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majorshrapnel
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Date Posted：2022-03-29 09:23:27Copy HTML For all subjects |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-07 11:54:19Copy HTML The word nothing originally meant no thing not zero.
The dot over i & j is called a tittle. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-08 11:41:58Copy HTML In England there is an unofficial sport called "shin-kicking" where contestants kick each other in the shins until one falls over.
In 18th century England there was what was called "wife selling" where you could auction off your wife, usually at a tavern.
What was that about mad dogs & Englishmen??? |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-08 11:54:51Copy HTML There are more photos taken today in an hour than there were in the entire 19th century. We went from "hold still for the next 10 minutes"....................to "here's 47 pictures of my sandwich." |
MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-08 12:02:48Copy HTML In England there is an unofficial sport called "shin-kicking" where contestants kick each other in the shins until one falls over.
In 18th century England there was what was called "wife selling" where you could auction off your wife, usually at a tavern.
What was that about mad dogs & Englishmen??? Wife selling was never actually legal. It forms the basis of Thomas Hardy's 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge. |
shula
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-08 11:04:06Copy HTML That would pose a dilemma. On the one hand, it would be very demeaning to be offered for sale; on the other, if no one wanted to buy you, it would be its own social indictment. My grandmother must have been pretty special. Grandpa told her (in front of assembled family) that he wouldn't trade her for two of the best cows in the county. She didn't seem to be too impressed with that comparison. "It is forbidden to spit on cats in plague-time."
-Albert Camus-
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-09 06:35:02Copy HTML If I auctioned off my Missus, the buyer would have to have cast iron ears |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-10 12:32:17Copy HTML Little fact for you. There is not a single white child in 72 schools across England. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-10 04:53:44Copy HTML Little fact for you. There is not a single white child in 72 schools across England. Pretty soon no chalk-colored Englishmen. But your cuisine will be better. |
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-10 06:22:38Copy HTML Youtube is thoroughly packed with vids of Yank visitors apologising for thinking British food was awful. Of course this all started when Yank soldiers arrived during the war and went into cafes and pubs ordering steak and eggs and other foods the Brits hadn't see in over two years, if at all, for the bottom of the barrel workers here and taking their stories back home. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-10 07:31:43Copy HTML The Pope met with Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Mullally, the first woman spiritual leader of the world's Anglicans in a historic encounter highlighting the different roles of women in the two churches. Vatican commissions have rejected such a reform of Catholics. Pope Leo already took a step toward reconciliation with the Church of England, severed from Rome five centuries ago by Henry VIII, when he prayed last year with King Charles III. Perhaps the king saw the light. |
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MarkUK
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-10 08:36:22Copy HTML There's very little animosity between the two sects these days, except for a few crazy zealots, mostly in Northern Ireland. You're playing chess with Fate and Fate's winning.
Arnold Bennett
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majorshrapnel
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-14 09:34:19Copy HTML We have a wonderfully uplifting story today. An illegal immigrant, as in broke our laws, has sought to rub our noses in the fact that 48 hours after he hit our shores he's openly boasting about his room in a four star hotel, his amazing menu and free gifts off our kind and considerate government. Why would he do this? Simple, to rub our noses in the fact that islam rules, as far as he and his fellow permanent scroungers are concerned. They're fighting a war for Islam and winning. |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-14 11:15:04Copy HTML The Brits have always been known as a "neighborly" lot.....err make that "neighbourly." |
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tommytalldog
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Re：Don't start another Date Posted：2026-05-14 10:19:48Copy HTML Before elevators, the second floor of buildings became the most desirable. Away from the dirt, grime, & noise of the first floor, & you did not have to climb a mountain of stairs to get to. That's why in older buildings the second floors have the nicest rooms. |
