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Ex-RAMC (CMT and OTT), now an ex-teacher due to developing me/cfs in 2023. Lived in Germany for nearly 17 years so guess what I think about Brexit.
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Today I learned that while every tortoise is a turtle, not every turtle is a tortoise.
Or is it the other way around…
One of them is land based. I know that. And some turtles are called turtles even though they aren’t turtles. Or maybe tortoises.
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@Dr_BellaR
This is a really easy scandal for Reform to fix. All they have to do is get Mark Matlock to come forward and identify himself. Shouldn’t be difficult.
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@archer_rs
The voter numbers for Reform are the real story. I’m upset to find out such a chunk of the people in the country I live in have bought the message that Farage and Tice were giving.
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@NoContextBrits
Absolutely. And don't mind those eurpeens, if they are waving their hands round like crazy or flashing you with their lights it's just them being friendly and saying hi! Oh, and If a policeman stops you, it's Ok to slip them a tenner and just drive off. Totally legit.
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@implausibleblog
That was unreal. I can’t believe what I just saw. A Tory shouting at Labour for the failure of the Tory Rwandan policy? Are these people for real?
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@danbarker
This can't continue. How can they keep giving jobs to people who appear to know things about what they might be asked to talk about?
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@1goodtern
Yes. I have had long covid since January, diagnosed with moderate me/cfs in June. I honestly don’t think I can carry on like this much longer. I don’t have a life, I barely have an existence. Every day is hard work. If you can try to avoid this then you should do so.
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@simonharris_mbd
I’ve heard they are going to build a bridge over the Severn to cut down travelling times to Wales, and a second bridge is slated to also be built at some time further into the past.
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@roy_luxford
@jonathancmunro
@BBCNews
Every time someone tells me that the BBC isn't reporting something I do a very quick search and find out the opposite is true. Now, who do you think would benefit from making the British public not trust the BBC?
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@TomABacon
This rings true, the rioters have already tried to create a narrative where they have legitimate concerns and the police and gangs of Muslims are working together to attack them. Luckily they are so dim they have shown their concerns are how many pairs of fake crocs can I steal.
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@thenitinsawhney
Labour will ban the number 7, you will be made to have separate eye test appointments for each eye, Lettuces will be dyed pink and a blanket ban of vinegar will be introduced north of Burton on Trent.
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@AlPinkerton
I have spent the past few months blocking certain MPs because my mental health was suffering from their divisive bilious rhetoric. It is so nice to find someone who I feel is worth actually following. Congrats on being elected and good luck getting settled in.
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@RussInCheshire
What is the best way to buy a copy of your book, so you get the best amount possible?
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@MichaelRosenYes
It should be interesting having the people who told Gary Lineker he was wrong and outrageous now come and tell Mr Rosen why he is equally wrong and outrageous.
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@BettinaSRoss1
I once saw a mother telling her young daughter off for stepping in a puddle. Her daughter was wearing wellies. I felt really sorry for the girl, and wondered what the woman thought wellies were for.
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@RonEng1ish
@BWallArthur
That’s right. Jump to conclusions and double down, adding racism to homophobia. Well done.
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@Nurseborisbash
@RishiSunak
My first observation is something he talked about. Words matter. It isn't a 'sick note'. It is a Statement for fitness to work. I am not sick, I am disabled. I was sick, I had Covid. Then I carried on being sick, I didn't get better. Now I am disabled.
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@baratheongirl
This bit is good.
"Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge's full title is The Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge."
Just as well they cleared that up. Don't forget the The. Very important that The.
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Grey skies. "Solar panels don't work!"
Washing machine, dishwasher and iron on, coffee machine calc'n'clean cycle running, computer on, music on.
Still exporting to the grid.
I am trying to use grid energy which is currently negatively priced!
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@iamharaldur
There is so much bile and toxicity on Twitter that I need a nice, quiet, happy corner to visit occasionally. I got the feeling that you could definitely be part of that, so I’m going to stick around for a bit.
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@i_iratus
Trickle down economics, a nightmare dribbled out by Reagan and sadly nobody has managed to get a piece of kitchen towel big enough to mop it up yet. It has never worked. Give a billionaire a tax break and they just get another billion.
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@i_iratus
@Miss_Snuffy
Withholding food from a child who does not comprehend punishment or reward is in my opinion criminal. There are things you should and should not do when raising a child, not feeding them as a punishment is not one of them.
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@1goodtern
@nayanikaaa
No, but he created the map that proved what the problem was that led to the funding to allow the sewers to be created that helped stop unnecessary deaths from cholera. A team effort.
