Mike Selby

Father, widower, semi-retired, Wu Family-style Taiji practitioner.

[Mike Selby @lordheber]

@a_toots Shades of Spinal Tap!

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@a_toots Spot on! 🧟 😱

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@oliver_wright re your Streeting vs Burnham piece today: it's complEmentary!

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@breeallegretti re your piece today on Catherine West: I suspect you meant "elicited", not "solicited". In fact, I'm pretty sure.

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@HarryKind @RipOffBritain
Re Rip Off Britain & Potholes Compensation :
It's "home in" on something. "Hone" means "sharpen" something, such as a knife or your knowledge of the English language.

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Re Zelenskiy comments re Russian arms: it's "ordnance", not ordinance. Soz...

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@Cressup RE China cryogenics story: surely you must know that Chinese names are family name first?! So, it's "Mr. Gui", of course.

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@jimmy_wales "dies..."

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@jimmy_wales I would dearly love to get this article posted on Wikipedia before Gary Wragg does or I do! Help!

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@jimmy_wales Wragg has been a leading figure in abstract painting since the 1980s, widely collected, exhibited and published. He's also a top-level, highly respected instructor in Tai Chi Chuan. Despite including full documentation on both of these, the biog has been repeatedly rejected.

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@AhYeOkayNah @ProfBrianCox 😂

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@Effy_Yeomans re tuna piece, the killing method is ikijime (not ikejime). See:
活き締め
活締め
いきじめ
draining blood from a live fish (from above the gills and at the base of the tail) to keep it fresh

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@Keir_Starmer Dear Prime Minister, I think you should read this, before praising that cretinous monster: https://t.co/KHb17SjAM5

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@awzurcher "vagaries" doesn't mean "vague words" (your report on the failed Alaska meeting). It means "an unexpected and inexplicable change in a situation or in someone's behaviour: e.g. the vagaries of the weather". Sorry...

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@DuncyLeaths 😁👍

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@DuncyLeaths Just a note from the grammar/punctuation/spelling pedant... It's "recce", not reccy. (Ref Sycamore story). Sorry...

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@thedailymash Flout, not "flaunt". Sorry...

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@breeallegretti ref your piece today on MPs seeking to block Trump, "He (Obama) was watched on by..."?!! Please explain how "watched on" improves on "watched".
Furthermore this useless formulation doesn't work in this context anyway.

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@JournoAtko Re your Marty Sheargold / Matildas piece - he IMPLIED, not "inferred" that the matches were boring. Soz.