crediblywitless.ssrl.scot
Rejoin. Yes. Grumpy and getting old, not the other way round. Sysadmin, freshly retired. Bodger. Engineer to non-engineers; non-engineer to engineers.
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You expected anything else?
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Because obviously no Tory has ever sought to interfere in the governance or constitutional affairs of any other country, ever.
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What, after what he did about Brexit?
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Obviously they're playing politics. They're politicians. What else would they do?
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I meant, maybe no-one much wants to visit it any more, and selling the car park for housing is all they can think of?
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I think the answer to this whole thing may be behind the word "attraction".
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George Galloway: not the first pro-independence person I can think of that I wouldn't vote for, but one of not very many.
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Um. If... you say so. I've been doing that for some years with new routers. Saves a considerable amount of faff.
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Could you not just rename the wireless net to what it was before and match the password?
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And it's good to note that "ritual significance" is pretty much the last, sighing statement of the archaeologist desperate for an explanation, these days.
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There's been a tendency to assume religious expression in archaeological evidence when we could be just looking at a) sentimentality and b) them trying to investigate how the world works. The first appeal should not be to the "supernatural explanation" for everything.
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Is there evidence that, say, Neolithic-era people in what is now the UK had supernatural explanations for the natural world?
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I thought it kinda strange that Nick Robinson on R4 Today this morning apparently hadn't been previously aware that "bo tox" is "botulinum toxin".
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There's a place in Fife called "Leucharsbeath" on 1830 OS but is "Leuchatsbeath" by the 1885 OS and still is today. Gotta be a typo or a misreading. What used to be a Methodist manse in Todmorden, W Yorks, is a house mysteriously called "Marise" now.
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I think this happens a lot, through history, just with people misreading each other's handwriting or mishearing. Mis-scanning must be a thing as well.
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Use of the word "genocidal" duly noted.
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He's treating the whole thing like some sort of brinksmanship-oriented business deal. While people die.
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What was wrong with "wended", then?
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That makes no sense. If someone pays you $100M, you just disappear with it. You'll have plenty of money to do the disappearing, after all.
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It's roughly a century too late.
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It definitely should be!
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As if anyone, anywhere, ever cared about Jackson Carlaw's opinion on anything. The Union flag is a symbol of oppression and I find it sickening that it's become so ordinary to display it on just about any packet of fresh produce in just about every supermarket, along with the 'Not For EU' labels.
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Actually Indians?
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Only a pawn in their game.
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Fish puns?
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David Miliband and I once washed our hands at adjacent basins in a loo at work. I couldn't think of anything to say, but then apparently neither could he.
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Chances are, when they say they assassinated key figures, they mean they blew to bits a particular house, or housing compound, or street, or town...
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It's good to see that at last Michael Forsyth has found his level.
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I just said it's more complicated than that, that's all. I'm not the one advocating "something will turn up" as a life strategy.
I guess I'll sod off, then.
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I suggest we use "try Google" and "new technology" to solve all current problems. Life will be massively easier, that way.
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You either have a link to it, or you haven't. If you haven't, then something made it up. I suspect you got that stuff from Google's AI summary garbage. It's way more complicated than that.
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Can you provide me with the link to that policy statement?
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If only there was just one dimension to the environmentalist lobby.
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Good luck getting either of those past the environmentalists. There's massive highly-predictable energy-generation potential in a Bristol Channel barrage, but there is also wildlife there. The holes for deep-geothermal will have to be drilled somewhere...
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After all, we get warp drive by 2063 and then the Vulcans will turn up.
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We could treat climate change the same way, then?
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Boggle.
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"New technology"?
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Sympathy. There are some surprisingly stupid teachers about.
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So Fartage is on there probably every other day spouting his lies and his idiocy, and being pandered to as if he's PM-in-waiting, and that still isn't enough?
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The difficult bit is going to be finding the teachers.
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Your first album? You get to say that for life? Spawny get!
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But given that it came out a week after I started this job, and hits its 40th anniversary a fortnight or so before I retire, that makes it a beautiful arc over my working life, I guess. I shall have to play it through, today.
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Probably in every "top handful of albums" list I could ever write - but I was never going to be in any position to perform any of it! I had a favourite cassette for a while of all the extended versions of everything in the same order.
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That's a bit rich, considering they've been utterly obsessed with "whatever Nigel Farage has to say this week" for years.
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True. That's the electioneering of FPTP. It doesn't work in a PR arena.
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They should perhaps put as much effort into "securing the trust" of people who know that Brexit was the stupidest possible thing to do.
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This is quite an old news story, I'm guessing.
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The big question is: how do we get people to vote "anything but Reform"?
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"Hang on a minute, my specs have crashed"