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Who?

06.12.2025 09:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Martyred on the same day as St Reatham. They must surely both have come to a terrible end. More terrible even than Elmer's.

06.12.2025 09:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Management have eyes everywhere. But they're complaining about that.

04.12.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Also in the unhelpful have-you-tried-this category, because of different city, but primary school PTA Christmas fairs are undoubtedly happening this weekend near you also, & accepting donations for their tombolas.

03.12.2025 15:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It had been at least 70k higher in 1663. Plus emigration.

02.12.2025 19:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

--Did having so many Judys present cause any confusion?
--Yes, punches were thrown.

02.12.2025 19:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Or in Wodehouse read "Something Fresh".

02.12.2025 13:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The complete servant by servant Samuel Adams and Sarah Adams Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers.

So Jeeves covers all the manservant jobs. For everything about which servant does what see www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69487. Valets can earn as much as butlers, though butlers are promoted from valets or footmen-valets.

02.12.2025 13:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe, but not in this. Butler is a managerial role and Bertie, as a bachelor, doesn't need a full household. He has maids come in:we know from The Aunt & the Sluggard that Jeeves doesn't make the beds. But they don't live in (no space, no chaperone). Bertie uses an agency, who also supplied Jeeves.

02.12.2025 13:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

There are 25 million households in the UK, in round numbers. So ยฃ1bn is 40 quid each, or less than a pound a week. But ยฃ30bn is ยฃ1,200 each, quite enough to be a problem.

01.12.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Who?

01.12.2025 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It's all induced traffic and people ratrunning the Great Eastern main line.

01.12.2025 10:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

TX-26LDX80. We don't rise to the grandeur of 32".

30.11.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

AOL. Our TV is *also* a Panasonic from, yes, 2007. It does what a TV should and you're not having it. Our DVD player is an inferior Sony which my f-in-l shook out of a cereal packet.

30.11.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Talking of pennies, I see Cummings has turned up again.

30.11.2025 08:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Yes, what's with this? It's started happening to perfectly ordinary off-the-peg suits. You don't want to discover it's a thing only after walking around with your cuffs undone all day.

29.11.2025 20:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Formally, the I Wasn't Expelled I Left Party.

29.11.2025 20:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you for digging so we don't have to. Public-spirited of you!

28.11.2025 20:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Flights ok if into Egypt.

28.11.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That bureaucrats know what's meant here & non-bureaucrats won't, is an example of injustice. But we may now be vehemently agreeing. You want just, humane toffs to become magistrates but think many people are less just than they believe. I say it's not enough to think you are; you need examples.

27.11.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I don't trust the system reliably to recruit the best candidates. But I understand bureaucratese enough to know what's being asked for, and therefore what potential applicants should ask themselves.

27.11.2025 18:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

5, 6, 7, 9 and 10 all look to be real maths. I assume for non-mathematicians the ideas are expounded rather than proved. 2, 3, 4, 8 look like sensible bits of literary or cultural studies & I would cheerfully pick one as my non-maths course for mathematicians. Number 1 I don't know.

27.11.2025 18:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They give five mandatory qualities and I would expect five competency-based interview questions, each of which you would have to pass, because of public sector fair & open appointment rules. Maybe I'm too institutionalised (& therefore no good anyway).

27.11.2025 12:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You do need to show "willingness understand key societal issues", which in civil-service-speak would mean evidence of not living in a smug middle class bubble and a good example of times when you have engaged to resolve other people's non-smug problems.

27.11.2025 12:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Was it not a gyro-stabilised cow?

26.11.2025 11:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

32, eh? And these brain scientists, are they by any chance hoping that this study will earn them a second postdoc?

25.11.2025 20:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Juries are not perfect.

Many of the worst miscarriages of justice have followed jury trials.

But the merit of juries is not so much the power they have, but the power they prevent others from having.

They mean a judge cannot just nod-along with prosecution evidence and give a guilty verdict.

25.11.2025 19:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1693    ๐Ÿ” 349    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

If it's empty you can cycle on it. I would hope it's no longer a 40 limit?

25.11.2025 07:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

But it's not the generator of a prime ideal, unlike say -2.

24.11.2025 15:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Shurely 561? #carmichael

24.11.2025 14:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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