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Or via my website, sharonodea.com
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Man who got infected in the office and saw his boss and colleagues get infected in the office says there’s little evidence people get infected in the office.
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My mate who had to spend two grand to be locked in a shit hotel room in Heathrow for ten days so he could get home to see his terminally ill father before he died did not find this anywhere near as hilarious as Case and Hancock did.
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Tell me no Brits were involved in designing your product without etc
On April 4th everyone can pre-order the Knob / k•no•b•1 for $439 USD in both ANSI and ISO layouts.
We have been working tirelessly on all the details to blow people away when you get it on your desks in Q3 2024
Many more details to come.
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My mum is leaving it awfully close to the GDPR deadline to ask if I want to opt in to receive her emails, calls and texts.
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Today I left home in Amsterdam, worked in Switzerland, did financial services work through a Dutch company, then flew back from an airport in France.
Still blows my mind that British public have voted to be the only Europeans not be able to do this, in just 11 months time.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if someone dies prematurely leaving behind a wife and children, but you didn’t agree with their politics, you always have the option of saying nothing.
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We all occasionally worry our projects don’t deliver the intended benefits.
But take comfort in seeing how Apple have spent millions on machine learning and hired some of the finest minds in the industry in order to offer this quality of insight.
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London no-go zones: a definitive guide
Finchley. You've seen it there on the map, just north of Hampstead. But have you ever been there? Do you know anyone who lives there? No you do not.
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The list of people I would talk to about hot flushes, missing libido and vaginal dryness before I would consider going to an event to chat to Iain Duncan Smith about the same includes:
- My dad
- Your dad
- The entire queue for the Nemesis at Alton Towers
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Taylor Swift’s new album has a track about London and I Have Some Concerns
1) No one enjoys walking Camden Market in the afternoon
2) Ditto an afternoon in the pub with our red trousered brethren while the rugby is on
3) Friends don’t make friends go to to the West End
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I was part of the team that led the roll out of iPads at the UK Parliament. Our work showed these have a significantly lower cost for delivery of order papers, as well as enabling members to work more efficiently.
Have you considered actually doing some work on it?
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Made the mistake of putting @bbcsml on. Their expert panel discussing education includes Darren Grimes, whose sole qualification is that he once attended a school.
I try to defend the BBC but they do themselves no favours with this nonsense.
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You’re genuinely trying to sell a deal worth less than £550 a day to the entire British economy as a “Brexit benefit”?
Embarrassing mate.
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I’m not sure that MPs being funded by donations from working people rather than corporations and dodgy Russians is quite the spicy take you seem to think it is, lads.
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I asked ChatGPT to suggest four completely mad ideas the UK’s Conservative Party could include in their manifesto.
I fully expect to see at least one of these announced before the week is out.
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My husband bought me back some Pokémon face masks from Japan a while back.
They’re... quite special.
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HSBC has a gender pay gap of *61%*. For every pound a man makes, a woman at HSBC earns just 39p. I’ll take this kind of content seriously when you fix the important stuff.
To celebrate #IWD2020, we are sharing three stories of being a woman in business and in the workplace today. In the first, Datin Mina, an HSBC client in Malaysia, talks about the opportunities that gender balance can create #EachForEqual
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Here's the rub. My personal tax is not noticeably higher here in the "high tax" Netherlands but my street's clean, my bins get picked up twice a week and I can get a doctor's appointment.
The common refrain about the UK wanting European-style public services and US-style taxes is becoming less true.
We’re moving closer to European taxes but *without* European public services.
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It gets dark awfully early here but I love the way the lights reflect off the canal when everyone’s being gezellig at home.
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Brexit’s proving such a success that they’re celebrating winning back a much reduced version of rights they gave away less than two years ago 🤦🏻♀️
Really great news. We've been working closely with the Spanish government to make touring easier - and they've just confirmed that musicians no longer need visas to go on short-term tours
21 Member States now offer visa & permit-free routes for touring performers. 6 more to go.
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Founder of #Peeple, an app designed to collect unsolicited feedback doesn't appear to like unsolicited feedback.
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I was at a mate’s house yesterday when her 13 year old got home soaking wet after cycling in the rain.
Her 11 year old said “you got well Sunaked”
Thing is, we live in Amsterdam. If you’re a playground meme for kids who don’t live in the country it’s fair to say you’re fucked.
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This is a brilliant little bit of design from @WWF. Each picture has the same number of pixels as there remaining members of the species.
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They aired Flying Circus in 2004, 2005 & 2019. BBC2 had Python At 50, Lawyers Cut & Holy Grail 50th anniversary documentary (2009). UK Gold, owned by BBC Studios, have created brand new docos and aired the live show in 2014.
