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diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.20 - 12:00 a.m. | #
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11. Went there for the design festival thing. It's a depressing place and the temporary contents didn't help. They ould have been anywhere, say somewhere accessible to non-hikers.
12. That sounds a lot more appealing, but there's no helpful images on their social media showing the spread out stalls or crowds.
13. Stake and twine?
toby | 01.08.20 - 7:32 a.m. | #
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5 - ignoring what you said above, what kind of dog is it?
19 - were there enough for an omelette?
20 - but conspiracy theories do make everyday life more exiting, a friend of mine is into a variation of the QAnon one, so I sent her a link for the HyperNormalisation documentary.
Still Anon | 01.08.20 - 7:37 a.m. | #
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28 - as a Coventrian, I am unaware of anyone here who likes the Coventry City of Culture new logo. For starters, the spacing between the ultra-arty C, O and V seems all wrong. Also fed up with the emphasis on Two-Tone in its new branding, as if nothing has happened in Coventry since then. It'd be nice to celebrate looking forward instead rather than living in the past.
JJ | 01.08.20 - 7:52 a.m. | #
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25 - I am a big fan of "passive" Instagram. I have it onto my laptop. I can follow people and comment on their posts and exchange DMs, if I wish. I cannot post photos, because it is not on a phone. This means I get an entirely ad free timeline and just see (at a decent size) lots of things that interest me.
RosemaryT | 01.08.20 - 7:58 a.m. | #
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29: A colleague on the course I’m doing rented one of the houses damaged by the crane. She wasn’t injured, but she and her flatmate had to find somewhere else to live at very short notice and in the middle of a pandemic. Luckily, they managed to find somewhere suitable, but it wasn’t exactly what was needed in the middle of trying to write the dissertation which is key to completing the course. It could have been a lot worse - I think someone died in the accident - but as you say, you never know what’s lurking around the corner...
Baldassaro | 01.08.20 - 8:23 a.m. | #
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9. Received the discount voucher, and actually used it. Shops and the O2 very quiet. Free parking was a bonus.
H SE18 | 01.08.20 - 8:30 a.m. | #
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18 - given the biographical clues you divulge on here, I have never previously considered it possible that you may be part of the BAME community. I'm guessing the reveller was substantially inebriated.
Frank F | 01.08.20 - 8:45 a.m. | #
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12 - Meltsmiths. FFS. No doubt a bunch of pretentious tossers who have taken something simple but delicious and over engineered it into a greasy, gloopy mess at ten times the price.
MKIan | 01.08.20 - 8:58 a.m. | #
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13: I suspect there aren't very many 18" rulers in E3 these days.
Ian | 01.08.20 - 9:08 a.m. | #
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17 - the BBC rescreened the Director's Cut of the ceremony, as opposed to the entire original one. Meant we got to see some elements that weren't broadcast 'live' on the night and also didn't get the whole athletes parade.
Jordan D | 01.08.20 - 9:59 a.m. | #
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5. Double-barreled surnames used to be a clear indicator of "posh or pretentious". Nowadays they can also signify a couple wishing to nominally celebrate their togetherness.
Malcolm | 01.08.20 - 10:37 a.m. | #
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18 “this normally never happens” raises a multitude of questions as to in what abnormal occasions it does occur. And depressing that it happens at all
Vervoid | 01.08.20 - 10:39 a.m. | #
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14. This happened to us a few years ago, only the inebriated gentlemen were convinced there was a poker game going on at 2am in our flat, and that we were not letting them in as a joke. They were two floors wrong and would not go away until my other half opened the door and asked them if they really thought he'd be hosting a poker game in his dressing gown.
Gail | 01.08.20 - 11:56 a.m. | #
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2. I bet it has changed, if my alarmingly bustling market is anything to go by.
10. This is definitely the right place. I nourish my brain here, whereas Twitter does precisely the opposite.
NickW | Homepage | 01.08.20 - 12:06 p.m. | #
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21 I rather enjoyed “I May Destroy You” too, even though at 58 years of age I struggled to understand some of the references.
Neesi | 01.08.20 - 12:08 p.m. | #
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18: this is the shortest, and by far the most effective, training session on unconscious bias I have ever had. Thank you.
