Dai Lowe Ⓐ🏴

tweeting what i'm eating, recipes on website, maybe 1 day published as the billy-no-mates cookbook
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Occasionally laughing derisively at posts (🤣🤣🤣🤣)

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@jaglancy Mrs Gladys Weems of Trowbridge in Wiltshire for tenner lady!

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@missthisliv Oh aye. I only read what I enjoy, but I get miffed at my lack of concentration
It's ADLD, you know L for Lethargy – I don't do H

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@BritainisCool Mrs Gladys Weems of Trowbridge in Wiltshire

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@missthisliv Tru dat.
I read a story about Osbert Lancaster in a train carriage opposite a young man having trubble with a bukk
—I don't know, I just can get into it, he said
Lancaster asked to see it, flicked a few pages & suddenly chucked it out the window
—There: that's better isn't it?

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@Tsar_Martyr You're obviously an atheist and just a rage-baiter, so no, can't be bothered

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@peryskop3 @SandyofSuffolk @AFCBOldgit Not exactly struggling but not able to do holidays and visit family and stuff, even after the council pays some of my rent for me. Don't own any property and have a few grand in savings, but that will cover funeral and stuff when that bus finally hits me.

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@NormalTater @AFCBOldgit @SandyofSuffolk Works for me. Though consumer price index also has a good argument, as a retired owd get like me can't do much to improve my 'wages' but still needs to eat (or heat) sometimes.

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@MartinTweats MathS being a human construct, it exists simply because we say it does. Which I suppose also applies to gods: the concept exists

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@David_Oslands How are these higher state pensions funded? Is there an NI system, or do they just come out of the general exchecquer bucket? Are taxes/ni generally higher too?
Miffed as I am as a struggling oap, whose meagre state pension is even feckin taxed, I wonder about these details

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@NormalTater @AFCBOldgit @SandyofSuffolk Indeed, and yet most of the rest of Europe has it better - or are they in the shit about it too?
Out of interest, were it a single lock, to what would you lock it?

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@adriawildlife @SandyofSuffolk I see. But what about folks like me who didn't work in industries with occupationals?
Is there an equivalent of NI in these places? (I'm aware I could google this, but it's more convivial to chat)

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@ChudMcGeezer @AFCBOldgit @SandyofSuffolk It's a matter of definition though. I've paid national insurance on the understanding I'd receive a pension come what may. I get housing benefit only because I can't pay my rent without it,and would get that even if I hadn't paid the NI down the years

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@ellieh141 @ProtonInspector I'm a working class Brit who lived in a barrio in Cádiz (Cai, not k'dizz!) and speaks a sort of mangled Andalu'. Luckily for me, people can tell I'm a twat/coño long before I get round to pronouncing arroz marinera 😉

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@TawhakiTheGod @ProtonInspector I'm an oik but I lived in Spainland where the locals say ll as y, so I got into the habit of cooking it and saying it that way.
I regret that I never made the original dish (with rabbit and snails) while I was there, and Brexit denied me the opportunity to retire there and do so

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@andrewpconnell I was in a hotel in Córdoba 🇪🇦 once, and an American woman was telling everybody in a 3 mile radius that the 'pie-yeller' didn't have any seafood in it!
It's pie-eh-yer (ish).
https://t.co/pXpbfKjdtA

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@WorkElizab I'm lucky. I don't have any friends. Phew

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@0paperpal @BasedDostoevski I've got Joyce's Ulysses in nine different languages. Someone said I must be trying to find one in which it makes sense! 🤣🤔😉

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@anarcocampesino @BasedDostoevski Oh, opposite for me. Couldn't put Mr Melville down, the language is hypnotically riveting to me

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@el_supremo99 @BasedDostoevski Speaking of digressions, I read The Glums a few years ago and was musing on Hugo's many digressions about Paris sewers or recipes for tarte tatin (or maybe I dreamt that) and thought bukks today don't do that. But then I realised I'll stop mid read and google things...