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1 hour ago, Nearholmer said:

I don’t tend to go to the big/popular exhibitions, because they are far too busy. Much prefer the smaller sort of events, more specialist and quieter, where it is possible to look at things properly, in depth, and chat with the always-knowledgeable exhibitors.

The specialist narrow gauge exhibitions are particularly good in that regard, from my experience. I suspect that the average knowledge quotient of attendees is rather higher than a big general interest show.

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4 hours ago, brack said:

The specialist narrow gauge exhibitions are particularly good in that regard, from my experience. I suspect that the average knowledge quotient of attendees is rather higher than a big general interest show.

I'm reminded of Josh Billings - "The trouble with most folks isn't their ignorance. It's knowin' so many things that ain't so."

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9 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:

 Now I do understand that The Guardian does lean a little to the left but this headline that I just came upon while reading the Australian version  did seem a  little harsh.

 

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I have since had a happy 10 minutes  hitting the refresh button to see what comes up - this John Crace dude looks mild mannered but  he sure must hate Boris Johnson

 

 

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I was certain wife’s iPad had got it’s knickers in a twist; she certainly does have a love affair with effingham  Crace and the Grauniad.

 

It has to do with being born in the land of the Manchester Guardian - where non Conformist chapel Ministers in Chorlton Hardy (bet this dignified posh suburbs name gets censored) would pray "Oh God! As Thou hast doubtless read in the Manchester Guardian  &c. "

 

 

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cut the mile long repeats of Crace
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8 hours ago, Nearholmer said:


Probably a fake, but funny, auto-headline generator system.

 

BJ does seem to be marooned on a mountaintop of his own making right now, surrounded by increasingly grumpy members of his own party, and increasingly grumpy members of other parties, and increasingly grumpy members of no party whatsoever, all wanting perfectly reasonable, but entirely mutually incompatible things.

 

I bet when he said he wanted to be “world king”, this isn’t quite what he had in mind!

What happened?  Boris and his chums were elected with an astronomical advantage only a short time ago and all of a sudden he's the cause of all thats going on, oh ye of little faith!  Be glad you didn't pick the other one!

    Brian.

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15 minutes ago, brianusa said:

What happened?  Boris and his chums were elected with an astronomical advantage only a short time ago and all of a sudden he's the cause of all thats going on, oh ye of little faith! 

 

Mr Johnson had for many years desperately wanted to become Prime Minister; he desperately wants to have been Prime Minister; it's the bit in the middle where he's found himself way out of his depth, having come face to face with reality.

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12 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

Or, perhaps I should have said given the context, face to face with an experienced QC and finding himself confronted by questions he cannot easily answer.

Such as "How many children do you have?"

 

(Topical one for this weekend)

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10 hours ago, Donw said:

we all want to peep behind the curtain so to speak. However I do remember sitting on a Bench at Pendon  while a variety of trains rolled across the viaduct here was some anticipated of what's next and Roye explained all the salient facts of each. Model railway exhibitions don't seem to allow much opportunity for a leisurly viewing these days.

 

Don

I first went to Pendon when I was about 12. Roye England was surprised, and I hope impressed, that I recognised the Barnum when it came across the viaduct.

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BJ has done a wonderful job of giving the impression that he just does not follow the plot.

 

He says that there will be no free meals for disadvantaged children during the summer holiday.

 

A talented footballer calls him out with his personal experiences.  The media and a large number of the population seem to get behind this.

 

Full marks to BJ he sees the public sympathy and changes his mind and there will be free meals during the summer holiday because of the impact of C19 - but only this year.

 

He just does not get it.  There was no C19 when Rashford was in the position of being a disadvantaged child.  This is not a C19 issue.  It is a child poverty issue.  Unless BJ does something dramatic there will be child poverty next year and thereafter.

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10 hours ago, Nearholmer said:

Probably a fake, but funny, auto-headline generator system.

 

 

No artificial intelligence will ever out-do the blokes at the Northern Territory  News for headline gold (having mental wildlife  on tap helps)..

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Re: NT News

Is it possible that, with the oceans warming, Saltwater Crocodiles might make their way across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal?

 

This might give our sensation-driven media some other animal to talk about rather than this fixation on Great White Sharks?

 

Should it not be clear to everyone of any sense by now that the most dangerous, selfish, arrogant, cruel, and really thoroughly horrible animal on the planet is **** Sapiens?

 

Perhaps the last word in that taxonomic classification should now be replaced?

 

Not that everything we do is bad, so how about ' **** Railwayensis' ?

(Sorry, it's too early in the morning to get the Latin right.) 

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3 minutes ago, drmditch said:

Re: NT News

Is it possible that, with the oceans warming, Saltwater Crocodiles might make their way across the Indian Ocean and through the Suez Canal?

 

 

As long as they don't come up the River Bure, to where I sail, or the River Nar to Castle Aching I'm not too worried..

