Victoria

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@O2 can someone please help me? I keep getting passed around from bot to bot. I can’t receive sms authorisation codes so can’t log into my account or authorise anything as unable to receive OTP. Customer service is a nightmare I’ve been promised call backs and it’s not happened

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Hi do you know if the Skipton to Leeds trains will be running this morning?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Hello what time is the 6.06 from Bingley to Leeds expected please?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Can you tell me why all the trains between Bingley and Leeds are delayed please?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist hello, do you have an ETA for the 17.42 to Skipton from Leeds please?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@Maybelline have you recently changed the recipe of your Tattoo Liner?
I’ve had 2 recently and they’ve been really thick and clumpy like dragging a wax crayon across your eyelid. 🙁 not good

[Harjap Singh Bhangal @HarjapBhangal]

Scenes at Edgbaston where India are playing Pakistan but people are watching the England game.

2 sets of rival supporters united by their love of England!

#PakvsInd #ENGSUI #comeonengland #england

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Take it in. The first female chancellor. The first housing secretary who's actually lived in social housing. The first education secretary who was on free school meals. An energy secretary who actually believes in aggressively fighting climate change. Not a bad afternoon.

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@megacoolmike @HowThingsWork_ I laughed far too hard at that

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@LNER hi my train from London to Kings Cross (12.05) has been cancelled can I get the next one?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Thank you

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist hi could you let me know why the Skipton-Leeds trains are delayed and what the eta to be running again may be please?

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Hi any clue why the 5.56 Leeds to Skipton train is at a standstill?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A British writer penned the best description of Donald Trump I’ve ever read:

“Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?”

A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed. So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump’s limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.

Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever. I don’t say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman. But with Trump, it’s a fact. He doesn’t even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty.

Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers. And scarily, he doesn’t just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness.

There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It’s all surface. Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don’t. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He’s not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He’s more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.

And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead. There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless – and he kicks them when they are down.

So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think ‘Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy’ is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:

• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and mostly are.

• You don’t need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.

This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss. After all, it’s impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum.

God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

And a remorseful Doctor Frankenstein would clutch out big clumpfuls of hair and scream in anguish: ‘My God… what… have… I… created?' If being a twat was a TV show, Trump would be the boxed set.”

-Nate White

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@peteturton85 Yes!!!

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist Eventually but I’m not sure why you’d decide to test for authenticity at peak time on the first work week back. Massively officious. People were going through the barriers with valid tickets and then being told to go back and wait. Terribly organised

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@northernassist what’s going on at Leeds station this morning? Chaotic organisation of getting through the barriers

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@peteturton85 The prices rise when it’s C2C in March so God knows what it would be like for Eurovision

[Victoria @Squi1981]

@selfconfessed @HotelChocolat Ask them, it’s absolutely doable

[Victoria @Squi1981]

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