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Official World Record Holder. Variously called 'local character', 'nutjob', and 'quiche eating terrorist sympathiser'. The Jack Dee of Dewatering.

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21 days
Prediction time! I'm sure they will prove to be as inaccurate as they always are!
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@fesshole In her defence your kid didn't have enough money 🤷 if I try and buy a £20k car and only have £19k should they still give it me?
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Nikita really has to be the star of this year's #StrictlyComeDancing . The way he has adapted dances and his style to work with Ellie is phenomenal
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@IndustrialVid Basically you sink piles (or similar) into the river from a barge and form what is almost like a bathtub - no water can get in or out. And then pump water out from both the box and the underlying river bed. Box gets dry and people can dig out the river bed - witchcraft!
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3 years
@IndustrialVid Finally something on twitter I know about! Dewatering of these kind of excavations is absolutely fascinating (albeit clearly witchcraft)! If anyone is interested I worked on a project similar to this in Ipswich a few years ago - its a brilliant industry ()
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@PolitlcsUK @JLPartnersPolls It's obviously the right thing to do in expanding the vote, but it's deeply depressing that Reform are polling so highly in this age brakcet
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2 years
You know what? I don't care that Tony Adams can't dance. He's loving it, the dances are fun and just can't help but make you smile. We have to keep him in! #StrictlyComeDancing
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One thing I will say is that I am almost always very very impressed with Stephen Flynn at #PMQs . I guess being SNP probably helps but his questions are almost always superb, concise and barbed as hell
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@fesshole .....I can't be the only one learning this now right?
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6 years
... Because amazingly you can be both pro UK and pro EU at the same time #PeoplesVoteMarch #PeoplesVote #brexit #fbpe #europe #PeoplesMarch
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2 years
Can't be ignored quite how much both Albion and Newcastle's form both picked up massively after we both chucked Steve Bruce
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3 years
@mrjamesob Isn't this basically Rees-Mogg using a national newspaper to ask how to do his job?
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5 years
I believe i said it at the last election, but Nicola Sturgeon really is a very impressive woman and politician #bbcqt
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2 years
@Nigel_Farage We generally don't just lock people up in this country for being a pain in the arse. If we did then you would have been in prison for decades
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4 years
You know what guys!? Maybe people don't speculate about why Watford General Hospital is telling people not to go there and we wait for an official statement? And in the meantime we don't dick around and meet friends in the park or whatever eh? Just a thought
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10 months
@fesshole ... admittedly half my customers are now dead or in hospital and I'm trouble with the local food and health inspectors but heyho
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2 years
@IanDunt Is Philp the Truss govt version of Nadine Dorries? Living in another universe where if the govt do something then it must be right because they did it?
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I want Kayode to stay in purely for him trying to explain the modern world each week to Lord sugar in the boardroom. Hell that's got legs as a TV series in itself #TheApprentice
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2 years
@fesshole Whilst superficially sweet, this has a somewhat sinister undertone i can't place my finger on
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@PoliticsForAlI What a progressive country we are becoming
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@fesshole I assume that "hired small office" is actually a corner table in the local 'spoons
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@AnonymousUK2022 Surely a proper patriot would never go abroad anyway? Who needs Florida when there is Felixstowe? Why go to Marbella when you can go to Morecombe? Why visit Rome when you can have a week in Romford instead?
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3 years
I'm becoming increasingly convinced that everyone who writes for the Guardian is utterly soulless. Willy Wonka was and still is a wonderful film. A brilliant combo of charm, magic and creepy.
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@GarfieldUtd @PolitlcsUK @guardian Well as you are so organised I imagine you will welcome those few extra minutes of spare time. Maybe treat yourself to a biscuit whilst you get angry about more people having a chance to vote
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@_DHOTYA You joke but I once found a whole dog inside a chocolate bar I got whilst trick or treating! It was a Yorkie... (Not remotely sorry. In fact I'm quite proud)
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2 years
@pimlicat To be fair to Johnson, he and his government have been just as competent, logical and productive since he announced his resignation as they were in the months leading up to his resignation
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Seriously Lee Hurst. If you are going to try and be an edgy anti-woke comedian then at least make your jokes make sense and come close to being funny. Instead you just come across as a dumb bigoted fuck
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Wow the #EnoughIsEnough hashtag is full of a bunch of simple and vile wankers isn't it?
