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OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Fourteen

10th November 2022 Going Postal 0

Traditional family from 10,000 BC to about 1975 AD A man and woman would marry, the man would provide and the woman would keep house and bring up children, supporting each other along the way. [more…]

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Postcard From Innsbruck

5th November 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Zurück in den Tag Am I allowed to say that back in the day I loved Austria? Yes, it was too expensive, yes it was full of unrepentant Nazis, and yes the whole place was [more…]

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My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Seven –AC/DC

4th November 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

After 60 proper legends of pop (OK, you may have thought that some were a bit iffy), it is now time for my Top 20 Leg Ends of pop.  These are those groups or artists [more…]

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Always Worth Saying’s Question Time Review

4th November 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Question Time 3rd November 2022 The Panel: Chris Philp (Conservative) Peter Kyle (Labour) Stuart Rose (Asda) Zany Minton Beddoes (The Economist) George the Poet (Spoken-word artist) Venue: Horsham George The Poet, not his real name, [more…]

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OTF (Own Two Feet) Party, Part Thirteen

3rd November 2022 Going Postal 0

Introduction If we wish to be allowed to live as we see fit, it is accepted that we must be responsible for our own failures too when they occur. And obviously that means we should [more…]

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Feck yoos Disqus censor algorithm

2nd November 2022 Beware of Geeks bearing GIFs 0

There’s an old online adage: if you can’t beat the censorial posting comments algorithm, make it an article.  And so I will.  Twice censored in the comments that nobody reads.  Thanks, Disqus codebase. A lazy [more…]

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Pumpkin time

30th October 2022 SharpieType301 0

By now, you will doubtless have figured out that I have a very keen interest in glass, so while we were visiting the lovely Northeast of England for a few days recently, we took the [more…]

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Postcard From West Germany

29th October 2022 Always Worth Saying 0

Donaueschingen Strict privacy laws and the German people’s well-practiced challenges to any risk posed to that privacy means that Street View isn’t available in the Federal Republic. Identifying the locations of old photographs, in this [more…]

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My Leg Ends of Pop Music – Part Six – Led Zeppelin

28th October 2022 Phil the Ex Test Manager 0

After 60 proper legends of pop (OK, you may have thought that some were a bit iffy), it is now time for my Top 20 Leg Ends of pop.  These are those groups or artists [more…]

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