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    dave trott
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    Aug 13, 2024
    Marina Hyde on the Musk/Trump interview: "In the UK, we have an expression for benchmark incompetence: we say someone couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery. But a tech boss being unable to organise a tech event on his own tech platform feels like a new industry standard"
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    dave trott
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    Sep 19, 2021
    RIP Jimmy Greaves: "What I had to do was get in the box 500 times a season. 100 times I'd connect. 50 times the goalkeeper would save it. Half of the rest would go in and 25 goals a season would do me - just by making sure I got in the box 500 times" (Great life lesson)
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    May 1, 2024
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    Jul 27, 2020
    In Singapore, if you opt out of the organ-donor scheme you go to the bottom of the list for transplants. Wouldn't that be a good idea for masks: if you opt out of wearing one you go to the bottom of the list for coronavirus treatment?
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    dave trott
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    Feb 26, 2021
    “Find out who you are then do that on purpose” - Dolly Parton
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    dave trott
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    Sep 28, 2019
    The memo that turned Avis into a much bigger company -
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    dave trott
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    Feb 5, 2021
    Elizabeth Warren summing up the difference between the extremes in simple language any sane person can understand:
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    dave trott
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    Jun 19, 2019
    (r/t: Mohenesh Chamith Buthgumwa)
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    dave trott
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    Nov 8, 2022
    There was a time when it was okay for ads to treat consumers as if they had brains
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    dave trott
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    Dec 6, 2018
    Don't the French police just need Kylie Jenner and a can of Pepsi?
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    dave trott
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    Jun 27, 2019
    David Ogilvy said: "Advertising agencies are stupid enough to believe a woman looks at an ad for Persil and thinks "They've changed their type-face from Futura to Bodoni, that doesn't express my brand needs, I'm switching to Ariel" (He said that 60 years ago)
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    dave trott
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    Aug 7, 2019
    Westminster Bridge was specially designed so that the shadows would accurately reflect the public's opinion of the 630 members of the House of Commons
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    dave trott
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    Aug 12, 2019
    Only bit of writing I've ever enjoyed on Brexit -
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    dave trott
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    Feb 10, 2019
    Who does the media dept's job - algorithms and programmatic?