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Anarcho-nerdist. Radical Eyore-ism.
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French garlic soup is often served with mayonnaise (hot).
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Asian pear? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrus_p...
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Swim Ink 2/Beryl Peters Collection both. seem to be providers of scans of a certain kind of vintage commercial art, old postcards etc. Twee, nostalgia laden and not great, but presumably genuine. Panter-Downes is great though, I'd recommend London War Notes, articles from WWII for the New Yorker.
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I used to live in a housing coop house where the resident kids would play 'meetings'. This would mostly consist of the older one sitting there with a clipboard and telling the younger one to be quiet and not talk out of turn.
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* I normally read/use my phone glasses off holding things very close as I'm both long and very short sighted (and out of habit). My closer range glasses are ok for reading books but really meant for working on the computer (and I don't want 3 pairs).
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On mobile they are quite a bit smaller than the regular text, enough that I couldn't read them with my (closer range) glasses on. Glasses off* it was just about doable, easier if I clicked on it to enlarge.
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This is for web extensions (add-ons) firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/comp... Note this is another flag extensions. ml. enabled, that is (currently) set to false by default, I believe, and both are needed. blog.tomayac.com/2025/02/07/p...
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Kidney stones are often treated by blasting them with sound waves. My partner turned up for treatment for one the day after we went to an MBV gig and they went "um, it doesn't appear to be there any more".
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You will find them called that in the UK as well. Drawing pin == thumb tack, but tis used generically as well.
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I used to be in a book club called Ivor Novella. We only read short books.
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This is a great article that looks at this in the context of the history of intellectual disability: www.historyworkshop.org.uk/disability-h..., the modern age is not uniquely enlightened.
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Became part of the TGWU.
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Apparently I can't type, that was supposed to say antifascist (they have their root in a finnish radical left publication and prior to that a satirical magazine well known for anti-nazi caraicatures during WWII)
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The Moomins are solidly fascist, to be fair.
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There were some missing tortoise posters by Alexandra Park. It might be on quite the journey.
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I started grabbing them at random and playing the longest track while I waited for the person who never turned up. In order to fill the time I started making up a series of ever more convoluted series of stories and managed to convince people we were broadcasting from a submarine.
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I once did a whole radio show like this. I turned up to do a carefully chosen 1/2 hour of field recordings only for the next person to be a no show and two hours to fill. All I has was a box of beat up LP's someone had left in the squat basement we were using as a studio.
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Firefox allows you to add alternative search engines. I use this plugin on desktop: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... but you can also do it via settings -> search
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There's an map here: www.ourdialects.uk/maps/walkway/ Entry is commonest around Liverpool but crops up in a few places around Manchester including Moss Side.
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Yes you can, for the same price!
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There's a paper out there whose premise is not doing something bad when no one is looking, even if we could make money out of it, is evidence of theory of mind deficits (because we are not considering social reputation).
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This always gets me. Because what's the implication? That men shouldn't be doing childcare? That children don't have the same rights and it would be ok to force them into the mens?
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It's not a simple question but it's wrong to say that US law does not extend abroad in all cases. The US taxes it's citizen abroad and there are laws that specifically have extra-territorial jurisdiction.
lawshun.com/article/does...
www.irs.gov/individuals/...
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There is a picture of a Gault Clay brick, from Dunton Green* Brick, Tile & Pottery Works, at the bottom of this page: www.brocross.com/Bricks/Penmo...
* Dunton Green is a palce name rather than a reference to the colour of the brick, which is vaguely disappointing blue-grey.
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Phone in well!
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Trumpet Street is still there. Looking at old maps it doesn't seem to ever have been anything other than the short stretch that still exists today (behind the Britons Protection).
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I suspect this is due to the incredibly witless way the tariffs were calculated. They may well be exporting (fish) directly to the US but not importing anything as they are tiny and most goods come via Canada.
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My favourite tech support story is the guy who brought in his computer as said "I lent this to my pal, now every time I turn it on the soundtrack from a gay porno comes over the speakers but there is nothing on the screen", which turned out to be entirely true and a bit of a headscratcher at first.
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There's a decent explainer here: www.righttolightsurveyors.co.uk/section-203-... it doesn't apply to these properties, though. Seems like the developers tried to buy out their rights, got told no, and went ahead anyway. Saying turn on a light re right to daylight suggests they are on shaky ground.
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If it was the Stan Getz version I would ride up and down all day.
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Formally abolished in 1930, many persisted in roughly the same form till 1948 (the main difference being residents were free to come and go). After 1948 at least half became old peoples homes. This caused issues as many intended residents had firm memories of them being workhouses.
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Really they could just replace the diagnostic tests with a ruler to measure the height of the pile of notes you brought in.
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pass through this way, only a small percentage of the rest gets through without being destroyed. Sublingual absorbtion is an effective route (you can buy B12 sprays). I have Pernicious Anenmia (i.e I don't produce I.F.) and it's sufficient to maintain B12 at a healthy level.
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If you are taking it orally you will not be absorbing it all regardless of the form. B12 is destroyed by the stomach. To conterract this the body produces Intrisic Factor which binds to B12 so it can pass through the stomach and be absorbed in the lower intestine. There is a limit to how much can
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Definitely. Would make for a lovely CD box set, but either way I would buy these.
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Anglican's in the US. Definitely on the liberal end of Anglicans these days.
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I created the Wikipedia page on Whiteway Colony (a Tolstoyan Anarchist community) and the comment on one of the first edits it got was "removed anarchic typos without affecting anarchic content".
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…when I asked why they explained I was changing my entire manner of speaking between one lift and the next depending on who was giving us the lift.
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and this is so not the case. A habit of presenting one way in one situation, and one way in another (upstairs/downstairs) was instilled in me from a very young age. I had no idea I was even doing it until I was hitchiking in my late teens. Getting out of a car I saw my friends jaw drop…
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There are so many reason for misrepresentations and double talk when there is an imbalance of power. Yet we can find, for instance, people treating servants attitudes as an uncomplicated reflection of thier masters. I come from many generations of servants (up to and including my mother)…
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he can do it and not the reporter. It struck me as such as classic response to (urban) prejudices about rural stupidity. People having been doing this forever, after all the trickster is a central character in fok tales.
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…carefully roll the nettles up before he eat them. Just as deliberately he *doesn't* point this out to the reporter and stands there watching while he grabs an handful of nettles and shoves then in his mouth, trying to get through it quickly. All the while coming out with cockaminie reasons…
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It's worth rembering that sometimes people might be winding someone up.
I saw a video awhile ago where someone goes to interview a farmer about a nettle eating contest. Now the stinging hairs on nettle are only on one side of the leaf, and the farmer clearly konw this as you can see him...
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Matching corner cupboards and shutters?! That's quite some woodwork.
I once lived in a flat where the builders has thrown away the original shutters. a part of the "renovation", right before we moved in. I have been heartstruck ever since.
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Isn't there already a ban in place in chess? www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-6... from 2023
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I do sometimes wonder about the impact of constraint vs convenience. There was a *lot* of manufactured music in the '60's. I'm not going to claim musical genius but there were some real bangers. Some of their qualities might be attributed to having to push against the limits of the time.
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No, I replied to them, but you chose to reply to me and made out with things that have no connection to what I said. Own your words.
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That's why I asked you the question now, wasn't it? I didn't make the original post, so why didn't you reply to that instead of acting the loudmouth in a days old reply? You have no clue what I think, and never bothered to find out, so why go slinging insinuations like a gobshite.