Neil Popham

Web developer, father of three, and friend to the animals.

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

@nectar I need a replacement card, but you don't seem to have an address saved for me and when I go to update my address the AJAX request gets a 400 "HTTP Status 400 – Bad Request" response. My card is falling apart, please help.

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

'tis the season for #pavementflowers

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

Great day at @NewquayZoo today. We love sloths and were lucky enough to be within touching distance of one today.

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

Really?

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[G2 Rocket League @G2RocketLeague]

Daniel skilled player but that is not normally, This very very insane....They need to check him pc and game.....

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

I love this so much.
https://t.co/YwH5SZUydb

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Freedom.. 😊

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

@martinstarke I saw it was 2-3 around the 70min mark, and thought the streak was over. Relieved to see the final result. Must have been a tense watch. 😄

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

@matthughson I was just listening to one of my favourite podcasts, @retrohouruk, and they made reference to the lightgun support in Super Sunny World. They were very positive about it. 19:03 onward. https://t.co/xoHxhH1zCE

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

I found this fascinating. The "pain cave", "corneal edema", the fact that after a certain distance women's biology makes them faster than men, and well worth following the links to Big Dog's Backyard Ultra and The Barkley Marathons. Absolute madness! https://t.co/X4ZB2R4fp8

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

Ah, the 60s.
Cracking track, and Safe as Milk is an amazing album.

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

This is how pandas clean their houses🐼😂

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

For example, I do like the harmonies on this track; it makes it quite hypnotic. No idea what "Brush me daddy-o!" means though. https://t.co/OMj88NRrlh

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

I'm having a bit of a Kings Of The Wild Frontier obsession at the moment, after I woke with this chorus going round my head. I love the production on the album, but conversely I like the punk aesthetic of this performance. Can't go wrong with two drummers. https://t.co/IZjc9s9jAL

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

Listening to 100 Greatest Christmas Songs on Spotify.
Music is interrupted by an advert, suggesting I listen to 100 Greatest Christmas Songs on Spotify.
I'm trying bro, I'm trying.

[Viz Comic @vizcomic]

Subscriptions >>> https://t.co/ljETF43Myo

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

My second daughter was due around Talk Like a Pirate Day, and my wife agreed that, if the dates collided, she could have a pirate name. If that had happened, she would be called Bonny.

[Fascinating @fasc1nate]

Anne Bonny was born in the small fishing village of Kinsale, Ireland. She was born out of an illicit affair between a wealthy solicitor named William Cormac and a young servant girl named Mary Brennan. The first few years of Anne’s life was shrouded in secrecy. William would dress Anne as a boy and passed her off as his nephew. He gave her a job as a clerk in his office, a job usually intended for a boy. Eventually, the secret got out and he moved his mistress and Anne to London and then on to America, to escape the scandal.

Soon after arriving in America, Mary Brennan succumbed to a fever and died. William went on to become a wealthy merchant after setting up a plantation in Charles Town, South Carolina and tried to raise Anne to become a respectful woman. Anne had flowing red hair and was considered pretty by most, but years of pretending to be a boy left Anne with a rebellious nature and a fiery temper. At the age of 13, she stabbed a young servant girl and when a friend of her fathers tried to rape her, she beat him to a pulp. At 16, she met a man named James Bonny and ran off to the Bahamas (a haven for pirates) after her father disapproved of her relationship. While living in the Bahamas, she met and fell in love with the famous pirate Calico Jack. Jack tried to buy Anne from her husband James, which was custom at the time. After the husband refused his offer, Anne Bonny and Calico Jack commandeered a ship and sailed off to terrorise the high seas.

While plundering ships and raiding coastal towns around the Caribbean, they teamed up with another female pirate named Mary Reed. Anne Bonny and Mary Reed became close friends and would fight hand in hand with their male counterparts. Women were considered bad luck on ship’s, a tradition steeped in superstition and taken very seriously among the men who ruled the seas at the time. But Anne and Mary had managed to elevate themselves to a high level of respect amongst the pirates they commanded.

Ann Bonny, Mary Reed, and Calico Jack, along with their entire crew, were captured and sentenced to death. Jack and his crew were too drunk and didn’t put up much of a fight. Anne’s final words to Jack before he was hanged is a testament to her rebellious personality, “Had you fought like a man, you needn’t be hung like a dog.”

Anne and Mary were sentenced to death, but the two women were pregnant and pleaded their case to the Judge. The Judge postponed their executions until they would give birth. Mary died in childbirth and never made it to the gallows. What became of Anne bonny is speculation, but records suggest she died an old woman in Charles Town.

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

@HedgehogCabin Thank you. ♥️

[Neil Popham @ntpopham]

@HedgehogCabin 😆 I got hissed at by one of ours once. I went out to feed them and found one already there. I stayed very still waiting for them to move, but unfortunately they chose to move right towards me. Once they noticed me I got hissed at for my audacity, or perhaps my tardiness.