OffSide Book Reviews

Ex Bookshop now just a Twitter voice for books, Spain and beautiful links.

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An understatement?

[Navalism @NavalismHQ]

"I have this theory that 99% of work that you do is useless. You still have to do it because it's iterating your way to the 1% that is useful. But, in an ideal world, if you are omniscient, you would just cut to the 1%."

@naval

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@sweatystartup Slightly surprised to hear you have a local pub. Thought it was all bars over there.

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@rawespresso Don't ever "transfer in" a small pension into your current fund. Peoples Pension turned around and said they couldn't allocate funds as I didn't have original documents.

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@2147mill If the market goes down, it allows you to buy more units. Why do few people get this?

[Curtis Daly @CurtisDaly_]

Despite this, anti-immigrant sentiment has increased. Proof that it's a manufactured political issue.

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Hard to disagree...

[Very Brexit Problems @VeryBrexitProbs]

8 lines every flag-shagging plastic “patriot” has in their playbook

1.“I want my country back” - From what? You voted for the party that ran it for 14 years.

2.“Our grandads didn’t fight for this” - Your grandads would be ashamed that you can’t find Normandy on a map. They fought with Poles, Sikhs, Gurkhas, and West Indians beside them. They’d have more in common with the immigrants you hate than plastic patriots sharing memes about them.

3.“This isn’t the Britain I grew up in” - Correct. It has lower crime, longer life expectancy, and better healthcare than the 1970s you’re romanticising. You just don’t remember the power cuts and three-day weeks.

4.“Britain is broken” - The most unpatriotic sentence in the English language, repeated daily by people say they love their country.

5. “We’re full” - The Netherlands has twice the population density and somehow manages. The UK is not full. It’s just had 14 years of no housebuilding and you need someone darker than you to blame for it.

6.“We look after our own first” - You vote for parties that cut disability benefits, froze nurses’ pay, gave tax breaks to the rich and closed Sure Start centres. You don’t look after anyone.

7.“Stop the boats” - The Tories spent £700 million on Rwanda to deport four people. Zero boats were stopped. You cheered anyway.

8.“Starmer is a traitor” - The man prosecuted terrorists, paedophile rings, and war criminals as DPP. You import American culture war propaganda from people who openly despise our allies, trash your own country 24/7, and follow convicted fraudsters who lied about where they were born. The only ones treacherously trashing Britain’s reputation daily are you.

[Mark Goldbridge @markgoldbridge]

Emery has won the Europa League 5 times and with three separate clubs. But they all have Villa in the name

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@LizWebsterSBF Andy just needs to push the message "vote for me to get rid of Starmer". Which is sad, really.

[Rae @ragefighthouse]

I’m an immigrant who’s lived and worked in the UK for 16 years. I have a North American accent and I’m white.

I’ve never once been told to ‘go back’ to my ‘shithole country’ or to ‘stop stealing jobs from British people’.

You’re not concerned about immigration. You’re racist.

[Nozza_ @Nozza_]

Tinker Taylor Solskjaer Spy

[Emma Steuer 🧚🤖 @emmysteuer]

You only live once, so make sure to spend as much time as possible on your computer. You won’t have access to it when you die

[No Context Brits @NoContextBrits]

David Attenborough is officially too old to play with Lego.

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@joehas @twitter Or utilise a decent gestor?

[Joe Haslam ☘ 🇪🇺 @joehas]

Such a contrast between the British football writers in Spain and their political counterparts.

The British football writers such as Sid love Spain, know Spain, want Spanish teams to do well.

The British political writers seem to dislike Spain, want things in Spain to go badly, are eternally suspicious of Spain.

If you want to learn about Spain, read the football pages.

[Wholesome Side of 𝕏 @itsme_urstruly]

Don’t let anyone talk you out of that thirty minute before bed read. Those two hours will be the most relaxing five hours you ever spend.

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@StanCollymore Leicester fans certainly rate your time there. The quality of your goals were top-notch. Deserved a better haul of trophies but can't have everything.

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@WHUFC_News You're not down yet. hope you can still avoid the whirlpool, the nation is rooting for you (except for the Spurs lot obv.)

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

The absolute worst is Aristotle, then comes Avicenna. Their English skills were very poor.

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@DPJHodges The big Trump supporter- that Nigel Farage?

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@KopFinest Portobello Road, London. Or Camden

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Talking to others, it seems to be getting harder to access one’s own money, whether in a bank account or pension fund. Security measures or a system creaking at the seams?