Interactive map of all the worlds energy power grids supplies and connections
Resource hungry so switch off the layers at the side to prevent it grinding to a halt or different browser
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Turboesprit Volume knob, Thu 14 May 2026, 10:27,
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Local electrical engineers say it's good but not as accurate as they would like.
(, Sat 16 May 2026, 6:38, Reply)
Hello you cunt
Your AI slop is going to get mod blitzed by the way
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Fadgebadger Sweaty sumo wanks for everyone!, Thu 14 May 2026, 8:21,
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I hate to type this sentence this but...
AI would have done it better, wouldn't it?
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monkeon schmonkeon, Thu 14 May 2026, 11:25,
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https://astarlessarbalestformargaret1.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-ep
astarlessarbalestformargaret1.bandcamp.com/album/self-titled-ep
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Congratulations...
Its hard to imagine how this song could be made any worse, but you somehow managed it.
(, Thu 14 May 2026, 12:15, Reply)
It doesn't read or respond - it's just posting links to YT
in the hope that Google sees it and gets it shown to more people. Even though it doesn't work like that anymore.
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Thu 14 May 2026, 13:04,
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here's a pro-tip
if you want high youtube views, put the word "prostitutes" in the title.
years ago, before kids anchored us, the wife and I took a year off travelling, and she kept a travel blog. the accompanying youtube videos got views in the low thousands, not much more than the number of her facebook friends. Anyway, we took one cylcling through the red light district in amsterdam with a camera mounted on the handlebar. it's mostly shaky footage of the window whores covering up when they clock the camera, and at one stage a pimp or business associate chases us for bit, though it's mostly off camera. Nothing explicit or that impressive. I gave it a title like "prostitutes in the redlight district, amsterdam". Anyway, of all the vids this one was in the hundreds of thousands and kept racking up views for years until the algorithm seemed to forget it completely.
So you should be putting "mango dryer with prostitutes" etc, if you want those sweet views
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 14 May 2026, 22:56,
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Hey b3ta mods, why are you letting this bot spam this bullshit every day?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Thu 14 May 2026, 14:37,
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because this place really would be dead on its arse if they did
+ anything about it
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It's getting ridiculous now. It must have mod protection or something.
Every day more AI spam. Everyone hates it, ban it ffs.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Fri 15 May 2026, 18:29,
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A little bit more Fred
Dibnah this time, not right said.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 13 May 2026, 13:05,
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Ah. It's like that bird-in-a-bird delecacy. Fish up a fish.
Possible NSFW because of a manta ray cloaca
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Wed 13 May 2026, 9:16,
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Bollocks to salad.
If you can't dry my mangos just how I like them you can fuck right off.
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jonbob loves you, Wed 13 May 2026, 3:23,
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It's all about the knives nowadays
..we're definitely much safer than back then.
(, Fri 15 May 2026, 11:14, Reply)
Yes, I also have the problems outlined here.
Psychotherapist Sam, of Taboo Education - Let's Talk Death, describes and outlines the fallacy of American cultural systems.
I have always been a Contrarywise, a Heyoka, and have been targeted plenty. It's amazing what you can find, when you reinstall the OS, and when you turn off the Google login.
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CapnChkn I would rather be flying elephants., Tue 12 May 2026, 22:11,
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If it wasn't for the regularity of school shootings...
... the rest of the world wouldn't know the U.S. had an education system.
(, Wed 13 May 2026, 12:05, Reply)
This is basically the Marxist perspective,
which ordinarily immunises people against conspiracy theory and mindless nationalism, and which has been missing from American education and culture since the late 1940s and the advent of McCarthyism, and which is increasingly missing from British comprehensive education.
I mostly agree with everything this lady says, except for the obviously anti-American origin myth at the start, and the Australian right wing normative culture war bullshit at the end.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Wed 13 May 2026, 21:00,
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i reckon it must vary a lot from state to state
got a cousin in hawaii who brought up 3 daughters, seemed pretty decent there in the public system. They do get more shit about how good they are, though it wasn't so long ago British school kids got a lot of fairly uncritical empire stuff.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Thu 14 May 2026, 2:02,
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PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARP!!
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PedroHin Come along & ride on a Flantastic Voyage, Tue 12 May 2026, 12:50,
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a little more choke and it would have started
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 13:55,
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That's not a horse
that's a motorbike AICMFP
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Tue 12 May 2026, 14:06,
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I’ll have to use my imagination.
There’s no sound for me.
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jonbob loves you, Tue 12 May 2026, 16:45,
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I had the same
For me hitting pause then play sorted it.
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tarka_dall Like normal dall, only a bit more spicy, Tue 12 May 2026, 17:11,
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I can't even get the video to load
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Tue 12 May 2026, 20:19,
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There you go
xcancel.com/t.co/X4qPuwcBfi
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Wed 13 May 2026, 21:18,
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poor love, wind can hurt
My mind is convincing me that I can see it deflate
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simbosan is too tired, Tue 12 May 2026, 23:09,
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From the way they were massaging it
It looks like it might be colic, which can be fatal (poor thing)
Still sounded funny though, and I wouldn’t want to be in the line of fire!
