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Happy #NationalRobinDay 🙂 #surreyhillsphotography @WildlifeTrusts @Natures_Voice @WoodlandTrust @BirdPOTY pic.twitter.com/AOpe2dPBz2
— Jon Hawkins (@SurreyHillsPhot) December 21, 2017
To clarify David Davis's position: the latest is that he only said he'd resign if Green was sacked for looking at porn. Green was sacked for lying about looking at porn. Davis, a man of infinite subtleties, won't be resigning.
— Paul (@PaulOnBooks) December 21, 2017
https://twitter.com/TVsCarlKinsella/status/943430107414360065
Spare a thought for poor Nigel. This sad man is stuck in his multimillion pound townhouse after 18 years trapped on a Brussels gravy train he hates with just a £73,000 EU pension to keep him from penury in the future pic.twitter.com/FFMXbRTH0U
— Ian Birrell (@ianbirrell) December 16, 2017
To clarify David Davis's position: the latest is that he only said he'd resign if Green was sacked for looking at porn. Green was sacked for lying about looking at porn. Davis, a man of infinite subtleties, won't be resigning.
— Paul (@PaulOnBooks) December 21, 2017
On Oxford Street, shopping. I find it amazing that some people do not believe in a literal hell.
— Giles Fraser (@giles_fraser) December 21, 2017
Why I live in Britain.
No one in any other country would come close to understanding this.(via @MarkHeardman, @NoelEdmonds) pic.twitter.com/baAVgwpFM9
— Jeremy Vine (@theJeremyVine) December 21, 2017
Don’t worry, I’ve got this. https://t.co/Fa1gUkVys5
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) December 21, 2017
You: “Only three days until Christmas!”
Your body: “Here, have a cold!”
— VeryBritishProblems (@SoVeryBritish) December 22, 2017
https://twitter.com/martinjguk/status/943481432000880646
People with higher incomes generally prefer their loo paper to unravel over the roll, while those with lower incomes prefer it to go under.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 20, 2017
Nick Clegg once did community service for setting fire to a rare cactus collection while drunk on a school trip.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 20, 2017
Erm…TOTALLY acceptable answer.
'Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: "What! You too? I thought I was the only one."'
-C.S. Lewis https://t.co/A9PD2hAkNN— Waterstones (@Waterstones) December 20, 2017
Just to say; thanks to everyone suggesting a Loser of Losers Taskmaster speicial; excellent to see people enjoying people’s failures. Definitely healthy.
— Alex Horne (@AlexHorne) December 19, 2017
This is absolutely appalling. Trees made uninhabitable to birds – for the sake of car parking 😠 https://t.co/beuXUimZxQ
— The Green Party (@TheGreenParty) December 19, 2017
The first plastic artificial Christmas trees were produced by a toilet brush manufacturer using the same bristles, they just dyed them green.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 19, 2017
Be patient when it gets weird. The angels explained things to Joseph after he'd talked to Mary, not before.
— Bob Goff (@bobgoff) December 18, 2017
you'd be amazed at how many crime writers have never even murdered ONE person. https://t.co/pYwW3f6qZg
— Gavia Baker-Whitelaw (@Hello_Tailor) December 18, 2017
In 2004, the Church of England General Synod replaced ‘wise men’ with ‘Magi’ in the prayerbook because ‘the visitors were not necessarily wise nor necessarily men.’
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 19, 2017
READERSHIP: And the comment of the day is… pic.twitter.com/lBzYKEn81O
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) December 15, 2017
https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1/status/942833049707925504
Pigeons don’t bob their heads if they are walking on a treadmill.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 18, 2017
Here we have two pomegranate robins discussing if Die Hard counts as a Christmas film. pic.twitter.com/J9Z9WXRig4
— innocent drinks (@innocent) December 17, 2017
https://twitter.com/jamescaan/status/944129275321602049
https://twitter.com/historyinflicks/status/943120222709583872
— Dr. MikeW PhD, DSc, #FBPE, (@mikerwatts) December 23, 2017
Parents all over the country are excited this weekend for the return of their own personal IT departments.
— Pundamentalism (@Pundamentalism) December 23, 2017
Then, if I remember the story right, she’s visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future…https://t.co/ormjfTtt8Q
— David Schneider (@davidschneider) December 22, 2017
I live in hope that the presence of Farage and Trump in the public eye are just @DaveGorman jokes which have got slightly out of hand.
— H (@HusX2) December 22, 2017
Great map of U.K. river basins. pic.twitter.com/mpzjB8gpZG
— KAndrew (@KAndrew20) December 14, 2017
https://twitter.com/DadJokeMan/status/941735452742176769
The past tense of "snow" used to be "snew". pic.twitter.com/6XAiDmlSzP
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 17, 2017
Does anyone apart from the Queen wear a headscarf for other than religious reasons?
— Richard Coles (@RevRichardColes) December 17, 2017
The M25 was so popular when it opened that people from Norfolk booked bus rides around it.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 17, 2017
No US President has served with a full beard since 1893.
— Quite Interesting (@qikipedia) December 16, 2017
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