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40 minutes ago, TheQ said:

As long as they don't come up the River Bure, to where I sail, or the River Nar to Castle Aching I'm not too worried..

 

You just have to worry about the man-eating pike...

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51 minutes ago, drmditch said:

Should it not be clear to everyone of any sense by now that the most dangerous, selfish, arrogant, cruel, and really thoroughly horrible animal on the planet is **** Sapiens?

 

ALERT ALERT ALERT

In the above post, the 'editing code' or whatever it is twice removed the first word of the Latin name for humankind.

 

Assuming that the intention of this is avoid reference to 'homophobia' (which word seems seems to have survived intact so far), is whoever who controls these things not aware that 'h***' as in 'homophobia' is from the Greek root 'Homos' meaning 'the same as', as in 'homogenous' or even the dreaded word 'homosexual' itself. and not the Latin root 'H***' meaning 'Man'.

(Even if we have to accept a term which refers to only 49% (ish) of humankind.)

 

If this confusion is commonplace we will by now have a whole generation which cannot tell the difference.

 

I am not sure how this will help in protecting the minority of us who attracted to fellow humans who are on the same side of the sexually dimorphic divide.

 

What it does do is corrupt and pervert language, and eventually thought.

This is Orwellian 'Newspeak' and 'Thought Crime'.

 

Giving the policing over to computer technology makes it even worse.

 

I would assume that this software is not unique to this forum. To whom does one report the problem?

 

             

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51 minutes ago, TheQ said:

As long as they don't come up the River Bure, to where I sail, or the River Nar to Castle Aching I'm not too worried..

 

I think that. from the fossil record. there may indeed have been crocodiles in what is now Essex and East Anglia relatively recently.

 

In my own sailing career, now temporarily (I hope) I hope 'on-hold', I have encountered several aquatic denizens, both on the North Sea, and in West African waters.

A small selection (before I revert to building a signal box porch and access steps) :-

 

- Flying Fish landing in the boat.

- Curious (and presumably juvenile) Seals showing great interest in boats launching.

- The Salmon that jumped very close astern, and having failed to land in the boat deprived one of a really good fishy story without even going fishing.

- A Barracuda that did likewise. Which was just as well; one really doesn't want a barracuda in the boat - good eating though they are!

 

Then there was the mystery of the anchor that disappeared while we were anchored overnight and therefore was presumably eaten by a Crocodile.

(Or at least a Crocodile cut the anchor line.)

 

Most West African Crocodiles, in my experience keep well away from people, although I have seen...........)

 

Other stories for other times and forums!

 

 

 

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19 minutes ago, drmditch said:

ALERT ALERT ALERT

In the above post, the 'editing code' or whatever it is twice removed the first word of the Latin name for humankind.             

 

The obscenity filter is not sophisticated enough to chose from multiple meanings according to context. Thus, it would censor the Latin text of the Nicene Creed. I knew an Anglican priest of high church tendencies who had to turn the obscenity filter off on his software in order to make reference to Our Lady. This is probably not a very significant problem for a model railway site, most of the time but It is a problem for those modelling the Midland's Manchester South District line. It's simply an instance of the Law of Unintended Consequences.

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24 minutes ago, drmditch said:

 

ALERT ALERT ALERT

In the above post, the 'editing code' or whatever it is twice removed the first word of the Latin name for humankind.

 

Assuming that the intention of this is avoid reference to 'homophobia' (which word seems seems to have survived intact so far), is whoever who controls these things not aware that 'h***' as in 'homophobia' is from the Greek root 'Homos' meaning 'the same as', as in 'homogenous' or even the dreaded word 'homosexual' itself. and not the Latin root 'H***' meaning 'Man'.

(Even if we have to accept a term which refers to only 49% (ish) of humankind.)

 

If this confusion is commonplace we will by now have a whole generation which cannot tell the difference.

 

I am not sure how this will help in protecting the minority of us who attracted to fellow humans who are on the same side of the sexually dimorphic divide.

 

What it does do is corrupt and pervert language, and eventually thought.

This is Orwellian 'Newspeak' and 'Thought Crime'.

 

Giving the policing over to computer technology makes it even worse.

 

I would assume that this software is not unique to this forum. To whom does one report the problem?

 

             

 

Perhaps insert zeros - thus h0m0  as apparently this obscene censoring system is taking us back to Pol Potian year zero standards of expression. The reason being that as we know the only people who visit these forums are very easily offended young ladies from seminaries. The fact that they might not be the least interested in toy trains seems to have escaped the censor's awareness.    

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At one time the company filter blocked the word Model, so you couldn't look up an MRC or an airfix model, it got removed from the blocking list because they couldn't look up models of equipment we use.

You can't access anything to do with knives and  guns using those words, but there are work rounds if I was interested.

 

Horning where I sail is 20 miles from the river entrance to the sea.. we get seals at Horning occasionally.. and Pike..

and Crocs... that's the plastic ones of peoples feet.

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