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LP, Wed 13 May 2026, 21:42,
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Rather cool interactive Periodic Table
If you're into thst sorta thing or perhaps just looking for a quick interactive reminder on the differences between noble gases and inerts.
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Really odd that there's a link to navigate backwards through the list but not forwards.
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mofaha ┐( ˘_˘)┌ ʅ(́◡◝)ʃ, Tue 12 May 2026, 20:30,
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Flatland : the movie
An adaptation of the novel by Edwin A. Abbott
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 12 May 2026, 11:42,
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Flatland, flatland, flatland
A sad second to Belgium
When going abroad
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 12:10, Reply)
Boo Hoo
Exam didn't mimic how students had been coached to get top marks shocker.
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:12, Reply)
i was in the first year to do GCSE. We did the top maths paper and after opening the paper after a bit you could hear gasps and crying. It was way more difficult than the practice papers.
Also, 2 blokes sat there for the 90 mins or whatever and could answer virtually nothing. we all came out and said 'what are you doing here?' they would have struggled on the bottom level paper. they just saw some people they knew and followed them in...
In college the exams were in the sports hall, being a double height room the student bar was on the top floor with a window. one bloke gets up and leaves for a break, followed by the bloke who would be "Mr Withit" in Skool Daze. a few minutes later the both of them sit down with a pint at the window and smile at us.came back down after finishing their drinks
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 1:02, Reply)
I was too, the first exam we did was Geography and the first question had a grid reference that wasn't on the map.
Lots of very confused people not knowing what to do...
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antmulder Flick your icefloss, Tue 12 May 2026, 20:04,
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So the trained monkeys
didn't see their command words and didn't know what to do because they were learning by rote, and didn't actually understand the subject?
Sounds about right.
I remember for my exams I did almost the polar opposite. I have a terrible memory, but I found a trick which was to understand the basic principles of the subject, then I could use those to figure out the rest of the concepts during the exam. The wording of the question doesn't matter if you understand the subject. Einstein famously said he didn't bother to remember anything he could look up in a book, I assume anything simple enough to figure out from basic principles would be included in that.
I did great in logical subjects like maths and science where that was possible and terrible in memory based subjects like history or geography where the main thing tested was your memory.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Tue 12 May 2026, 10:52,
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I doubt you could deduce what a linear factor was if you hadn't been taught the term.
it has a specific intermediate form, and given 'linear' it might be easy to think you were being asked the real roots like the students did, as they are directly related expressions. And applying mathematical techniques to different problems isn't rote learning, though I agree maths teaching in my day was light on first principles, though looking at my daughters it has improved
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 14:33,
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My comment was more on the state of education than the students
If you teach people by rote and get them to repeat homework or an exam until they pass, you just make people who are using memory rather than understanding to pass. This is very fragile, and as soon as you change anything about the test they are like that ant in A Bug's Life who was irrevocably lost when an obstacle was in their path until they were guided round that specific obstacle.
Students are just as feckless now as they were in our day or Plato's. No better, no worse. It's how they were taught in this particular school that failed them IMO. I was in a few schools during my education (father in forces), and they all had quite different teaching methods, I suspect this instilled a more general understanding rather than the sometimes singular focus of any particular school.
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My Name was saying these words inside your head on, Wed 13 May 2026, 10:50,
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if it's true that the exam terminology differed significantly from syllabus
than this is a failing, either of teaching or exam setting, as you would expect the exam to be a test of the taught syllabus in mathematics.
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 14:15,
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^this
If you’re testing the pupil’s understanding of how to evaluate partial derivatives and they’re called partial derivatives in the syllabus, then don’t refer to them as fractional functions within the test.
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wheresthefish Partly filled with wrong, Tue 12 May 2026, 18:12,
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They needn't worry
The AI that is going to be doing the job they aspired to won't have had a problem.
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 14:38, Reply)
"command words" are a big deal in education these days
They tell you what sort of answer is being requested. They are effectively the instructions on how to answer the question, how long you need to spend on it.
"Explain" needs you to write an essay or proof - its a long form, thorough answer.
"State" needs just a list, or single short sentence.
If you can't imagine why the basic instructions of an exam being different and unfamiliar on the dsy might be stressful, then you're more autistic than me.
Or being a cunt on purpose.
