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Fullerene

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  1. The company that produces more tyres each year than any other company in the world is fairly obvious. It is Lego.
  2. Elvis Presley was a blond whereas Debbie Harry is a redhead.
  3. Barry Manilow's hit single "I write the songs" was written by Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys.
  4. Chile from South to North is a similar distance as Edinburgh to Timbuktu. The Northernmost point of Brazil is closer to Canada than it is to the Southernmost point of Brazil.
  5. Arisaig is the most westerly train station in Great Britain.
  6. Tony Burrows is the only person to appear in three different groups in the same episode of Top of the Pops. First as one of the singers for Brotherhood of Man (United We Stand), then apparently as one of the backing singers for White Plains (My Baby Loves Loving) where somebody else mimes the song to give him a break and then finally as the lead singer of Edison Lighthouse (Love Grows) which was at number 1. The producers thought something fishy was going on so he was banned after that.
  7. Actually I have changed my mind. "Infiltrator" sounds like a pretty cool thing to have on my passport.
  8. If I was a careerist then infiltrating the Labour Party sounds about the least interesting career I could possibly imagine.
  9. FTFY In case anyone thought she kept boo. Whatever that is.
  10. By elections are always more high profile than the same seat at a general election. It is generally assumed that any seat will revert to the original party at the next election - and not just for Lib Dems.
  11. Inverness Airport will be on the look out for anyone pretending they are walking from Land's End to John O Groats!
  12. Labour have no genuine leadership material and a significant proportion of the electorate view them as an utter joke. They're fucked for at least the next 2 parliaments and that's being generous. Labour devote an enormous amount of energy to a civil war that nobody else gives a shit about. Are you a Corbynista or not? Blairite, Brownite. What have you. Keir Starmer is suffering. Nobody has the slightest clue what a Starmerite is. Big question. If you are in the same party - do you actually have anything in common? Until they can answer that question they are irrelevant to everyone else.
  13. In addition, her dementia tax was a turn off for her own supporters. Also, there were people who were really hostile to Brexit and voted Labour as the best way to minimise the damage. Can't have been much fun having Jeremy Corbyn as your best hope of stopping Brexit.
  14. If that is all you care about then Antarctica would be an option. Definitely no risk of it being parched. HTH
  15. When I retire, I plan to embark on numerous personal projects that I have always been meaning to do but I just couldn't find the time. At the moment I have absolutely no idea what any of these projects might be but there is still plenty of time.
  16. In my previous job, the manager took the view that he needed everyone to be available day or night, 7 days a week whenever there was a need to pull out the stops. One woman who came for an interview mentioned that for years she took piano lessons every Tuesday night. She probably thought that would reflect on how hard working she was. Instead it indicated how unavailable she would be on Tuesday nights. D.A. Baracus is right. Doing something you might actually want to do doesn't count as hard work for some people.
  17. He's taking advice from D.A.F.C on what to do next.
  18. 1. I once beat Roger Federer is straight sets but was disqualified and the whole match went unreported because my socks were non regulation. 2. I once started the British Open with the lowest score of any golfer but again I was disqualified because my socks were non regulation. 3. I defeated Mike Tyson in the third round with a knock out blow and would have been world champion but again there was a problem with my socks. 4. I have bought some new socks.
  19. In all fairness, it must be a little bit scary for the contestant. Ask a stock question, get a routine answer, that's it done. By contrast imagine being asked to tell the audience something interesting about yourself. "Oh, I don't know. I once went on an airplane." Oh shit, why did I say that. People will be terrified that the most interesting thing about them is not really that interesting.
  20. I knew someone like that - worked in a call centre and hated it. His next job was much nicer and he got paid more. So much so that he shivered when a stranger came in the room, in case it was a posse or bounty hunter from the call centre who had tracked him down and was going to take him back. I think he is over that now.
  21. I know someone who "followed his passion". He started off as a dentist, found it soul destroying and switched to being an artist. It was often financially difficult (he had made more money as a dentist) but he loved every minute of it and painted practically every day for the rest of his life.
  22. The sad thing is you are probably right. They fail to notice that the existing system also gives an option other than Labour and it has been taken up for the last four elections.
  23. I agree. The tweet is moronic. Why vote at all? Somebody is going to win and then whoever it is will be your local champion. Hurrah. In the meantime, a government you despise has been elected yet again. Some people never see the big picture.
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