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The Common Room / Re: "Hettie"? who could she have been
« on: Friday 06 November 20 14:41 GMT (UK) »
If the waters aren’t muddy enough lol. “ Hortense”?
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The Common Room / Re: Did you have to pay to be in the directory?
« on: Friday 04 September 20 18:03 BST (UK) »
I always used to get a smile from the listing of people by Gentry, Clergy and tradesmen ie Small business owners...Of the folk who did the actual work, not a whisper. From this I was able to see that my 3x gt grandad had some quite posh neighbours.. one was an “Honourable..”.
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Family History Beginners Board / Re: Marriage certs
« on: Tuesday 21 July 20 20:50 BST (UK) »
it might take a while in current climate 
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Stay Home Stay Safe (Part 10)
« on: Wednesday 15 July 20 12:32 BST (UK) »
My favourite quote.. one of them anyway.. is one which has been proved time and again this past few months. Einstein said that as far as he knew, two things were infinite...one was the universe and the other was human stupidity.And he wasn’t sure about the universe!
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: Will you go shopping on the high street now?
« on: Friday 26 June 20 11:00 BST (UK) »
Part of the problem was the 3000 Milan fans who were allowed to watch their team play Liverpool... though they weren't allowed to watch their team play at home because Milan was at the epicentre of the initial outbreak in Lombardy . Also, the Cheltenham Gold Cup was allowed to go ahead .. was it 60,000 people went from all over the country.
then of course we had the Cummings "Don't do as I do. do as I say" saga.
it occurred to me that perhaps Bournemouth Council could have a word with one or two local farmers.. suggest driving a tanker of silage along the row of parked cars... pity about convertibles, cars with open windows but hey ho... it would wash off, but in the meantime the journey home would be nice!...
then of course we had the Cummings "Don't do as I do. do as I say" saga.
it occurred to me that perhaps Bournemouth Council could have a word with one or two local farmers.. suggest driving a tanker of silage along the row of parked cars... pity about convertibles, cars with open windows but hey ho... it would wash off, but in the meantime the journey home would be nice!...
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: General Discussion on Current Situation 2/
« on: Sunday 31 May 20 10:27 BST (UK) »Are you surprised?
It like a Lynch Mob on here.
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: General Discussion on Current Situation 2/
« on: Sunday 31 May 20 10:26 BST (UK) »
I agree...... it is not necessary to belittle and sneer at people who are justifiably angry at effectively having 2 fingers stuck up to them
.Guy will understand, I have no doubt, the meaning of the phrase "reductio ad hominem" "if you cant play the ball play the man" It is a logical fallacy.Look up "fallacy"
Perhaps Guy might like to also look up the meaning of the word "political".. to save him the trouble,it means "of or concerning the state , government or political affairs generally". (OED)
Therefore all points expressed in this discussion are "political" but not "party political". since they relate to the actions of a senior official who seems to think that rules don't apply to him , nor do the rules of common decency, ie at the very least apologise. when you are so blatantly obviously in the wrong .
.Guy will understand, I have no doubt, the meaning of the phrase "reductio ad hominem" "if you cant play the ball play the man" It is a logical fallacy.Look up "fallacy"
Perhaps Guy might like to also look up the meaning of the word "political".. to save him the trouble,it means "of or concerning the state , government or political affairs generally". (OED)
Therefore all points expressed in this discussion are "political" but not "party political". since they relate to the actions of a senior official who seems to think that rules don't apply to him , nor do the rules of common decency, ie at the very least apologise. when you are so blatantly obviously in the wrong .
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: General Discussion on Current Situation 2/
« on: Friday 29 May 20 13:11 BST (UK) »
Given that Cummings drove 260 miles to his parents home while he and /or his wife were showing symptoms of Covid19 to a place on his parents farm (nothing very much you know, just concrete blocks really) where they could self isolate...he THEN drove 30 miles to Barnard Castle, which he says took half an hour. On that basis he was driving at an average of 60 miles an hour. The sto0pping distance at that speed is 240 ft/55 metres, of which 18 metres are thinking distance.
The drivers physical condition is another factor. Cummings admitted he wasn't 100%.,
The legal minimum distance for eyesight is 20 metres or about 67 feet to see a 3.1 inch number plate. He could easily therefore have checked that at the "cottage" where he wasn't supposed to be.How was he to know he wouldn't feel worse..what then? he said he felt sick when they got there, hence sat by the river for a while. And they would have lied about that if they hadn't been spotted and the number plate noted.
Or if they'd had an accident or the car broke down...
So in conclusion he's stuck 2 fingers up to the thousands of front line workers . all because the rules don't apply to them...
And he didn't even have the grace to apologise to all the thousands of folk affected by and who nevertheless abide by the rules. which it seems don't apply to him and his kind.
The drivers physical condition is another factor. Cummings admitted he wasn't 100%.,
The legal minimum distance for eyesight is 20 metres or about 67 feet to see a 3.1 inch number plate. He could easily therefore have checked that at the "cottage" where he wasn't supposed to be.How was he to know he wouldn't feel worse..what then? he said he felt sick when they got there, hence sat by the river for a while. And they would have lied about that if they hadn't been spotted and the number plate noted.
Or if they'd had an accident or the car broke down...
So in conclusion he's stuck 2 fingers up to the thousands of front line workers . all because the rules don't apply to them...
And he didn't even have the grace to apologise to all the thousands of folk affected by and who nevertheless abide by the rules. which it seems don't apply to him and his kind.
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The Stay Safe Board / Re: New Mantra: Stay Alert - Control the Virus
« on: Sunday 10 May 20 21:29 BST (UK) »
I am not sure what is meant by "stay Alert". As has been pointed out elsewhere, this is a virus.. it is
a single strand of RNA 0.0000001 of a millimetre in diameter (think ive got the correct number of zeroes)It is not a pedestrian crossing.
I had my eyes done last year and can see ever so much more clearly, but they didn't install a pair of electron microscopes so they remain alas only eyes, and as such unable to detect groups of covid 19 waiting on street corners to mug me.What does "stay alert" actually mean? drink more coffee?
The governments of Northern Ireland wales and Scotland seem to think that the original advice to stay at home and maintain social distancing ie very little change, is the correct response for now.
a single strand of RNA 0.0000001 of a millimetre in diameter (think ive got the correct number of zeroes)It is not a pedestrian crossing.
I had my eyes done last year and can see ever so much more clearly, but they didn't install a pair of electron microscopes so they remain alas only eyes, and as such unable to detect groups of covid 19 waiting on street corners to mug me.What does "stay alert" actually mean? drink more coffee?
The governments of Northern Ireland wales and Scotland seem to think that the original advice to stay at home and maintain social distancing ie very little change, is the correct response for now.