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3 years
@PoliticsForAlI I really don't like the Tory Govt. Far from it. But anyone who suggests this is true or there is any real comparison between the two is utterly utterly, almost terrifyingly, clueless
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Oh Jess you wonderful wonderful person. So eloquently and passionately put. If only we had more like you and Ken Clarke in the commons and less Boris Johnson and Jacob Rees Moggs of this world
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This is how a true public servant reacts to a man whose only priority is his own ambition playing games with the lives of her constituents. Jess Phillips, you have truly inspired me today. A very rare thing given today's parliamentary politics. @jessphillips
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@JimMFelton It's almost like there is something different between Rashford and Beckham....can't imagine what though 🤔🤔🤔🤔
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2 years
@fesshole Thats a legit question. Same with Penguin
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@anon_opin Whereas a proper MAN would eat the orange whole, including the skin, tiny sticky label and maybe even the green net the orange came in
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5 years
There are very few clubs that can boast a sexually inclusive combi boiler as mascot
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@tesssummers98 @PolitlcsUK I think they will still just about squeeze a majority without him
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@fesshole "it was all going brilliantly to plan until that fateful Tuesday morning when I stopped to have a crafty ciggie and my van blew up. You could see the fireball as far away as Basingstoke"
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1 year
@_DHOTYA Best case scenario this is bollocks. Worst case scenario he is a terrifying stalker. Happy Monday
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@_DHOTYA If you offered me £100k I'd probably give up my seat and fly outside on the wing
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3 years
@mattletiss7 To be fair it is quite interesting. But it doesn't mean its why the weather is so erratic etc. Similarly The Borrowers is an interesting book, but it doesn't explain where my socks keep vanishing to
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@fesshole Nah. You just happen to have a decent local MP. I've gone for help from tories, labour and lib Dem MPs on a number of occasions in the past. Arguably the least helpful was the lib dem and I'm a member of their party. You are just lucky to have someone engaged
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@anon_opin Similarly it should be illegal for companies not to respond to all job applications. I don't care whether you have had 3 or 3000 applications for a role - it takes seconds to send an email saying 'no thanks'. Show some respect
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2 years
@pigllamabadger @fesshole I asked for that didn't i?
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@PoliticsForAlI @LBC Fair enough *cancels Graham's invitation for drinks tonight*
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@Nigel_Farage To be fair Nigel, we've all been asking that about you for years and years
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@Steven_Swinford When was the last time we had four chancellors in a year?
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2 years
Where. To. Fucking. Start #wba
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@secrettory12 Careful, you are starting to sound like Dan Hodges
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@Nigel_Farage The irony of you complaining about lies being told over Brexit is not lost on anyone
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@GlasgowGiant @fesshole No. True. It's the bellend repeatedly stealing
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3 years
@SkyNewsBreak Ah, so the Brexit Sunlit Uplands were actually just forest fires caused by a scorching climate
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@PolitlcsUK Does it matter who wins a debate run by a dying and increasingly irrelevant newspaper and seen by noone? Perhaps a better question is has anyone changed their mind after the debate ?
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3 years
@jaywhotweets @IndustrialVid It's a fair question - generally steel of some sort
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6 years
Martin Allen and Barnet feels like one of those subscription services. You take the free trial, cancel when it expires and sign up again with a slightly different email address
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MANAGERIAL NEWS: Graham Westley has departed at @BarnetFC . Martin Allen has replaced him at the Bees for his fifth spell in charge >>
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@fesshole That's not how the tube works though....
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@PolitlcsUK You mean we are appointing experts to govt roles? What is this madness?! 🤣
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@_DHOTYA See I could potentially believe this up until the couple being escorted out and the free shopping. People always go a step to far with their lies
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3 years
Can anyone help get a lost bunny home?! Found on the @LNRailway 16.27 from Tring to Euston (found at the 16.43 stop at Kings Langley). He looks very law abiding so I assume has a ticket but I'm sure he'd love to get back home! Will be handed in to the gate staff at Euston
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@PolitlcsUK Broadly speaking it seems pretty solid
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2 years
@mrjamesob Naturally. If we have to stick asylum seekers in hotels they should at least be in labour areas. God this government is vile. There is no other word for it 🤦
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@blixberrie Westfield Stratford? Pretty much any time ever
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2 years
Loose elbow from BTA yes but the way Danny Murphy was talking about it on #motd you'd think he'd decapitated the Chesterfield player #wba
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@BootstrapCook My best friend is a surgeon and i think unfortunately you can probably include the NHS in this. Yes their stresses are bigger than say @LoveWilko so they deserve more leeway but equally the way they are treating their frontline staff at the moment is pretty atrocious
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2 years
@hmmmmm12394 1993-2022 West Brom. Or what is commonly known as a normal person who supports one club for their lifetime
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@PippaCrerar @Steven_Swinford Something something something chaos with Ed Miliband
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It also seems that Ed Miliband is actually out Milibanding the @TheMiliverse
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Do you have an OLD toilet at home? With a high-up cistern? Pull handle flush? Do you love it? Want to tell Ed Miliband about it on Radio 2?
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@fesshole I just feel quite sad you haven't seen your nieces for over 15 years
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@StateOfLinkedIn Before then spending 3 weeks in "didn't happen" hospital with non-existent frost bite?
