Chris Gray

Easygoing and adaptable (synonyms for lazy and indecisive)

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@rioferdy5 last week you took time to speak to a young fan and his mum is still talking about how happy it made him 9 days later. I imagine it can't always be easy dealing with us public but it can have a big effect so thank you!

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

Right, I am leaving here, find me on the other side
@ianchrisgray.bsky.social

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@HiddenHistoryYT Sorry to ask but there she is L18, in Wikipedia she is F18 but their photo has her as G18. How come so many designations?

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@twlldun It is probably quite a good translation in itself but even without speaking french I can say that it didn't work in the film.

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@twlldun cf the translation of Cyrano de Bergerac used for the subtitles in the Depardieu film (IIRC by antony burgess). It maintained the rhythmic structure of the original but this made the language unnaturally complex and distracted from the film.

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

The Gunner in Nelson's Navy:
The man responsible for keeping the ship battle-ready was the “gunner.” He belonged to the corps of warrant officers, which also included the carpenter, purser, and boatswain. These officers operated under a warrant, as opposed to the “commission” held by higher-ranked officers. The gunner, like the other warrant officers, was appointed by the Navy Board. His primary responsibility, as the title suggests, was managing the ship’s ordnance. Gunners were usually former petty officers or able seamen who had risen through the ranks by demonstrating their capabilities, although exceptions existed, with some gunners being former midshipmen.

[Quite Interesting @qikipedia]

The history of Jaguar cars started in 1922 with the Swallow Sidecar Company which then grew into SS Cars that advertised with such slogans as ‘Wait… the S.S. is coming’. In 1945 the name was changed to Jaguar because it couldn’t be ‘confused with any similar foreign name’.

[VeryBritishProblems @SoVeryBritish]

They need a Spotify Wrapped but for biscuit consumption.

“You ate 1,825 custard creams this year! 🙌 That’s in the top 0.05% of custard cream eaters 👍🥳”

[Heart of Oak ⚓️ @HMWarships]

HMS Belfast takes up her moorings in the specially dredged berth in the Pool of London, 14 October 1971.
IWM (ID: MH 15062)

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@Herring1967 What about coprolites?

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@qikipedia I find that hard to believe

;-)

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@Herring1967 Have you seen his Wiki page it reads like it has been badly translated with phrases like "He became writer for" is this a joke based on his Borat scripts?

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@almurray It isn't for our benefit, it is just to stop passengers wandering on the tarmac

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@Herring1967 I took it to mean: do they know (judging on our behaviour toward them), it's xmas time.

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@vittorioangelon As a musician what do you want from a conductor? what makes one good and one bad?

[Tom Rowsell @Tom_Rowsell]

@Jaguar The people who buy your cars don’t like this sort of thing, and the people who like it won’t buy your cars

[Chris Gray @chrisbeatstim]

@jerijerod14 Hi Chris, if I spot a typo do you want me to let you know or is that just rude of me? Not sure of the etiquette here!

[Richard K Herring @Herring1967]

I hope @elonmusk now buys the Guardian and makes them post about how great it is. I hear a podcast called RHLSTP is also super critical. He could buy that for a billion pounds and make the stupid host say how great he is.

[Mitch Benn @MitchBenn]

Racists

[Dilly Hussain @DillyHussain88]

Police spokesman in Amsterdam confirms that Maccabi Tel Aviv fans:

• Ripped down Palestine flags from buildings.

• Set Palestine flags on fire.

• Destroyed a taxi.

• Chanted racist genocidal songs.

The context behind Thursday’s “pogrom”