Rob 🤖🚀

I'm just a regular guy; not a lot to say but I like Twitter so I'm going to try to join the conversation.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@andyburnham You realise that (if you become PM) you could pass an Act of Attainder and have him executed? I'm not recommending that course of action, just reminding you that you have legislative power and people don't really buy the whole weak 'exploring all options' schtick.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@SandyofCthulhu I do wonder why the longsword (a bloody great thing, not an arming sword) was some knights' main weapon in the high middle ages. Obviously you can't thrust one through a breastplate, but it must have been fairly useful, or they'd have been 100% blunt weapons and can openers.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@spinningjoe There could be an Edinburgh-Oslo ferry or something. I don't think OP deserves quite all the abuse, but what gets me is that it's absolutely not forbidden to set up a ferry service. They want us all to subsidise it for unclear 'links' reasons.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@DuxVul House of Lords entry based on lifetime tax paid. Would raise a fortune and be better than the current system.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@hector_drummond You've got that exactly backwards. His journalism/commentary work is harmless, though exposing. It was actually in parliament and government that he and the other tory wets did damage.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@sabatonfan69 @FINDER_OF_PATHS Just want to say, it's fine if your greatest achievement is ultra-short-form tweet fiction. I'm sure you'd welcome recognition and rewards from more prestigious & monetisable media. And I'll buy your book if it comes. But you're definitely doing something right here on x dot com.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@old_ric The Holey Babble.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@thomasmahler I'm price-elastic, have had great value from every PlayStation generation. But high hardware prices would shrink the market down to a smaller core - not enough to sustain the industry, so we'll get indefinite cross-gen instead.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@astralbaes I have a friend of 25 years who lives 12 miles away. We meet up 2-3 times a year, go for a hike and have a couple of beers, and we don't text in between. Perfection.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@thomasforth Also it needs to be disguised as a flower pot, or discharge the waste heat into water that goes down the drain, or something else unobtrusive.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@janeclarejones Everything is so weird. We had, at most, a couple of years of austerity, and 15 years of a perception of it. Massive, above-inflation healthcare increases, perceived as 'tory cuts'. We need care and welfare reform, but I can see people wanting some austerity with it.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@PopBase Slightly odd way to include David Cameron, who also served five whole years before 2015 as well.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@TheVallyD My grandfather, who I was close with, died when I was 15. Every so often many years later, I dream about spending a normal day hanging out with him. I don't have supernatural leanings; it's just my brain throwing this occasional treat, waking up feeling I saw my grandad yesterday

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@RabbidTheNabb1t I'm losing it at these comments. But I read somewhere that each new PM gets to commission a lectern to their personal taste. Which sounds totally insane, but there's the photos as evidence.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@TetraspaceWest Shame he only saw the sun one. Pretty daft of the Virgin Mary to speak directly to, like, communist Yugoslavian peasants and not an influential blogger.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@waitbutwhy From experience with my young kids, there's things you can do. If you take them back to whatever happy memories around the childhood amnesia phase, it seems to cement the past familiarity and they end up with lasting memories - stronger than if the later trip was the 1st time

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@mac1181 @waitbutwhy It's slightly different. Toddlers can remember amazing things but there's a pronounced forgetting phase around 5. In computer analogy terms it's more like deleting files to free up disk space.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@DemocritusSr Ogden Nash.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@halfaghost_ A legendary rock-paper-scissors game between buddies of mine. Player A picks Tommy Gun, mines mowing down fellow gangsters. Thinks he has it in the bag. Player B waves his arms encompassing everything. He's picked God.

[Rob 🤖🚀 @robots445]

@straczynski Well, maybe a lot of people have fond, if slightly woolly, memories of the walrus and would prefer you grin and own it rather than be embarrassed. Great analogy.