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@SkyNews The depressing thing is that he felt able to speak up about it because of his seniority whereas the nursing staff clearly look very uncomfortable but can't speak out
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2 years
I've long said that central London should be pedestrianised. Imagine Oxford Street, Regents Street etc all completely pedestrianised, with cafes and proper seating for visitors? Sounds bliss
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To great uncertainty and controversy, in 2007, Ljubljana closed 12 hectares of its city center to private cars. Just 40% of residents approved. A decade later, no less than 97% were against reopening to motor traffic: “None of us can really imagine cars ever staging a comeback”.
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Truss - Gone Coffey - Gone Mordaunt - Gone Mogg - Gone Mercer - Gone Gullis - Gone Shapps - Gone Steve Baker - Gone Clarke-Smith - Gone Tories - decimated SNP - decimated Labour, Lib Dems and Greens - Triumphant Worth every sleepless moment #ge2024 #GE24 #C4BritainDecides
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@mrhenrymorris As a hydrogeologist I can confirm that there are separate underground aquifers for rain from each of the four main points of the compass
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@_DHOTYA Switch is potentially believable as real. Passport is ridiculous bollocks
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Sunak really isn't very good at #PMQs is he? All his answers seem to either be digs at Corbyn/the labour administration a decade ago or the usual BS about how good the Tories are. He doesn't have charisma and isn't a good speaker
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@PolitlcsUK God, another 7 months of this shit
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@anon_opin Clearly someone who has never had a company mobile
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I just heard @tiffstevenson describe Priti Patel as 'Dolores Umbridge' and it may be the greatest bit of political analysis of the decade
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2 years
@fesshole Let's face it, until the bit about being engaged, the gist of this tweet could probably cover like 60% of teenage boys
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6 years
I feel the itv commentary is being somewhat unfair on #Iran . Sure their defending is magnificent but they've been pretty decent going forward. It doesn't happen regularly but I could see them scoring tonight. I'm very impressed #WorldCup #IRNESP #IRN
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@Midge1415 I give her three days until shes trying to return those crocs claiming shes 'lost the receipt'
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6 years
So basically thats May saying the white paper won't be published before next weeks vote. What a disgraceful govt. we have in this country #PMQs
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1 year
@_DHOTYA What is little understood is Jordan actually grew up as a little kid watching every Al Ettifaq game. Had posters of all their star players on his walls and dreamed of nothing more than earning a colossal amount of money playing for them in his mid thirties
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@anon_opin The London Olympics were very good. They really were. The London Paralympics though were a different ball game. Brilliantly attended and supported and look at how more mainstream para sports are now? You cannot deny that alone made them great
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@fesshole Or what is commonly referred to as 'littering'
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Maybe I'm delusional but I seem to be the only person who thinks we're actually going to have a decent season this year. In theory i don't remotely think the playoffs are out of reach. Sure it requires players to stay fit, Carlos not to leave, luck etc etc but I'm optimistic #wba
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@RichardN7 @AlexForsythBBC @bbclaurak Amazingly some people work shifts so have free time, and some are even allowed a thing called Annual Leave! I know, it's disgraceful isn't it?
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@_DHOTYA That's going to be tough to beat. I particularly like that the driver was a Buddhist. I half expected him to be converted on the spot
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2 years
It'll be sad when Gullis eventually loses his seat
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BREAKING: Leaked messages from the Monday Club WhatsApp group.
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@PoliticsForAlI So not because he recognises it as incredibly problematic language, but purely because his job is too high profile to let him get away with it
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2 years
Prediction. We'll flog Grant (even on loan) and the replacement will fall through, O'Brien will either stay at Forest or go to the Blades and we'll be stuck with nothing again #wba
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Loan interest in Grant and Albion facing battle for O'Brien #Baggies
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@fesshole I have rarely been so jealous of someone on this platform
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3 years
Whether it's dangerous is irrelevant. That its Ronaldo is irrelevant. If O'Shea had done the same to Ronaldo you can guarantee he'd have been sent off
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"He probably shouldn't raise his arms but it's nothing dangerous." Was Cristiano Ronaldo fortunate to stay on the pitch after raising his hands to Dara O'Shea before he missed his first-half penalty? 👀
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@AyoCaesar Arguably the only thing more depressing than these numbers is that so many people seem to still believe the government are doing a good job!
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@PuertoPessimist It's genuinely upsetting. I work (broadly speaking) in the construction industry and our pipeline of work is getting increasingly empty yet people still seem to argue its worth it
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@fesshole Over the last year I've gone from the 3 biggest buyer of diet coke cans in my town to like 8th. I was genuinely upset by this
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@_DHOTYA This is a better work of fiction than most hallmark movies
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5 months
@PolitlcsUK Did he actually keep a straight face when saying that?!
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7 months
@_DHOTYA Tbf if I saw a reasonably senior politician on the tube then I'd probably speak to them
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4 months
@PolitlcsUK Obviously it would be hilarious if it passed but this does feel like a colossal waste of everyone's time
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