lastonthegraph

Former poacher turned gamekeeper of the railway world, over 20 years experience of explaining , and occasionally causing, your train’s delays.

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@CarriStrawberry You’re missing the point. Pre 1776 the agreement was to stick to small areas and not invade native lands. Post 1776 it was like native lands didn’t exist. From Rushmore to Little House it’s a history of theft.

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@CarriStrawberry You’ll find one was far, far worse than the other.

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@dontforgetchaos @rafredarrows Isn’t that the French Alpha jet team?

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What most Americans don’t realise is there was great sympathy to US independence on all levels in the UK; there’s a triumphant arch near me celebrating it; if they’d gone down the diplomatic route they’d probably have had it granted.

[Trever Bierschbach (Beard Wizard Man) @tjbierschbach]

Imagine the patrons sitting in this pub reading the news that a little backwater colony of farmers made the greatest military of the time eat shit and run. To have been a fly on the wall...

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@mattfle02898557 @JimmyThomist The exclusion zone meant anything inside it might be attacked, not anything outside it wouldn’t be attacked. Like a ‘trespassers liable to be shot’ sign, it didn’t mean an offender was safe if they got to the right side of it.

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@JimmyThomist Basic misunderstanding of the exclusion zone to mean ships would be safe outside it, which was nonsense. It was that everything was in danger within it, not everything was safe outside it.

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@patbhamilton If rail works at 40° (rail temp more like 60°) it’ll fail a little below 0° in winter, unless you want to pay a small fortune for the rail or re-stress it twice a year, which is both costly and disruptive.

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@EqFundDotcom @Geiger_Capital Hawaii & Alaska enter the conversation, not to mention the Louisiana Purchase or the almost complete and total invasion into native lands since 1776…. https://t.co/8M0NCSiOuu

[Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600]

Animated map shows land loss of Native American population from 1776 to 1930. Source: https://t.co/lBy1GiVpJK

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@ivisitblogs @amazonmilkfrog It’s a poor analogy because sections of the foundations have been dated to the 5th Century before it became a pub.

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@amazonmilkfrog The majority of the structure’s 17th Century, hardly young, some older still, but at least some of the foundations have been found to be from as early as 460AD, predating it’s life as a pub.

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@StreetwisestuV2 Bam Bam and “running around Robin Banks, Robin Banks, Robin Banks…..”

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@l33two @StreetwisestuV2 Did the same, though when later driving round America I discovered UK local FM stations to have far better range than most US ones!

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@theoldbloke @StreetwisestuV2 Even funnier given the station was Irish 😂

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@ToryFibs Then how did the first people to get the state pension get it then?!?! Surely it’s common knowledge you’re paying for your parents/grandparents retirement as those like your kids/grandkids will be the ones paying for yours.

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@peterrhague Though far from singularly British May Day seemed to be not a million miles off it until relatively recently, then everything required councils ticking 1000 boxes, Morris dancers became targets for early cancel culture. Stuff still goes on but it doesn’t feel universal.

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@LumoTravel It’s a weird one because a 800/3 can carry many more, just that a proportion of those would be standing. Highest number of reservations, or seating capacity, most likely, but passengers?

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@salingergregor The HUGE problem is doing it in terminals. At Kings Cross for instance you’ve tunnels at one end, London at the other.

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@DonTheMask Malted Carling.