Olls Bolls

Anthropologist turned marketer. Kids charity trustee.

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@ENortonHistory Original source for those quotes here: https://t.co/0RdFy1ujSH

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@oldenoughtosay Lorry = HGV or Artic.

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@bruceclarkprof @tomfgoodwin @DigitalSapience Similar to what @faris described as the 'Yolo economy' last year: https://t.co/5gbkFRJ4ai

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@AliSanguis @Lalalollypoop @archronus1 @luinalaska This is absolute, Grade A, 100% bullshit.

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On the other hand, Kaos (Netflix) is a gem. Inventive, fun, beautifully filmed, full of great performances, and awesome tracklist.

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@clairestrickett I'll give him everything except Bach.

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@Will_Humphrey We always enjoy the Science Museum (Power Up is fun if they're into gaming, but free galleries are also good if not).

Postal Museum was unexpectedly fun (esp. the mail train ride).

Horniman is also good and full of fascinating weird stuff (though not very central)

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@spaceghost @dieworkwear (according to Westwood's biographer, Jane Mulvagh, and former HTA chief exec Ian Angus Mackenzie, as quoted in this article https://t.co/oaMECqrwN3)

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@spaceghost @dieworkwear When she did her original Harris Tweed collection, she took their orb and added Saturn-like rings to nod towards a futuristic vibe.

The Harris Tweed Association almost sued (thankfully didn't), but did beef up protection of their trademark via the Harris Tweed Act.

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@Slightly_Random I'm fascinated by the Concierge Car Wash one. A silver award, but the case study images make it look a bit thin, so really curious about the details!

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@clairestrickett @Groves17Diana @latourdeloon @rcolvile "Diana" created her profile in 2022, sat on it posting nothing for a year and a half, and then posted 35,000 times between July October...

I suspect you're arguing with a Tufton Street budget line item...

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@tomfgoodwin No problem - as others have said, I think the quote is from Orlando Wood's Cannes talk (no source mentioned), but that article was the only source I could find anywhere that mentioned 6% specifically.

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@Will_Humphrey Always found it disconcerting how much new client onboarding meetings usually focus almost entirely on telling them how 'we' work, and very little on teasing out how 'they' do (players, priorities, processes, politics...)

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@Slightly_Random I was part of the cast in the last one, and it was great until we got to the point where half of the audience were pissed up city workers courtesy of free tickets for corporate sponsors.

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@Slightly_Random This place introduced me to you, and @zoescaman, and @JCPHankins and @Robertc1970 and @tomroach and many others.

Listening in on their chats was an education in itself, and gave me the shove to hang up my CS suit and start over as a Planner.

For me, serendipity lives here.

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@ItsAndyRyan @daf1999 @alexandrakuri I think the word order of those earlier versions, and especially the 'still' in the second one point to it meaning that it can't simultaneously be eaten and no-eaten.

But to be fair, that's not definitive, so you may well be right all the same!

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@ItsAndyRyan @daf1999 @alexandrakuri Ah, fair enough!

I'm basing that on early usage (quoted in some collections of proverbs - both from the late 1500s I think)

'Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake'

‘A man cannot eat his cake and haue it still, That may he, unlesse his retention be ill'

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@ItsAndyRyan @daf1999 @alexandrakuri This thread is about the original meaning of proverbs.

The version I mentioned above is recorded as far back as the 1600s, and does make sense: you can't eat your cake and also have it uneaten.