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Ex-hack. Reads a lot. Most of it never seems to go in. Or stay in. Dull.
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Still have some of the keyboard shortcuts somewhere in the back of my memory. Probably under these dust sheets… ‘Ctrl+T runaround’.
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It is also perfect for myth making as the bulk of us cannot fathom the work. Not solely due to secrecy but also complexity. Popular focus falls on the innovation not the mechanisation of code breaking.
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Yes, especially if it is just a very weak pun on Dudley’s wife.
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That is glorious.
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I don’t remember actually hearing that. Obviously the Mansion’s one was the double A with the Manics.
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The Fatima Mansions memorable version of ‘Everything I Do’ achieved perhaps the greatest distance from the source material.
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It does feel like someone else’s addition. Someone who didn’t even have access to Wikipedia.
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I’ve made my way to volume 2 now and it continues on a similar thread of great detail and catty disrespect (Churchill gets a fair amount). I find it highly readable though - perhaps says more about me!
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Blimey. I think I remember reading that as an undergrad. Feels like an incredibly long time ago.
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Wonder which nation that IP address originates from?
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I really like Clear Head from Bristol Beer Factory but I’m not sure that is easy to get hold of outside the south west. The Big Drop ones are also broadly good and in some supermarkets.
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Thought she looked more like Lynn after the police makeup in Alpha Papa.
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I’ve only read these two volumes but he pulls the whole British experience of the war together - from Mass Observation interviews to the party political, macroeconomic and strategic.
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Haven’t started it today but it will take me a good way into 2025. Not sure how but Todman seems to make such a broad sweep of domestic, military and social look easy.
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I thought Devil-Land fascinating for finding a new way to re-contextualise what I felt previously was a familiar period.
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4. Your new-look Observer: quamnity contnent vis 'swart AIm" mmo yesp
3. Patriarchitecture - mansplanned homes, impotent chimneys, no storage pockets
2. "Too fat for Agincourt" - why I'm suing a battle re-enactment society
1. The world must urgently wake up to the desperate situation in my bra
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Pleased to have read three of those - well, still halfway through Todman’s superb second volume. (The others being Allport’s and O’Brien’s which are both great but in very different ways).
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Shades of Miles Jupp also.