“A truly shameful vignette of almost superhuman arrogance, toffishness & twittishness. But at the time you felt it was wonderful to be going round swanking it up.”
2013 looking back on his time at Oxford
Or 2023 looking back on his time are Westminster?
Shocking image of child doing homework without headphones plugged in :) twitter.com/TVRav/sta…
RT @SteveClaridge: We need to stop saying “oh its only Boris” when he messes up, forgetting all the lies and bullshit and realise he’s a da…
RT @salisbury_matt: A memo from the Chairman
Please read.
Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra
Written by my father in 1991:
1.“I’m a saloon singer, by self-definition. Even my mirror would never accuse me of inventing wisdom. But I do claim enough street smarts to know that hatred is a disease-a disease in the body of freedom, eating its way from the inside out,
2/ infecting all who come in contact with it, killing dreams and hopes of millions of innocents with words, as surely as if they were bullets….
“Take a minute. Consider what we are doing to each other as we rob friends and strangers of dignity as well as equality…
3/For if we don’t come to grips with this killer disease of hatred, of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, pretty soon we will destroy from within this blessed country….
4/ “Don’t just lip-sync the words to the song. Think them, live them. ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.’ And when the music fades, think of the guts of Rosa Parks, who by a single act in a single moment changed America as much as anyone who ever lived….
5/ “I’m no angel. I’ve had my moments. I’ve done a few things in my life of which I’m not too proud, but I have never unloved a human being because of race, creed, or color.
6/ And if you think this is a case of he who doth protest too much, you’re wrong. I couldn’t live any other way….” ~ Frank Sinatra 1991
It feels to me as if this was the week that the Leavers jumped the shark twitter.com/BBCNewsni…
A memo from the Chairman
Please read.
Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra Written by my father in 1991:
1.“I’m a saloon singer, by self-definition. Even my mirror would never accuse me of inventing wisdom. But I do claim enough street smarts to know that hatred is a disease-a disease in the body of freedom, eating its way from the inside out, 9:33 PM · Jul 4, 2019 Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 2/ infecting all who come in contact with it, killing dreams and hopes of millions of innocents with words, as surely as if they were bullets….
“Take a minute. Consider what we are doing to each other as we rob friends and strangers of dignity as well as equality… Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 3/For if we don’t come to grips with this killer disease of hatred, of bigotry and racism and anti-Semitism, pretty soon we will destroy from within this blessed country…. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 4/ “Don’t just lip-sync the words to the song. Think them, live them. ‘My country ‘tis of thee, sweet land of liberty.’ And when the music fades, think of the guts of Rosa Parks, who by a single act in a single moment changed America as much as anyone who ever lived…. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 5/ “I’m no angel. I’ve had my moments. I’ve done a few things in my life of which I’m not too proud, but I have never unloved a human being because of race, creed, or color. Nancy Sinatra @NancySinatra · Jul 4, 2019 6/ And if you think this is a case of he who doth protest too much, you’re wrong. I couldn’t live any other way….” ~ Frank Sinatra 1991
Happiness is a well air-conditioned train carriage
Thank you @SW_Railway
#TodayILearned that James Joyce’s wife, Nora, used to call him ‘Jimmy’
#TodayILearned that they are ‘whinberries’ not ‘windberries’
My word of the dat today is ‘shtick’ www.etymonline.com/word/shti…
#TodayILearned that Apple bloke Steve Jobs wouldn’t allow his kids to use an Ipad
(Via @mcsweenys on @FBFM_Podcast)
I’m not sure whether I’m more irritated by these @brexitparty_uk goons being teeth-grindingly embarassing or by the subsequent revival of the cringe-inducing ‘not in my name’ thing
Walking through town I saw a lorry outside a shop with a black and white fluffy Christmas tree in the back. Not sure whether it would have been delivering or picking up
One for the pedant’s -
“Thou shalt not correct people’s grammar.”
Good game…shame about the result
Yet again
:(
RT @dan_franciscus: From my Blog Archive: Save yourself hours of time with this #PowerShell PSReadline tweak winsysblog.com/2017/10/s… #quic…
#TodayILearned that “modern-day referee David Elleray reviewed the [1970 FA Cup Final Replay] in 1997, and concluded that the sides would have received six red cards and twenty yellow cards between them, in the modern era of football”
#CFC #LUFC #KTBFFH
I think Erskine May sounds like a maverick Victorian explorer
“I’ve heard it said that things look more important in type rather than writing it out by hand.
So you have to be careful that you don’t think things are better than they are just because they appear on a screen”
@rosannecash on @sodajerker
I’ve been on a rail trip
