#BorisJohnsonMetaphorOfTheDay 🥇
Another cracker from @MatthewdAncona
Matthew d’Ancona @MatthewdAncona This is now turning into ‘Big Dog Day Afternoon
The best thing about democracy, even when it’s not perfect, is the transfer of power without violence
James Landale @BBCJLandale Stepping back from the drama in Westminster, I am struck - as an observer of global politics - by the way power can be transferred in a democracy. No soldiers, no tanks, no rigged ballots, just elected representatives holding a prime minister to account for his behaviour
Good bit in the @times by @Dannythefink, who is always worth reading…..although I’m increasingly feeling that he should now be focussing on getting some transfers sorted rather than the trivia of who should be Prime Minister
:)
#cfc #ktbffh
My word of the day today is ‘stymied’.
Wondering if the tank-topped chaps in the Ministry of Sound will be blubbing into their Pils over the demise of Messrs Pincher and, one hopes, Johnson.
Wondering what’s going to happen first?
#TodayILearned that Shift-Alt-F fixes your lousy formatting in VS @Code
My word of the day today is ‘tryst’.
Tbf, I’m not a great film buff….there may be a Sean Connery film where he plays an introspective, sensitive soul who relaxes by reading poetry while listening to Joni Mitchell, but I’ve not seen it.
There’s a thing in powershell, and *nix, that functions should do one thing, and they should do it well.
It’s sometimes abbreviated to DOTADIW
Anyway, I was watching a film with Sean Connery in it….and I was reminded of that
#BorisJohnsonMetaphorOfTheDay 🥇
“When he [Johnson] was foreign secretary, diplomats nicknamed his junior minister Alan Duncan the “pooper scooper”, forever cleaning up his messes.”
My word of the day today is ‘hubbub’.
“An Englishman, a Frenchman & a Jew are sitting on a bench
The Englishman says: ‘I am so tired & thirsty, I must have beer.’
The Frenchman says: ‘I am so tired & thirsty, I must have wine.’
The Jew says: ‘I am so tired & thirsty, I must have diabetes’”
I like this from @Dorianlynskey
“imagine if Aretha Franklin had been a regular on EastEnders”
RT @petercmoore: @salisbury_matt James Bond but with dinosaurs?
Live And Let Dilophosaurus Thunderballosaurus A View To A Pterodactyl
My phrase of the day today is ‘rinky dink’.
I really enjoyed the latest #JurassicWorld film
The first third is more like a straight-up thriller but with incidental dinosaurs….James Bond, but with believable villains and velociraptors
The rest is more like a Jurassic Park film
Probably the best since the first, imho
My word of the day today is ‘cleft’.
#TodayILearned
(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges
Jun 30, 2022 One other thing. If a Prime Minister with a majority of almost 80 bowled up to the palace only half-way through their term, with a parliamentary standards committee hot on their heels, and asked for an election I think the Queen might have something to say about it.
Sebastian Payne @SebastianEPayne
Jun 30, 2022 Lascelles Principles - Wikipedia
Jim Waterson @jimwaterson
Sorry, part of our dumbass constitution is a letter written to the Times under a pseudonym?
Transfer speculation
I don’t know who half the players mentioned are….but I still quite enjoy it