Charlie Innocent

International Relations Adviser - MA Graduate IR+War Studies @KCL. Ex-Director of 'Innocent Thinking'.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@blgtylr Or the use of "ise" rather than "ize" in British vs American English. In the 1700s, a proliferation in French publishers, meant that British books began to be published in France. The French didn't use Z in their printing machines so replaced Z /w S - Forever changing English

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

What British people have in their freezers:

-Frozen peas (some in a bag, some rolling around loose)
-Full bag of oven chips
-Another bag with three oven chips left in it
-Tupperware half-filled with unidentified brown stuff
-Half a scoop of mash potato that you saved for some reason
-An empty box that used to contain ice lollies that fools you every time you look in it but you still don’t throw it away
-Bag of hash browns
-Some sort of meat joint (possibly lamb) from 2014
-A near-empty ice cream tub
-Something that might be chilli or might be bolognese but you didn’t label it
-Some party food from three Christmases ago
-An empty bag that used to contain ice cubes
-A pack of chicken or fish that you needed to eat but you chucked it in the freezer because you ordered a takeaway instead
-One drawer that doesn’t open anymore

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

A woman from New Zealand was briefly detained in Kazakhstan after officials questioned whether her country actually existed. They then asked her to point it out on a map that, ironically, didn’t even include New Zealand.

Chloe Phillips-Harris, a 28 year old from New Zealand, arrived at an airport in Kazakhstan after being told by the Kazakh embassy that she could receive a visa on arrival using her New Zealand passport. Instead, officials refused her entry, claimed New Zealand was simply a state of Australia, and demanded that she provide an Australian passport.

When she argued that New Zealand was an independent country, officials reportedly escorted her to an interrogation room and asked her to identify it on a world map. Ironically, the map did not include New Zealand at all.

She was then held in a guard room for roughly a day and a half without food or water, although some guards quietly brought her drinks during the night. Eventually, contacts within Kazakhstan helped her secure the proper documents and gain release.

After the ordeal, she later said: “It is corrupt and there are problems, but there are a lot of good people there. It’s just really unfortunate there was a world map that didn’t have New Zealand on it.”

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@ThatRobotnikGuy @anulagarwal The volts add together to make more power right.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@CBSSportsGolazo @MikeGrella10 @ChristinaUnkel Finger tip = Handball. VAR.

Ball hits flappy chicken arm in the box = Subjectively, we need to analyze who hit the ball, why did they hit the ball... did they even hit the ball? Or were they offside... while thinking of the ball in the process? Maybe it wasn't their arm?

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@fable_speaker @JordanMaison

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@IOyaniran @lequipe @grok Napoleon was exiled to the island of Saint Helena, which is literally in the middle of the Atlantic, so that he could not have any influence in Europe after being defeated as Emperor of France ... Killing him would have made him a martyr.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@KinerMusic @KinerMusic I went through all the tracks to find it... "Toxic Escape"...

https://t.co/Ksxn6DevhL

This is the best non-John Williams Star Wars OST I've ever heard.

Epic work. It made the scene so much more impactful.

Thank you.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@AdamTheStudio I can feel you beaming with pride through this post. As you should be - This is a generational-defining series!!

May I ask, where did you get your inspiration for the tree landscape?

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@Itsonemore23 @starwars @DisneyPlus https://t.co/cGCdvEGYpO

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@Itsonemore23 @starwars @DisneyPlus The problem is that very few actors can actually train at the required lightsaber dueling pace... for example Hayden Christensen as Anakin in Ahsoka, was told to "slow down".

While in Ep1, the Obi Wan/Maul fight was digitally slowed, as it didn't look believable in "real time"

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@rjoyce533 @chinnychick In this case - it's just rat droppings in an unfortunate place in Argentina, where the whole cruise ship disembarked... person-to-person contagion isn't likely.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@JenniferGa29345 @chinnychick Also because people have died already, and it was likely due to mice/rat issues in Argentina, the insurance bomb will hit whoever treats them... Not the place that caused the problem.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@JenniferGa29345 @chinnychick Insurance.

Cape Verde hospitals are unlikely to recoup the full cost of treating everyone.

The Canaries, as part of Spain, can.

The problem is, the Canarian government was not informed by the Spanish health ministry before they offered the assistance... hence the chaos

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@chinnychick We should also have better reporting systems.

The same happened with covid, bird flu, swine flu... Is it contagious human to human (yes/no)? - if yes/no, then what measures do we take?

The problem is bureaucracy. Each country's health system needing to verify their own results.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@Gale396 @RebeccaMtn @elonmusk I just posted similar @Gale396

"Anyone, from anywhere - legally- can achieve anything. Ancestry means nothing in this... It's just about getting migration laws right... across the Western world."

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

@RebeccaMtn @elonmusk "We want it to be a place that anyone from anywhere can achieve anything".

Anyone, from anywhere - legally- can achieve anything.

Ancestry means nothing in this... It's just about getting migration laws right... across the Western world.

[Luke - MANDO & GROGU IS HERE!! @lukesoutpost]

#Maulshadowlord episode 9 and 10 might be 2 of the greatest Star Wars animated television episodes I’ve ever watched.

I can’t even comprehend what I just watched. I need season 2 EXPEDITED NOW!!! The Lucasfilm animation team is one of the BEST to ever do it. BRAVO👏🏻👏🏻

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A parasite that has been eating people for 3,500 years is about to be wiped off the planet. It infected 3.5 million people in 1986. Last year, it infected 10. And I have not seen it make a single front page.

It is called Guinea worm. You drink contaminated water from a pond in a poor village. A year later, a worm up to three feet long starts coming out of your leg through a burning blister. There is no pill that stops it and no surgery that works. You wrap the worm around a stick and pull it out slowly, over days or weeks, inch by inch. If you rush, the worm breaks inside you and causes a fresh infection.

Guinea worm is ancient. Preserved worms have been pulled out of Egyptian mummies from around 1000 BCE. The Ebers Papyrus, an Egyptian medical scroll from 1550 BCE, describes pulling the worm out with a stick. For three and a half thousand years, that was the best humans could do.

Then in 1986, public health workers decided to kill the parasite off. They had no vaccine and no drug. What they had was cheap cloth water filters and a small army of volunteers willing to walk from village to village for decades.

The plan was simple. Give everyone who drinks from a pond a cloth filter to strain out the tiny water fleas that spread the parasite. Then send volunteers walking house to house, year after year, teaching people how to use the filters and keeping anyone with an emerging worm out of the water.

It worked. From 3.5 million cases a year to 10. Four were in Chad, four in Ethiopia, two in South Sudan. The other four countries where the worm used to be common, Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, and Mali, had zero human cases for the second year in a row. The World Health Organization has already certified 200 countries as Guinea worm free. Six are left.

The last hurdle is dogs. Cameroon had 445 infected animals last year and Chad had 147, so a lot of the remaining work is on animals, not humans. Strays get leashed, and crews treat ponds to kill any remaining worms. The campaign keeps watching until the number hits zero.

When Guinea worm hits zero, it becomes the second human disease ever erased from the planet. The first was smallpox. It will also be the first parasite humans have ever wiped out, and the first disease ever ended without a single dose of medicine. Volunteers walked village to village with cloth filters for 40 years. Now a plague from the age of the pharaohs is about to be gone.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Marlene cooked with this one.

[Charlie Innocent @CharlieInnocent]

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