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Richard Ember retweeted
One of the saddest 9/11 stories I've read about.
A man on the West Side of the North Tower tried to climb down the side of the building using a technique known as a ''chimney climb.''
He managed to scale down 9 floors over the course of 30-40 minutes. He went down from the 94th floor to the 85th floor but was knocked off when the South Tower collapsed.
Indomitable human spirit. I wish we knew his name.
Richard Ember retweeted
Flyglarm ljuder i Gaza och alla bärarna tar skydd och även den döde på båren flyr, för han vill ju inte dö på riktigt.
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This video is from Jordan in March 2020, not Gaza. Young men staged a fake funeral to evade Covid lockdown rules. When a police siren sounded, they dropped the stretcher and ran — including the person pretending to be dead.
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Batting in glasses and without a cap that later beach is trademark, even when bowling, today August 17th is the anniversary of Sir @GeoffreyBoycott scoring his first test century at The Oval against an Aussie attack featuring ‘Garth’ McKenzie and Neil Hawke.
Richard Ember retweeted
Pretty clear message from the chair of the Labour Party. The “distraction” of a democracy is now behind us. Now it’s time for the regulatory state to take control of matters #Clacton 👇
Richard Ember retweeted
This sounds like a typical "Irish" joke, but it's true:
The Irish Government bought a new €53m jet.
And insisted on removing an Israeli-made navigational system.
Now it can't land in the fog 🤣🤣🤣
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What a dreadful old harpy she is. The British did more to abolish slavery than any other country.
Go and do something useful, you silly person.
Today I visited Cape Coast Castle. Seeing the horrific conditions that thousands of people were kept in, it is impossible not to feel the weight of the immense evil that drove the transatlantic slave trade.
I pray not only in lament for the Church’s involvement in the slave trade, but also for hope - hope that the God of healing can bring justice and reconciliation to all who are still impacted by its legacy.
In the name of Jesus Christ, who came to set people free, I pray that we have the courage to continue our journey of repentance, and to strive for a world in which all of God's children are treated with dignity.
I have seen this on virtually every transatlantic flight I have been on.
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Watching USA game. Half time on @FOXSoccer Half time and Thierry Henry and @Ibra_official are wondering who @AlexiLalas is and what he is doing there. Hilarious tv.
I see a lot of you in the UK complaining about the ITV punditry for the World Cup.
But spare a thought for us over here where @FOXSoccer will subject us to 6 weeks of @AlexiLalas , the must self-obsessed, pointless pundit on tv. And there is nothing we can do about it.
Richard Ember retweeted
So the Lord's pitch has now disintegrated to the point it is no longer fit to play test match cricket. We hear a lot about the decline and collapse of western civilisation. Surely this is the tipping point. Our generation's Fall of Khartoum.
Richard Ember retweeted
I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
Richard Ember retweeted
Muhammad de Pakistán le dio el divorcio a su esposa porque el pollo que ella preparó tenía demasiada sal.
Luego se arrepintió y quiso volver con ella, pero según la ley islámica ella debía hacer halala (casarse con otro hombre) antes.
Ella se negó y él comenzó a golpearla.
