猫好きな人
Briton in Japan
🗣️🇬🇧🇯🇵🇷🇺🆗, learning 🇺🇦
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- It’s the 317th anniversary of the first night of Appius and Virginia, by John Dennis, at Drury Lane. It’s not what you might call a widely remembered piece of theatre, but the play did give rise to one of the best known phrases in the English language. Well, according to legend, anyway... 🧵
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- Many thanks for the fascinating thread. I have to be honest: I’m kind of disappointed it has such a literal origin. I’d rather it had been a fresh image from a poem or play.
- fish sauce and chili peppers are her go-to for inflexible ingredients? really?
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- I can confirm I am not one of those better cooks! 😂
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- The spending power of slightly-off middle aged men.
- lmao look who's testifying in congress today
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- Well, obsessed at least. He’s become so fixated on “sissy porn” he thinks it’s the source of all transness.
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- Ah - got you. Still, no proper jalapeños would have put a dampener on how I cooked daily in the UK. (I now have a seasonal fresh supply from local growers in Japan. Shops only sell them incredibly rarely - I used to celebrate when I found them)
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- His U-turn on trans rights was shocking. This is the man supposedly stunned into offended silence by Sunak’s anti-trans joke in the commons. A year later, he’s presiding over the de facto withdrawal of trans health in the NHS and appointed a transphobe to the EHRC against committee guidance.
- it's extremely funny (in a cosmic sense) how that guy was like "yes marchini & stancil need to fear for their lives, I am completely serious", just in general, but particularly given apparently that's not a bannable offense on bluesky dot app. more permissive mod policy than kiwifarms on here
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- Yeah, each time there’s a jump, the decline gets shallower. It’s partly dependent on whatever’s happening in Muskovy.
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- They refused to specify which test, contradicted themselves about which test, made what look like false claims about the lab it was done in, and the Olympic authorities called foul on the management of the process. Which would chime with a spur of the moment decision.
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- They're both AFP, so the translation I assume is reliable
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- If this is his idea of commitment, his new wife ought to be worried
