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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.23 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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6) Having taken your advice to peruse your Flickr page in your absence I regret, but understand, your absence from Instagram - the visual first approach would suit someone with so many interesting photos to share.
29) A friend introduced me to BE at University and it’s a great film that remains very quotable
TomH | 01.08.23 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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30) despite their frequent and vexing attempts to upsell me Prime, my last few Super Saver Delivery orders have arrived the next day. (I'd guess there's more orders going this way than rural Norfolk though)
martin | 01.08.23 - 7:50 a.m. | #
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22: Interesting
23: Only an oversized ego could manage this…
Southern Heights (Light Railway) | 01.08.23 - 8:17 a.m. | #
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6 - Of the technology nerds, Mark Zuckerberg is in my view the least trustworthy, anything he's involved with I avoid.
23 - throw away the recognizable brand for something different.
30 - if bus companies are short of drivers, Amazon might be short of drivers.
Still Anon | 01.08.23 - 8:21 a.m. | #
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6. Re Instagram: click on the down arrow next to the Instagram logo on your homepage and you can restrict yourself just to accounts you’re following. Eliminates a lot of time-wasting and general despair.
Philip Downer | 01.08.23 - 8:36 a.m. | #
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5) Why not take your shirt to a clothing alterations/repair shop and have it repaired for you?
Agent X | 01.08.23 - 8:47 a.m. | #
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11) I've almost exhausted Christopher Fowler's Bryant & May series, which I only found because of your comment after his death, so perhaps Mick Herron will prove a worthy replacement for me.
27) For delay repay, I've found it far simpler to opt for a BACS payment rather than a rail voucher. It was prompted by one train company not accepting another's voucher, because the format was different and they couldn't enter the data on their ticket machine.
Man of Kent | 01.08.23 - 9:10 a.m. | #
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11. The Slough House books are excellent (still not seen the TV adaptation) but I found the Zoe Boehm series stretched credulity slightly too far too often to remain believable.
17. An overdue refresh of a familiar format, I've enjoyed Amol Rajan's presentation style so far.
Frank F | 01.08.23 - 9:12 a.m. | #
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2) That misspelt sign reminds me of when I regularly used Ealing Broadway in the late 90s, there was one there which began "For your saftey" which rather annoyed me.
David | 01.08.23 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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5. No chance of mending your shirt with a needle and thread then?
26. On twitter I saw the attempted photo of the pub crawlers feet…..didn’t quite work. Taken at the last hostelry maybe? 😉
28. Well done on the rock cakes. Will you attempt fairy cakes next. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Jo W | 01.08.23 - 9:28 a.m. | #
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25th: As I'm honoured to be an evangelical, I'm intrigued (to use your word from 19th) as to how you distinguish us from non-evangelicals just by our looks!
28th: Hope the cooked rock cakes looked as good as the "ready to cook" ones.
John Simmons | 01.08.23 - 9:37 a.m. | #
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9: I hope you've got an umbrella.
Jonathan Wadman | 01.08.23 - 9:51 a.m. | #
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5th: If you let me know what colour your shirt is, I'll pop some appropriately-matched iron-on-the-back repair fabric in the post to you.
Blue Witch | 01.08.23 - 9:57 a.m. | #
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10th: or is the teabag now of the new non-plastic version type, so better for your health and for the planet?
Blue Witch | 01.08.23 - 10:01 a.m. | #
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8th: I don't think the font is Coundown, it looks like "E13B" which "is one of the two major Magnetic Ink Character Recognition (MICR) fonts used in the printing of checks and other payment documents."
Gareth Flaneur | 01.08.23 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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28. Rock cakes/buns are great. I taught in Austria for a year and wanted to take something in to the staff room to introduce myself to the teachers, but felt I could never compete with the wonderful, refined Viennese cakes and pastries. So I made a batch of rock buns, and they were a roaring success!
James | 01.08.23 - 10:50 a.m. | #
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Sat 8: There is (or maybe was) the shopfront designer in Anstruther, Fife, who used the same typeface as the one in Brentford.
[see here]
Charles | Homepage | 01.08.23 - 11:15 a.m. | #
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3) I'm glad to hear the Third Degree lands. I was on it 5-6 years ago, and it was a lot of fun to do, so long may it continue
James | 01.08.23 - 11:21 a.m. | #
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12: This is the reason I wear noise cancelling headphones!
