(1403) Afternoon all. Just going to pretend everything was as usual and I didn’t have another three hour sleep … I’d hardly say fully refreshed but at least more refreshed than many Saturday nighters out there. 🙂 (1503)
10. This one does require some input from the former CCCP
I was not there during CCCP days, it was closer to the end of the decade … and yet old CCCP (USSR) practices still abounded … old habits died hard … and one of those was that in each “yard” there was an open space between four eight storey high apartment blocks in which you’d find a grassed area, benches, frames for rug beating, children’s play equipment, plus nice low wrought iron fences bordering gardens.
Were you to wander outside, say towards a local school’s waisthigh wire fence, there might be a hut where you could go under cover of darkness to denounce your neighbour you suspected of untoward thinking or behaviour. It was a formal matter, Denunciation, just as any bureaucratic form-filling was seen as sacrosanct, even holy. Once I was hauled over the coals for being less than calligraphic in my filling in of my class roll?
In awestruck voice, the lady whispered: “Etot DOKUMENT, J,” before taking it away and issuing a new one to fill in.
That’s the situation we’re heading towards now in the west … question is … will Oz get there first … or will the UK?
9. This is Christian?
Asking for a friend.
8. Elon corner again
7. Steve B’s chart quiz … usual ask