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by robga 6y ago
The radial numbering can be a useful ‘signpost’. As an anti-invasion tactic during World War II, a civil defence measure was to remove many road signs. That’d stop those nazis in their tracks. So to this day, I find the UK a difficult count
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by robga 6y ago
> I'd be more incredulous than angry I like your comments. But on one point ... Decades ago, reading Seneca’s “On Anger” changed my life overnight. I went from feelings of anger every 3 or 4 weeks to maybe once a year. And those occ
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by robga 6y ago
Best unboxing ever.
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by robga 6y ago
My zojirushi is my favourite device I’ve bought this decade. I squeezed it into carry on at SIN. Next: my 10kg plastic asvel rice dispenser. “Indispensable”.
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by robga 6y ago
I’ve used LinkedIn for 15 years. Used as in looked at twice a month. What gets me is there are at least 2 dead people in my contacts and every year the platform asks me to congratulate them for sticking around so long at one employer. The a
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by robga 6y ago
I visited the Faroes 4 years ago. Locals were proud of their cold storage industry. Fish from North Atlantic trawlers flash frozen many hours earlier than delivery to the continent. Lucrative. I imagine a cross island road network would hel
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by robga 6y ago
My Gates carbon belt is like new after 8 years riding my Schindelhauer Siegfried. I seem to remember 10 years quoted when I bought it.
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by robga 6y ago
I was in NK for 14 days in April 2012 coinciding with Kim Il Sung’s 100th birthday celebrations. It was only a few months since Kim Jong Un had taken power. If memory serves it was the first tour permitted since he came to power. It went as
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by robga 6y ago
One of the most abiding memories of my trip to North Korea 8 years ago was the ubiquity of the CNC Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPPlTX2a974 I can't read about CNC's without whistling the tune.
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by robga 6y ago
I went from London to Saigon by train, and then various overland options to southern Thailand, back in 2007. It feels like yesterday. From London it was 2 hours to Brussels, 3 hours to Cologne, 34 hours to Moscow, 100 hours to Ulaanbataar,
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by robga 6y ago
More often what happens (London) is the inverse. They’ll take two carriages off and squeeze you in tighter. Mornings always 10 carriages comfortably seated? So, Let’s take two off and let them stand for their expensive season pass.
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by robga 7y ago
It is interesting the article didn’t mention the incident 2 weeks ago when it had problems with a 7-fold increase in volume. Though it did well under the strain. https://status.notifications.service.gov.uk/incidents/jpw
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by robga 7y ago
My humble entry into the this x does not exist pantheon: https://thisbutterflydoesnotexist.com/