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[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@nguyenhdi https://t.co/pZ6W6ADHgc

[Riccardo @Riccardo_Nero]

Do hotelu w Związku Radzieckim późną porą przybył podróżny:
- Poproszę o pokój na jedną noc.
- Niestety, mamy tylko wolne jedno miejsce w pokoju pięcioosobowym.
- Może być, w końcu to tylko jedna noc - odpowiedział podróżny i pomaszerował do wskazanego pokoju. Ułożył się wygodnie i zamierzał zasnąć, ale współtowarzysze grali w brydża, opowiadali sobie kawały i co chwila wybuchali głośnym śmiechem. Podróżny ubrał się i zszedł do recepcji:
- Poproszę 5 herbat na górę za jakieś 10 minut.
Wrócił do pokoju i mówi:
- Panowie tak swobodnie opowiadacie sobie dowcipy, a przecież tutaj może być założony podsłuch!
- Co pan! W hotelu?
- Możemy to łatwo sprawdzić
- Panie kapitanie! poproszę 5 herbat pod 14-stkę.
Rzeczywiście, w tym momencie przynoszą herbatę. Współtowarzysze z lekką obawą kładą się spać. Rano podróżny wstaje i widzi, że prócz niego w pokoju nie ma nikogo. Schodzi do recepcji:
- Co się stało z moimi współlokatorami?
- Rano zabrała ich milicja.
- A mnie dlaczego nie zabrali?
- Bo kapitanowi spodobał się ten dowcip z herbatą.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@ThrillaRilla369 "New boss, same as the old boss"

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@Sargon_of_Akkad The generation prior to yours could get Saturday jobs in supermarkets at age 16 while still studying at school.

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@RaminNasibov

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@ithacarising People gave up queuing for buses in London years ago. These days it's a scrum.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@DrFrancisYoung I recall Richard Evans saying something like "Biography isn't History" and being very exercised about it, but I can't find a quote.

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@nguyenhdi I'm doing this from memory and I can't find it!

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@nguyenhdi I don't count.
However, I can report that the following have been considered as 'problem' plays:
All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, The Winter's Tale, Timon of Athens, and The Merchant of Venice.
There isn't agreement.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

It would be good to revive the game of producing new collective nouns.
Here's my attempt: "a smug of academics".

[Dr. Ian Garner @irgarner]

Just back from 4 days in the dying civilization of the UK. Awful. Crime everywhere. Kept getting stabbed. All my possessions stolen. I was murdered twice. And that was just before breakfast on day one.

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@pegobry_en It's an unresolved class war that arguably goes back, in part, to the conquest by the Norman French.
But you probably know that.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@VerminusM Fun?
"Sullivan's Travels"
"Ninotchka"
"The Right Stuff"

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@max_dubious @MaxJLHardy As I understand it a convicted criminal will serve less time if they confess.
This makes the administration of a criminal justice system more efficient, but it provides an incentive for wrongful conviction. It does not serve justice.

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@OleBeeM @elonmusk @zazeecar Africa is urbanising as well:
https://t.co/SnaWYCN0Zd

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@campbellclaret Musk will most likely be working on both days on a weekend and will probably be of the opinion that not enough of his staff are working Saturdays.
A day of of rest is important, but history will probably judge harshly those who take two.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

From 2006 the Scots stopped recognising "Marriage by cohabitation with habit and repute" for new marriages.
Perhaps they should be asked about their experience.

[David Lammy @DavidLammy]

Many unmarried, cohabiting couples have limited legal protections if their relationship ends or a partner dies, even after long-term relationships or raising children together.

Labour is consulting on reforms to strengthen the legal protections available to these couples.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@rheinsteinrex @aelfred_D Could you please elaborate or provide a link so that I can do some reading?

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@PaulinusOfTrier I didn't say the exclamation of "¡Jesús!" in response to a sneeze was blasphemy, just that it existed.
Possibly dating back to the plague of Justinian, if you believe some people.
My second sentence was an observation of the use of blasphemy by some Spanish people.

[Alan Goodman @GoodmanAlanplus]

@PaulinusOfTrier Do you have a theory of knowledge?
I don't.
All I have is a hypothesis that people will trust institutions as long those institutions produce workable solutions.
Many immigrants come from places where only a fool would trust state institutions and trust family and group instead.