@fesshole
<Mischievous> It is astonishing how many more prominent people graduated from Cambridge University in the 3-year period after the university stopped making its graduation lists public, than in the 3-year period before that.
@fesshole
Surely you'd make some enquiries to establish the other party was into that sort of thing before, y'know, placing an order, buying wrapping paper,...? No?
@fesshole
Somewhere, there's a rational bit of my mind that knows "skirt on the wrong way" probably just means back-to-front or something, but I can't help visualizing her wearing it on her head.
@fesshole
I'm no animal behaviourist, but going by the cows I've met on cycle paths, I'd have thought they'd find it quite entertaining to have some archaeologists to watch.
@fesshole
This tweet has been up for 13 minutes, and I can say with some confidence that, even if you were the only one 14 minutes ago, you're not the only one now.
@kobldexe
@Sorrelish
"Not following protocol" is a euphemism for conducting research on human remains with no ethical approval or consenting process, right?
@fesshole
Glancing at this thread, I see lots of people believing that the couple can't be happy or love each other unless they're shagging each other silly, but nowhere near as many people as there should be worrying about the consequences of only clipping one's toenails once a month.
@fesshole
I mean, romantic relationships aren't my bag, but I feel on fairly safe ground guessing that it's best to open with "you sound like you're in pain, are you OK?" rather than with "the sound you make irritates me".
@fesshole
I mean - you refer to her as "a local councillor", not "a defeated council candidate", so I guess she in fact has rather more than two votes.
@adacable
We're talking about Sunak's latest attack on trans kids, right? Not only is the guidance not legally binding, I suspect there will be cases in which following the guidance is illegal (GDPR, Equality Act, statutory curriculum).
@ask_aubry
In addition to existing insightful replies, I'll leave you with the thought that, in a lot of houses, the shower drain doesn't go to the foul sewer, but to a soakaway in the garden.
@jewishstudent1
@sgbuggs
ISTR a UN report not so long ago found that Hamas get most of the explosives for the payloads of their rockets from unexploded Israeli ordnance dropped on Gaza, which does rather suggest a straightforward way to put a stop to the rocket attacks.
@ReemAmirIbrahim
@carbdiem
Proposition: "Networking" is not a skill, soft or otherwise; it's just a posh name for using personal favours as a bribe for privileged access to the graduate labour market.
@simonharris_mbd
The three-pin kettle lead's an IEEE standard, isn't it? I can't imagine Brexiteers standing for that sort of overweening regulatory harmonization.
@fesshole
Is it just me, or is there a big leap between "married men kept coming to the gym to have sex with each other" and "we had to put a hidden camera in"?
@mcmansionhell
@Sorrelish
Has it occurred to anyone that the reason this "not allowed to leave the neighbourhood" thing is in their heads might be that they have themselves been considering imposing something similar on people of social classes or ethnicities or genders they don't like?
@willydunn
Just a few days ago, the UK took military action to enforce the principle that an actor who controls the coastline of a narrow strait may not pick and choose what ships pass through that strait. I presume even the UK govt's hypocrisy doesn't extend to stopping this vessel ATM.
@fesshole
If only someone had invented the idea of a multi-user operating system, where you and the kids could have separate accounts that don't have read permission on each other's files.
@fesshole
Hee. I put my own hair and nail clippings in the local authority compostable waste stream, so there'll be traces of my DNA all over other people's gardens and farms.
@OurMidden
@kvnrogan
The process ended with me, the departmental safety officer, and the departmental chemical safety advisor all standing in the room asking each other if we were starting to get a headache.
@dandouglas
The other advantage of the bin collection thing is that one can pretend it's an autonomous decision by local councils, so central government doesn't have to take any of the blame.
@Rawbonio
@fesshole
You can tell someone who's never had any links with local government by the way they think councillors get such luxuries as a desk.
@fesshole
Sorry, are we saying that this is a marked-out football pitch with proper goals, and someone is sabotaging it by adding concrete blocks? Good case for aggravated trespass there, surely?
@DimensionsInJen
Ah, so you too checked the dates to see if we could rule out Rose being Ruby's mother by placing her a long way from Ruby Road on the evening of 24th December 2004. [We can't.]
@fesshole
Perhaps I'm missing something, but that doesn't strike me as particularly challenging. "Y'know what movie I'd really like to see: the new Ninja Turtles one." Sorted.
@DrFrancesRyan
They also miss the (to me) fairly obvious point that, if someone is medically unfit ever to work again, it's right and proper that they should be incentivized not to risk additional damage to their health by struggling back into the workplace.
