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Celebrity Italian Gino D'acampo was sentenced to 2 years in jail for burglary of the house of 80s singer Paul Young in 1998
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Did he claim ownership on the basis of having left a hat there.
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Cake is just weakness entering the body2 -
He must have worried after that every time he goes away.
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He had his big break when he appeared on Ready Steady Crook.
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"Our foreign wars ceased....the desolation of our island... remained in the minds of those who were eyewitnesses."
Those memories encouraged leaders to act wisely & in the public interest. "But when these had departed out of this world, & a new race succeeded, who were ignorant of this troublesome time, & had only experience of the present prosperity, all the laws of truth & justice were so shaken and subverted, that not so much as a vestige or remembrance of these virtues remained."
Gildas, a 5th century Welsh monk, writing about Britain. Pretty accurate.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition3 -
Apparently as a result, Paul Young lost recordings that featured his deceased wife. :(
I was never a fan of G D'C before I knew this, but its fair to say he's never going to improve his rating with me. PY seems pretty decent about it though.
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Who is Gino from the field? Some soshul meejah inflooencer? And no I ain't googling... got better things to do with my life, like tapping out this on a random website... oh hang on 🤔
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He's a TV chef with a bit of a restaurant chain.
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He’s also North of the borders star chef’s mate or nemesis depending where said chef’s ego is at that time.
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Gone fishin'....
So how do you turn your bites into $? Maybe I need some advice from B Trumpetman...
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The lion on a tin of Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup is dead
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
^ Away, I knew that in my primary school days. Which is prob the last time I ate such stuff. It's on the tin, innit.
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The quote is from the Riddle of Samson, Judges 14. Apparently people used to believe that bees spontaneously emerged from the carcasses of dead animals.
A bit like they thought barnacle geese hatched from barnacles.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Which would kind of make sense for a tin of honey. A very odd choice of logo, even more now that I have read the equally odd bible story relating to it.
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If you'd asked me what the logo was I'd have 100% said lion...never occurred to me that it was a dead one.
“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
You don’t put on your porridge when it’s going to be a big ride day.
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There are all sorts of ancient stories connecting bees with dead bodies. There's even a word for it: Bugonia.
Lyle was deeply religious so not that surprising that he picked an Old Testament image for his product which was originally just a filtered by product given to employees.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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And why ever not?!
seanoconn - gruagach craic!0 -
Can't have a rotting dead lion on packaging now because of woke.
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That was meant as question not telling loon what not to do.
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Well, you can. It's staying on the tin, but they are trying a different logo on the squeezy plastic packaging.
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That the Romans first tried to get the calendar year back in synch with the solar year by inserting a 13th month, Mercedonius, of 27 or 28 days, after 23 February every couple of years.
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Squeezy plastic packaging should definitely go in the trivially annoying thread.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
Part of the anti-growth coalition0 -
It's only annoying if you buy it. Well, I suppose it's almost unavoidable for stuff like washing-up liquid and shampoo, but I've not got any for food.
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Can't remember where I put the post about having a live feed of Powerpoint slides during a concert... anyway, progress...
Thanks to help from a work friend, the answer is Powerpoint Live *from the web version of Powerpoint*. I wasted some time trying to make it work from the desktop version. I tried the online version with two friends, and the slides change with no lag at the recipients' end. Hurrah.
However, each time you start a session, the URL and QR code changes, which makes it impractical for pre-printing the QR code in the programme.
So...
I now have been learning about dynamic QR codes (whereby you can edit the URL the code directs the browser to) and have registered with QR Chimp which gives a few free dynamic QR codes that I can play around with. And I think I've got someone who's tech savvy and can read an orchestral score who could do the PPT thing and edit the QR code on the night once the PPT session has been opened.
I like learning new stuff like this.
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You can just pay a few quid and get a fixed QR code. They're not expensive.
1985 Mercian King of Mercia - work in progress (Hah! Who am I kidding?)
Pinnacle Monzonite
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Thank god. More brands should try rotting corpses as a logo.
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Distant friend of mine has two kids with CF. The issue with that drug is cost. It's about 300k a year I believe.
Can you get it on the NHS?
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