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Proceedings of the Castle Aching Parish Council, 1905

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I think the biggest impact (mentally and physically) is the speed and volume at which information is transmitted, which has increased exponentially in the last decade or so. All this impacts on us mentally in ways we never evolved to handle. As for the speed of transmission in the physical world: it took five years for the Black Death to reach Scotland from its origin in central Asia. Flight time from Wuhan to Edinburgh is apparently 11 hours and 20 minutes. This also impacts us mentally in ways we never evolved to handle. Apparently everyone on Elizabeth Is Privvy Council had killed at least one man face to face. Our own government has only made killings on things like the derivatives casino. Which probably leads to far more deaths wordlwide. Hmm.

 

So are there any houses for sale or rent in 1905 West Norfolk? I may be interested in moving there.

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17 minutes ago, webbcompound said:

 

So are there any houses for sale or rent in 1905 West Norfolk? I may be interested in moving there.

 

Just let me know when you're small enough and I'll knock one up for you!

 

 

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If I shrank enough to take residence, my only consolation is that in 10 years time I wouldn't have any worries about being conscripted. Not that I would be conscripted now, if it were then, if you see what I mean...

 

Anyhow, I'd have enough on my plate, worrying about the Daily Mail and its Prussian invasion scare stories, and the lack of Naval patrols off Doggerland, despite that sensationalist novel by that Childers chappie!

 

(Though Clara Dollman sounds interesting...)

 

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Gratuitous Jenny Agutter seeing as we haven't had a picture for a few pages...
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5 minutes ago, Compound2632 said:

 

Nibbling the mushroom now.

 

One pill makes you larger,

and the other makes you small

But the ones that mother gives you

Don't do anything at all....

 

(Just keep an eye open for the White Rabbit!)

 

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22 hours ago, Edwardian said:

So, I woke up to learn that China has conquered Mars and that the new leader of a major UK political party believes the earth is only six thousand years old.

 

I think I'll go back to bed ...

 

From the current edition of Private Eye:

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23 hours ago, Edwardian said:

So, I woke up to learn that China has conquered Mars and that the new leader of a major UK political party believes the earth is only six thousand years old.

 

Edwin Poots?  A name that is a hostage to fortune...

 

Mind you, his creationist beliefs are entirely in line with a former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, who believed that the earth was created in 4004BC, in October, on the 29th.  Must be something in the water!

 

 

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1 minute ago, Hroth said:

 

Edwin Poots?  A name that is a hostage to fortune...

 

Mind you, his creationist beliefs are entirely in line with a former Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland, who believed that the earth was created in 4004BC, in October, on the 29th.  Must be something in the water!

 

 

 

I don't understand how the Primate of All Ireland, of all people, can reject Darwinism

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2 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

I don't understand how the Primate of All Ireland, of all people, can reject Darwinism

 

Oook!

 

Well, he had an excuse. Darwinism wouldn't be invented for another 209 years or so.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

Further proof that evolution can be reversed - that's Trump in  10 years.

In his case, I am not sure that would be a reversal of evolution, so much as a great stride forward - the so-called "missing link"...

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3 hours ago, Edwardian said:

 

 

The future's bright, the future's Orange?

 

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3 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

 

Further proof that evolution can be reversed - that's Trump in  10 years.

 

:jester:

 

2 hours ago, alastairq said:

 I didn't realise Trump could play the organ....?    

 

It'd be good to see him getting first-hand experience of Global Warming, habitat attrition and being a member of an extinction event.   As for playing the organ, intensive training using the traditional methods of the 19th Century American circus should be a salutary experience too.

 

 

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4 hours ago, Hroth said:

 

Edwin Poots? 

 

 

 

The sort of name that might, perhaps, be fit for a junior clerk on the West Norfolk Railway, one who lost his post when his collection of 'artistic' postcards was discovered, or who one day absconded with the takings.

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2 hours ago, alastairq said:

 I didn't realise Trump could play the organ....?    

Based on recent(-ish) history, I thought American Presidents got someone else to play their organ for them?

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5 hours ago, Malcolm 0-6-0 said:

 

Further proof that evolution can be reversed - that's Trump in  10 years.

 

:jester:

Continuing the evolutionary reversal to the point where we were all birds, I used to have  a canary that had a striking resemblance to President Trump as he still calls himself except not being orange enough.

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Just now, Nearholmer said:

I can’t think of any other valid reason to name a child Weedon.

 

Oh dear. I can think of invalid reasons, especially if he was the younger sibling (as I understand was the case).

 

Somehow the name didn't catch on, unlike Florence, whose parents were careful, after having made the mistake of naming her elder sister after a suburb of Naples.

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15 minutes ago, Edwardian said:

 

Is there any other kind?

 

;)

Oi!

I resemble that remark!

 

(And if you are a keen student of history, you will know that there is nothing obscure about it.)

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I wasn’t thinking hard enough:

 

“His mother was Louisa Emmeline Grossmith néeWeedon (d. 1882).”

 

And, I still hold that Weedon is an obscure place. Ask a thousand people on the street (not in Weedon, obviously) and I’d wager they’ve never heard of it.

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