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17 Jun, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Me in this Port tasting. columbo in any port in a storm
Progress so far Two glasses on a port tasting sheet
We're slowly getting older. single harvest Tawny ports all they way! Close up of port bottles
When I die, pickle me in a 1994 Colheita.
Time for the final boss port. 1974 colheita
Port tasting. How to justify getting twatted on a Thursday if you're middle class. Loooooads of port bottles.

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17 Jun
I have a theory about classical music, which is that if you didn't grow up with it then it doesn't really grab you until later in life.

Not until the point where life, loves and loses fills the lyrical gap. Then BANG! The emotional of it all hits you hard. And you fall in love.
Of course I'm also smashing a lot of Port right now so take the previous tweet with a significant amount of salt.
Also, this has reminded me of when I used to drink in Janet's Bar down South Ken.

There used to be this world famous violinist who'd come in every now and again. But I didn't know that. Because he was modest as fuck and so I just assumed he was a general orchestra guy.
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17 Jun
Greg Tongue is an ageing master carpenter with no family of his own. Daz Groove is an inner city delinquent who just wants to be given a fresh start.

A chance meeting in B&Q may just change both their lives in ways they never expected.

Tongue & Groove.

A Netflix Original.
Almost, but not quite.

"For Want of a Nail" was the spin off show, featuring cheeky fellow chippy 'Geordie', played by Jimmy Nail.

Jimmy took its theme tune "For Want of a Nail" to number 4 in the charts. You're right that the dance remix made no. 1.
In the original Tongue & Groove, Greg Tongue was played by Dennis Waterman. He recorded the theme tune, "Just Another Rough Cut", but it barely bothered the charts (peaking at number 45).

Michael Sheen is playing Gregg in the Netflix remake. Not sure if he's singing the theme.
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17 Jun
I hereby propose we expand the HTTP response status codes. Specifically, client responses.

HTTP 470: An SEO agency told us to do this
HTTP 471: They asked for this news section but you can ignore it. This will never get updated.
HTTP 472: This is a "meet the team" skip it. /1
HTTP 473: Marketing won't let us make this page a 404. They shout 'GOOGLE JUICE' whenever we try
HTTP 474: We legally have to have this page, but we kinda don't want people to actually find it
HTTP 475: CEO asked for this one. Put it at the top for any IPs with a matching range
HTTP 476: Nobody knows who owns this page. Please don't show it to people
HTTP 477: This page is owned by someone the web team dislikes. Downrank with extreme prejudice
HTTP 478: This page has good cat pictures on it
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15 Jun
Okay. This gives me an excuse for a quick thread:

WW2 ended 75 years ago, but you still won't find service records online. Let's talk about why, when you're likely to see them (sooner than you think), and how I hope they'll change some public perceptions about conflict. /1
So first off, service records are OBVIOUSLY personal data. But that doesn't explain why they're not easily searchable without specific individual or next of kin permission.

Because they're official government documents and subject to the Grigg system.
Now I'm not going to go into the Grigg system heavily, but short version:

In the 1950s, James Grigg was asked to come up with a system for classification and releasing public records. He did. It's still (mostly) unchanged today. More background here: nationalarchives.gov.uk/documents/info…
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15 Jun
I get amused when frothers talk about moral decline.

When I dig into ancestry for someone, I always warn them they might not like what comes back.

Trust me: Your ancestors were just as lusty, just as naughty, and just as gay as today.

They just weren't allowed to talk about it
And to be honest, I always find that both occasionally uplifting AND super sad.

You get very good at reading between the lines and seeing the relationships that existed, and which families found ways to work into a loving narrative, but also relationships never allowed to be.
You also see who has been a very, very bad lad (or lass) and frantically moved half way across the country in order to restart their life somewhere else.

Sometimes inventing half their family history in the process.

There's a few of these in my own family history.
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14 Jun
That second Czech goal was what used to happen in FIFA 95 when you forgot you had goalkeepers set to manual.
Scotland: the only team you can deliberately score against by using the A button.
Right. Have whatsapped Steve Clarke. Told him to sit down and let me take this one. FIFA 95 was my e-Sports peak.

I've told him: get the players to shoot on the diagonal from the corner of the box. The Czech keeper won't have the right animations to be able to save it.
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