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In cloud computing 'Compute' is one of the things you buy, like 'Storage'.
Though Storage didn't become Store, I guess it was easier to say than Computation.

Nicholas Lyndhurst

Vincenzo Pentangeli has arrived

Mais oui

My younger brother used to eat sugar sandwiches

Baker Street. I would jump in front of a train there if it came on in the station.

How about 'to wallop s/o', 'give s/o a walloping'. What do the Mary Wallopers have to say on this subject?

Daily Mail Headline: Pupils' drawings could be blasphemous under Islamic law, Labour councils tell schools - while music and dance classes may go against the teachings of Islam

Oh boy! What a headline...

Ask yourself:

"What am I being asked to believe?"

"Who am I being told to blame?"

Take a few seconds to imagine what the Daily Mail (And Telegraph, GB News and Express) WANT you to think is going on.

Let's see what's ACTUALLY happening...🧵

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Fourteen quid for a fucking bagel!

Fourteen quid for a bagel here in Berkshire. No chips, not even a side salad. A bagel.

Times x for the different tunings you play

I'm sure lying didn't used to be so easy when I was younger

In my team at work an Indian colleague who'd lived here for two years voted for brexit (he thought it unfair that Indians needed a work visa while Europeans didn't). A Danish colleague who'd lived here for twenty years didn't even get to vote.

Paddington at the BAFTAs, but he’s doing Tony Montana’s ‘bad guy’ bit from Scarface.

🎶Old McDonald had the blues, E, A, E, A, B7 🎶

Watched 'Godzilla minus one' today and discovered that 'kamikaze' is the English translation of what the Japanese called these pilots. Are there any other borrowed foreign words in English that don't mean what we think they do in the original language?

Makes no sense

A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.

I'm sharing this here, as I have on Facebook and Instagram, but there's no account on here to share from, and I just think this is wonderful.

A really good balance of design and implementation, and appears to achieve everything it set out to do, and it *SO* appeals to my inner 'work nerd'.

And this is where you even need to translate between different regions of the UK. A northern twat is very different insult to a southern twat and much more likely to start a fight.

L'île St Louis, Paris

It's beginning to look a lot like Paris

Today is a very good day to get a wordle in one

Wordle 1,636 4/6

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I think we should replace Whamageddon and being whammed with being Rea-ended. Driving home for Christmas is an abomination. That is the one to be avoided.

Dick Advocaat is the head coach of the Curaçao football team, who will be the first ever alcoholic drink managed by an alcoholic drink to play at a World Cup finals.

Living In A Box singer Richard Darbyshire dies aged 65 The star scored three top 10 hits between 1987 and 1989 before launching a career as a songwriter.

I hope they check one last time before burying him.

I got very excited for a second there before seeing where it was. Please drag them back home to London for a show 🙏

Art imitating life. Which artwork character robbed the louvre?

As a foreign student I had a carte d'identité when I lived in France but only had to show it once when having some cans by the Garonne. The overseas French students (from Guadeloupe/Martinique) in my residence were stopped almost daily.

Which actor pays quickest in a Belfast restaurant?

Bill Nighy