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Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Yes there is that. Watching the compositors work when at the London Evening News many years ago, it was amazing seeing them set up the type. Once each article was complete, it was checked by an overseer before being passed onto the next section. With all news sites both online & print, there have been too many lazy reporters which begs the question: Which is "real" news & which is fake? If the "real" news sites can't get their facts right... |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17490 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Apparently the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled that he military within EU member states should be subjected to the Working Time Directive. In other words, soldiers aren’t, er, soldiers; they are employees, and so subject to “individual timekeeping, severe limitations on night work, rigid activity planning including prior agreement from each individual to any change, precise calculation of time off, mandatory 11-hour daily rest time,” and on and on. The Court was quick to respond that armies can derogate from working hours in deployment, special operations, or in cases of “insurmountable constraints”. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Doubt very much that any current member was born pre 1945 Several born 1970+ Was surprised to see some Irish judges in that list (born in the 50's) & cannot understand their reasoning agreeing with that. Then again, they are lawyers & academics. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
"Hey Ernie, something is weird here." "Well, with you Eric, is anything normal?" "No, you numskull, look at this" The first Morecambe and Wise Show to air on BBC One - feared lost for ever - has been unearthed after 50 years."Hey Eric, why is ITV showing a BBC episode?" "Good question Ernie" |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17490 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Lieutenant Johnny Myerscough, aged 100, pilot with the Fleet Air Arm and ‘one of the most outstanding pilots’ in the wartime Navy He destroyed seven locomotives during one bombing attack in 1945 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2021/07/22/lieutenant-johnny-myerscough-pilot-fleet-air-arm-one-outstanding/ |
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https://apnews.com/article/arrests-2fc8f52ea3168fa819e14be04accda86 Woman arrested after skinny dipping in stranger’s pool |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Yep, we need to allow people to have a chance to grow and to grow up without intrusive scrutiny...WTF is wrong with people? Several papers report on the appointment of a "naughty school boy" to one of the most senior positions in education. |
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Most Americans don't want Arabic numerals taught in U.S. schools https://www.jpost.com/omg/most-americans-dont-want-arabic-numerals-taught-in-us-schools-590280 Excellent. |
rob smith ![]() ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 7 Mar 03 Posts: 20797 Credit: 416,307,556 RAC: 380 ![]() ![]() |
Perhaps they want to use Roman, or (ancient) Chinese, or (ancient) Japanese, or one of the other character sets representing digits.... (not forgetting that some of those sets do not contain a zero character, cope with fractions etc.) I hope such people realise what "fun" they would impose on themselves as they moved back in time and have to re-invent their system of arithmetic and mathematics. All the while most of the rest of the world looks on bemused. Bob Smith Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society) Somewhere in the (un)known Universe? |
W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17490 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Most Americans don't want Arabic numerals taught in U.S. schools Better not tell them that algebra and many other parts of maths were discovered by Arabs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_in_medieval_Islam |
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W-K 666 ![]() Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 17490 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 ![]() ![]() |
Better not tell them that algebra and many other parts of maths were discovered by Arabs. I'll let you tell them, that they shouldn't drink alcohol ;-) |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
Another European organisation with their heads stuck in their asses. Team fined for NOT wearing bikini bottoms |
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Another European organisation with their heads stuck in their asses. TV ratings for teenage boys ... . |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
There are times when your posts crack me up. :-) |
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... and dirty old men...Another European organisation with their heads stuck in their asses.TV ratings for teenage boys ... . Cheers. |
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follow the money |
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... and dirty old men... I'm dirty - haven't taken a Shower in 3 Years. I'm Old. Those BBs seem to be terribly Uncomfortable and Look Horrid on Every One of them Why do they Wear Them? When I was a teenager seeing a Beautifully Shaped female Behind was a treat. Not so with these players. And I have Same Mind/Feelings 'bout this region as I ever had. BBs are an Ugly Distraction. So Out of Place. Weird. Yep ![]() May we All have a METAMORPHOSIS. REASON. GOoD JUDGEMENT and LOVE and ORDER!!!!! ![]() |
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Ya Think? Recent reports also show that the repeal of a Florida law in 2010 that required condominium buildings to plan for repairs may have also contributed to the collapse. |
Sirius B ![]() ![]() Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24446 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 ![]() |
The chicken has come home to roost. Won't be long before your local shops run out of your favourite beers, then watch the whingers moan. £1,000 incentive for drivers You've had this coming for years, Covid just bought it to a head. |
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