@baekdal Happily, for once, the linguistic infection is going back the other way, too… wsj.com/articles/peppa…
@baekdal That should be “set day off” ahem
Linguistic cross-pollination via TV and movies is a Thing though. And English is an annoyingly protean language at the best of times.
@baekdal Vacation had a very specific use in UK English - a break between terms (university) or sessions. Holiday was used in the sense of “going on holiday” or a Bank Holiday (government se dah off).
The American usage where it’s a synonym for the UK holiday has bled into common use.
@charleswhite3 Correct answer:
- Ventilation
- Ventilation
- Ventilation
- Distance
- Face Masks
What an utter failure of messaging (and particularly updating message).
@sarahjebner Worryingly, there are now sections of the beach that are inaccessible to emergency services due to parking like this.
I’ve never seen it this bad in the decade we’ve lived here.
This video really is quite something. There’s people parking in verges, completely blocking pavements, and I’ve seen people parking over driveways.
People flocking to a quiet beachside town and making it chaos. twitter.com/shorehamlife/s…
Beach flora. t.co/Kt5imgECN… 
@chrismsutcliffe OMG WTF BBQ
@chrismsutcliffe The only leadership techniques my lot talk about is keeping the DPS train under control in a tricky technical raid.
@baekdal And that is agree with wholeheartedly.
I should also declare an interest — the author is a former student, and I retweeted the piece, so, once I saw your thread, I thought I’d better re-examine it… :-)
@baekdal While, yes, of course there’s scope to broaden the discussion, looking at the comments on three specific accounts which are caught up in a political firestorm that’s being debated in parliament changes the ratios you mention significantly.
@baekdal OK, while I agree with the general thrust of what you’re saying, the article is specifically about racist comments left on posts from the accounts of three individual English football players. The abuse these three have endured after the penalties at the weekend is a big story.
@corinne_podger @ziadramley @AshaPhillips I’ve done quite a bit of work with the UK’s medical-related B2B pubs over the last year, and, yeah, that would have been a good year for them to have had a wee bit more support…
@corinne_podger @ziadramley @AshaPhillips (I’d love to have access for our Audience Strategy students @cityjournalism, but again, all requests disappear into the void…)
@corinne_podger @ziadramley @AshaPhillips My experience is that, unless you already have a news partnership contact, any request just goes into a vacuum of silence. Very hard for small local operations or B2Bs to get access.
@ziadramley Although — it’s got harder and harder to get access to it for smaller newsrooms.
Will I get cancelled for being rude about garden gnomes?
@callummarius At least, for once, they don’t seem to have been doing it for the ‘gram…
Ha ha. No, no and more no to this terrifying idea. There’s absolutely no way I want Facebook to have more access to my purchasing data than it already does. imore.com/facebooks-answ…
@Simmons__ @MichaelPBarnett @glynmottershead Well, I had a decent time at my 30 years school reunion back in Dollar a few years back. But I still wouldn’t necessarily recommend growing up in Scotland with my accent. 😉
@Simmons__ @MichaelPBarnett @glynmottershead Very much my experience.
I have coffee and a piece on supply chains to finish. Wish me luck.
Beach break. microblog.onemanandhisblog.com/2021/07/15/bea…
@MichaelPBarnett @glynmottershead As a sassenach who grew up in Scotland, gotta say I’m a touch weary of it…
@glynmottershead (And, if you want to wage pedantry war, it should actually be “England residents and visitors” because it impacts many of other nationalities who merely happen to live here… 😇)