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@obsidianbuddha
@MattsOnTrack
@crazyclipsonly
I spent most car journeys as a kid in the back of my parents estate car, no seatbelt or any safety at all. I would never, ever do the same thing to any kid now. I would never drive without wearing a seat belt. We learn and move on.
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@Colinhowell82
@markbutcher72
@IanWright0
So you haven’t actually read the tweet then? No shame in that, but it is usual to know what you are talking about before joining in with a discussion.
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@Swank4America
Funny how you don’t care about England (UK would be more accurate) but in your ‘meme’ you dropped the R 🤔
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@DrPStewart
While this entire thread has me crying with laughter, can we all also appreciate how farming is categorically one of the most dangerous jobs anyone can do. We also literally prefer to get cheap food from as far away as possible rather than paying more for home produce.
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@TheMeldrew
The last time I was in hospital a nurse entered the waiting room and apologetically asked some people to put facemasks on, that it was hospital policy. As someone who has long covid caused me/cfs I told everyone that thanks to someone not wearing a mask I am now disabled.
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@robbyyy
@DavidGHFrost
@guardian
The British government are indeed becoming increasingly irrelevant.
I assume that was what you meant?
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@1goodtern
@nayanikaaa
He also spotted the problem, came up with a thesis and did the leg work to find out if the facts backed up his thesis. What he discovered is now used to teach data representation as it is one of the first visualisations of data that had a huge impact.
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@Lejanaysola
@nmatini
@Mylovanov
@RolandOliphant
That's what you took from the description of what people had to do to survive!?
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@i_iratus
The look on his face at the end! Can you imagine what would happen if this was done every single time a politician refused to answer a question, or perhaps if they were invited to modify their reply when they start blatantly lying, or when their reply is to blame someone else?
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@MartinSLewis
@jrf_uk
I am currently learning how fragile finances can be after losing my job last summer due to ill health. That old thing about having savings worth a few months of living expenses and selling my car are the only things keeping our heads above water, and we are at nostril level.
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@i_iratus
This was literally the post before this one of yours. Funny how stuff like this happens.
God I tried... But sexuality wasn't a protected characteristic back then.
Christine took her life on her 24th birthday. She never did reach full transition.
She was literally bullied to death for wanting to be her authentic self.
So. I will always be an ally. For Christine.
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@AnilvanderZee
@janboehm
It’s been posted on YouTube so you can turn on subtitles and then auto translate it to English. Jan does talk fast and the auto translation struggles at times, but it gets most of what is said.
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@1goodtern
Personally, I cannot remember the last time I had a food bug from mishandling meat, so I think we should go back to not washing our hands.
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@i_iratus
The bit that confuses me is where she says in her ‘explanation’ that nobody thinks she was equating a smoking ban with what the Nazis did to the Jews. Because that is EXACTLY what she did. She literally used a poem about the creep towards the Final Solution in her idiotic post.
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@russellquirk
Fuck me. They are giving one person £300bn!? Where do I sign up?
Oh. You didn't mean that, did you. You meant that all people on benefits are paying for Virgin TV, in debt and grossly overweight.
I just deleted a four letter word I would happily call you to your face.
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@thenitinsawhney
Well, according to several accounts on TikTok, the path of the eclipse is passing through many towns in America called Nineveh, which is a clear message that these are indeed the end days, and er…. something about, well, er… not sure, but apparently it’s good. Or something.
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@LibTardsExp0sed
@NicolaMalcolm1
@i_iratus
I don’t get this line of argument. How is removing charitable status and putting vat on private school fees a sign that you are jealous you can’t afford to go to somewhere like Eton? It’s a sign they aren’t charities and should pay VAT like everyone else.
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@i_iratus
I was a teacher for 20 years and taught in a few schools in areas of high deprivation, including in York, though not at the Joseph Rowntree School. The 'pinnacle' of my experience was seeing a 15-year-old boy at a Leicester school sobbing because he hadn't eaten for 3 days.
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You have heard Nitin Sawhney's music whether you know it or not, on TV, film, multiple albums, but in his spare time he enjoys setting fire to racists! This is an absolute masterclass.
@ShalnevaE
Really??? 😂 Here’s twenty examples to help you.
1. The development of mathematics in ancient India, including the concept of zero and the decimal system.
2. The invention of paper in ancient China, which revolutionized communication and record-keeping.
3. The creation of the
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@PJW6466
@NightlarkSteve
@westerby1
You literally don’t. Why are you getting angry over something that isn’t happening?
