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A Software Developer, closet Synthetic Organic Chemist, proud Kiwi, Otago University Graduate, Pink Floyd addict, migraineur, and more. What's not to like?

Oxfordshire/UK & Basel/CH
Joined October 2011
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@arusbridger What is this obsession with infographics from polls? Why can we not use facts anymore?
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@stillgray @WallStreetSilv "Blitzed...." is certainly worth a read. Here are a couple of pages from early on in the book that give you a flavour of the writing style and level of detail
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@MichaelDOShea
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@guyverhofstadt I know ... laughing and enjoying Putin like Farage ... who would do that?
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@guyverhofstadt Guy Verhofstadt, a keyboard warrior trying to convince the world he still has some sort of purpose by perpetually insulting a wealth creator. Pathetic!
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@MichaelDOShea
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@Fludded Oh my gosh, I have just unexpectedly become an Oasis fan
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@str_xs @NoContextHumans What's a "Water Donation"?
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@guyverhofstadt > instead of giving him money The EU is not "giving money" ... it is a debt, it is owed to Hungary, it was being withheld by the EU
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@MichaelDOShea
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@HenpeckedHal Any programmer worth their salt would just put that into two loops sending out the same txt message to all 100 numbers and then reviewing the replies
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@MichaelDOShea
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@jessphillips All that is missing Jess is a bit of acid
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@BellaWallerstei > Politicians shouldn’t have to put up with this. I disagree, they should. Starmer now knows first hand what people think. This is very different to being told what people think from advisors, spin doctors, focus groups, and the narrative from the BBC. Think of it like this.
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@jessphillips Jess, don't fall into the trap of believing that Sunak or the Tories being unpopular translates to confidence in Labour. It doesn't. It really doesn't.
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@cotupacs Group 3 can be summarised as 'sceptics'. Nowadays being sceptical should be considered a healthy outlook.
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@LeonardBriscoe3 "clearly attempted murder" .... grow up, personally I think he is lucky he wasn't assaulted or skittled.
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@AngelaRayner A fresh start with different old faces. I don't think so
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@philipstephens Cameron didn't make the decision, there was a referendum, and the voters made the decision
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@angelaeagle Why why why ...... the over 1400 word account from Suella already published, and verified as correct by those named, confirms this is a storm in a teacup. Only rabble rousers like you want it to continue, for your own vested interests
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@guyverhofstadt > Congratulations to King Charles III… not for the > Tory government that’s trampling on the > rights and liberties that make his > kingdom so great ! Every time you open your mouth, attempts to interfere in another countries politics and constitution, you confirm to me the
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@MichaelDOShea
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@SadiqKhan Congratulations London Congestion Charge: £15.00/d ULEZ: £12.50/d Got a third one planned?
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@MarinaPurkiss Yeah, the "migrant crisis" (your words) .... solely Tory, solely the UK, nowhere else and certainly not the EU, only been happening .... oh, hold on Your memory must be very short!
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@guyverhofstadt Again I ask, when is your final word on Brexit? Every day you drone on about it
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@LozzaFox Here's the original (I believe). Just as funny .......
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@LenaStefanowicz @guyverhofstadt Verhofstadt wants the EU to regulate everything, probably with him as overlord. That to me is more scary, Verhofstadt's word, than Elon
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@jessphillips It's just a photo and Easter wishes. Not sure why you have this need to question or criticize everything.
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@terrychristian I'm not sure why you are tweeting out of date news Terry. Actually it's not only out of date now, but unfortunately wrong. In Q1 this year, GDP fell by 4.6%. Here is a link unbiased content
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@TeeHyper @str_xs @NoContextHumans Lol, well if they went for a "number 2", perhaps it would show "Compost Donation" 😀
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@guyverhofstadt He says 'what Brexit has proved, I'm afraid, is that our politicians are about as useless as the commissioners in Brussels were' He wasn't responsible for that! You were
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@guyverhofstadt There are so many politicians unfit for public office Guy
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@mikegalsworthy project fear won't work anymore Mike
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@LizWebsterSBF Brexit is the cause of everything bad ..... it even resulted in the collapse of Jamie Oliver's restaurant chain *even though he was closing stores before the referendum, but let's not talk about that
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@guyverhofstadt > we should take away his voting rights! Democracy, Verhofstadt style!
