@rickansell
Research Software Engineer at Dstl (MOD) Former Military Operational Researcher. Ancient - online since 1996 (the year September never ended) Interests include History, especially military, TTRPGs, Computing etc. Minor ally of all sorts of Woke stuff.
Seems like a good 'in' to have a discussion about security and IT. Including how, on a shared computer, this is not good practice.
Also, best check if she wipes the keyboard afterwards.
Terry Pratchett captures the essence of a worldwide problem:
Sergeant Colon had had a broad education. He'd been to the School of My Dad Always Said, the College of It Stands to Reason and was now a postgraduate student at the University of What Some Bloke In the Pub Told Me.
* Jingo
Hopefully not-postumous.
Postumous Thank You to Ivan Margary, the man with the funds.
Also Aubrey Barrett, water engineer, who noticed a 'masonry building', in his trench.
So, the bloke buried in Farnborough.
Because there was no 11+ barrier I was able to move up through the 'streams' over time, always clawing my way up. I was just about ready for my O Levels (dates me).
I ended up with an Astrophysics BSc and am now coming to the end of my working life as a Software Engineer.
This always gets me. Makes me angry.
I would have failed the 11+. Because I couldn't read properly, due to late diagnosis of my eyesight problems. I began my school career in the 'Remedial' set, the rock-bottom, housed in a separate, isolated, building, openly described to my Parents as 'stupid'.
Attn @hookland.bsky.social
Cos I think my prior post wouldn't have alerted you.
bsky.app/profile/vch-...
So, when is the Hookland VCH coming out? 😀
@hookland.bsky.social
Quote Posts all the way down I'm afraid...
Hookland and Victoria County History mentioned in the context of Local History and The Orb tracklisting.
Correction
... FROM the London Necropolis Company
<Hangs head in shame>
Amoungst many others, Alan Turing was cremated and had his ashes scattered at Woking Crem. It is also still running.
Still VERY much active. In 2020 around 50,000 sets of remains disturbed by the HS2 rail project were reinterred there.
Ironically, the first purpose built Crematorium in the UK, Woking Crematorium, was built on land purchased by the London Necropolis Company.
Not all operations stopped.
Brookwood Cemetery, the destination of the trains, is still open for burials. With sections for various faiths and burial preferences. A neighbour and my one-time managers mother were buried there. As was Dodie Fayed, until he was transferred to his fathers estate.
So, where would Beatty fit? 😀
... lets just say, best not allow yourself to be selected as Signals Officer.
[This is a Jutland 1916 reference, for those that missed it]
So none of this this year? :(
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o63q...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrPB...
Notes:
They were invited to make these by the current organisers of the Elfstedentocht
I wish they/someone would do a Parts1+2 video
So, hows flattening that hump in the Patio going?
Given some of the replies to this post...
Block early, block often.
And you are never obliged to read a full thread.
You are aware that Jo (Fake History Hunter) is Dutch (citizen of and resident in The Netherlands), yes?
Becuase this post somewhat confuses me unless 'you' is FHH and you are also making assumptions about her nationality.
Hums 'Holiday in Cambodia' (Dead Kennedys) - context is 1980 if confused.
May you live in exciting times. But not her, yes?
50 years of this here. Amplified by being scared of doing the seriously wrong thing because I don't 'get' the social rituals and 'how' to be a couple.
Age verification? I remember staying up beyond my bedtime to watch a bloke in a big white suit climbing down a ladder on fuzzy Black and White TV.
Also lots of Also sprach Zarathustra on the BBC
Paging @jenniebreeden.thedevilspanties.com
... organises Leafblower vs Kilts at Dragoncon every year.
Overheard in the hospital: “The history course is doing my head in. I’m not learning about history because historians just talk about themselves and how wrong all the other historians are.”
So many reminders of what France owes Britain but nothing of our victory over them.
It still have annoyed CDG though.
The memorial to the victory over Napoleon is actually the bridge, after which the station is named.
3/3
Spefically the 585 employees of the London and South Western Railway who were killed. Their names are on large plaques inside the arch. Also commemorated are those who died in the Normandy Landings and the 626 men of the Southern Railway lost in WWII.
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That's 'Victory Arch'.
The victory it commemorates is of the allies, including both Britain and France, over the Central Powers, not victory over France.
It is primarily a memorial to the dead of the Great War, in which much defending of France occurred.
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All the K-Class, and it's derivatives (which this was), were shipwrecks waiting to happen.
K-Class 6 of 17 lost
M-Class 2 of 3 lost
All without the intervention of the enemy.
At the least 'Not keeping a proper watch'.
My bet is watchkeeper taking a nap or on some other duty whilst the autopilot runs things.
So mant MAIB reports read...