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Invisible Wizard - 13th Level Scrote, Wed 13 May 2026, 8:23,
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RTÉ to air Father Ted Eurovision episode in boycott of song contest
Brilliant lol
(, Mon 11 May 2026, 22:09, Reply)
Turns out he’s pro israel and calling on the rte head to resign
I gave him a fair bit of slack as he was a great comedy writer, like maybe the trannie issue sent him a bit mental back when both sides were overly strident. But these things never seem to be pick’n’mix, it’s like a club you join where you have to take on everything. He’s probably antivax now too, father
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 1:57,
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really? weird take as both of those issues have the same monstering problem. "don't agree 100% with us? you're x (where x is a slur nice middle class people don't want)"
(, Tue 12 May 2026, 2:46, Reply)
this merely validates my point
if you adopt positions because they share strong leftwing opposition (or rightwing), rather than on some individual assessment of validity, you're essentially just joining a team. It's about identity and belonging (ironically so with Linehan as his whole position on trans is a rejection of identity as gender, something I partially agree with). And this is what I see played out all the time, once somebody identifies with a side they adopt all its positions. So it's rare to find, say, a Maga supporter that supports renewables, even if they were drawn to Trump for other reasons and had no views on it beforehand. It's their team now, and to reject one aspect is not to belong any more. Did lineham have a pro-israeli stance before being rejected from work and finding support among the alt-right crowd for this anti-trans stance? If he did he hasn't said boo about it until recently. Now he's "100% behind israel".
Llike I said, pick'n'mix seems to be increasingly rare, it's all-in or nothing: pro israel, global-warning denial, anti-vax, stolen election, pro-gun, anti-trans, anti-immigrant. Opposition to your views is taken as a challenge to defend your team, not a cause for introspection
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 3:38,
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He and Dana International should do the commentary
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Mudface The web isn't callipygian, Tue 12 May 2026, 8:20,
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Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist.
Terfs identify as terfs. I don't think he identifies as any kind of feminist any more, now he's a fully radicalised right wing moron.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 May 2026, 22:09,
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Terf is used as a slur
Is it better with your slur?
It won't let me post your slur.
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An Egg ,D, Tue 12 May 2026, 22:39,
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Who uses it as a slur though?
Maybe I'm out of touch with modern identity politics, but this is a very, very fucking niche bit of academia/activism culture as far as I'm aware. The kinds of people who'd use 'feminist' as a slur are generally not invested in those kinds of feminism & LGB-alphabet debates.
PS: What's my slur?
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Tue 12 May 2026, 23:32,
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one nil in extra time
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:25,
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you can't kick israel out
it has as much a right to be in Eurovision as Australia
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:25,
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Yeah figures
It's a redirect to this - www.spellingmistakescostlives.com/mandelsonforleader
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Zuowan, Mon 11 May 2026, 22:35,
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I am getting really, really bored with politics now.
Can they just all fuck off for a few months, do whatever they do, write a one-page summary of what's happened and I can just catch up with it then? The news cycle has gotten completely out of hand and it's such a monumental waste of my time.
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garold you're on mute I SAID YOU'RE ON MUTE, Mon 11 May 2026, 15:04,
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Hey you're catching on!
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Dave Trouser ; the people's choice - 75% agree, Mon 11 May 2026, 15:56,
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That Ted Turner has a lot to answer for.
And yet some people seem to think rolling news is actually a good thing.
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jonbob loves you, Mon 11 May 2026, 18:03,
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Also can they just not work Sundays and get off the radio and TV and keep their jobs to professional hours.
They may well have to work out of hours but just let us know during normal working hours during the week.
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hoppitygoestotown The temporal displacement occurred exactly, Mon 11 May 2026, 19:12,
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He'll be on again at 10 tomorrow
Labour ministers coordinating every 10 minutes, 78,79, 80 minutes, ...
How many for a loss of majority? How many for a vote of no confidence?
The Daily Mirror isn't backing him.
Lammy's out.
Raynor, out but tricky.
Etc.
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An Egg ,D, Tue 12 May 2026, 0:51,
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Guardian in wrong, yet so right headline?
If a violin player is falsely accused of being a sex offender, don't call him that…
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sinisterduck, Sun 10 May 2026, 1:53,
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What percentage of people trust and believe AI?
Is it 52%? I bet it is.
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brb Monkhouse Stampede, Sun 10 May 2026, 17:30,
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Well that’s clearly enough to change the entire basis of how we organise the country
(, Sun 10 May 2026, 21:34, Reply)
Constituency click
How well do you know the political geography of the UK?
I was killing it on 'hard' mode til Scotchland got brought into it.
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TownsendsPublisher is all gravy baby, Sat 9 May 2026, 10:16,
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Apparently Tynemouth isn't in Cornwall. Who knew?
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evil_andy Stick stick stick stick sticky sticky stick stick, Sat 9 May 2026, 10:28,
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the fig on the teign is all min
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cumquat may will not be commenting further on the allegations, Sun 10 May 2026, 0:59,
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Most people North of Birmingham, I would have thought.
If it was Tyneside would you have got it?
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jonbob loves you, Sat 9 May 2026, 17:11,
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Remember to correctly pronounce it as Tiny side and Wee-er
It may be a small area but they are a proud people, the BeeGees*
*not to be confused with the band, The Geordies
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