19 Ooh, they've got their eyes on you now!
16/21: Having been relieved not to have appeared on TV I'm amazed you considered doing just that less than a week later!
23: A parody picture of Elon returning a dead Twitter logo to the Monty Python parrot shop made me laugh. "It was alive when you bought it!"
25: Peace is not the emotion it would have left me feeling!
Cornish Cockney | 01.08.23 - 12:07 p.m. | #
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7) Will read that article, as haven't been on Chris's excellent roads site for a few weeks. I still remember it by the far catchier "CBRD" though.
Mikey C | 01.08.23 - 12:12 p.m. | #
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31: Perhaps they were spending extra money on treats for someone special (themselves?)
Bloke Down The Road | 01.08.23 - 12:44 p.m. | #
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11 - the Slough House series is excellent but the repeated opening and closing formulae do tend to take the gloss off the stories; you mustn't avoid the opening ones as they eventually makes sense, but the endings can sometimes be eminently missable.
20 - when I objected to my electricity supplier forcing me on to monthly bills (EDF, [also?] using the word 'exciting' which for me had no thrills at all), they told me it was an instruction from the Ombudsman to help lower-income homes pay up in smaller amounts rather than be landed with quarterly big bills. The Energy Ombudsman office seems remarkably reluctant to confirm this was an 'instruction' - so was it 'advice', 'guidance', 'suggestion' in reality, which allows the cash flow for the supplier to increase? EDF are unwilling to respond to this as a complaint, so has anyone else had a better outcome than brick walls and elongated silences?
Joel | 01.08.23 - 1:35 p.m. | #
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10) Color me surprised that you don’t transfer your tea to reusable tea bags.
31) Love is infinitely more expensive than Life.
Steven | 01.08.23 - 3:47 p.m. | #
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7) roads.org.uk/Elgin is a superb summary of what is/will be going on on the roads, and I suspect that all the other sites are orphans of their information.
10) I only drink loose tea at home. Either a pot, or one of those gadgets you put a spoonful of leaves in, close the fastener and dunk. Does a second cup with ease.
Leaves on completion fertilize the plants.
scrumpy | 01.08.23 - 4:26 p.m. | #
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8th - It's looks like the Westminster font - based on E13B (which itself only consists of numerical digits and control characters).
Didn't Tomorrow's World once have its titles in that style?
Trevor S | 01.08.23 - 6:42 p.m. | #
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9. I didn’t take an umbrella. It didn’t rain.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.23 - 7:22 p.m. | #
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24) I noticed today that the 28 buses are showing the currently impossible destination Wandsworth Bridge Southside. Given they are digital blinds that's rather poor.
ap | 01.08.23 - 7:47 p.m. | #
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8. Yep Charles, its Data70, with the 'O' rotated 180°, Westminster has a plain square 'O' and Computerfont is much bolder.
Chr0me | 01.08.23 - 9:19 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
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(but the vast majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.23 - 11:55 p.m. | #
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6 - in addition to the changes in post chronology on Instagram (even from those you follow), the app feels like 50% ads or promoted posts nowadays.
The 'good' thing about Threads is that despite it being Facebook, they've committed (?) to join a sort of open source social media network where you'll be able to see other people's posts even if they are on Mastodon and the like and vice versa if I've understood the technical stuff correctly. They also say you'll be able to migrate your account to the other platforms, supposedly.
23 - the number of websites, amount of printed packaging, etc... that will have to switch out the blue bird for a random and unrecognisable X is pretty massive. Wonder if most just won't bother.
matthieu1221 | 02.08.23 - 12:05 p.m. | #
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11. And I only discovered, and devoured, and shared with others, Mick Herron’s work because of that post. So thank you.
Lux | 02.08.23 - 9:03 p.m. | #
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14 - a milestone birthday for me so I remember the rain well.
19 - there's a lot of interest in both the potential uses and pitfalls of generative AI within the Civil Service, so I wonder if your post was shared as a lovely example of AI 'hallucination' and a warning not to believe everything you read?
Edith S | 05.08.23 - 7:57 a.m. | #
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4. Elon actually gave us six weeks, not 30 days, but RIP Tweetdeck.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 16.08.23 - 8:25 a.m. | #
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