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What do you think you’re doing?

Ben Aaronovitch

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.
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Extra Morning Next Time
Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale – to the Jag mobile.
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Holy Nightingale Paranormal
The first rule about a black woman’s hair is you don’t talk about a black woman’s hair. And the second rule is you don’t ever touch a black woman’s hair without getting written permission first.
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Black Firsts Hair
…good-Samaritanism in London is considered an extreme sport – like base-jumping or crocodile-wrestling.
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Jumping Sports Wrestling
The study of the victim is called victimology because everything sounds better with and ology tacked on the end.
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Sound Study Victim
If you just warn people, they often simply ignore you. But if you ask them a question, then they have to think about it.
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Drunk People Thinking
He was calling it an atonic seizure because, even if he didn’t know why it had happened, it was important to give it a cool name.
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Giving Important Name
The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop
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Clever Doctors People
My dad was a fairy,” said Zach. “And by that I don’t mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.
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Dad Mean Musical
What’s the biggest thing you’ve zapped with a fireball?’ I asked. ‘That would be a tiger,’said Nightingale. ‘Well don’t tell Greenpeace,’ I said. ‘They’re an endagered species.’ ‘Not that sort of tiger,’ said Nightingale. ‘
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Eye Track Two
It’s a police mantra that all members of the public are guilty of something, but some members of the public are more guilty than others.
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Guilty Member Police
This is your brain on magic.
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Brain Innovation Magic
If you ask any police officer what the worst part of the job is, they will always say breaking bad news to relatives, but this is not the truth.
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Broken Jobs People
The Metropolitan Police Service is still, despite what people think, a working-class organisation and as such rejects totally the notion of an officer class.
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Character Educational Thinking
It’s a sad fact of modern life that if you drive long enough, sooner or later you must leave London behind.
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London Long Modern Life
Somebody doesn’t know they’re not in Kansas anymore,’ said Stephanopoulos.
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Kansas Knows Said

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