(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
As political jamborees go the Tory one is no different than Labour’s last week. Looking at trained seals clapping another trained seal is like watching paint dry. Kemi is apologising. I would suggest she not bother as the ship has sailed and her party with it. The 2024 general election was the last of its kind, where we’re given a choice of Coca-Cola or Pepsi-Cola and we’re supposed to believe they are different drinks. Jog on.
Anyway James, I’m off after tea tomorrow. Gathering of the tribe so to speak: various meetings and talks on how best to survive uncontrolled mass immigration as both ethnic group and nation. Not for the faint-hearted. It ends next weekend with a visit to Battle Abbey in East Sussex. A nation will decide how it is governed.
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JH: Very best with this familial jaunt, Steve, and ta again for all.
7. Pre 1970 :). Hair was mid to late 60 s
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JH: That’s right … he did not give it last I looked but I’m thinking 1968, somewhere there.