Mark Simpson

[Mark Simpson @penfolduk01]

@Alex__1789 @NickBurns Well in the UK they tax sugary drinks more than non-sugary ones. So Diet Coke is cheaper...

Uk Law also means I can't get free refill hot choccy or cappuccino at my local Morrisons Supermarket... we might as well be a Stalinist State...

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@LynnFOI Sorry...

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@LynnFOI Well this girl is up at the Headpress 35th Anniversary Extravaganza (Quatermass etc) in Manchester.

Followed by a screening of Daleks Master Plan Eps 1-3 at 5pm.

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@VarysBueller @elonmusk Interstellar is virtually impossible. But not totally impossible.

I believe the most likely scenario is using self-replicating VonNeumann probes to colonise other star systems, and effectively 3D print biological lifeforms, including humans, upon arrival.

Would take eons though

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@elonmusk Tell me you don't know what the Kardashev Scale actually says without saying you don't know.

We're not even a Type 1 civilisation yet. And Type 2 is centuries if not millenia away.

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@SpaceX Looks like literally a damp squib today. Just goes to show NASA were prudent to restart the Blue Origin Lunar Lander as backup for Artemis.

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@BarbaraNice Yes. Last week I picked what I thought would be a nice quiet afternoon in Birmingham to go and see the exhibition... 🙄

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@BarbaraNice Still something to cheer me up today. 🙂

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@_night_brain__ HS2 hasn't been cancelled. Just the Birmingham to Manchester section.

Birmingham to London is still under construction. Although it will now terminate on the outskirts of London.
Thus removing any time savings HS2 might have given... 🙄

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@realObonjo Mr President.
You're forgetting that the British Military has been so gutted over the decades it could "... only seize a small market town on a good day".

https://t.co/SqYN1bEa62

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@Keir_Starmer Thank you for your words.

It now means there's a clear choice. In order to save the country the Labour Party must oust you.

As you are too tone deaf to hear the will of the people.

Please don't be the Prime Minister that hands over to Nigel Farage.

Do the right thing. Resign.

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@LynnFOI Absolutely. Also fine Reform UK if that's possible.

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@BarbaraNice @flatpack Whoot!

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@BarbaraNice As it happens, I'd already got a ticket for this, just on the strength of Rachel hosting it.

Now I know you're the subject of the event, even more interested.

I'll see if I can remember some anecdotes I can pass on to Rachel to ask you about... 🤣

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@BarbaraNice Sorry I didn't make any of these shows. Had booked Birmingham last year, but a family bereavement scuppered that.

This year, decided to leave it until The Lowry...

Which just goes to show, strike whilst the iron is hot.

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@realObonjo I was thinking that myself.
They need to get all the violent "nutters" of the streets.

When I say "nutters" I don't want to disparage anyone with mental health conditions. But a lot of the nutters I'm referring to don't have mental health issues.

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@LynnFOI Appointing babies as Lords and Ladies?!? Socialism gone mad... 🤣

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@SamiraAhmedUK Did you buy a pack of Treasury Tags as well...?

Ah, those halcyon days of starting a new job, and replacing the green blotting paper in the holder on your desk... 😀