Do other 50 year old shows get shown that often?
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Honourable mention for The Actons. No need for this proliferation. nitter.app/CamillaWest/status/176…
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My 94-year-old French grandmother has lived here since 1950. I have to help her apply for permission for her to stay. Utterly shameful.
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Biggest war in Europe in 80 years, petrol at 191p a litre, people struggling to put food on the table, inflation at a generation high, housing crisis, and the prospect of a bleak energy crisis winter, and her priority is putting post-it notes on toilets? Unhinged.
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I endure nationalised railways here in the Netherlands. This suffering includes:
- walk-on fares to travel from one end of the country which cost 80% less than equivalent journeys in the UK
- getting a seat
- trains running on time
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Well that blew up. I don’t have a SoundCloud. So just be nice to one another. And vote these contemptuous bastards out at the earliest opportunity.
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Hi Tiffany. Not sure if you know but you can send birthday greetings privately by email or SMS rather than insensitively centring your own family over, for example, someone dying at the hands of a mob directed by your father. HTH.
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The water in my hotel room is… 88% plant based?
This raises far more questions than it answers, frankly.
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Yeah I loved getting a 6.16am train to the office, leaving my desk only to pay through the nose for a bland sandwich and eat it at my desk, and walking out into the dark evening to squeeze on the Waterloo and City. A laugh a fucking minute, that was. theguardian.com/uk-news/2020…
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With the median UK Civil Service salary £28,180 and a Peloton bike + 1 year subscription coming in at £2,218, I'm going to go out on a limb and say the number of civil servants too busy working out on posh exercise bikes to go to the office is in the single figures at most.
The Conservative Party chairman has told people to "get off their pelotons and back to their desks".
Speaking at a Fringe event at the party conference, Oliver Dowden said civil servants needed to lead by example and get back to offices. #cpc2021
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Pontoon Dock. Along with other DLR stations these are places that don’t exist and whose sole purpose is to give you something to laugh at on the way to City Airport.
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Scathing interview with a former US trade sec on @BBCr4today just now.
“Britain is desperate. You don’t quit your job before you get a new one, which you’ve done. There is no chance of US trade making up for what you lose with Brexit”
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Who could have predicted that landing people with £50k debt in their early 20s while doing nothing about housing affordability might have long term consequences?
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Hi Amanda. This is a text based medium so I’ll assume you can read. Now if you apply this same skill to the bill to which you’re referring you’ll count 8 mentions of protecting memorials and none - not a single one - to the safety of women.
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Wandsworth Town. Not quite Wandsworth, not quite Battersea, this is a roundabout and a Homebase pretending to be a real place.
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I’ve just spotted this gem in the government’s Brexit guidance. Are they saying you’ll need to get an ATA Carnet to take your work laptop or a microphone to EU countries for business?
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Lancaster Gate. Adding a minute to the journey between Queensway and Marble Arch despite no one getting on or off the tube there.
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Mornington Crescent. Closed for most of the 90s, to the chagrin of very few. Such is its mythical status that it spawned an entire radio show in which people pretend to go there.
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Leaked staff survey results from Goldman Sachs (cannot vouch for veracity but are being shared online). drive.google.com/file/d/1jye…
Beyond bleak.
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“As a father of daughters…” is such a revealing phrase. The world would be a far better place if men realised women are people before they produced their own. thetimes.co.uk/article/daugh…
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If @trussliz thought she’d get an easier ride by doing local radio this morning she underestimated them. This is not going well for her.
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The last time I was sexually assaulted - by a group of men on a tube train at 7pm - the police told me to fill in the form on the website to report it.
But hold a poster on a bandstand and they’ve got four rozzers available to cuff you.
I am FURIOUS.
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Let.’s not forget that he got together with current partner when he cheated on his wife while she had cancer.
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Today we’re celebrating my grandmother’s 96th birthday. At her advanced age - some 66 years after she moved to the UK - she is being forced to apply for Settled Status to be allowed to stay in the UK with the other three generations of her family.
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So the new Official mark...
Spongebob Squarepants: Official
Chief Medical Officer: Not official
This feels like something that can only end well
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Another sterling contribution. Non-connecting end of line tube stops exist only as threats and mini-cab thirst traps.
Morden is not so much a place as a distant threat, a terminus we all hope never to reach. If you dare to head towards Morden, it will always alarmingly be “via Bank” (but you don’t collect £200). And it sounds a bit like Mordor too.
ALT Wikipedia image of the rather fine frontage of Morden tube station, which seems to be being swallowed by an office block.
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Hang on, so you’re taking back back control by asking Poland to veto a request made by the British Parliament?
