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[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@melody_player @BBCBreaking All fallers at the first few fences is 100% the fault of the protesters. Any casualties have them to blame,they disturbed the horses& caused them to be in the heat longer than the caring trainers would ever do! Ignorant & totally unaware of how loved&cared are those horses

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

Fascinating 😊

[Brian Cox @ProfBrianCox]

A few more thoughts on the possibility of life beyond Earth. All these thoughts are guesses. The lack of firm evidence for alien intelligence (so far) is sometimes called the Fermi Paradox, and it is a paradox. Put simply, there has been over 10 billion years and there are many millions of worlds in the Milky Way on which a civilisation could have arisen as far as we know. At first sight, one might therefore expect that there should be many civilisations in the galaxy far in advance of us, and we might have expected to see them. Why don’t we (or, let’s be careful, why is the evidence not bloody obvious!)?

One answer might be that civilisations never develop interstellar travel. I don’t see any reason why interstellar travel is impossible, and I think we’ll develop it if we survive into the 22nd century.

Related - perhaps civilisations don’t ever solve the problems posed by industrialisation and the discovery of nuclear weapons and never make it to the stars. Topical - see Oppenheimer!Maybe just ‘getting along’ as a global civilisation is harder than science.

Maybe (see UFO hearings) they are here but we haven’t discovered them or somebody knows but has managed to keep it a secret? Maybe. But if this is the case then at least I can say that the alien civilisations aren’t making their presence very obvious, otherwise my Astronomy colleagues who spend their time gazing at the sky and listening for signals would surely have spotted them! But let’s not rule out the possibility that we just haven’t detected them (or there is evidence but only a few people know about it) but they are indeed here.

My guess is that the average number of civilisations in a typical galaxy is low - perhaps less than 1. That’s a guess, based on what we know about the evolution of complex life on Earth. Put simply, it took the best part of 4 billion years here to go from cell to civilisation, and that’s a third of the age of the Universe. I think this MAY imply that, if this is typical (lots of ifs) then the Milky Way may be filled with microbes but not complex living things at our level of intelligence. This would be my guess.

BUT make no mistake, I wouldn’t be in the least bit surprised if a UFO landed in Oldham town centre tomorrow morning and the captain said ‘Take me to the leader of Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council’. In that case the Fermi Paradox would no longer be a paradox, I’d have learnt a lot about biology and I could get back to tweeting about other interesting stuff. I’d also ask them why gravity is so weak relative to the other forces of Nature.

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@JacquiCroftie He’s too thick to see the deviousness & obvious manipulation! What a lack of morals they both have to consider evicting someone on such a whim - if vile George gets away with it I hope Hannah gets her own back very soon!

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

One of ironies of the Coutts/Farage stramash has been the Left resorting to the argument that Coutts is a private company and should be able to take whatever clients it likes. Talk about Farage derangement syndrome.
The second irony relates to why they are wrong, thanks, Mr Farage take note, to EU rules.
The Financial Conduct Authority, City watchdog for conduct of banks, points to relevant legislation which forbids discrimination: Regulation 18 of the Payment Accounts Regulations 2019 – one of the EU retained laws from 2015 –  which states:
“A credit institution must not discriminate against consumers legally resident in the United Kingdom by reason of their nationality or place of residence or by reason of sex, race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation when those consumers apply for or access a payment account.”
Which is why, despite the apology to NF, Alison Rose’s job is still on the line.

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@14MilesToFrance @DatCatDer Not very satisfying for the child though! Think that’s the point of the exercise, collective pride in achieving something together.

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@DatCatDer @judyjarvis Making cakes together is a lovely way to make a child feel they’ve achieved something and they are proud to see their efforts on sale. There’s always time I’m sure, better to do that together than leave them watching tv. It’s something lasting too that they’ll do with their own.

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@TheCiderShedPod and a neat way of resolving all of Helen’s problems!

[Matt Le Tissier ✝️ @mattletiss7]

Was watching a clip of a sports event from 30 years ago I paused it and asked my wife what she noticed that was so different. I then pointed out there was barely any obese people in the scene. So what’s caused this? We know obesity causes unwanted health issues which lead to more and more people taking prescribed meds. What was so different back then? I think we only have to look in our supermarkets and the amount of processed food available to us now as opposed to back then. What else is different?

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@SlavinGerard @TheCiderShedPod Absolutely, he’s a really horrible character - I guess you have to have one hate figure!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@TheCiderShedPod Poor bloke was depressed about losing his job & vocation - and then she says, don’t be long cooking dinner cos Jack’s hungry! 😳

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@BBCRadio4 @DesertIsleDiscs @BowenBBC what a brilliant episode this was, one of the best. Such an interesting man, so considered and humble. I’ve enjoyed your excellent journalism over the years, it was good to get to know you a bit today!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

Exactly!

[Matthew Syed @matthewsyed]

Forgive the language, but here’s my analysis of celebrity culture: “pure, unadulterated bullshit”

https://t.co/NDMiMKf1SH

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@LukeCusick @jamesinsurrey @Gindy Isn’t that called ‘courting’

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@btsport funny how when we’re trying to raise a complaint that NOWHERE on the BT account page can you cancel BT Sport or anything you don’t want to keep paying loads for - you just keep getting this message! 🤬so no way out!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@jen_jstephen @Frogthistle Hate the word posh - it’s an acronym for Port Out Starboard Home, referring to wealthy passengers on a steamship when there were different classes of ticket. It has no relevance otherwise so nothing to do with what people call their evening meal, ie dinner!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@Frogthistle @jen_jstephen Dinner isn’t necessarily formal, it’s just our main meal that we eat every night 🙄tea is a drink!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@jen_jstephen Tea is a drink to us, not food! We have dinner every night at about 7 so couldn’t eat anything after that, supper or not!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@TheCiderShedPod Her reluctance to let him visit her in Dublin should have been a massive red flag - to anyone normal! 😂

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

Some wonderful tributes @BBCRadio4 to Martin Amis, a wonderful wordsmith and one of my favourite authors, a very sad loss to literature.

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@TheCiderShedPod @Victoriadsc I think Paddy is still alive & she’s lying in case he’d leave his money to Adam if they met!

[hazel verity @sawbogirl]

@marieverity1 @MerseyBeatles @woolwich_works Such a brilliant night, full of nostalgia, singing all the words & a bit of dancing! Thank you 😘