I post as me. It really isn't that deep.
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“And it is a mark of a tyrant to have men of foreign extraction rather than citizens as guests at table and companions, feeling that citizens are hostile but strangers make no claim against him.”
Aristotle
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Nought originates from the Old English word nōwiht or nāwiht, which translates literally to "no whit" (meaning "no thing" or "not anything"). It is a variant of the word naught. Giving rise to common words like "nothing" and "not"
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Simon gustard retweeted
Your steam engine is British.
Your Industrial Revolution is British.
Your railway is British.
Your underground railway is British.
Your modern railway timetable is British.
Your suspension bridge is British.
Your iron bridge is British.
Your modern lighthouse is British.
Your marine chronometer is British.
Your global time standard is British.
Your time zone starts at Greenwich.
Your telephone is Scottish.
Your television is Scottish.
Your radar is British.
Your jet engine is British.
Your tank is British.
Your programmable computer is British.
Your World Wide Web is British.
Your fibre-optic communications were pioneered by a Briton.
Your modern telecommunications network was transformed by British inventors.
Your antibiotics are Scottish.
Your vaccination programme was pioneered by an Englishman.
Your modern nursing profession is British.
Your public sanitation system is British.
Your modern sewerage system is British.
Your clean drinking water infrastructure was pioneered by Victorian Britain.
Your weather forecast is British.
Your life boat service is British.
Your modern fire service was pioneered in Britain.
Your parliamentary democracy is British.
Your constitutional monarchy is British.
Your common law is British.
Your independent judiciary is British.
Your trial by jury is British.
Your presumption of innocence is British.
Your habeas corpus is British.
Your rule of law is British.
Your modern police force is British.
Your modern civil service is British.
Your modern banking system was shaped in Britain.
Your central banking model was shaped by the Bank of England.
Your stock exchange model was pioneered in London.
Your global insurance market was built at Lloyd's of London.
Your international maritime law was shaped by Britain.
Your global trade routes were mapped by Britain.
Your anti-slavery patrols were British.
Your modern university model was influenced by Oxford and Cambridge.
Your scientific societies were pioneered by Britain.
Your peer-reviewed science was advanced by British institutions.
Your laws of motion are English.
Your theory of evolution is English.
Your economics is Scottish.
Your electromagnetism was transformed by a Scot.
Your geology was pioneered by Scots.
Your thermodynamics was advanced by Britons.
Your stainless steel is British.
Your carbon fibre is British.
Your steam turbine is British.
Your hovercraft is British.
Your ATM is British.
Your cash machine is Scottish.
Your postage stamp is British.
Your modern postal system is British.
Your football is English.
Your rugby is British.
Your golf is Scottish.
Your tennis was codified in Britain.
Your badminton was codified in Britain.
Your cricket is English.
Your worldwide language is English.
Your newspapers were shaped by Britain.
Your global news agencies were pioneered by Britain.
Your public broadcasting model is British.
Your music charts are British.
Your modern popular music owes a great deal to Britain.
Your neighbour may be an immigrant.
But a fair chunk of the modern world is British.
Pull yourself together.
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It is important to share the people who mean so much.
This youtuber is in quite a niche interest - The Combat Mission series of games.
He makes brilliant videos that make a very mechanically deep and sometimes overly obtuse game enjoyable.
Watch him.
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Simon gustard retweeted
''He could be Sudanese and not Somali.''
As if anyone gives a fuck these days.
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Imagine the levels of propaganda it took to make you more comfortable with random beheadings and gang rapes than being called racist.
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"When the gatekeeper notices that, he laughs and says: “If it tempts you so much, try it in spite of my prohibition. But take note: I am powerful. And I am only the most lowly gatekeeper. But from room to room stand gatekeepers, each more powerful than the other."
Franz Kafka
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Simon gustard retweeted
Well respect to you too, but in combat when a bloke said he was hit I tended to believe him and not the bloke who shot him.
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It is important to share the people who mean so much.
Some of the best documentary makers on YouTube.
Their content is well made, interesting, level and most of all FREE-Watch them, appreciate the work.
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Great prices and always worth it good weather or bad.
Some of the happiest and friendliest volunteers. Simon's a great bloke (not biased i swear)
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It is important to share the people who mean so much.
A man who was a key part of a lot our childhoods/adulthoods
His youtube represents an honest, good man giving great advice.
Sincere, true love of something will become the real currency. youtube.com/@GardeningWithAl…
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Понапрасну ни зло,
Ни добро не пропало,
Все горело светло,
Только этого мало.
(Nothing evil was lost,
Nothing good was in vain,
All ablaze with clear light
But there has to be more.)
Arseny Tarkovsky
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