Joined March 2007
Grains per gallon back in the day. Plenty soldier proof. Until the fiendish Imperials took away our precious Winchester standards in 1826. Serious point: it’s not the units that sow confusion, it’s the interminable multigenerational transition process
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Mere mereological essentialism. As in the Ship of Theseus, or Trigger’s Broom, even? HMS Victory not as a thing, nor even a collection of objectively existing thing parts, but rather as an organisational structure that has perceptual continuity?
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Replying to @JeromeAdamsMD
ANC(Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, Alaska)
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Replying to @brianjaffa
Still haven’t yet seen this actually!
Replying to @WHarropG
Probs just doing best it can to get forecast for Null Island. Happened also to Mark F and I when we were being jammed by Russian Crimean forces off Sebastopol. So question is: who’s jamming you?
Who indeed can now remember what a ‘playing to gallery’ Home Secretary looks like? Must be all of 110 years ago this year. Careful what you wish for! youtu.be/PDPHz4w3zvg
Replying to @ThatTimWalker
“I think this country’s had quite enough of exports.” - - - Going for Gold Gove and the Gang
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Replying to @biztradegovuk
Er. No. The most popular soy sauce brand bought in the Uk comes from a brewery in Holland. Which is in the EU. And has been brewed there for us the last many years....
Replying to @stephenfry
“Now, about her furnishin's. I can give you a nail or hook for the catalogue, and besides, a box for cobs. You take your pa for instance: he's of the old school and naturally he'd prefer the box; so put 'em both in, Elmer.” - - - Charles ‘Chic’ Sale, 1885-1936
This is my planet sized friend Agostin. He’s a qualified lawyer, a professional photographer/videographer and has been travelling the Americas for 2 years . Now he’s going to save the planet. With music. If anyone’s got what it takes, Agostin is that guy. youtu.be/VypL7itc-Nw
Replying to @Adrian1Freeman
Yesterday in Moseley....