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@MUFCEastStand
@IAPonomarenko
Because, and you might have missed this, he is Ukrainian, and would quite like it if Russia would piss off. What would you rather have them do? Roll over, surrender and accept RU domination and cultural annihilation? If the UK was invaded would you just say oh, ok, it’s yours?
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@rosiejsargent97
@DWPgovuk
I just had an idea. When the govt makes it law that anyone on disability benefits has to find work, we should all apply for work at the DWP, and when they turn us down as being unfit to work for them we quote them their decision every time they question us about finding work.
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@alexabruxy
@NZ_fund_MECFS
Also permanently absent teachers because they caught covid and never got better again. I was the third teacher at my school who lost their career to covid.
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@thenitinsawhney
@ShalnevaE
Has somebody got that meme of the person handing someone else their arse on a plate saying "I think this is yours"? I'm not a meme sort but this is the perfect example of when it would be appropriate.
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@KyleTrainEmoji
I am at the start of the thread and before I read any more I am predicting that when I do get to the end there will be comments saying things like "yeah, but coal"
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@JohnWest_JAWS
@BylineTimes
@BBCNews
@SkyNews
It is a shame that one of the possible phantoms didn't have a shock win. That would have made things interesting.
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@thenitinsawhney
The only thing I have noticed is that in some videos of you being interviewed you can look tired, but having read about your issues with insomnia that is hardly surprising. I’m so glad you have pulled through, your music means a lot to a lot of people, me included.
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If you don't speak German, go to settings, Click on subtitles - Auto Generated, then click on Auto Translate and choose your first language.
Danke Doktor Whatson, Ich habe „mittelschweres“ ME-CFS, es ist schrecklich.
Wir haben ein Video über
#MECFS
gemacht!
Schaut's euch an und wenn ihr könnt, seid gerne in den Kommentaren auf YouTube aktiv. Erzählt eure Geschichte und upvotet andere Kommentare. Wäre schön, wenn wir heute Hass und Hetze keine Plattform bieten.
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@DrPStewart
My brother in law was a dairy farmer. He is still a farmer but had to stop the family business because supermarkets refused to pay a fair amount for the milk he produced. It was costing him more to make than he was being paid.
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@VictoriaCoren
@englishmaninBX
Princes Trust. Nearly 1 million young people helped to get their lives sorted, over a hundred thousand entrepreneurs set up in business and nearly 400k businesses supported.
King Charles has earned my support, not just been given it.
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@CheshireMatters
@PolitlcsUK
@PotentialMCR
@christiancalgie
Almost right.
Time to rid themselves of Sunak AND face annihilation at the next GE.
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@i_iratus
I am currently on a short getaway in Germany. We knew about this restriction last August when we had a holiday in Malaga. Anyone getting caught out with this travel restriction has not been paying any attention or bothered to do any research.
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@deelomas
Well done all the people trying to explain how merging in turn is what you are supposed to do, but this is also the country where middle lane driving is rife and understanding where to indicate on a roundabout seems to be almost PhD level for most people.
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@thehistoryguy
I read the post and thought, wow, that’s interesting. What a thing to have to do. I am glad that women can now go to medical school, but it’s a shame discrimination still exists in some forms.
Seems everyone else read a completely different post to me. 😳
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@MetalGearCopium
@i_iratus
We don’t need to. There is a big difference between an anonymous account trying to be clever with caustic troll comments, and an anonymous account willing to spend time educating, engaging and spreading messages of hope. The Bear even gets the explaining crayons out occasionally.
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@hombreingles
@implausibleblog
I have an idea of how you can prove it is all fake. What you do is you go out, set a bin on fire and run towards a line of police dressed in riot gear. At the very last moment you hilariously trip and fall in the bin. Then you can report back about how you don't go to jail.
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@TOrynski
@archer_rs
I lived in Germany for 7 years and one day was in the queue at our local Bäkerei having a conversation with someone I worked with in English and ordering my rolls in German. When he started ordering he did it all in English. He had lived in Germany for years more than me.
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@i_iratus
I don’t trust Gove for many reasons, but one of the main ones is the thing he does with his hands whilst gesticulating, pushing his thumb hard into a weird pointy fist. It reeks of body language coaching, and as such is a red flag for being completely fake.
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@thenitinsawhney
@ShalnevaE
Didn't the Incas spend a daft amount of time turning Maize into something edible and now nobody knows how they did it? I'm sure it was on Qi, definitely sounds Qi-ish.
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@thenitinsawhney
According to someone on the Question Time Brexit special immigrants go directly from the boat to the benefit office. He knows because he has seen them do it. It's in his line of work. I wonder what the bigot word for someone like that would be?
