Simon Pitt

Articles on Medium, particularly @ozm. Media techie, app builder, software person, web-stuff doer, writer. Expect silly comments and personal views. he/him

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@peterrhague Are you looking for us to give you a solution to this, or are you just looking to vent on Twitter about it? Because it really seems like you’ve rejected a lot of the solutions and got a lot from the people who sympathised with your position.

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@tradingaswdr I've been reading your site via your RSS feed for the last few years and thought you'd gone a bit quiet over the last two weeks - but actually, you're as observant as ever, but it looks like your Feedburner feed isn't updating anymore, so I've been missing out

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Is Alan Partridge a reference to Alden Partridge from Norwich, Vermont who... invented PE?!

(https://t.co/czs5bDorI6)

[Craig Deeley 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦 @craiguito]

If you put Shakespeare in a room with a typewriter for an infinite amount of time, he’d eventually come up with the complete works of the Monkees

[Deidre J Owen @deidrejowen]

I’m filling out a medical form online and I’m curious who’s out there speaking Old English.

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Wikipedia summarises the plot of episode 2 as:

"Imagine if you had the world's longest penis! John has."

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"John Dillermand ("John Penisman", "John Willieman" or "John Dongman") is a Danish stop motion animated children's television series about a man and his very long penis."

https://t.co/VKwG02RHUK

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Photoshop can't even

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I hear Clippy is going to be the villain in the next Microsoft Cinematic Dataverse movie

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@ToasterPlays @esjesjesj That information isn’t even from the Microsoft’s website. The link is to how to geek.

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@tradingaswdr have any of your sources/alerts brought this to your attention? https://t.co/cVsMz9FpYx The World's Greatest Living Foreign Correspondent goes back to see his old university room

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It’s not Christmas until you’ve hung the traditional Christmas octopus on the tree

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This book won the Nebula Award, the Hugo Award, the John W Campbell Memorial Award, the BSFA Award, the Jupiter Award, and the Locus Award for best novel. Martin Amis called it "triumphant". The Guardian called it "a stone-cold classic".

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@PeterMatza @SacktheJudge @crimlawuk You agreed it was wrong before.

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@PeterMatza @SacktheJudge @crimlawuk So, it seems we disagree about that. But this all started from the point that the public care about the NHS more than the Elgin Marbles, which it sounds like we agree about. And also someone made an misleading post about how much tax goes on the NHS - which we also agree about 👍

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@PeterMatza @SacktheJudge @crimlawuk Well perhaps we can agree then that there are opportunities to improve the service and those should be pursued I expect they will incur a cost. My philosophy is one that the King’s Fund sums up nicely:

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@PeterMatza @SacktheJudge @crimlawuk That report seems to suggest the UK needs to increase its funding to combat inflation. If that’s your point, then it seems we agree on that too.

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@SacktheJudge @PeterMatza @crimlawuk Let’s not keep going over the same ground. We covered this off yesterday. The NHS is funded from total tax income not just from income tax. Here’s a chart for you. I think the government make one as well on your tax account website

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@PeterMatza @SacktheJudge @crimlawuk You’ll have to forgive me though I’m not following your points about Australia at all. This started from the OP pointing out that the public cares more about the NHS than the Elgin Marbles. No one other than you has mentioned Australia.