BBC Lunchtime News bulletin inventing a new country “Cyrpus”
#BBC somewhat discombobulated by reporting fast-moving Actual News … #YouSayCyrpus #ISayCyprus
BBC Lunchtime News bulletin inventing a new country “Cyrpus”
#BBC somewhat discombobulated by reporting fast-moving Actual News … #YouSayCyrpus #ISayCyprus
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Error message IT shutdown
FKING H*LL
All I want @england.nhs.uk, ALL I WANT IS BASIC IT
DO NOT SHUT DOWN IN THE MIDDLE OF A HUGE (unsaved) PIECE OF WORK #ffs
Day 12 and we finally have an answer to the question ‘can there be too much curling on telly’ #WinterOlympics
I propose to make universal the old policy of the Blackfriars conference at the American Shakespeare Center:
If you do not end your paper on time, you will be forced to exit, pursued by a bear. Literally, a bear will come take your paper from you.
So what’s the secret here? Kevlar pants? Steel-plated quad guards? Why is he not screaming in lacerated agony? #WinterOlympics #BladesofSteel
Torvill and Dean Gold Medal ice dance Bolero 1984
“Torvill-and-Dean-1984-Sarajevo” is the #TeamGB ice dance equivalent of 1966…
#WinterOlympics
Just straight up boycott Ray Bans and all who wear them
Curling Team GB down 3:8 to Sweden 7th end
Watching curling from behind a cushion
Yes, CURLING #anxiety
#WinterOlympics
Listening to the Beethoven piano concerto on R3 reminds me again how brilliant Dudley Moore's Colonel Bogey was.
Reacting to the Court of Appeal judgment in the James Gilbert case, our VP, Prof Vivien Lees said: “Staff targeted by James Gilbert’s behaviour will feel disappointed by today’s Court of Appeal judgment.”
More from the BBC: https://ow.ly/MM1q50Y9WsN
Opening Ceremony Milan Winter Olympics
BBC playing the sound so low … or I’m going deaf… yikes no Hazel Irvine at massive volume #WinterOlympics #OpeningCeremony
Doing well.
2 out of 2 justifications for some of my established rituals which drive the Child mad:
1) build in at least one extra train ahead of the appointment time and
2) brown people *always* need the protection of a receipt at self-checkouts
Have they washed it in coffee?? 🫣
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My Year in Diets Veganuary Fibreuary Starch Cakepril MaycaroniCheese June&tonic Julicecream Augustickytoffeepudding Septembeer Octoblerone Doughvember Decemburger Brian Bilston
Good luck to anyone starting the year with a new health regime. Here’s how mine always goes.
Don't say 'I told you so' Stuart, it's unedifying.
'Superflu' looking very much like normal flu.
Worst flu season since... last year.
The word Perilous
Hmm… 👀
Citation from New Years Honours List for Scarlett McNally OBE, for services to Medicine, Surgery and the NHS
🎉Huge congratulations @scarlettmcnally.bsky.social OBE!! #NYHonours @collegeofsurgeons.bsky.social
Unbelievably, #DuvetKnowItsChristmas generates such good will on social media that over the years we've raised somewhere approaching a quarter of a million quid for homeless charities. If you can spare a bob or two, sling some to Centrepoint, and here's the link: www.gofundme.com/f/duvet-know...
Letter summoning for jury duty
Marvellous. Another week of cancelled operating. Suppose kinda glad they’re not abolished yet though… #JuryDuty
Thank you - it’s no joke at this age cranking the brain up again but hey, the rage was strong
I hear you. Have just* submitted dissertation entirely fuelled by rage. Powerful motivator
*4pm today
Struggling with this quite a lot tbh #jurytrials
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The Child has asked me to desist in my commentary on Danny Mac as apparently I’m ruining the what’s left of her childhood… #Strictly
H from Steps
Hmm. H in his Jedward-era…
#Strictly #Steps #Blackpool
A former UK prime minister held responsible for tens of thousands of deaths while the US president calls for elected politicians to be hanged.
A jolt of a reminder that law and policy are ultimately about life and death.
And politicians are often not up to dealing with such things.