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[bircho @bircho82]

@stokecity Will the buses be running from stoke and will the fanzone/ricardos be open? @stokecity

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@liamgallagher Its not looking good 😫

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@AlexiLalas 🔴⚪️

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

“Don't swim' at 12 of 14 river bathing sites, as more locations announced.”

Here’s something to wrap your head around.

The only stretch of river graded as ‘Good’ is at Friars Meadow, Sudbury yet from 13th March to the 13th April Anglian Water dumped sewage into Friars Meadow nonstop 24 hours a day for 31 days straight. If you went swimming there during the Easter holidays you were probably swimming in human waste but none of it shows in the data because the EA don’t even bother testing until the middle of May.

PS the EA don’t actually test any bathing site in the country for most of the year 7 and a half months in fact. You go swimming between 1st Oct one year and 15th May the next you’re on your own.

https://t.co/VGBvWJVhkQ

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@dannykellywords All the best! You got this 💪

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@ufcontnt It's disappeared from the tv guide. Where are supposed to be watching it?

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@Chisanga_Malata Ffs

[Markos Mom @Markos_mom]

The Station Nightclub fire happened in 2003. No smartphones. No Instagram.

100 people still died because they stood watching the flames, thinking it was part of the show.

I've retrofitted fire safety for some of the largest property portfolios in the UK post-grenfell.

You are confusing stupidity with biology, physics, and catastrophic design failures.

Here is the actual science of what you are watching:

1. When the music keeps playing and staff don't panic, the human brain overrides flight instincts to fit the threat into a normal context. This is called normalcy bias. These kids froze to process conflicting social cues, not to post for likes. They were likely already filming. They were also likely drunk.

2. We explicitly design buildings to account for this hesitation (pre-movement time). Fire safety codes assume people will wait before running. In a compliant building, you can assume up to a minute or two before egress commences. Sprinklers and detection systems are designed specifically to buy that time.

3. The reason the time buffer didn't exist here is the material. That ceiling is polyurethane foam. It doesn't burn linearly; it hits flashover (1,100°F) in under 90 seconds. It's essentially solid gasoline. The room would have exploded for all intents and purposes. Way before anyone could reasonably evacuate.

4. We calculate exit widths based on how many people can physically pass through a door per minute (flow rate) versus how fast a fire spreads. With foam fires, the available safe egress time drops to almost zero. Even if they had reacted instantly, the crowd density would have choked the exits before the room cleared.

5. In any normal building fire, especially one that starts off small, you expect a responsible adult to put it out, or sprinklers to do the same. When there's a pan fire in a restaurant, you don't run out in case the entire building suddenly explodes. No reasonable person should have expected this unless they were the owner and knew how the building was designed.

Those poor teenagers likely passed out from smoke inhalation soon after this video. If they didn't, they would have been caught in a catastrophic explosion as they crammed into the single tiny exit.

They didn't die because of Instagram.

They died because the physics of the fire moved faster than human bodies can physically squeeze through a door, and a catastrophic disregard of safe design principles meant they never stood a chance.

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@SCFC_Demi

[K ❤️ @misskaren1981]

37 years ago today sgt Al Powell investigated a prank call and ended up saving countless lives at nakatomi plaza

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@terencecrawford Leave on top 🫡

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@PeteSmith1983 🤮

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@AnthonyBunn68 The team naturally drop 5-10 yards deeper when he plays which makes it harder to progress the ball. You can feel the nervousness in the team. It's madness that he is first back up in the champ 😬

[bircho @bircho82]

@TomPope69507931 As well as heading, crossing a ball seems to be on its way out. Some players don't seem to have the power to whip a ball anymore. Nice 5 yard passes but the amount of young players when they try to cross the ball just feebly hits the first defender 🤮

[bircho @bircho82]

@Everystepalong I think he is a top player at this level and creates space for others. We look a better team with him in it. He could have had two assists on Saturday if junho and sorba had finished slightly better.Full season he easily ends up with double figures assists/goals combined

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@stokecity 👀

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@aptchamadeu Unfortunately we needed to sell to reinvest. Thats the position we are in now due to FFP. Good player and seemed a decent bloke.

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@bayernoatcake2 Approx £10 per day return stoke to stafford. Two stops. I would prefer to use the train most days but instead I drive because its cheaper 🤷‍♂️

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@stokecity Charlton away

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@Podcastpotters Probably trying to flog them to the south Korean market while we can.