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Jamie Douglass

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PR chap, martial arts enthusiast, oenophile, occasional musician & fanatical book-lover. Tweed and corduroy are the original performance fabrics

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Jamie Douglass

Ha yes, they had cordage! But then the ‘moral of the story’ is rarely the moral of the story. EG anyone who knows anything about slings will tell you the moral of “David&Goliath” is not necessarily “even the little guy can be victorious with God on his side” but “superior military technology wins”

Giles Wilkes

There's a lot of reference to the Icarus myth recently, and people always assume the moral of the story is "don't fly too close to the sun". I think it should be "wtf are you doing using WAX for a job like that FFS?"

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Jamie Douglass

Duncan's post has been up 8m and three people have already referenced this entirely independently. It is possible Yes Minister is deeply woven into our national fabric

Tom Roberts

And Heart listeners don't care who runs the country, as she long as she's got bi-*hook drags me off stage*

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Jamie Douglass

*Salted* Caramel getting 5x the votes of Caramel probably tells us something, not sure what

YouGov

YouGov's latest scoop: vanilla is Britain's favourite ice cream flavour Vanilla: 18% Mint choc chip: 14% Chocolate: 13% Strawberry: 5% Salted caramel: 5% Rum and raisin: 5% Pistachio: 4% Coffee: 3% Raspberry ripple: 3% yougov.com/en-gb/articl...

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Jamie Douglass

I once did a fairly detailed quiz on "what type of coffee drinker are you" and it concluded I just like caffeine. I have a suspicion my "summer reading list" will reveal a fairly cognate attitude

Neon Genesis Ewangelion

this piece is absolutely amazing. whole lot of words to say nothing new. i actually love it www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Jamie Douglass

Had half-guessed where this was and am....delighted? deflated?...to say I was spot on

Paul Clarke

A salad, an open sandwich (piece of bread with some chicken on), 1 cup of tea, 1 apple juice, 1 pastel. £54. IN A STATION CAFE. London, I am finally done with eating out ever again. My Iranian beans and the 3.95 saino's sarnie lunch deal are all I need. Go out of business, all of you. It's over.

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Jamie Douglass

I do, and they're mostly about animals. My stance on accessorising your pocket square to your tie is very, very strongly held, but even I would struggle to call it an ethos

Zach Weinersmith

Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?

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Jamie Douglass

For three minutes, we had a sense of patriotic unity that could have re-taken Calais

Jamie Douglass

Given we regularly discuss whether an alternative national anthem is required, and what it would be, I feel I should report that in this Corfiot hotel the DJ just played “Mr Brightside” and every single Brit, tho strangers all, went FULL ON BATSHIT, while everyone else looked on, bemused

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Jamie Douglass

Given we regularly discuss whether an alternative national anthem is required, and what it would be, I feel I should report that in this Corfiot hotel the DJ just played “Mr Brightside” and every single Brit, tho strangers all, went FULL ON BATSHIT, while everyone else looked on, bemused

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Jamie Douglass

Went from YMCA to Bailando to Can’t Take My Eyes Off Of You. This is Dadaist djing. Poststructuralist anarchodjing. It’s ART

Rachel Cunliffe

In non-Odyssey news, the DJ tonight has now segued from Money For Nothing, to Say A Little Prayer For You, to Play That Funky Music White Boy, to Don’t Stop Me Now, to September, to Shut Up And Dance With Me… to SOS by ABBA. To say we are getting musical whiplash is an understatement

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Jamie Douglass

Just redeemed himself with a perfect segue. Admittedly this was from “Rock DJ” to “Gettin’ Jiggy With It” which may lead some to reflect that this is an interesting *new* use of the word “perfect”

Rachel Cunliffe

In non-Odyssey news, the DJ tonight has now segued from Money For Nothing, to Say A Little Prayer For You, to Play That Funky Music White Boy, to Don’t Stop Me Now, to September, to Shut Up And Dance With Me… to SOS by ABBA. To say we are getting musical whiplash is an understatement

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Jamie Douglass

“Segued” here is doing a lot of heavy lifting. “Just started playing, simultaneously, regardless of key, tempo or mood” would be less charitable but more technically accurate

Rachel Cunliffe

In non-Odyssey news, the DJ tonight has now segued from Money For Nothing, to Say A Little Prayer For You, to Play That Funky Music White Boy, to Don’t Stop Me Now, to September, to Shut Up And Dance With Me… to SOS by ABBA. To say we are getting musical whiplash is an understatement

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Jamie Douglass

Okay linguistics chaps and chapesses (mostly thinking @dannybate.com here but all welcome): is there an English cognate to the Greek “Opa!”or the Spanish “Olé!”?

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Jamie Douglass

Lieutenant Commander Thomas Woodroffe

Nanoraptor

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

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Jamie Douglass

Roger Allam. It’s not even a question

Nanoraptor

You suddenly get a narrator describing your life and there’s no way to turn it off - everyone can hear it. While shopping, at work, at home, with friends - the voice narrating your every move goes on. Who do you hope is the voice of this narrator?

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Jamie Douglass

Going on holiday so I am being VERY RESTRAINED and NOT wading into an argument where someone's written something either extremely ignorant or willfully misleading about one of my pet topics and is using their authority in a totally different field to arrogate it in this. I am VERY PROUD OF MYSELF

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