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@brianmoore666 Don't be too harsh on her, the text looks like it was improved by Grammarly
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@RhonddaBryant Chris, her broad argument is very simple. She wants the police to do their job, whether it be on Armistice Day, the Just Stop Oil and other protests, disruption, and vandalism etc. Few would argue the status quo is acceptable. To be honest I think a large cohort of people are so
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@TerryReintke The EU remains open to most countries in Europe being ruled by the EU . The only reason the UK is special to the EU is a) the UK rejoining gives political ammunition to others that it is better in than out and their perceived EU utopia is restored and b) the UK it is a
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@mikegalsworthy He WOULD HAVE said this before Brexit. His EU alignment has never been in question and this is not news.
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@guyverhofstadt Yeah, we should all vote based on the endorsement from has been politicians like yourself or celebrities. I don't think so
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@JMPSimor Jessica, if you accept that the BBC is biased, and this cannot be a point of contention, then what Priti Patel says is fine. As for your misguided tripe attempting to link things back to Trump somehow .... well I hope you present more cogent arguments in the courtroom.
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@RhonddaBryant Thank you for being man enough to correct the record Chris, and quickly. A tip of the hat to you there sir.
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@guyverhofstadt The only way? What rubbish.any country could give Ukraine or any other country financial aid without these proposed Eurobonds bonds, that is just a fancy jargon for socialising EU debt
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@RachelReevesMP You're equally as bad, if not worse, @RachelReevesMP . Off the top of my head .... how about the UK Labour money and cronyism scandal known as CASH FOR HONORS Labour will end Tory cronyism but I am confident you will just replace it with Labour cronyism. You're all a bunch of
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@YvetteCooperMP Seems it is a role where ministers move posts often ... here are the Home Secretaries for UK Labour.
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@marcuschown The UK budget is a public document. Why not spend 20seconds googling it out and reading it rather than posting silly questions like this here
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@MediaGuido So the choice is now whether to believe either the Press or a Lawyer? Sounds like lose-lose to me
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@Marwood_PostLib @christiancalgie I don't have the facts at hand (ie. I might be wrong) but I do not think this is the case. I suspect the majority of mobile devices now use USB-C, not USB-A. Likely after Wonderlust, it will be the case for the Apple iPhone as well (although other Apple devices already use USB-C
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@RachelReevesMP More lies and sound bites. Who would really believe you?
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@mikegalsworthy And for passport usage, this ranking means zilch. Another meaningless metric really, imho .......
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@thatginamiller @VoteTrueAndFair I am looking forward to the GE It will make my night to see your party with no seats/no representation again. That should tell you something but I bet it won't
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@guyverhofstadt Yet again you are cherry pick a headline to support your precious project Verhofstadt ... you are so tiresome. Why not comment on the ongoing mess and pushback in Poland or The Netherlands solely attributed to EU migration policies? You and people like you are the problem here.
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@carolvorders You are very negative about the UK. I think you need to leave.
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@MichaelDOShea
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@BorisJohnson A points based immigration system works well back home in NZ. It works in Oz too. Furthermore it's easy peasy to understand. It's a thumbs up from me
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@gerpol_moments This one is better .... almost a Sharon Stone moment
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@PeterWestmacott And the total lapsed time .... it's the same, the train leaves at a designated time
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@guyverhofstadt He has a different view to you. Ask yourself why?
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@guyverhofstadt And no one ♥️ Verhofstadt
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@alexstubb Are you taking over or competing with Verhofstadt for publishing propaganda and misinformation?
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@Rob_Kimbell Exactly Robert, it will take a little time but we will get there and then, hopefully, look back at it all and think what was all that fuss about?
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@RhonddaBryant Don't rise to the bait Chris. This type of tweet already says more about him than you
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@thatginamiller > Join us!! Will you be there? I need to know whether to bring eggs or not
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@DominoTree @TanelPoder Each time I see something like this, I breathe a sigh of relief I don't have to work with this tech stack. It is usually simplified by Java architects by having coloured rectangular boxes for each component encapsulating each other or with arbitrary lines between them all.
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@jessphillips People in glass houses ...... I'd be careful if I were you
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@LizWebsterSBF Poor Barny. Let's rerun the referendum for him. Maybe he wants to vote differently for the 2005 general election too. Let's rerun that as well
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@JolyonMaugham Perhaps we would have some sympathy for him if he didn't court them.
