A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
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Better get the pork scratchings in, this could be a late one.
History starts with the written word, it ends if Trump becomes president.
Catholic priests have entered the chat.
A decent chunk of it.
Wonder no more.
what was covered in poop?
Sounds like him, the balcony, his room and wherever else his adventures took him.
believed to be from Blackburn
If you are looking for the digest version of the article.
I went to see it in the other week and it is still on at my local multiplex (6 screenings today).
The record is for World’s Largest GPS Cock & Balls Drawing on Foot, by an individual in a single attempt. So no cycling.
What makes it even more impressive is the elevation because he went from the lower landscape up to the heights of the Brecon Beacons (four Snowdon’s worth). Which is brutal. I know the area well and the hills aren’t easy even in a car.
So it would be possible to draw a larger one in the same time if you planned the route on the level but he is raising money for charity so it had to have more of a challenge.
It’s a wild idea but I doubt it’d catch on.
What would we call it? hallo-old-chum-you-fiend? my-good-friend-the-dishonourable-sir?
I say, that’s a bit much old thing!
They got shafted.
Not for the previous record holder.
There could be hundreds - one or two the size of a house but dozens of one-person inflatable planetariums.
In Labour’s election manifesto, Starmer said he would “end asylum hotels, saving the taxpayer billions of pounds”.
But not on day one, they need to hire and train more people to process the claims - it’ll pay for itself. The Tories not doing so seemed like deliberately creating a problem they could then utilise for their own ends.
This seems sensible:
Hawkins added that there was some argument to support the use of gene editing to create species better able to resist diseases. “However, in most cases, diseases are preventable through good housing, husbandry and care and veterinary surveillance. Directly editing animal genomes should be seen as a last resort,” she said.
Also, rather than genetically modifying cows to produce less methane, perhaps we should eat less cows. It feels like saying we can keep burning coal because we’ll develop carbon capture and storage.
A real inspiration and hard record to beat.
The university said it was “utterly heartbroken” and wanted the public to keep their eyes peeled for the inflatable.
The portable planetarium is roughly the size of a house and can fit 100 people inside.
It shouldn’t be difficult to miss then, although if I were the Plod I might go and visit the UK’s second largest inflatable planetarium.
I went to see Lindow Man at a bog bodies exhibition, an eerie sight.