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{In Thick Yorkshire Accent} - 'Luxury! In my day, we used to call it "maths"! Two-hundred and fifty of us huddled together in a bomb shelter in Bracknell[1] por
by vogon_laureate 3y ago
{In Thick Yorkshire Accent} - 'Luxury! In my day, we used to call it "maths"! Two-hundred and fifty of us huddled together in a bomb shelter in Bracknell[1] poring over oceanographic maps by gaslight and trying not to sneeze into the sergeant's tea.'
[1]:https://rafmetman.wordpress.com/meteorology/ww2-meteorology/
- KineticLensman 3y agoOhhhh 'maths' - we used to DREAM of huddlin' in a shelter doing 'maths'! We barely had a distinction between 'one', 'two' and 'lots'. etc etc
- vogon_laureate 3y agoYou were lucky to have ones and twos! The best we could manage was to rifle through tea leaves at the bottom of a cracked cup to divine the forecast for the next six hours in Thebes. And when we would read the leaves wrong, our dad would thrash us in two with bronze bread knife and dance about our graves singing Ode to Dionysus.