Matthew Read

Husband, Father, RFU Coach&Referee, Apple fan, eternal photography student, Nikon lover, tech addict and occasionally the one at the controls!

[Michele @MicheleTLFL]

I decided to try to summarise how many of us are feeling with the recent BAEC changes in this open letter to Sean Doyle. If you agree with the sentiments please do retweet so we can try to push back against these changes. https://t.co/yhsiuZzQIw

[UK Back in the Day @UKBackintheDay2]

This song is…

blah blah blah… 35 years old…blah blah… still fucking great…blah…

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@BoseService I'm going round in circles. I need support / service on my Proflight 2 headset. Web support says it can't help and to call between 0900-18:00. When I call I'm told that you're closed and to use the website support. Please help!

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@Andy_J_Davies @SkyHelpTeam Good luck. We’ve been off for a week now and no update is possible until 27th apparently! @SkyHelpTeam

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Spill The Memes @SpillTheMemes]

Caught red handed!

[Dara Ó Briain @daraobriain]

A little clarification, since this is a topic that people are surprisingly passionate about:

“Next Sunday” is in 6 days. Because it is the next Sunday.
“This Sunday” is also in 6 days. They are the same day.
So is “Sunday coming”. Same day.
However, If you have already referred to Sunday coming as “this Sunday”, you may then refer to “THE next Sunday” as the following Sunday after that, but that does not make it “next Sunday”
Generally though, If you want to talk about the Sunday after the next one, you should say “Sunday Week”.

Hope this clarifies matters, and resolves the issue in a way that requires no further discussion.

[The King of Blackadder 👑🇬🇧 @pitchblacksteed]

“It’s the same plan we used last time, and the 17 times before that.”
“E-E-Exactly! That’s what so brilliant about it! We’ll catch Slovakia totally off guard! Picking the wrong team as we’ve done 18 times before is exactly the last thing they’ll expect us to do this time!”

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@_Alpha_Delta An Akrotini is something I’d drink though

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Gavin & Stacey set to return for another Christmas special - reports

Read more
https://t.co/0vtvkyxwaK

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Judianna @Judianna]

Monopoly - I didn't know this!

(You'll never look at the
game the same way again!)

Starting in 1941, an increasing number of British Airmen found themselves as the involuntary guests of the Third Reich, and the Crown was casting about for ways and means to facilitate their escape...

Now obviously, one of the most helpful aids to that end is a useful and accurate map, one showing
not only where stuff was, but also showing the locations of 'safe houses' where a POW on-the-lam could go for food and shelter.

Paper maps had some real drawbacks -- they make a lot of noise when you open and fold them, they wear out rapidly, and if they get wet, they turn into mush.

Someone in MI-5 (Similar to America 's OSS) got the idea of printing escape maps on silk. It's durable, can be scrunched-up into tiny wads, and unfolded as many times as needed, and makes no noise whatsoever.

At that time, there was only one manufacturer in Great Britain that had perfected the technology of printing on silk, and that was John Waddington, Ltd. When approached by the government, the firm was only too happy to do its bit for the war effort.

By pure coincidence, Waddington was also the U.K. Licensee for the popular American board game, Monopoly. As it happened, 'games and pastimes' was a category of item qualified for insertion into 'CARE packages', dispatched by the International Red Cross to prisoners of war.

Under the strictest of secrecy, in a securely guarded and inaccessible old workshop on the grounds of Waddington's, a group of sworn-to-secrecy employees began mass-producing escape maps, keyed to each region of Germany or Italy where Allied POW camps were regional system). When processed, these maps could be folded into such tiny dots that they would actually fit inside a Monopoly playing piece.

As long as they were at it, the clever workmen at Waddington's also managed to add:
1. A playing token, containing a small magnetic compass
2. A two-part metal file that could easily be screwed together
3. Useful amounts of genuine high-denomination German, Italian, and French currency, hidden within the piles of Monopoly money!

British and American air crews were advised, before taking off on their first mission, how to identify a 'rigged' Monopoly set -- by means of a tiny red dot, one cleverly rigged to look like an ordinary printing glitch, located in the corner of the Free Parking square.

Of the estimated 35,000 Allied POWS who successfully escaped, an estimated one-third were aided in their flight by the rigged Monopoly sets... Everyone who did so was sworn to secrecy indefinitely, since the British Government might want to use this highly successful ruse in still another, future war.

The story wasn't declassified until 2007, when the surviving craftsmen from Waddington's, as well as the firm itself, were finally honored in a public ceremony.

It's always nice when you can play that 'Get Out of Jail' Free' card!

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The story of the man who got countless noise complaints for excessive screaming and loud music from neighbors and set up a nanny cam to find this
https://t.co/hSQNH33YPU

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn @johnboy2806

[non aesthetic things @PicturesFoIder]

there is no way 😭

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Pulling Wings From Butterflies @Airbus330Driver]

They should be done for false advertising when they say "and you didn't die". I remember an engineer being sacked for mentioning a dodgy tailplane and, well I am sure you know the story. Anyway, as an engineer who works on the Boeing 737 max said 'it's a turd'

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@Gravepenguin

[Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez]

This is so insane. And so so true.

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@simon_sat @esa @ESA_EO @CopernicusEU @NCEOscience Congratulations

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[National Trust @nationaltrust]

Introducing... December's Scone of the Month! Check below for the recipe to give it a try at home.

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@DoodleMinn

[Matthew Read @MatthewcRead]

@JTTsteve Well, there had to be one variant you haven’t!

[💂🏻‍♀️👋🏻вєαя🍻🇬🇧™ @BigBearF1]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