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I like it when people mangle idioms, and my favorite today has been "Beat off a dead horse".

Eau Rouge has been changed over the years, but it still claims its victims. Driver was fine. The bits are supposed to come off like this.
youtu.be/YkZDGzg3IjU

Watching the Sprint in Jerez to hopefully wash away the tedium of the sprint

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Today in 1910, 113 years ago: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the People's Budget, the first budget in British history with the expressed intent of redistributing wealth among the British public.

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Today in 2005, 18 years ago: Syria completes its withdrawal from Lebanon, ending 29 years of occupation.

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Blimey, Lizzy McAlpine's 'Means Something' is a tune.

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Medical, needle stick 

One week after the stick and I still look like this. My veins are very bad after immunotherapy and it's hard for them to get a site. They tend to wiggle the needle about, which is very uncomfortable and also does this.

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Today in 1933, 90 years ago: The Gestapo, the official secret police force of Nazi Germany, is established by Hermann Göring.

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Today in 1915, 108 years ago: World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli begins: The invasion of the Turkish Gallipoli Peninsula by British, French, Indian, Newfoundland, Australian and New Zealand troops, begins with landings at Anzac Cove and Cape Helles.

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A climate group protested a zero emissions race, thus conforming the absolute chaotic and nonsensical direction climate activism has taken.

...Made while segregation still existed, which is curious.

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This (save for some wonky editing in the first couple of minutes) is a very good PSA on the lure of ideology that seeks to divide and conquer. It's very well made for the time.
youtu.be/8K6-cEAJZlE

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@sullybiker i cant imagine being so fragile that I have more money than anyone in modern history and I still get mad when people call me lame online

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The radioactive sugar water used for my 6mth PET surveillance scans is billed to my insurer at $1800. The scan itself is billed at $19000. Thank God I have insurance.

my brother in law is in Knoydart and I am extremely jealous.

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