10 years to the day since this - not a Watford fan (and definitely not a Troy Deeney fan) but still one of the great moments of sporting drama, goosebumps all the way through
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Saw Abba Voyage tonight. Not only a fantastic pop concert, but also one of the most astonishing optical illusions I've ever seen. Thought I had the whole thing sussed then when I got home and read up on how they did it turns out I was utterly wrong
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Also it's not really a Tweet but I've occasionally referenced "sickos.jpeg" in non-Twitter situations, to some confusion
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Also, The Grink, Pissfingers the Dog, Miette, those are my dipping mustards, hot air balloon/is that good, briefcase full of jellybeans... ugh this site has probably ruined me
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Some fantastic replies to this. Mine is "If the zoo bans me for hollering at the animals I will face God and walk backwards into Hell"
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What's a tweet that's so canonical in your mind you make shorthand reference to it, even if people might not know what you're talking about? (I sometimes just say "uh oh y'all it's gettin' kinda hazy" expecting people to get it)
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1. This is good news for everyone 2. The Operator of Last Resort is disproportionately badass-sounding, it sounds like a character from the John Wick films
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Breaking: The Secretary of State for Transport has announced he will not renew or extend the #TransPennineExpress contract at the end of the month, with the Operator of Last Resort to take over from May 28.
Details to follow at railwaygazette.com/uk
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Abolish the Met.
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We received intelligence that indicated people were planning to use rape alarms to disrupt the Coronation procession - with concern from the military that this would scare their horses and cause significant risk to the safety of the public and their riders.
Read our full… twitter.com/brokenbottlebo… Show more
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Police and military horses are trained to remain calm around loud noises and in crowds. The three people arrested were actually part of Westminster Council's night life safety team.
bhs.org.uk/media/qb4dgvrf…
forces.net/services/army/…
independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/…
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Had the queen died a couple of years earlier then Mordaunt's role would have been played by... Jacob Rees-Mogg 🤢
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Entire timeline now nothing but being horny for Penny Mordaunt and her arms
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The police have arrested what appear to be peaceful republican protesters in Trafalgar Square. It’s in everybody’s interests, especially the Met’s, that they explain exactly why as soon as possible. No matter what you think about monarchy, this is a deeply disturbing moment.
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Although let's be honest, the actual best bit is this
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Conservatives hit 1,000 losses
LAB: 2,552 (+505)
CON: 2,172 (-1,005)
LDM: 1,548 (+402)
GRN: 450 (+230)
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One the best bits about today's results has been discovering all the weird and wonderful ward names in England
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Charles Dickens (Portsmouth) council election result:
IND: 37.4% (+37.4)
LAB: 32.1% (-7.8)
LDEM: 13.9% (-10.2)
CON: 12.4% (+2.5)
GRN: 4.3% (-2.3)
Independent GAIN from Labour.
Independent candidate was incumbent Labour councillor.
sotn.newstatesman.com/2023/05/britai
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Clowne country
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Clowne West (Bolsover) council election result:
CON: 54.8% (+30.5)
LAB: 45.2% (+12.5)
Conservative GAIN from Independent.
sotn.newstatesman.com/2023/05/britai
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Makes you genuinely proud to be British
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The age of digital photography and high definition TV means sacred items like the Coronation Chair and Stone of Destiny look very old and tatty; the lens is not kind to them at all
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The Lord Lyon in Westminster Abbey at the Service this evening to mark the arrival of The Stone of Destiny.
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For You tab has gone from bad to worse. Now mine is just ripoff copy & paste accounts like No Context Humans or Non Aesthetic Things. Real bottom feeder stuff, endless garbage recycled from Reddit
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Didn't realise Kane and Son had fancy new titles
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Lord Hastings and The Earl of Loudoun has been chosen to carry the Spurs.
#Coronation
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Scene where Shilts furiously tries to tear a poster of Maradona off a wall but alas, cannot jump high enough to reach it...
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I'm sick of celebrities filming travel documentaries and having a lovely time.
I want to see Peter Shilton sent to Naples for a intensely traumatic weekend.
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Nintendo ass country
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Air Chief Marshal the Lord Peach has been appointed to carry the Sword of Mercy.
#Coronation
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Born in, of all places, Highgate tube station. What a life led
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This is just the British version of this
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One incredible piece of evidence submitted in the case against U.S. fugitive Nicholas Rossi/ Alahverdian, who maintains that he is really a British man named Arthur Knight, is a notebook allegedly belonging to Rossi containing what appears to be a list of potential pseudonyms twitter.com/Doug_Tilley/st…
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Good explanation of why many Three users didn't get the alert
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Initial outcome of Emergency Alert testing (Cell Broadcast): all networks except Three received an alert in my household.
*One* person in a large group of us around the UK received the alert on Three, in Cardiff.
Let's go into why.
#EmergencyAlerts
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Tempted to make an hour-long loop of The Alert just so I can make the world's worst YouTube ASMR video
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Fuck me, thought the alert would have a regular tone, not that. Fucking hell
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Watching the Newcastle-Tottenham game at 3pm today, not because I'm invested in the result but curious to find out what 50,000 phones all getting an alert at once sounds like
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Anyone care to chip in a few quid and help me buy this?
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Ugh, this is horrible news to hear
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NEWS: BuzzFeed News is being shut down.
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Last 2 times I've arrived in Central London about 9.30ish and was bitterly surprised to find no sit-down places willing to take customers. "Sorry mate, take-away only from now". Really noticeable downgrade in the quality of nightlife
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I left a theatre near Leicester Square at 10.30pm the other night and struggled to find anywhere serving food. Pathetic for a capital city. A political culture which views people enjoying themselves as something suspicious to be discouraged. twitter.com/RachaelBurford…
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My "Not a criminal operation" T-shirt has people etc. etc.
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Yousaf: I don't believe SNP is criminal operation heraldscotland.com/politics/23463
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Of course the difference this time round is that these people have the Home Secretary's support. When this 'kipper said she disliked black people but definitely wasn't a racist a few years, even Farage condemned her! itv.com/news/2015-02-2
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One of the amazing things is how this country has managed to gaslight itself into thinking nobody British could possibly be racist, no matter what they think or do
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All time winner of Nothing Racist bingo?
* Depicts lynching using golliwog dolls public bar
* Calls for Generation Id uprising
* Wears Britain First t-shirts
* Objects to mixed race relationships on TV adverts
* Objects to Rishi Sunak as thinks he is a "Muslim prime minister"
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Saddest part of ending any holiday is converting your wallet from holiday mode (leftover Euros, ticket stubs, receipts from fancy restaurant chip & PIN) back to normal mode (hello again Tesco Clubcard)
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A proper story of small-town greed and criminality, including the juicy detail that the perp's father was a donor to his boss's political campaigns
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The architect of Suffolk County clerk’s IT environment delayed a key security upgrade that could have blocked the ransomware attacks so his bitcoin mining operation wouldn't be exposed. 46 mining devices he placed raised the temps in the data center by 20º, setting off alarms. twitter.com/nahmias/status…
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