OldSynner

Recently retired food chemistry lecturer. Long term Yesfan. Even longer term SF fan.

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@IntuitiveLulu @10DowningStreet Oh, dear ...

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@IntuitiveLulu @10DowningStreet https://t.co/CQNdIhAZ42
Many other compounds in tobacco smoke are metabolised to carcinogens in the liver.

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@NeilFra97674870 I recall the proposed the Dyson ventilators during Covid: each one costing a £1M, weighing a 1000Kg, and stopping working after a week.

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@Eamdee @rte @THorslips @carrtogram @horslipsmusic @lockyjim I'm not from Ireland, but a sort of Irish fella from the North Riding, from the same town as Charles. (I qualify for an Irish passport)
I'd have him down as the second-best overall to the incomparable Steve Howe.

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@wesstreeting Whatever people's views on Royalty (I'm agnostic), never forget this:

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@TrikotdeMaillot @robertmdaws Shearer did win a league championship.
Then he moved to Newcastle ...

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@DiariesEmpire See this, which is great read:

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@tunadave52 The Prophet.

[electionmapsuk @electionmapsuk]

Snap Poll - Support for Budget Measures:

🏥 Increased NHS Funding:
Support: 71%
Oppose: 15%

💰 Raising Minimum Wage:
Support: 69%
Oppose: 14%

⛽ Fuel Duty Freeze:
Support: 63%
Oppose: 14%

🏢 Rise in Employer NICs:
Support: 37%
Oppose: 33%

🚌 Increasing Bus Fare Cap:
Support: 23%
Oppose: 52%

Via @Savanta_UK, 30 Oct.

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@bo66ie29 From @yorkshirepost today.
Don't know what the car is, but I think it would better if the mobile phone madness had ended here.

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@SimoninSuffolk If our "journalists" were restricted to "sending messages back in a cleft stick", the "profession" might still have some credibility.

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@gavinesler "“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had. People who were totally loyal to him, that follow orders.”
He hated his generals and progressively took command responsibility from them.
The officers tried to kill him on more than one occasion.

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https://t.co/OSw1y58dg5
@thebeatles
Should be in a museum.

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@71Season Probably Subbuteo baize, which actively resisted the concept of "flatness".

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@Multilanguman @FXMC1957 Yes, that was somewhat unconvincing!

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@FXMC1957 The take off was hugely impressive, especially the transition to the black of space.
The series was in black and white then ...

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@Ayohugh @FXMC1957 Space Patrol -- the best puppet show. Great stories, and always very impressed that it gave a measure of the scale of solar system (Larry Dart and co had to go into suspended animation).
Gamma Rays on! Yobba Rays on!

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So, farewell Phil Lesh. Another great gone.
https://t.co/guQL5grJsS
And it's just a box of rain
Or a ribbon for your hair
Such a long, long time to be gone
And a short time to be there

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@Weird_Friction Richard Francis Burton was a truly remarkable man.
Solider, explorer (including deep in to the Arab world, in disguise), linguist and translator.
Then there is the whole Burton and Speke search for the source of the Nile thing. Oh, my.
https://t.co/6NeeIqdupX