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@Pmbigz @SkyNewsBreak Don't be so horrid, come on
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@AlanParkernyc @spectatorindex Grammar, please, it is "have" not "has". To answer your question, the French are pioneers in this field, the name Louis Pasteur amongst others come to mind.
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@TanjaBueltmann The current debate is not about immigrants or immigration, it is about uncontrolled immigration.
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@MichaelDOShea
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@Joanna__Hardy S is for Seas G is for Gnome W is for Wren P is for Pterodactyl B is for Bdellium
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@MichaelDOShea
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@JeroenFrijters As it Stands, either the C# method name is wrong or the logic is wrong, it is implemented as a ceiling function not a rounding function. Also the variable name 'percentage' is wrong, it comes through as a number between 0 and 1 assumably, not 0 and 100
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@RScowler @10DowningStreet @EU_Commission No no, we agreed access as part of the Withdrawal Agreement. The EU however excluded the UK over a disagreement over NI for 3 or so years.
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@ArchRose90 She was never untouchable, she was just an acerbic bully. It covered up the incompetence. Scotland will be better without her and her corrupt ilk.
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@cpeedell It is not about the "Government" paying, it is about "Me" paying. Thanks for confirming it's all about the wad of cash in your back pocket.
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@danielgoyal And don't forget, you want more money. You lot just cannot have too much
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@harryph They should be denied a bank account
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@YvetteCooperMP Reminds me of the Labour Peter Mandelson debacle, also twice
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@DoctorMayJay Worldwide these stupid lockdowns caused so much unnecessary grief.
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@mikegalsworthy > 71% agree with the Committee that Johnson > lied to Parliament, with just 15% disagreeing. Ask those 71% what was said to the committee and I bet they don't know, nor watched nor listened to it. My point ... this poll along with many others are not worth the paper it's
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@johnredwood Oh the staff headcount is going up, there's no question about it, just count the number of planned and current Diversity Managers and other nonsense jobs
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@RachelReevesMP The normal amount of detail we expect from you .... how about something more than soundbites?
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@hhariri I think you will find it isn't the programming language that is at fault, but the architecture. Retaining the same language means a lot of the existing code assets could be reused in a rewrite. My tuppence
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@guyverhofstadt Follow the news please Verhofstadt, don't just make things up based on headlines
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@BladeoftheS > Nobody cared about leaving > the EU until the Brexit > Referendum was announced As they say, recollections may vary, or in your case, facts may vary
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@guyverhofstadt .... says Propaganda Minister Verhofstadt
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@ben_weatherill_ @Jen4Scot @jemmaforte There 3 weeks ago and on a NZ passport (that's also not EU Ben). I waited longer at the baggage carousel than I did for my passport stamp, and that was also after I'd gone through passport control.
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@mikegalsworthy @euromove > Enough now. Forget Johnson, he's > in the past. Time to build for the > future. Brexit has failed. Let's > build to rejoin the EU Enough now. Forget Brexit. It's in the past. Time to build the UK for the future. It's happening too. Let us ignore the lies and narrative from
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@guyverhofstadt Is the reason you want the British back so much that you miss the money?
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@i_gnomey @stillgray @WallStreetSilv For me I use iBooks on a Mac and it's just a purchase from the AppStore. Available paperback too
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@thatginamiller How's the Miller party going Gina? Got more than 100 members yet?
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@aidapsibr @MarusykRoman No, it doesn't take a second to read ...... you have to read it very slowly and very carefully and therein lies the flaw
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@vonderleyen You want MORE money? MORE?
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@VanhoofMarc2 @guyverhofstadt Serious question .... not a troll. Would the EU survive a second exit?
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@guyverhofstadt It doesn't matter what the question is, your answer is always "more EU". You're like a broken record
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@Rob_Kimbell Thank you, we've all heard enough from the doomsayers
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@ClarkeMicah Let me explain this to you Peter. Israel, friend (and entitled to defend itself and clearly if you don't support Israel, you're an antisemite). Iran, foe (not allowed to proportionately respond to the attack by Israel 2 weeks ago, or ever). You understand now? It's so
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@Keir_Starmer Without fail, every crisis or scandal is an opportunity for you to score a few political points, after you gauge the mood music from the media and your focus groups of course
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@guyverhofstadt Infirm Verhofstadt cannot even bring himself to even congratulate a re-elected world leader. Something is seriously wrong with this man, yesterdays man.
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@GuidoFawkes Should do the same thing for Keith Vaz
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