Ichthypresbyter

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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
And the British decide to make things more confusing by referring to the sides of the boat as strokeside and bowside. Strokeside is always port, even if in that particular boat stroke's oar is actually on the starboard side- and even
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
ATC mandatory retirement age is still 56.
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by Ichthypresbyter 3y ago
>especially as motorway driving isn't on the driving test and learners weren't allowed on motorways at all until 2018, so most drivers have never had any formal motorway training The geography of the UK makes it difficult to re
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
I remember reading an SF story in which the Soviets think Venus is a relatively hospitable jungle, send Gagarin there, then come up with the plane crash story to cover up their mistake. Sadly I can't find it at the moment.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Containers don't just sit there- they are secured, with a combination of lashing rods and twistlocks that connect the bottom of the container to the deck or the container it is resting on. In fact, there are computer programs which tel
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
One of the more famous examples of this is the strange object in the foreground of The Ambassadors by Hans Holbein the Younger [0], which resolves as a skull when viewed from the correct angle. https://upload.wikimedia.org&#x2F
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Note that if you cross a border in Europe (not necessarily in the EU) by car, you will pass a sign [0] giving the default speed limits for each type of road. [0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:National_speed_lim
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The article doesn't mention that the spire was possibly the first building to be taller than the Great Pyramid (there's dispute over exactly how tall the spire of Old St. Paul's Cathedral in London was), and was not surpassed
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The mob ran waste hauling for businesses who did (and still do) have to contract with private companies to take away their waste- the big trial that is supposed to have got rid of most of the mob control of this business was in the mid-90s.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
There are a very small number of private intensive care units (I spent some time in one of them a few years ago, for complicated travel-insurance-related reasons). AFAIK they are all in London. Any other private hospital may have the facil
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Certainly up to about 5-10 years ago in the UK university societies ran on cheques (not sure if they still do). It was AIUI the only simple way of requiring the approval of any two of a number of committee members to spend money.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
>Sure, I'm not overly romanticizing things, people of people just order some dominos in Italy too I don't think very many do, given that the Italian Domino's franchise recently went bankrupt [0] having managed to open 29 o
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The only even quasi-official use of the stone is in horse racing (to measure the weight carried by the horse in a handicap race), which is also IIRC the last surviving use of the furlong.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Denmark is yet another multiple-country sovereign state- Denmark (proper), Greenland, and the Faroe Islands are constituent countries of the Kingdom of Denmark.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
This doesn't really work in the UK. The rules of succession to a title vary depending on the specific title but they almost always include the phrase "heirs of the body" of the original grantee. In other words, they only pass
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Climate controls are the exception there. You may need to switch on the defroster to stop your windshield fogging up.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Even within floor-mounted stick shifts there's a bunch of different layouts- reverse can be anywhere from up and left to down and right, and can have various different lockouts (push the stick down, pull up a ring...) or none. And then
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
I think Tá/Níl were used (after some debate) as Yes/No on the Irish-language ballot papers in various recent constitutional referenda in Ireland. (Gaelic in Scotland does not have the same official status as Irish in Ireland or We
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The book is "Through the Language Glass", which I agree is very good.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
There's Eroica [0], which is vintage bike racing but which uses slightly more modern equipment. The aim is to recreate the atmosphere of the 1950s- officially the rules say bikes must be pre-1987, but a lot of riders use significantly
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Plates work very differently on older cars in the US because a car gets a new plate whenever it changes owners or the owner moves from one state to another.
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
I think the idea here is that each of the four witnesses gave one of the numbers in the question. They all agree that it is 3*J*Z. 3 witnesses (all except A) agree that the second digit was 5. 3 witnesses (all except B) agree that the third
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
There was one time when they were explicitly allowed to be used as paddles during the Cardboard Boat Race (otherwise the boat, including its means of propulsion, had to be made entirely from cardboard, PVA glue and duct tape). Then they cha
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
Though I think the UK has slightly different rules on who owns antiquities (and of course they differ between the constituent countries of the UK). In England, only certain items (essentially those which have a significant precious metal co
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
During the excavations to build 30 St Mary Axe- better known as "the Gherkin"- in London, the grave of a young girl from Roman Londinium was found. She was reburied with something approximating Roman funeral rites, and the new gra
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
I have had arguments with disability activists about this- apparently, some interpretations of American disability rights legislation require electronic devices to be made available to allow voters whose disability prevents them using a pen
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The UK pays its vote counters, and other people who assist at elections (such as the poll clerks who check names off the electoral roll and issue ballot papers). Sunderland South, which takes pride in being the first constituency to return
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
The Dutch continued celebrating Queen Juliana's birthday (April 30th) as their national day when Queen Beatrix succeeded her, as they didn't want to move an event which is traditionally celebrated outdoors to January. Beatrix was
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
And if you do want to lock your bike to something immovable, the standard seems to be a chain that locks into the ring lock, with a loop on the end- which gives you a lot more flexibility than a D-lock. The other factor, though, is that sta
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by Ichthypresbyter 4y ago
I'm not sure how much of an effect they would have on suicides. This may just be my stereotypical mental image, but I suspect that a lot of gun suicide victims have owned the gun in question for a long time, in which case a waiting per

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