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The mind (it's nature and relation to the body) and phenomenal conciousness (i.e. why is the experience of seeing something red like it is, and not like the experience of seeing something blue, among similar questions).
Mind you don't lose your mind thinking about it.
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Has anyone here heard of railway modelling fora? You can take pictures of and write about model railways and post them online for other people who share your interests to see. What's more, everyone can read through and post with just a single login, without having to shoot off to random social media pages that they might not like using. I know a really good one called RMWeb. You can find it here: https://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php
I'd highly recommend joining!
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@AY ModFacebook is the bane of my life. I had never used it until about 8 weeks ago (I was under the impression that nobody in my generation did). Then I came to University. It turns out that every club and society relies on Facebook - the football team, the chess club, even the JCR use it. It also turns out that Facebook is, in just about every respect, awful. You can't search it easily, whether you get notified about a new message seems to be entirely down to chance, the content is displayed in a completely random order and they have no customer service. I don't mean by this that their customer service is very poor - they just don't have customer service. There is no phone number. You cannot contact Facebook.* I know this because I spent a week not being able to receive any information about... well, anything, because Facebook had decided that I had broken its community standards - and I'd never actually posted anything!
I would be very glad if I never had to use it again. I'm certainly not using it through choice.
*There is a community support thing on Facebook, but that's not much good when you've been locked out of Facebook.
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Thankfully, I've never had a FB account - and I don't want one.
Meanwhile, as we all know only too well, there's one fatal flaw with sites like RMweb - and that's the "m-word" - you know, the one which lots of people on sites like this one seem allergic to.
This especially seems to be the case when they've also got their favoured hobby to keep them busy - carping criticism of manufacturers' RTR offerings and their personal perceptions of value for money etc.
I don't know why some of these guys bother - after all, it would appear to be "established fact" that manufacturers' ranges are, by definition, "tiny" and full of "overpriced c*@₱" ... .
Well, here's a newsflash, guys. Some of us "didn't get the memo" - probably never will - and, hopefully, we're not exactly losing too much sleep about this.
Time will tell how many of us venture into the "dark side" of actually building something.
Don't worry - it'll never catch on ... .
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My university layout managed to get all the way to the punultimate day of 4th week. I had expected many failures by this point, but a wire on the back of the directional switch on the controller snapping was not one of them. I can still run trains, but only in one direction - not much use on an inglenook. I suppose I'll actually have to do work for the last four weeks of term.
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Are any preserved British steam locomotives flux-capacitor fitted?
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Today, I found a marrow in my black box (glass and tin recycling bin). Walking my nan's dog with her, we saw that a marrow had been left on an upturned bucket at the end of someone else's garden. Are there more?
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Why does Google think a Terrier is a furry thing with a wet nose?
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My 1970s Hornby Flying Scotsman is a remarkably accurate model - it's often in bits and never seems to work properly.
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30° in Towcester yesterday. Towsty!
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12 months on from the horror of realising I had no choice but to cut a piece of track for the first time, I've just shortened some broken set-track points - and I'd be happy to do it for real next time.
Progress!
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The nice man from South Africa offering to give me a loan for a 'seriousBusiness investment' seems very interested in my proposals for a 16.5mm gauge railway from Sussex to Herefordshire. He wants me to go down there to sign the deal as soon as possible!
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Anyone fancy building a model of Simon Haore MP's railway?
"The trains could be pulled by an inexhaustible herd of Unicorns overseen by stern, officious dodos," he tweeted.
"A PushmePullYou could be the senior guard and Puff the Magic Dragon the inspector."
