Most likely (same root word) but etymology is not an exact science.

A fun fact for you all is that ‘brig’ is the name of the type of ship. They were used as prisons so the word ended up as generic ‘prison cell in a ship’ into which one could be thrown

he’s in the station brig now

Man at station kiosk put my kit kat in the same small bag as my hot sausage roll, which I think qualifies for a ‘see it, say it, sorted’ report

Haha if you want to be That Person, their competition is not legal

I’ve so far bought and gifted three copies, and gave a proof to Maggie Aderin during xmas lecture rehearsals. That’s how I show I really love a book 😃

Dr Lucy Rogers is pictured on the stage of the Royal Institution lecture theatre behind Faraday’s desk, a large brown curved wooden affair. On the wall is a giant screen showing the cover of Lucy’s book ‘Up’

Wonderful talk by @drlucyrogers.com at @rigb.org last night. Highly recommend her book ‘Up’ which is rightly receiving accolades.

I just zoomed in on her face and she looks like if Andrew tried to pull a Mrs Doubtfire caper

Implies her maj was naked under that coat

'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts

Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit

By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

LOOK AT IT

How da…ohhh you said boos

A selfie of a middle aged woman in red-framed glasses and a black, white and red striped jacket befitting an end-of-pier magic show

I have new glasses, but what’s really important here is that I’m in my Cilla jacket era

I’m constantly amazed at how aware I am of the existence of my skeleton, which I never was before

A screenshot of google’s AI summary about the history of the Victoria Cross pub in Liverpool

I generally just scroll past and ignore the AI results but when I see an example so egregiously wrong as that I like to check what search terms prompt it to know a damn thing. In this case, just adding the word ‘history’

Screenshot of google showing that the AI does not know about a pub that is listed in the search results right below it

Mmm hmm

for an idea of how big a deal this is, my mom was in great shape when she got diagnosed and she lasted less than sixty days. six years is insane.

That’s a very cool achievement 😃

We were both right in the end, a minor disagreement on whether soft wood holds more water

I do not regret to inform you that I am once again at a Renaissance Fair and once again was pedantic with a blacksmith

Tried to verbally flex my Mario Kart skills but accidentally said ‘spood beest’ so that’s me done

Lovely stuff

1) noted and acknowledge ‘Spiders-Men; 2) is there some sort Marvel movie organigram l, dendogram or similar chart I can peruse? I stopped watching years ago. For me, peak is still first X-Men and some Raimi spiderbusiness.

WHAT

A colleague didn’t recognise me in my glasses so I tried to joke “I’m Clark Kent” but accidentally declared “I’m Ken Clarke”

Same

Some collectable 50p pieces go for a tenner (when new), a vintage one can set me back anything from £3. Never actually paid 50p for one.

That’s a straw man argument

ps while I don’t assume you know the answer to this, I’m afraid you’re now my go-to hay and straw guy

This makes sense except now I want to know when hay switched from being a byproduct (which it surely was originally) to its own hay industry