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Plus it underpins both the Good Friday agreement AND the EU Trade Agreement, so she’s essentially saying she wants to draw us into a trade war. Not sure if she’s daft, dangerous, or both.
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Man with £1.2bn central London commercial real estate portfolio and city centre display advertising venture wants you back in city centre offices. I wonder why that is?
Boris says it's no longer necessary to work from home. So city people get back to the offices let's kick start the local economy for shops,cafes who suffered badly. Some people may have become complacent liking this new style of working.Well those folk will never work for me.
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I wish I’d thought of this. I inherited a line-managee in a re-org and learned they were paid substantially more than me. I was told they couldn’t adjust mid-year but they promised to sort it at bonus time.
They did not fix it at bonus time.
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This is a dire line from the very worst spokesman for it. He went to Winchester, Oxford & Stanford.
My school sent 5 ppl a year to university, while everyone else ended up working in shops & salons.
How DARE you tell working class people they shouldn't try and better themselves
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Grasp of a foreign language gained through the most expensive education possible and several years spent living in a French-speaking country. The former isn’t open to working class kids and your campaign has removed the option for the latter from future generations. So well done.
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If Wayne Couzens had stopped me in the street do you think he’d have waited while I called 999 to check he was legit? Or would he have cuffed me, bundled all 4’11” of me in the car he rented for the express purpose of abducting a woman?
This advice is appalling and insulting.
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Hannan managed to be wrong on almost any topic under the sun. In any sane society he’d be ignored as a crank. But instead he was given a seat in the Lords as a reward.
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It’s genuinely funny how spectacularly wrong every single prediction and promise in this ‘Britain After Brexit’ piece from galaxy brain Daniel Hannan turned out to be.
reaction.life/britain-looks-…
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Are you seriously trying to argue that mocking transgender women is fine, but being shocked and offended at the PM doing this in front of the mother of a murdered child is "political point-scoring"?
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Doubling visas to a whopping 120 will do nothing to replace the numbers that have already left, you useless headline chasing smirk factory.
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Justine Greening on @BBCr4today is damning on the future of the party and her future in it. “We need to be more than the Brexit party or we have no future”
(I really must stop listening to Today in the morning, it leaves me so depressed at the state of everything)
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I, for one, will ensure all my future travel is re-accommodated to avoid ever flying on United.
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1600-person randomised study over two years found having people WFH 2 days a week:
-increased productivity
-reduced quit rates (esp among women, non-managers & long commuters)
-no impact on performance or promotion rates
nature.com/articles/d41586-0…
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This is a staggeringly powerful short film from @OborneTweets - who voted Leave - on the consequences for Northern Ireland and why he now regrets his vote. Watch in full.
JOE.ie
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Gov quietly drop plan to reintroduce imperial measures after - despite being the most horrendously designed and biased consultation possible - 98.7% of respondents opposed the move. thetimes.co.uk/article/rishi…
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Watching @YvetteCooperMP wipe the floor with her week after week would be funny were it not for the whole 'massive danger to national security' thing.
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Good grief. "Sorry about your mum but you got to learn what a brilliant chancellor I was, so swings and roundabouts I guess".
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Also "Your Country Needs You" was a WW1 slogan which for myriad reasons was not reprised in WW2. And it was changed from 'Needs' to 'Wants' during the course of the campaign to try and improve impact. So you're wrong on three counts in the first point alone.
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Imagine having such an ingrained sense of privilege you think a court case should be shelved because it's bad timing for the advancement of your career. The rest of us can’t even get out of jury duty when it’s not convenient.
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“This is not a game. I will vote against an election anytime before the end of October until this is done because my constituents need me here doing my job”
Bloody love @jessphillips. You can hear the righteous, deserved anger in her voice.
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This is such a great example of how Teams is culturally situated. This kind of thing goes down really well in India, and to a lesser degree in the US. In the UK it's weird and no one will use it. And I've been involved in German Works Councils discussions to have this turned off.
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Predictably everyone's outraged about this but:
a) there are 13k Parliamentary passholders, the overwhelming majority of whom are not MPs and aren't on high salaries
b) the site has a security cordon, popping to Greggs is challenging
c) plus many people working at odd hours
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I heard someone refer to San Pelligrino Orange as Tory Fanta and now that’s all I can ever call it
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Or maybe, since you’re evidently not well clued up on reproductive health, you should refrain from pronouncing what women should be doing with their bodies?
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On the first of every month a guy dresses as a rabbit and stands down the end of my road waving at people. It's creepy AF.
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Exactly. No one was travelling then for a laugh; anyone who did it was travelling out of sheer desperation. And they thought it *hilarious*.
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