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@_CatintheHat
I am remote tutoring a lad at GCSE level who is at home because of long covid. The family had a battle to get EOTAS which I supported them with and they finally got it at the start of this year, after two years of tribunals and having to employ a solicitor.
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@Visionaledge
There is no phobia of being scared of hornets, because a phobia is an irrational fear and there is nothing irrational about being scared of hornets!
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@i_petersen
@Emma_h_mua
@DavidSteadson
@ucl
@chrischirp
@_CatintheHat
Jesus on a bike, did you not think before you pressed send? When someone gets long covid as a result of connecting with people in real life, your professional, measured advice is to do it a bit more, see how it goes? You are unbelievable.
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@SpecCoffeeHouse
Because due to sensible (for once) planning laws you can only put solar onto low-grade farmland and after the installation is complete you can still use it for grazing, then due to low intensive farming it increases biodiversity.
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@JustStop_Oil
I am very impressed that a 73-year-old managed to walk all the way from Birmingham to Stonehenge. That is really impressive. Amazing effort.
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@RoadsideMum
I have only recently become disabled after a 20 year career as a teacher in which I’m proud to say I taught at inclusive schools with regards to disabilities. That said I have a family member who had to change the choice of college she went to due to a lack of a lift to allow …
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@Forever15AMF
Reminds me of Smearo outside Glasgow airport kicking the failed suicide bomber in the ‘nads. Nice one.
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@UntoNuggan
Thank you for giving me the word molasses to describe what happens to my brain when the fog gets really bad. I’ve never got to the point where single words are all I have to express myself, but I have struggled to string together a coherent sentence. Mollassses is perfect.
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@sophsoph_psd
My story has similarities to yours, I caught covid 9 jan 23, so I’m half way between catching the virus and my idiotic attempt to try and work again on Jan 13, on what turned out to be my last ever day at work. Now I’m diagnosed with me/cfs and my symptoms have stabilised.
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@adamvaughan_uk
Here’s an idea. Stop paying dividends to shareholders until you have your shit together instead of dumping it into our rivers and then I will think about modifying my behaviour.
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@LoftusSteve
Anybody can go to university.
Not everybody can go to private school.
The govt got rid of schools for children with special needs citing inclusion as a reason to do so. They should do the same to private schools for the same reason.
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@harveenj
@Richard_Twigg
I grew up in Slough which had a strong multicultural community, and from memory, the food goes on for several days on either side of the actual ceremony?
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@Hathibel
@Culture_Crit
You think that Barcelona is a 15 minute city, and that it has happened because of the WEF?
You haven’t been to Barcelona, have you?
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@Eyeswideopen69
I can’t get out of my head the fact that he looks like someone who should be driving a coach load of OAPs on a day trip to Whitby.
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@EarthJesterMag
@becboynton
Spend half an hour on Twitter reading descriptions from women of their experience of sexual abuse including what happened to them when they went to the police or if it got that far what happened to them in court and never have to ask that question again.
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@Toonarmy19771
@duncanpoundcake
@KEdge23
…along with a diet rich in fresh seasonal vegetables, olive oil, fresh fish and an attitude to eating slow, family based meals that is the envy of the world.
I don’t think many of them would buy a bag of pasta for 50p from Asda.
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@i_iratus
Here is a little something to cheer a bear up, though probably not a good idea to have one at bedtime!
My son, doing what he loves... baristas work hard to develop these talents. To many of us, they are "just people who work in coffee shops," but to others, they are people who demonstrate their love for their work in ways like this. Love your barista... one of them is my son! 🥰☕️
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@HerrFizz
@lionelbarber
@mrjamesob
Your money is worth less so it costs more to make stuff so it costs more for you to buy stuff.
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@40PercentGerman
I went out in Köln one night and got absolutely hammered. A Kellner would keep appearing and filling up my beer, so I kept drinking. I didn’t know how to say no thank you. That was the night I discovered I had to cover my glass with a beer mat to indicate I had finished!
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@SteveShovlar
I lived in Germany and ordered something online without realising it was being sent from Switzerland. Exactly what you described happened to me. Instead of getting the item I got a notice saying I had to pay an extra 50€. I was that pissed off customer and never ordered again.
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@i_iratus
@harryfisherEMTP
@BusyDrT
@DrJBhattacharya
@drsimonegold
@DrAseemMalhotra
@ZelenkoZev
@DrJamesOlsson
@P_McCulloughMD
@stkirsch
@RealAlexJones
@RobertKennedyJr
As an ex-paramedic I am absolutely horrified that this person is allowed anywhere people who are in medical distress.
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