Phill Evans

Freelance illustrator, arts enthusiast, instructor, learning support assistant and husband. Not necesarily in that order.

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@ask_aubry Read the room dude!! HE is definitely the asshole here.

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@WhittersRichard "Reaper Man." Seriously, they willbe teaching this in schools as classic lterature in decades to come.

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@theJeremyVine I've got MS and i've often had That Look from people when getting out of my car in blue bays. These days I just apologise, loudly, for not being disabled enough for their personal taste.

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@SoVeryBritish Pork pie sandwich. Very thin slice of pork pie (inc pastry) with pickles or mustard to taste) between two slices of bread.

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@InternetH0F Women are a good time for the people who want their own life.

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@SoVeryBritish At least its not raining.

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@advaitisnails @ask_aubry He was a misogynist til he was 26, then he realised he could weaponise it.

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@PhilFilmDoc @BoufontZak @Jackiew80333500 Thanks for that. Good article that completely exposes this malignant meme.

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@SoVeryBritish Tea!

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@MichaelRosenYes High Flight by John Gillespie Magee Jr.

[Dr Julia Grace Patterson💙 @JujuliaGrace]

I sometimes get told by MPs that their patients “don’t mind if private companies deliver their healthcare”.

If you do mind, and want the NHS to stay out of private hands, please RT this. Let’s send MPs a message 💙

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@NoContextBrits Shoes.

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@mhdksafa Hi Mohammad. When you really understand the pain somewhere it is easy to lose touch with the peace and the joy there is too. Take a moment. Step back and find your centre. Recoup yourself and return to the work you need to do refreshed.

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@fesshole So now you've had lots of practice! Release the next one!!

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@NZXT Tardigrade.

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@InternetH0F Jam. But only jars that have been opened. If more than one are open, then the one with the least 8n.

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@NoContextBrits Noggy/noggin.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Meet Madam Jeanne Louise Calment, who had the longest confirmed human lifespan: 122 years, 164 days.

Apparently, fate strongly approved of the way she lived her life. She was born in Arles, France, on February 21, 1875. The Eiffel Tower was built when she was 14 years old. It was at this time she met Vincent van Gogh. "He was dirty, badly dressed, and disagreeable," she recalled in an interview given in 1988.

When she was 85, she took up fencing, and still rode her bike when she reached 100. At the age of 114, she starred in a film about her life, at age 115 she had an operation on her hip, and at age 117 she gave up smoking, having started at the age of 21 in 1896. She didn't give it up for health reasons; her reason was that she didn't like having to ask someone to help her light a cigarette once she was nearly blind.

In 1965, Jeanne was 90 years old and had no heirs. She signed a deal to sell her apartment to a 47-year-old lawyer called André-François Raffray. He agreed to pay her a monthly sum of 2,500 francs on the condition he would inherit her apartment after she died. However, Raffray not only ended up paying Jeanne for 30 years, but then died before she did at the age of 77. His widow was legally obliged to continue paying Madam Calment until the end of her days.

Jeanne retained sharp mental faculties. When she was asked on her 120th birthday what kind of future she expected to have. Her reply, "A very short one."

Here are the Rules of Life from Jeanne Louise Calment:

"I'm in love with wine."
"All babies are beautiful."
"I think I will die of laughter."
"I've been forgotten by our Good Lord."
"I've got only one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it."
"I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry often."
"If you can't change something, don't worry about it."
"Always keep your smile. That's how I explain my long life."
"I see badly, I hear badly, and I feel bad, but everything's fine."
"I have a huge desire to live and a big appetite, especially for sweets."
"I have legs of iron, but to tell you the truth, they're starting to rust and buckle a bit."
"I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky."
“Being young is a state of mind, it doesn’t depend on one’s body. I’m actually still a young girl, it's just that I haven't looked so good for the past 70 years."

At the end of one interview, the journalist said, "Madame, I hope we will meet again sometime next year." To which Jeanne replied, "Why not? You're not that old; you'll still be here!”

The image with the wings is a piece of art by
L. Lichtenfells

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@NoContextBrits We were once organised enough to have an empire. Glad we got through THAT phase, though.

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@hankgreen I'm afraid not. But then, would you WANT it to?