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Thinking of military hardware, would you be able to fit a pillbox in? There are several at Cuckmere Haven still, and pillboxes were certainly sited along the SER mainline - there was in the woods we used to play in just by Paddock Wood station.
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I am always taken aback in North America at trains that only run into town in the morning rush and out of town in the evening with nothing much or at all in the opposite direction and between the rushes. This is alien to us in the UK where our trains tend to run all day. Sidcup has 4 trains an hour in each direction outside the rush and 7 an hour during the rush.
Services in Vancouver and Seattle don’t have anything like the frequency or bi-directional facility.
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1 hour ago, Gwiwer said:
And that is why you will seldom find anyone of that faith travelling or even out and about after around 2pm on a Friday. They are not willing to risk being caught out away from home unable to light the candles and breaking Shabbat observance laws.
You will, however, notice an urgency among them approaching that time. This is especially noticeable in places with a high percentage of such folk among the population. The streets of Stamford Hill and Golders Green in London would be bustling at lunchtime, crowded just after with people clearly moving with purpose and almost deserted by mid-afternoon.
The last accountancy firm I worked for had a large Jewish population and the more orthodox were very much like this, needing to get at least within an eruv on time. The less religious at times seemed to use it as an excuse to get to the pub early. It also meant that Thursday was the going out after work night.
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1 hour ago, DaveF said:
I've just watched the Grand Prix, I would have missed it if Tony S hadn't posted about it just before it started. I'm so used to watching them on Sundays that I'd forgotten this one was on a Saturday. I think the next one is too.
Yes it is. I think it is something to do with Ramadan
EDIT - Ramadan starts next week, hence next weekend’s Saudi Arabia race is on Saturday- and the races have to be at least 7 days apart and so this weekend’s was on a Saturday too.
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1 minute ago, Grizz said:
Medical Dictionary definition - Kajagoogoo - injury to testicular region, usually resulting from leaping out of, or into a motor vehicle without first checking the whereabouts of the seat belt.
They did have song called “Ooh to be Ahh”. Now we know why.
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1 hour ago, Grizz said:
This AM I had to take number 2 cub into Gotham City for her college class. This result in me going into a small city branch of Waitrowse…
As you walk in the door the first isle has this…
This…..
and this….
I am weak…..they now have one less custard tart.
If you have not been, this should be on your bucket list
Pasteis de Belem, Lisbon. They have steady queue of customers and the tarts are still warm. Wasted on me but Mrs Lurker was a fan. Apparently the leftover ones from the box of six were even better cold.
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Sad news , especially as he was quite hopeful in a statement at the beginning of January.
I too am a fan of their chicken paprika, made it many times.
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8 hours ago, pH said:A friend of mine was a senior programmer in an organization we both worked in. He had a very quick temper.
There was a major layoff of staff, and John chose to go. He had another job lined up abroad, but it wasn’t to start for six months, so he wanted a short-term job in the meantime. He applied for a junior programmer’s job, which he could have done in his sleep, and was called for interview.
The interview was a “high stress” one - multiple interviewers, aggressive questioning, questions asked before previous answers had finished etc.
John took so much of this, then stood up, said “I didn’t really need this f…ing job anyway” and walked out.
Their loss, even as a short term employee.
if i were a candidate, my thought would be that i did not want to work for people like that. Sometimes it's not about any job, it's about the right job, and working atmosphere is important to me. Places that aim to give you a bit of real insight tend to be good. One job, my predecessor as allowed to spend an hour with me. Her comment before being interviewed by the deputy FD was "don't worry if you think he's a bit of a , we all do!".
I was offered and accepted that job. And later employed my predecessor as a consultant in a different setting 10 years later!
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There was an article a few years ago about "the small hours" suggesting that in the world before copious artificial light, it was quite usual to wake up in the small hours of the morning, do something relatively relaxing, and then go back to sleep, waking with the dawn - or when the night was at its coldest (it seems cold can be the waking trigger rather than light).
This link refers to a study on the subject:
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Presumably boxing is not a sport per the GAISF definition, seeing as it is harmful to the two living creatures taking part.
And with all the fuss about heading the football, I guess that is not either.
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58 minutes ago, polybear said:BH.....
There was a very sad story on the news this morning about a little 'un who'd died at school due to a food allergy. 😉
It seems common nowadays that children have food allergies, yet when Bear (and fellow ER'ers too, I suspect) was a young Cub such things were totally unheard of.
I wonder why it's so common now?
All of our contemporaries died of their allergies before they got to school.....? 😉
I am not sure where they all come from. It was a shock to have the paramedics round for Younger Lurker one Boxing Day. Tests showed the peanut in the fun size snickers he'd eaten, and/or chick peas/sesame in the small handful of bombay mix had caused a reaction. He'd eaten peanut before, but never since. The other things he was shown to be allergic to have been challenged under medical supervision and so he can, in fact, must, have them in his diet. The reaction to peanuts is too severe. We carry an epipen for him but. we have never had to use it.
