#221

Both just a few places behind someone who didn’t exist. Lovely stuff.

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#222

Bit rude to all the Methodists

#223

Scott has always been such an anathema for me

Remember learning about the whole ‘I may be some time’ going out in the snow thing to essentially commit suicide because of his failure and it absolutely doing my nut in as an 8 year old that I was supposed to believe this was some kind of flag-shagging honour of the indefatigable British Spirit

what?!

#224

M.E.T.H.O.D ist

#225

How dare you besmirch oates!!

#226

That was Captain Oates who just stepped outside! And the narrative is that he did it because he knew he couldn’t go any further and hoped that his team would be able to continue without him being a burden.

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#227

(Always wanted to launch a breakfast cereal called captain oates)

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#228

His grandad turned up in my regular pub in my hometown in Tyrone (but not particularly close to Carrickmore) once when he was over tracing his heritage.

I wasn’t there

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#229

lol @hip_young_gunslinger

there you go - I’ve conflated reckless polar death missions

#230

ftfy

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#231

Are you reeling in the frozen corpses of your fellow crew members

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#232

Who’s gonna be the highest woman?

Elizabeth 1, 2 or thatcher?

#233

Better that than resorting to being a Maneater

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#234

2003?

Princess Di - easy

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#235

His ‘ancestral home’ is quite near my hometown too and is a tourist attraction.

Never been.

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#236

Nelly furtado at #18

#237

Not even Irish

#238

Samantha Mumba

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#239

We had to go on school trips to a boring park to look at a clock named after him :sleeping:

#240

Even a Scott clock tells the right time twice a day

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