Jack Ramsden

[Jack Ramsden @thejackramsden]

English equivalent of QED: WWWWW - 'which was what was wanted'. Much better!

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@AlexGabriel 'Containment, a no-nonsense deodorant from the Pentagon'.

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La Vie Est Belle perfume advert: 'In a world full of diktats and conventions...' Mmm I agree, the Versailles settlement was rather punitive.

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Congratulations for successfully inseminating a contractually-defined partner and thereby continuing the bloodline of unmerited sovereignty.

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Thomas Wentworth, 1610: 'to what purpose to draw a silver stream into the royal cistern if it shall daily run out thence by private cocks'

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2,200 words later, I'm still not sure what humanism and its impact were. #OxfordProblems

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Received an email with the subject 'The Psycho watch...' and the text '...was collected by its owner this afternoon.' #SeikoPun

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Personal favourite - беспощадная борьба - merciless struggle. #WhatHasMyУчительGotPlanned? #OxfordProblems

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Last week we learnt дверь/door and учитель/teacher. This week? Государственное политическое управление/state political gov. #OxfordProblems

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'The bells chime the death of time which is always passing, but the sirens warn that there may be no more, that the watch may stop.' #HGreen

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'Every day one died a little. The difference now was that one knew it.' Cheerful reading. #HenryGreen

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Two people in front of me in the queue in Tesco had a conversation in three languages. Well now I feel inferior #OxfordProblems

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Eric Hobsbawm dies, aged 95 http://t.co/1Cx6BumP - I loved his work. He published his last book aged 93. Wonderful thinker and writer.

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'The Lib Dems want a picture of Ed Balls for the article - what shall we go for?' - 'Hatred incarnate', http://t.co/MX6tm2pk via @guardian

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@yassinenoui Responsereply: I see. I'll be back Tuesday middayish. I didn't realise people were going back so soon!

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@yassinenoui Oi/hi, when are you going back?

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Wonderful post. EU integration 'has not gone nearly far enough' RT @CraigMurrayOrg 'Confessions of a Secret Europhile http://t.co/O3339whK'

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@MrCarmady Tuesday, I think, not entirely sure if that's what I said I'd do. I hope it's not too early (or late)!

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Well I may not be able to watch #BBCQT live back at university... oh no wait, I have Twitter. #theresalwaysTwitter

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I would like to hear Jacob Rees-Mogg slip in a glottal stop or drop an ending 't' - just once would be nice #BBCQT