Iain Tucker

Comm. lit. lawyer originally London now in the BVI, views expressed are personal, service not accepted by Twitter

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

⁦@MotoGP⁩ commentary about @alexmarquez73 race today repeatedly referring to “Brother Marc” brings this to mind.

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@afneil Tho’ as a BVI resident, I appreciate these visits from UK officials. Others do too. Spkr Hoyle was v. visible working while here, meeting local government, BVI veterans who served in the UK AF, industry reps from many sectors, etc. These visits not unimportant for the BOTs IMO.

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@SamRaincock "This turkey is soooooo tasty, what's your secret?"

"It's a chicken".

#ChristmasDinner #ChickenFTW

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@dontbrexitfixit It coomes in pients?!

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@botzarelli Wow. I guess it may come down to what a bank should reasonably do to check chain of title. I'd have thought the amount of diligence expected where there is a very recent purported transfer followed by an application for a mortgage by a new "owner" may be higher?

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

Aren't these home title 'thieves' that I keep being told I need to insure against actually defrauding the bank who lends against a title that is not the borrower's, rather than me as the legitimate owner who had nothing to do with, and was unaware of, a forged purported transfer?

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@botzarelli This reminds me of banks getting customers to pay effectively to insure the bank against their own defaults, but selling it in terrorem as protection for the customer. Which they eventually got in trouble for.

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@botzarelli Yeh, I think that's right in the UK. Living where I currently do, I am currently being bombarded with adverts for this insurance, which I think are mainly targeted at the US market. But nemo dat quod non habet, right, whether the US or the UK?!

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

What I picture when I see the HomeAglow “After HomeAglow cleaned our home for $19, we fired our old housekeeper”…

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

Right. So we need just a dozen guys, elected from the most batsh!t constituencies that we can find and heavily fund, to get the deciding vote on everything, which would, er, make sure it is the true will of the people who elected all the other guys. Got it!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

One way to execute on this would be to laser-focus on just 2 or 3 Senate seats and 8 to 10 House districts.

Given the razor-thin legislative margins, that would be enough to serve as the deciding vote on contentious laws, ensuring that they serve the true will of the people.

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@flea333 Get the fck out of here!

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@Ticketmaster process appears to suck. Requires a verification code but code cannot be received to non-US cell on file. And process to change the number on file also begins with a code to the number that cannot receive codes! #Catch22 #HighlyIllogicalCaptain

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@hatter @SamRaincock I have googled it and it is significantly more than I would have thought - more than three 30 stone men!

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@GMB @bphillipsonMP @susannareid100 Well done @bphillipsonMP - not sure what else you could have been expected to say in response to that.

[Peter Stefanovic @PeterStefanovi2]

Wow. Imagine the shock for the Daily Mail when it finds out Tory plans were for fines of £5k - later reduced to £3k - for each missed heat pump sale. What @Ed_Miliband has done is to reduce that to £500. As @TorstenBell says Headline should read “Miliband slashes Tory boiler tax”

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

Banner week for @AlJean & @canyonjim. 😏

@JaydenLibran

[emily m @maitlis]

“ Donald Trump will save your cat .. and a goose .. from .. black people ..”. ?? It’s catchy….

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

Thread of cool maps you've (probably) never seen before 🧵

1. All roads lead to Rome

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

Turns out that serendipitously I am going to be one hour away from @SilverstoneUK on 4 August 2024... it would be simply be an error of catastrophic proportion not to buy tickets for @motogp, right...?

[Iain Tucker @iaintucker]

@v_j_freeman My melon is somewhat twisted by the idea that Cameo coming on the radio is like Vera Lynn coming on when I was a kid... not quite that linear of course... my 12 year old daughter told me about this cool old band called "The Smiths" she has discovered...