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Message 2057205 - Posted: 17 Sep 2020, 0:30:23 UTC - in response to Message 2057203.  
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We know that in quite a few countries, with the US and UK probably being the leaders, education standards have fallen. But I didn't know it had gone this far.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/16/holocaust-us-adults-study

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Message 2057438 - Posted: 21 Sep 2020, 16:31:31 UTC

It marks the end of rail franchises, which have been in place since the 1990s.
So what's going to replace them?

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Message 2057961 - Posted: 30 Sep 2020, 15:54:48 UTC

The smoke from the California wild fires has come back to the upper left coast. When I look at the sun it is a dim orange disc. It is mostly upper atmosphere smoke and is not expected to reach the unhealthy levels we had 2 weeks ago.
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Message 2058445 - Posted: 6 Oct 2020, 10:53:14 UTC

Interesting comment: Plan & save for your retirement.
How many companies went belly up with a black hole in their pension funds?
Workers screwed yet again
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Message 2058618 - Posted: 8 Oct 2020, 7:12:55 UTC

Prince William and Sir David Attenborough join forces on 'Earthshot' prize

Great idea - but do you think the name is a sly dig at Boris Johnson's 'Moonshot'?
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Message 2059177 - Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 21:46:43 UTC - in response to Message 2059152.  
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Message 2059179 - Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 21:52:49 UTC - in response to Message 2059177.  

75 years underwater. Barnes Wallis sure knew how to build bombs considering the bureaucratic crap he endured with the Dambusters.
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Message 2059181 - Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 22:02:51 UTC - in response to Message 2059179.  

75 years underwater. Barnes Wallis sure knew how to build bombs considering the bureaucratic crap he endured with the Dambusters.

Not the only one who had to suffer bureaucratic crap, The local connection can be seen at The Swan & Royal, Sir Frank Whittle room
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Message 2059183 - Posted: 13 Oct 2020, 22:09:02 UTC - in response to Message 2059181.  

Thanks for that. Wasn't aware he was forced from Coventry to Clitheroe. Considering what happened to Coventry, understandable.
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Message 2059439 - Posted: 16 Oct 2020, 15:32:45 UTC

Jeebers, just how far down the political correctness road left to travel?
Come on, anyone here who viewed those films as a kid thought, racism?
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Message 2059440 - Posted: 16 Oct 2020, 15:35:22 UTC - in response to Message 2059439.  

But how many parents (and grandparents) are having to explain them to their kids and grandkids, for the first time of watching?
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Message 2059442 - Posted: 16 Oct 2020, 15:37:25 UTC - in response to Message 2059440.  

But how many parents (and grandparents) are having to explain them to their kids and grandkids, for the first time of watching?
Yep, forgetting the enjoyment they had in watching them themselves as kids.
No wonder the world is in a mess.
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SUPER RICH? Yep. Dats 'bout as AMERICAN as One Can Be.

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Message 2059678 - Posted: 20 Oct 2020, 17:15:41 UTC

Think this academic should learn more about the Battle of the Atlantic & the fight against U-boats...
Bletchley Park overrated
...especially from 1943 when Kark Donitz took total command of the Kriegsmarine & controlled his wolfpacks centrally.
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Message 2059824 - Posted: 22 Oct 2020, 15:02:41 UTC

With a new version of this thread having been started this old one is being locked.
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