We don't know where the allergy came from, and we were generally gung ho about such things with him and his brother. Now not so much!
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3 minutes ago, Hroth said:
No, but I was thinking of making some corned beef hash some time ago, and the price of a can of corned beef put me off the idea!
you could always make your own:
https://www.simplyrecipes.com/recipes/home_cured_corned_beef/
I am sure Triple D visited somewhere that made their own. Guy Fieri was well on his way to Flavourtown IIRC
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12 minutes ago, Tony_S said:
There are sharks in the Thames Estuary and a few were swimming around in the SeaLife Centre when we last visited. I think Tope are the biggest but the one on display at the aquarium wasn’t 2metres long. I just looked up what else had arrived and it seems there are venomous sharks in the Thames Estuary now called Spurdogs.
There have also been porpoises - or dolphins; the local rags can't make up their mind - at Gravesend in the last few days. Maybe the convicts on the hulks off the North Kent marshes would have seen them....shades of David Copperfield
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7 hours ago, iL Dottore said:.
I would take the “concerns” of the BMA, with a big pinch of salt. On one hand, their leadership is “progressive“ and on the other hand, the association itself is terribly, terribly hidebound. I recall many decades ago when Britain was first introducing paramedics to the ambulance services, the BMA had “concerns” about that as well.
The BMA is as far as I can tell the Doctors’ union. It is therefore primarily concerned with looking after its members- ie doctors. Anything that might diminish its members’ livelihoods will be opposed, at least until it is proved to be not a threat. They were I believe opposed to the creation of the NHS for that very reason. They are now very against any changes to the NHS that might reduce their members’ livelihoods. When viewed through that prism, their views are perhaps not very surprising- if as ID indicates, subject to revision.
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2 hours ago, monkeysarefun said:
Every time I go to a flying base (eg RAAF Williamstown, RAAF Darwin etc) that has aircraft operations I have to sit through a safety briefing which goes for about 15 minutes but is basically "Planes are dangerous, so stay away from the runway". I've been going to these bases periodically for 20 years or so to install IT infrastructure and have yet to even see a runway.
You have obviously paid attention then and the courses did their job!
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3 hours ago, southern42 said:
Interestingly, though, in my first teaching appointment, I attended a teachers' in-service training session on children's speech. This was in London. We have the spelling and pronunciation wrong! It is Bowsanarras. All one word!
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When I was in infants I asked the teacher how to spell “thisafternoon ”.
i was most put out that I had “this” in my spelling book. I knew how to spell “this”, I’d never clocked they were two words when my Mum said it!
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6 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:Not being sure, I had to look that term up. 😉
I came across it when Mrs Lurker was providing support in year 5 class (ages 9 & 10) a few years back when teaching grammar to the nth degree was introduced- she bought herself a book to be ahead of the game. The kids spend so long getting the required grammatical items in their sentences they forget that they need to flow and gave context with whatever they are supposed to be writing about.
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2 minutes ago, polybear said:
Weight loss involving double-enders most definitely isn't this Bear's idea of fun.....🤮💩
but by the sound of it, not scoffing a Dr Oetker's Pizza isn't, either 🙂
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39 minutes ago, polybear said:
Steer clear of the food in the Taj Mahal Hotel - a certain Bear lost 14lbs in 3 days.....
Isn't that what you're trying to achieve now, only quicker?
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The other day we had rather a sad piece of post - it was the latest telephone directory. It was a thin and weedy thing, something which no self esteeming strongman would break sweat tearing in two.
I noted on the front that "we've been delivering them to you since 1880" and that 2024 was the last one ever. I hadn't realised the phone book had been going so long but the science museum seems to confirm. And I suppose BT can claim to be the successor of the GPO. So a historical last?
No souvenirs in the Lurker household though - Mrs Lurker quickly pointed out it could go straight in the recycling bin!
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Welcome back, Bear. Long may the dark canines stay in their kennel.
all that exercise sounds good for that purpose as well as losing weight.
but how did you end up with a 3 inch height difference? Was it the relentless pull of the earth on your delicate frame? Or a misread of the tape measure?
me I am 6’2 when I am checking the BMI but the medical tells me otherwise. Trouble is I still am not light enough to be “normal “ weight. I would need to be 12 stone 8 lbs. And I am not!
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Not these days, the Peak district Wallabies are likely to have died out https://kent.wildwoodtrust.org/explore/list-of-animals/red-necked-wallaby/#:~:text=The total population of Red,to no sightings since 2000.
but over 1700 driving NHN hopping mad....
EDIT - I was posting in response to the Q which I think is obvious....
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Pasteis de Belem, Lisbon. They have steady queue of customers and the tarts are still warm. Wasted on me but Mrs Lurker was a fan. Apparently the leftover ones from the box of six were even better cold.
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