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One for the BMW, one for the BVM.

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Sunlight is the best remedy.

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We can't let the security services vet MP candidates and remain a full democracy.

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Does that happen to houses in Tennessee? There was a film about one in Kansas.

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I will notice that in 2024, I hope.

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Speaking as a civil servant: no we shouldn't.

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v2 with aluminum rather than aluminium, a definite improvement.

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No. Robbins was Mandelson's line manager and his job was to make the decision. Who would he report the facts to, and what would they do with that report?

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Earrings sound a lot less painful than eye hooks, if you ask me to choose, which I hope you don't.

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Photo 12, the bedroom with a sunken bath centrally on the desire line from the bed to the en-suite toilet, is my favourite Building Regs violation. Or more probably violations.

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Nominative determinism there.

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Back in the mists of time Motability _was_ over-generous -- to the not-mobility-impaired purchasers of their cars second-hand. Our 2007 Focus was an absolute steal.

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Warden Harvey once dissected a witch's familiar toad, quoth the Wiki, but you don't mean him.

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The Foreign Secretary can appoint an ambassador without clearance for Top Secret documents, but then they wouldn't be able to read their inbox. There has to be a positive decision to overrule the DV process and grant clearance.

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tuxedo tuxedere tuxēdi tuxēsum

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We have apps for both dishwasher and washing machine, each of which you can prime for remote activation. The use case is to choose to run it at a propitious hour for solar PV, and be notified when your cohabitant has wrongly set it going anyway because the machine is full and they are going out FFS.

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M isn't a terrible 70s comedy programming language, it's a terrible 2010s Excel-specific comedy programming language.

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Always have been.

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Menus at the time were mostly in Hungarian only. Children and students knew English, while the adults had learned Russian in school but refused to use it. The most elderly had learned German in school and refused to use it.

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I feel this is a mistake. The last McDonalds hamburger I ate was in Budapest in the mid-90s, when I wanted to be sure of having something for once that exactly wasn't goulash.

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Also your device might be in aeroplane mode.

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In Greyscale Mode it should be a Creative Commons 2.5 licence.

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And given Tolkien's limits as an author, to do it offstage.

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We are told that pipe-weed comes originally from Numenor, rather than Valinor. But I think it most likely that the non-cereal crops of the Shire were planted there by the Entwives rescuing what they could from the destruction of Beleriand.

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And the District and the Bakerloo and the Jubilee. They all go to some places but, and this may count as labouring the point, not to places round here.

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I'm in South London too and not paying for the Tube isn't a thing here because the Tube isn't a thing here.

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It can be swum anywhere by ducks, but they have very short legs to do much fording.

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However absurd UK politics is, at least we're not blockading refineries to protest about the lack of diesel.

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As the bishop said to the actress.

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We are up the creek and this is the bot that everyone needs.

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