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Fortunately we don't need to maintain a facade of politeness and good manners on this forum, so the passive-aggressive approach isn't very effective here.

Might be an idea to amend the topic title to include his name, so the search has a chance of picking it up. Not that I'm sure what his name is. Shaking? Shakin? Shakey? Shaky? etc etc

Agree. Saves all the hassle and expense of getting all your documents changed. And I could see someone whose own surname had been Wren retaining the name "Wren-Lewis".

Come on, you just made those names up, didn't you?

I've heard of hardly any of the people mentioned in that interview. Makes me feel quite young for once

His is the very first name mentioned in Post #1.

Only a fiver in Sainsburys. Pretty cool.

Nice as pie?

Or Coronation Street?

I think Gerald Harper is 91. Some sources give his YOB as 1931, but IMDB and others say 1929, which is what I found when I first looked him up.

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Has there been any DDP pick so far not to have had a QO, but featured on 'Last Word'?

"I think it’s safe to say 2020 has been an absolute fuck ball for most of us", she says. I quite like the sound of a "fuck ball". Sounds like fun

I have been to Wales. I have relatives who own a pub there.

Someone used that one on here the other day. What does it refer to? What is "the big one"?

Covid-19 really is killing the wrong people.

I've just been in town and was taken aback (literally) by the behaviour of several shop workers who just wouldn't give me space. One of them, in a massively spacious shop with no other customers anywhere near us, came right up face-to-face within a foot of me. I backed away, she kept advancing on me, I kept backing away until I nearly knocked over a display stand behind me. "Careful!" she said. "I'm TRYING to keep my distance," I said. She huffed and said, "Well, I'm wearing a double layer mask". It happened in several shops. You back away, and they keep coming at you. I despair.

Picture or not, the "pun" doesn't work in British English. Another example of the variations of our language. I didn't know that "resident" in US English had those connotations.

I never actually saw the offending tweet - so it was just "Meh" in response to someone asking his opinion? "i know you're not into metal david, but what's your opinion on eddie van halen?" So not referring to EVH's death at all. What a fuss about nothing.

I get that from the photo, but "resident" in British English is a general term for someone who lives in a given place. The residents of a town, village, block of flats, etc. It doesn't imply someone aged, or who cannot look after themself. We would say that the President of the USA is a resident of the White House.

That doesn't make much sense to me. Must be an American thing.