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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.

Ben Aaronovitch

What do you think you’re doing?
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Lucky Charm Psycho 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
Carved above the lintel were the words SCIENTIA POTESTAS EST. Science points east, I wondered? Science is portentous, yes? Science protests too much. Scientific potatoes rule. Had I stumbled on the lair of dangerous plant geneticists?
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East Potatoe
Questions would be asked. Answers would be ignored.
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Answers Ignored Question
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
This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there’s someone else to do the housework.
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Children Facts Reason
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
And once they start to think about the consequences, they almost always calm down. Unless they’re drunk, of course. Or stoned. Or aged between fourteen and twenty-one. Or Glaswegian.
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Almost Always Between Consequences Start Unless
My dad once told me that the secret to a happy life was never to start something with a girl unless you were willing to follow wherever it led. It’s the best piece of advice he has ever given me, and probably the reason I was born.
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Dad Girl Happy Life
The motto of West African cooking is that if the food doesn’t set fire to the tablecloth the cook is being stingy with the pepper.
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Cooking Fire West
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
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
A physical expression of formae. Or at least have got close enough to explain all those legendary swordsmen and their inexplicable desire to roost on the tops of bamboo trees.
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Bamboo Close Enough Explain Expression Legendary Top
The truth is that at the end of the day, unless you’ve generated some sort of lead, you go home and get on with the important things in life – like drinking and sleeping, and if you’re lucky, a relationship with the gender and sexual orientation of your choice.
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Drinking End Home Important Lucky Some Truth
…don’t ask me why I know what an Edwardian smoking jacket looks like: let’s just say it has something to do with Doctor Who and leave it at that.
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Doctors Looks Smoking
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

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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