markmccaughrean,
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I hate getting rid of books, but apparently not half as much as books hate being got rid of 😬✌️

This bunch were mostly duplicates or water-damaged (as was the box, evidently), although perhaps I’ll regret not having those calculus textbooks in my life any more 🤷‍♂️

BettinaKoza,
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@markmccaughrean I threw away “Spiegel” 2013 - 2020 on Monday. How liberating.

markmccaughrean,
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@BettinaKoza Indeed. I threw away many copies of The Economist from 2012 on & lots of 1990s National Geographics. Many of the latter were in a bad shape, but I did check through & rescued the copies that had some of my pictures in 👍

apolitosb,
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@markmccaughrean

And what on earth are those on your feet 🙄

markmccaughrean,
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@apolitosb When in Holland, clogs are de rigeur, even if they’re pink plastic ones.

I promise to wear Birkenstocks with white socks for the German equivalent picture 🙇‍♂️🙂

apolitosb,
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@markmccaughrean

de rigeur or not recycling them is too good a fate.

markmccaughrean,
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@apolitosb What about the baby blue ones; them too? You’re a hard sartorial task master, Mr Spyromilio – you will have to arrange me a remedial appointment with your tailor.

apolitosb,
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@markmccaughrean I once did buy a pair of blue crocs for a colleague who would wear bright red/pink ones in the office. I decided that if crocs were to be present at least they would not be offensive to the eye. He still has them.

#scientistdresscode is …

markmccaughrean,
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@apolitosb I’m just a retired old scientist, thrown on to the scrap heap of corporate irrelevance, it seems, so expect far worse from me in the offences against decent dress code department in the future if that’s what it takes to stand out from the crowd 🤪

apolitosb,
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@markmccaughrean you never had trouble standing apart from the πολλοί

markmccaughrean,
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@apolitosb Pot, meet kettle 🙃

doddington,
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@markmccaughrean I hope you’ve get all the important things sorted …. can you get Marmite!

markmccaughrean,
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@doddington My wife has made four trips to Edinburgh in recent weeks & not a single jar of Marmite came back. I have a six month supply, probably, but that feels very marginal … ✌️

apolitosb,
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@markmccaughrean

Sacrilege 🤣🤣

markmccaughrean,
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@apolitosb Note that it ends in “telescopes” plural, i.e. it shows undue faith that there will be more than one 🤪

To be honest though, that one was artfully placed in such a way as to draw exactly such a response 🎣🙂✌️

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