@fesshole
I've never been a member of Mensa, but I'm fairly sure it's got nothing to do with knowing stuff and everything to do with a certain very specific type of reasoning skill.
@korovaoverlook
Still bewildered by a painting called "Dante and Virgil" in which Dante and Virgil are the fifth and sixth most prominently featured people.
@fesshole
Now I'm worried about the tragedy of all those people who've found themselves with a deep love for a sheep they can't locate.
(Not that kind of love, he said pre-emptively, knowing what the Fesshole crew are like.)
@1goodtern
The way things have been going, I wouldn't be surprised if they go further and threaten them with sanctions for poor attendance if they do stay home.
@fesshole
If the enemy snipers are too respectful of civilian lives to fire into a crowd, you should probably double-check whether you've picked the right side in this imaginary conflict.
@DimensionsInJen
Wasn't Nardole already a cyborg? Maybe the cybermen saw him, realized he was a superior design, then went rampaging across the universe converting everyone into copies of Nardole.
@veteris_insect
@fesshole
So - management were so disgusted by people taking videos in the toilet that they installed hidden cameras in the toilet? Checks out.
@fesshole
The Yorkshire Dales? That's where Emmerdale is set, right? In which case I'd expect the soil and the riverbeds to be composed almost entirely of discarded engagement rings and concealed dead bodies.
@fesshole
So really, you charge £400 for two weeks' work, and £19600 for accepting the blame if it all goes tits up. Expensive if "the blame" in your sector means being a bit embarrassed, cheap if "the blame" in your sector means jail time.
@BBCLookEast
Does the govt have any legal power to insist? I'm guessing not, otherwise the project would have stopped last time the council and the govt had the exact same argument, several months ago.
@DjGertcha
@digsb
@fesshole
Yes, but I observe that, under section 172 of the Companies Act 2006, company directors are not allowed to do anything other than prioritize shareholders over customers: that _is_ the government intervening.
@fesshole
I'm hearing that, during an airborne pandemic, you go out of your way to get as close as possible to other passengers on public transport, after they've signalled their preference that it be otherwise.
@MathewJLyons
@theeyecollector
14 generations of fen-edge ancestry tell me to say it's not "bleak", it's "open". Recent experience tells me to note that there exists a certain type of farmer who, when their field contains a public right of way, likes to put an electric fence immediately adjacent to that PROW.
@jontrot9
@fesshole
I guess driver sees _something_ is obstructing the way ahead, and there's no time to analyse whether or not it's something with which a collision will be harmful.
@20thcenturymarc
Those are GWR colours, right? Nobody at the train operating company that covers the route from London to the West Country thought "people go on holiday there, maybe we should order rolling stock with lots of luggage space"? But yeah, let's blame the kids in the picture.
@anon_opin
There are water-jet cutters available that can cut through granite and steel. A bit of congealed Weetabix is not going to present a problem.
@MarkSlater74
@offgridteacher
@Sneakachu25
It's not about shaving. Aragorn can't grow a beard as a result of his distant elvish ancestry. Same applies to Denethor, Boromir, Faramir, and Imrahil.
@RoadsideMum
I think lidar would only show you the topography of the ground surface (albeit with incredible precision), not what's under the ground. For that you'd want ground-penetrating radar.
@CooperHillier
Some great face acting from NPH all round - highlight for me the Toymaker's face falling as he sees 14 and 15 side by side and realizes his own pointless brutality has put him in losing status.
@OurMidden
@kvnrogan
That takes me back. Years ago, the carbon monoxide alarm in my lab kept going off, and since there was no obvious potential source of carbon monoxide in the room, we weren't sure if it was a genuine detection or an alarm fault.
@fesshole
For 43 years, I went to a great variety of barbers to have my hair cut, and not one of them ever massaged my earlobes. Now I feel like I've been missing out.
@ACORNunion
Also let's unpick "since records began". According to the BBC article, records - or at least "comparable" records - began in 2001. I think most people reading the headline will come away with the impression that it's referring to a rather longer period than it is.
@DavidNautilus1
It seems to me that the common theme among this, the locked toilets thing, and the "send 'em in even if they have a dangerous infectious disease" thing is that the curriculum is so over-full that pupils being human makes it impossible to deliver it all.
@ItsAndyRyan
@weirzone
... but nevertheless, along with loving lots of contemporary stuff, I can remember being aware in the 80s that Glenn Miller and Vera Lynn and Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald were really rather good.