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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 13h

I think you've identified a marketing gap. There must, surely, be a strong ABV beer called "DUAL IPA" by now

update: I checked, there is: www.nakedwines.co.uk/products/dev...

Dual IPA

.

www.nakedwines.co.uk

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 13h

given there's still two hours to go, I'm not sure how much I'd be happy to risk on it still being both of them doing the same event by 7...

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 14h

no, no, no, WEDNESDAY

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 14h

there is some truth to the fact that things we refer to as Americanisms can sometimes be linguistic fossils from pre-c.18th English (eg they went over with the Puritans and stuck, whereas they were phased out of British English) - 'gotten' and 'fall' were both pre-c.18th English usage. But not all.

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

"linguisticaly" [sic] and "Americanisim" [sic] are just bait, right?

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

"ah, I see, like 'The Falkland Islands'?"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

I therefore assume s/he has also blocked "the French"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 15h

similar but different, I make a cup of tea, realise it's too hot to drink and still make the 0743, put a lot of cold water in, and down it, in one, standing at the sink.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

excuse me may i threaten you with a good time

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

yes, I can't take full credit for that one. Morgan Phillips, wasn't it?

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

Looking him up, he was born in my home town, his parents were the same religion as my grandparents, we had a horribly similar education, frankly I think you're all jolly lucky I can't do magic* (although I do like a weird hat)

*either.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

...and all centred on one guy who is mostly in it for the profile

(I deliberately glossed over Catholicism as there are just too many flavours)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 16h

oh, there's a whole book to be written about which denominations are which parties, too. For my money, pre-2019 conservatives are CofE, Labour broadly Methodism, Lib Dems probably Quakers, Greens are born-again evangelicals, Your Party are the type of evos who believe in demonic possession

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

There you go, fixed it for you

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

I see it's another big day for "why oh why won't the government do the policy I think is great even though it's been disastrous every time its been tried", the candida albicans of political discourse

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 18h

@henrygjeffreys.bsky.social wrote a great piece on this recently; basically, they do drink as soon as they can afford to.

But yes, I can totally buy that about ending earlier. Everything does. Try getting something to eat - even in central london - much after nine on a weekday

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

yeah can't help thinking the complete disappearance of education spending after the early 20s is....probably correlated in some way to our much-discussed "need to upskill"?

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

this is a BRILLIANT fact

Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22h

Thing I just learned. “Lede” as in “bury the lede” is a deliberate misspelling of “lead”. It’s part of a lexicon of misspellings used for annotations by journalists and subs so that notes on copy are removed, rather than included in the body of the text by accident. Others include “dek” and “hed”.

Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 19h

I do the politeness ratchet

"this isn't great" (I like you)
"this was suboptimal" (I am neutral)
"It was disappointing that" (I don't like you)

Once started an email with "It was perhaps somewhat unfortunate..." and heard a colleague say "oh shit, Jamie's declaring war"

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

(Suspect I’ve posted this before. Favourite overlap fact)

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 1d

Samuel Beckett, Salvadore Dali, and Emperor Hirohito all lived until 1989 and could have been really into the Happy Mondays.

If any of them, my money’s on Hirohito.

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

I saw a bar of "Dubai chocolate" on sale for £11.99 recently, and I assumed it was a euphemism, or at least under-recognised street slang, as well.

But no, just has bits in, apparently.

rattatatouille @rattatatouille.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, there's a reason all those Instagram influencers get flown out to the Gulf states, and it's not just pictorials.

(This is also why I thought "Dubai chocolate" was a euphemism for something until recently)

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General Boles @generalboles.bsky.social · 2d

"I'm in the main hall......no you shouldn't have any problems finding me" #CPC25

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

One of those stories that gets better and better by the line

Jorge A. Caballero, MD @datadrivenmd.social · 3d

"A Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 secret mistresses has been exposed after some of the women found out about each other and nearly came to blows."

Peruvian bishop accused of having 17 lovers exposed by cleaning lady

Ciro Quispe López has handed in his notice to Pope Leo after an investigation by the Vatican over claims he had a string of lovers including a nun

www.thetimes.com

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Jamie Douglass @jamesldouglass.bsky.social · 2d

I'd mind less if they were the generation who'd actually done it themselves, but the youngest person who did national service must be 82 at least

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