Richard J

Cf comments on any fb article about the ULEZ bomber

Came across my parent’s copy of his common place book again last year that was a valuable educational resource for a smartarse 12 year old who only knew of him as the author of the Whatamess books

It’s pretty much open knowledge that aerial broadcasting is going away in like a decade or so in favour of everything being streamed

How does that compare to the cost of a drama or sitcom, say… (which is I guess what I’m alluding to)

Massive canary in the coalmine if even comedy panel shows are too expensive for modern TV tbh.

is that a preposition?

But I should decline making any further comment for the continuous present.

It’s a tricky case that’s for sure

French, German and Russian. I joined it too late for Latin but remarkably nobody has ever tapped me on the shoulder over sherry

"I have always been loyal to the King of Spain" - look it's the first line of the anthem!

something more protound that the soldiers had brought home with them through their education in the army: they walked tal with a new maturity. The service of the Sirkar,' reflected an Afrid elder, 'makes fools into wise men. At early evening gatherings-the daily hub of village social life where hookahs were smoked gossip swapped in hushed tones, and public matters discussed in the open - the Indian soldiers spoke more expansively and influ-entially than they had before enlistment, with self-confidence, reason and judgement. They now thought more broadly and questioned village habits, encouraging disciplined abstinence from cannabis and other popular drugs. They also improved village sanitation. 'One got as dirty in a minute as in a month in China, a Punjabi recruit despaired of his village, where he insisted on cleaner houses and lanes in front of them such as the Chinese had. But the benefits of military service were only one side of recruits' pre-First World War lives in the Indian Army. Overseas service itself could bring serious trouble at home, whether through straining personal relationships because of time spent away, or through shaming by local Hindu priests who thought the act of sea travel made a man spiritually impure - a problem greatest for Gurkhas whose tribes in remote Nepal clung to a traditional idea of sea travel as sinful. More importantly, each Indian recruit as a colonial subject had to face the fact that military service was also a daily trial of humiliation. Their varied reactions to this lay at the heart of how prepared they were to serve the British by 1914-some recruits were clearly the most accepting of the benefits of military employment, while others were more prone to deserting, or even killing their British officers.

Exemplar of the needle-threading here

The INDIAN EMPIRE at WAR From JIHAD to VICTORY, The UNTOLD STORY of the INDIAN ARMY in the FIRST WORLD WAR

altogether and they are quite up a tree? The second significant feature of the Indians' pre-1914 overseas service shown in China was their engagement with foreign culture. The sources for this are few and far between, but the Hindu diarist Thakur Amar Singh was in China in 1900-01 attached to the Indian Army with the princely States unit the Jodhpur Lancers, and he wrote down his thoughts on Chinese culture which were likely typical of other Indian soldiers' reactions. Like them, he saw the great sights in and around Beijing - the Forbidden City and Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and Great Wall of China - and he was enthralled. 'The Great Wall was our daily view, he wrote of one of his postings. I had walked for weeks continually on it, and was wondering what sort of man he must have been who started this enormous work. Amar Singh then met Chinese families in whose homes Indian soldiers were housed. "The inhabitants seem quite gentle and friendly and offer fruits, walnuts, chestnuts, tea, and liquor to all the troops. Their villages are most beautifully built and have separate rooms. Their houses are also clean and well built... The most extraordinary thing is that they don't milk their cows. They don't know what milk

Now reading; which feels from the first few chapters to be attempting to be as balanced as is possible but unavoidably struggling a bit with the lack of sources from below , but this anecdote is interesting nonetheless

Have you guessed the name of Billy's planet?
It was Earth!

“Boss, you do realise where our main donor lives, right”

Missing the point completely but including “Monaco” in the list of ok jurisdictions is pretty funny in how revealing it is ngl

DON'T DATE ROBOTS!

Literally a Futurama episode!

Chinese Opera and rap, famously non lyrics concerned music

“And you have to do until you retire because those mortgage/school fees/alimony payments still need making “

Casinos rarely run out of punters after all; even though the prize does seem to be “a metric fuckton of money that you’ve no time to enjoy”

I’ve read a few more volumes on, it still remains cosy but with ever increasingly unsettling overtones and that dissonance is part of the charm

Members potentially likely to vote for him would I suspect

I suppose that’s it; it’s always instrumental for the purposes of his career

Or put another way, he’s a wanker

A recurring theme is that every time Farage gets the wind behind him he can’t stop being an arsehole pub bore

The basic problem with Wes is that he’s clearly competent at basic political skills just can’t actually do them without coming across as him exercising political skills rather than a matter of principle or morality

Tbh it’s just basic competence at retail politics

To Labour members of course; which is just basic nous but it makes you wonder what else is there he’s not drawing attention to

Funny how all those messages he’s drawing attention to are ones that make him look reasonable

That’s the top 30% right?

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Oh right

you might think that...