johncrwarner.bsky.social
Retired teacher of mathematics and English.
I live in Bielefeld Germany and am the full time carer of my disabled partner.
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and only another 1451 days left.
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My mother found in her nineties holding a book tiring so we (my sister and I) bought her audiobooks on CD so she could play them.
She didn't finish Middlemarch by George Eliot before she died sadly but she was a good way through it.
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Hi there, it is John Warner being a refugee from some of the toxic places elsewhere.
How are you?
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Not sure if mine has been counted as I ordered it through a German bookseller.
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Isn't the legal speed limit the EU limit of 25 kmph converted into mph for the British?
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When it came out I was in college and four of us went to the local flea pit that didn't chuck you out and watched that film four times in a row and laughed at different jokes each time.
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Is it a measure of future inflation from 47's tariff policies?
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Interesting that the line "reward for failure" is in both papers - who is feeding the talking points to them?
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Well they will not be quoted widely if they are behind a pay wall so that is good.
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I hope wishes have a returns policy.
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We're not the first, hope we're not the last
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Don't tell Larry Hogan
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As a retired teacher of mathematics - my career was as a STEM communicator and mild comedian LOL.
Not tried being an author except my reading diary and little or no experience as a businessperson.
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Doesn't it go well with their 1938 choice of "Man of the Year"?
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I own, read and enjoy books.
Is that unusual?
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I remember going into Virgin Records in 1984 and finding two Minor Threat records and buying them and playing them to death.
I later listened to Fugazi and stayed at the Dischord House.
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I remember in 1981 going into the record shop to collect the first EP of Blitz entitled "All Out Attack" and there was a huge queue for the Soft Cell single "Tainted Love" - as everyone used the record shop then.
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I was giving a lift to work colleague in the early 90s and he asked what music I listened to and I had a mixed tape of Ministry and Big Black and I described it as "my dance music" - he was shocked LOL but to me this is very danceable.
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And in 2024 some people voted for him because "he gave us that check"
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Ducking autocorrect!
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My sister still has DR on all her because it solves the Miss, Mrs or Ms problem.
She is a retired academic.
She has to explain that she isn't a medical doctor occasionally.
My mother-in-law was technically Polish aristocracy but never used her title but did use her Doctorate.
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We frequented Leeds Art Gallery so I probably saw the same one.
BTW I think Andrew Lloyd Webber who likes and bought a lot of Victorian paintings in the sixties when they weren't popular and were cheap has quite a few Grimshaws. I saw an exhibition about twenty years ago in the RA.
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True but I was thinking of his urban night scenes lol
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I have often thought of visiting the locations and taking modern photos of the views painted.
I think he used a camera obscura like Vermeer did.
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I love Grimshaw's art - His evening views of many northern English towns and cities are nostalgic to me as I know many of these places from my youth.
My mother had a Grimshaw up in the living room of her home town.
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Belize came into existence as Belize rather than British Honduras in 1981, I think.
There are some things that seem anachronistic on the map. But I am not sure what the purpose is if this map so some might not be significant to the map maker nor its intended audience.
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How does it compare with national life expectancies?
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I had made it dual boot with Linux and regularly needed to go in via Linux to fix problems. Eventually I had had enough and pulled all the files through to the Linux partition and forget Windows Me.
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That has been mine since I got a computer with Windows Me pre-installed on it and I wiped it and put a Linux flavour on.
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Growing up we never had turkey as my father didn't like poultry and my mother preferred chicken.
The other thing about festive meals is for twenty years my mother put icing on Christmas cake and everyone left it on the plate. Finally she made one without icing and it was gobbled up.
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When my mother was alive and making a "state visit" to my house I always left one part "dirty" like a non-spotless toilet and that would always be the focus of her conversation for WEEKS afterwards LOL
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This is only the second reading there is still the committee stage and third reading in the Commons and all the stages in the Lords before it becomes law.
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And one of the "noes" was a Reform UK MP and his party is technically in favour of PR.
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I blocked her after she followed me - a British pensioner and seemed like a troll. I have got no time for trolls on here or elsewhere.
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Nice one!
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As long as it isn't the Jasper Carrot version of the Magic Roundabout with the classic lines:
`Some lady!` ,said Dougal.
`Oh, p*ss off` ,said Dillon.
And Dougal did so, all over Florence.
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I would be worried for the ants with them in charge.
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She is truly horrendous and creates in me the classic dilemma of a morally repugnant person whose writing I like.
Her novels are now relegated to the back of a little used shelf and I will not be rereading her works.
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My point being it is a UK comedy programme pointing out the deep seated problems lining up in American politics.
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And this is a British comedy programme.
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They do, that is why we are subscribed to you and others.
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Sadly as my partner is now unable to travel - we live vicariously through watching other people travel especially by train.
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Thanks for reminding us whose interests you serve.