Quizzical Eyebrow | Homepage | 01.08.20 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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8. I heard the security guard telling someone it was because the mandatory mask-wearing made it unnecessary now - not that anyone had been following it for weeks anyway!
11. One of my earliest memories is hearing the chilling "this is the voice of the Mysterons" and seeing those little rings floating across a wall! Right up there with Dalek levels of scariness for the under-5s!
31. I hope this wasn't the last hurrah of the summer!
Cornish Cockney | 01.08.20 - 1:30 p.m. | #
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18. Frank F - I would still consider it highly unlikely, hence why that 'never normally happens'.
I think it's rather good how by maintaining an air of mystery dg allows us to project onto him whatever we (or our unconscious bias) want him to be ....
Sarah | 01.08.20 - 1:48 p.m. | #
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1. If a 4 pack lasts 4 months then I'd recommend some ex-lax 🤨
Kevin Too | 01.08.20 - 2:21 p.m. | #
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14. "...and off they blundered" - this is really like reading Pepys' Diary. It will be equally treasured in times to come, I hope!
Cau1khead | 01.08.20 - 3:56 p.m. | #
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14. Earlier this spring, the kid across the street from us came home late at night so completely drunk (underage) that he thought our house was his--though they look nothing alike. Tried to get in, fell over and landed in a large bush by our door--completely splitting it apart. Left his cowboy boots among the bedding plants and failing entry, he went around the back of our house and decided to sleep under our deck (it was raining). He has since been arrested multiple times for drunk driving--including one where he was going over 160kph. Be glad your near-intruders were not quite so dissolute.
Mary | 01.08.20 - 4:10 p.m. | #
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14. The house on the corner of the road I work used to be a pub. You can tell this because the ex-pubs have ceramic brewery logos. Apparently for years after it stopped being a pub the local drunks would bash on the door on their ways home from town centre pubs after closing time as a lock in at that pub after hours on their ways home was part of their routine
John Styles | 01.08.20 - 6:11 p.m. | #
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26: We had a Lancaster fly over our house in Canada a couple of weeks ago. It's based at the airport in Hamilton, Ontario. No fighter escort, unfortunately.
James Webber | 01.08.20 - 7:17 p.m. | #
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9. The shots of the O2 shopping centre on the news recently covering the wearing of masks made it look far busier on a weekday than I'd ever seen it on my frequent lunchtime strolls from work pre-meltdown. There was generally an air of tumble-weed about the place, and they don't have any early-arriving concert goers or office workers at the moment. Perhaps they brought in extras for the TV to make it look interesting.
Andrew S | 01.08.20 - 10:09 p.m. | #
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17 - The opening ceremony was repeated on BBC1 at noon on Saturday 18th August 2012. I know this because I sky plussed it but still haven't watched it again yet!
26 - A Spitfire flew over Dover this morning as part of an NHS tribute - great sight (I'm much too young to remember 1940)
Karl, Dover | 01.08.20 - 10:11 p.m. | #
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Days which have not inspired comment:
3 4 6 7 15 16 22 23 24 27 30
(but the majority have, cheers!)
diamond geezer | Homepage | 01.08.20 - 11:59 p.m. | #
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7: I wonder if the design of the banner is borrowing from the government's recent run of three-part slogans.
11: the sign looks to be Eurostile Bold Extended, which is the de facto typeface of the future
16: we visited on Monday. It was the loudest and most crowded place I'd been since March. Were it not for a 60-person group who'd walked down from Hackney it probably would have only been the loudest.
17: Karl - if anyone's counting, the ceremony was repeated in full three times in 2012 and the director's cut once in 2013.
martin | 02.08.20 - 7:21 a.m. | #
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21: Coincedently i relistened to the audio book of 80 days last month - as you say a memory of a world a long time in the past and not coming back anytime soon.
Paul | 02.08.20 - 10:17 a.m. | #
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25 - I give up, I've searched Instagram and cannot find you amongst all the versions of 'DiamondGeezer' on there. So that's maybe why there's not many likes...
18 - Agree totally about the sharp check of unconscious bias.
Steve | 02.08.20 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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17 - the first TV showing in 7 years allowed me to catch the show on our new recording box, versions exist on Youtube, but nice to feel I have it saved in my own possession!
23 - and I saw today that the branch by Highbury Corner now accepts eat in customers as well
TomH | 02.08.20 - 2:17 p.m. | #
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