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Ronson8 Things can only get better.
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But it could be said that they were using the loco as a logo.  |
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rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Posted: 14-07-2013 09:43 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | But it could be said that they were using the loco as a logo. |
True, but it was not obviously a Nazi logo - it took a nerdy train-spotter to make that connection!
I expect they'll find a pic of a Russian loco to replace it. (As long as it's not a Stalinist, or some other non-PC ist, loco!  ) |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
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| Posted: 14-07-2013 11:40 Post subject: |
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That whole thing is a bit ridiculous - it doesn't have any Nazi iconography on it at all.  |
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| rynner2 What a Cad!
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| Posted: 19-07-2013 07:19 Post subject: |
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From an emailed newsletter:
For the final project of my degree (Masters in Broadcast Journalism at Falmouth University) I want to focus on the British fishing industry...
The challenge of disguards at sea needs to be explained, because it looks like insanity.
So, someone doing an MA can't spell 'discards'!  |
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| stuneville Administrator
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-07-2013 09:28 Post subject: |
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I guess you could use it as an enema.  |
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| TangletwigsDeux Yeti Joined: 06 May 2009 Total posts: 62 Location: The Shire Age: 50 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 19-07-2013 12:07 Post subject: |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 19-07-2013 18:40 Post subject: |
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| Ronson8 wrote: | | I guess you could use it as an enema. |
Can't get the mental picture out of my mind...aaargh. |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-07-2013 12:46 Post subject: |
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Not really an unfortunate headline so much as a self-consciously naughty one, I fear, having read the first paragraph of this story with its references to gaping holes and horned helmets:
I'm a Ring Virgin
That hardy perennial of the odd books circuit, Penetrating Wagner's Ring, was possibly unintended.
The Amazon Reviews for that are much more fun than the Grauniad piece.
The Guardian piece is also an example of the way in which it seems impossible to mention Wagner today without bringing up the Nazis. |
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| Ronson8 Things can only get better.
Great Old One Joined: 31 Jul 2001 Total posts: 6061 Location: MK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-07-2013 15:40 Post subject: |
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| sherbetbizarre Great Old One Joined: 04 Sep 2004 Total posts: 1418 Gender: Male |
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| JamesWhitehead Piffle Prospector Joined: 02 Aug 2001 Total posts: 5779 Location: Manchester, UK Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2013 13:07 Post subject: |
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"And bare in mind this guy is an ex-navel doctor, so he's no soft option, he knows what it is to be incapable of work."
It is the (correct) apostrophe which startles in this context!
From the comments on Atos Whistleblower Doctor Story  |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 03-08-2013 14:56 Post subject: |
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This one from the BBC is particularly stupid:
| Quote: | | George Doulat was jailed in his absence for 10 years for raping and sexually assaulting a teenager |
No he wasn't!  You can convict and sentence someone in their absence, you can't take someone into custody in their absence! |
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| OneWingedBird Great Old One Joined: 19 Nov 2012 Total posts: 542 Location: Attice of blinkey lights Age: 44 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 24-08-2013 14:55 Post subject: |
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I found this in the MOD speaking clock story that is mentioned in another thread:
| Quote: | | In 2007, Sara Mendes da Costa from Brighton won a competition to become the fourth permanent voice for the speaking clock in a BT competition that raised £200,000 for BBC Children In Need. |
How can someone be the fourth permanent voice... assuming she doesn't live somewhere between Edinburgh and Fife.
If she's the fourth one the other three couldn't have been that permanent. |
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| Mythopoeika Boring petty conservative
Joined: 18 Sep 2001 Total posts: 9109 Location: Not far from Bedford Gender: Unknown |
| Posted: 24-08-2013 15:21 Post subject: |
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| OneWingedBird wrote: | | If she's the fourth one the other three couldn't have been that permanent. |
People die and/or retire...? |
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