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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 1d

Crikey!

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 1d

Thoughts - is a car park where people who need the accessible space can only park for 3 hours regardless of payment but people who don't can park for as long as they like discriminatory?

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 1d

I love how one of the symptoms of nerve agent poisoning is listed as "involuntary fecal incontinence" which suggests the existence of "voluntary fecal incontinence"

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 1d

Anyone got good FOI knowledge? Does a request need to be made to a specific point of contact within an organisation or any of their points of contact?

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 2d

I wonder if the Berlin Brigade camouflage would work?

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 4d

I do love Pat's line "I didn't know this was the thing!" with pregnant Bandit. Such a useful line

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 9d

Most splendid

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 10d

Good to know the commute I make as a wheelchair user is impossible then. Green Park is wrong as there's no step free access to the jubilee line. You can't get to and from the Northern Line at Waterloo. Circle and District aren't step free at Westminster

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 10d

Is there a version that shows the High Barnet branch of the Northern Line?

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 14d

Yes, the very manual nature of the current system provides a level of security due to how convoluted the process would be. More automation makes interrogation much easier

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 15d

I've run polling stations a few times. The number on the ballot paper is recorded against the electoral roll by hand. The two are kept separate throughout the process. They can be reconciled if there's an allegation of fraud but v hard to search

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 15d

Different trusts in different regions with different systems definitely hasn't helped

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 15d

Got to track down a referral from one clinic to another that appears to have vanished. More soul-sapping disability admin

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 17d

Yes, like a switch suddenly people are in arctic mode

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 17d

On the tube yesterday there was someone in a big Canada Goose coat and I did wonder how they weren't on fire

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 18d

Border terrier on the tube klaxon! My commute is already better

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 18d

Me on the way to the rapture.

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 18d

I've regularly made coffee in a similar manner

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 23d

Also, my chair is not to be used for anyone else, I'm looking at you hospitals.

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26d

Weevils or very active currants

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26d

I imagined it like a river island like the eyots in the Thames rather than like in Paris. Definitely pays to be polite to rivers, trees and bridges

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 26d

Spooky literature folks, I've just had a memory bubble up of a tale about a chap camping on an island in a river, probably in northern Europe, that's posessed/sentient and he struggles to escape. Has an M R James feel but not sure it was his. Radio 4 did a dramatisation. Would love to find it again

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 28d

Galley Hill is intrinsically linked to the battery OP location in my head thanks to Spike Milligan

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OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · 29d

One of the issues with the Airtours fire at Manchester was people weren't expecting the over wing exit doors to come inwards and that delayed egress

OneOffDave @oneoffdave.bsky.social · Sep 11

Or get day-glo ones and revive that 80s look

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