.uk)
any idea who the BBC presenter could be?
What we know:...
It's Saturday night: let's speculate wildly on the ID of the BBC presenter giving a kid money for blow!
I reckon it’s Anne Robinson. Fight me.
BBC star accused of paying teen for explicit photos (www.bbc.co.uk)
A BBC presenter has been accused of paying a teenager for sexually explicit photographs, beginning when they were 17, according to The Sun.
Police called to Tatnam Road in Poole over fight over duck (www.bournemouthecho.co.uk)
“The whereabouts of the duck is unknown.”
Just been asked by my thesaurus app if I'd like to upgrade to premium, which unlocks British spellings
Fuckin raging here. Enraged, frenzied, raging, vehement, livid, violent, frantic, desperate, incensed, fierce, frenetic, bent, beside oneself, boiling, crazed, demented, fit to be tied, infuriated, insane, irrational, maniac, rabid, unreasonable, up in arms, vicious, wrathful, bent out of shape, browned off, bummed out, fuming,...