Today I Read (and Learned) ...

Chillybean

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Was looking on Amazon for a book to read and thought I'd check the reviews and this one stuck out. Incidently it was a thriller genre of sorts!
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Gramaisc

Forum O. G.
... what a 'moiety' is.

I found a receipt for a half-yearly rates payment - from 1956.

£4/10/9.





£4.53 to modern people.
 

Noah

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That they intend to remove the masts from the SS Richard Montgomery as they are corroding and there is a danger of them collapsing into the hold. I wasn't thinking of going to Canvey or Sheppey anytime soon anyway.
 

Noah

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Remember the old story that we were all characters in a SIMs type game and it being asked as to how there could be a computer large enough to run a universe size SIM program?

So Brian Cox (Britain's favourite astrophysicist not the actor) and colleagues are looking at the problem of black holes and what appears to happen at the event horizon - which seems to bugger up quantum mechanics, relativity and Newtonian physics. Their conclusion at the moment is that the structure of the universe is very like the structure of a quantum computer. So the universe is a computer?
 

BobClay

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Probably a ZX81, with a 16Kb RAM pack on the back of it. (That would explain some of the shit going down these days.) :tumbleweed:
 
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staffordjas

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Record immigration numbers,

At least we've 'taken back control '.....
Walking around Worcester today it was like I was in a foreign country.

(155 'asylum seekers' being housed in The Fownes hotel in town , and read another big hotel close by now also filled with them. Bit scary walking through the gangs of them hanging about the other night. Our GP surgery is right by one of the hotels housing them, so had no choice than to brave it through for the evening appointment )
 
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basil

don't mention the blinds
Walking around Worcester today it was like I was in a foreign country.

(155 'asylum seekers' being housed in The Fownes hotel in town , and read another big hotel close by now also filled with them. Bit scary walking through the gangs of them hanging about the other night. Our GP surgery is right by one of the hotels housing them, so had no choice than to brave it through for the evening appointment )
This is exactly how Nazi Germany started......
 

Lucy

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Walking around Worcester today it was like I was in a foreign country.

(155 'asylum seekers' being housed in The Fownes hotel in town , and read another big hotel close by now also filled with them. Bit scary walking through the gangs of them hanging about the other night. Our GP surgery is right by one of the hotels housing them, so had no choice than to brave it through for the evening appointment )
155 refugees you mean. Never forget how lucky it is to be born somewhere you aren't likely to be persecuted.

4% of people who seek asylum get turned down, so 148 of those people are in desperate need.
 

tek-monkey

wanna see my snake?
I'm so glad my mums waters broke over the right bit of dirt.

A thought for you all, we take an amazingly long time to process asylum seekers during which period they must be provided for and can't work. Most get their applications granted, after which they go and work and pay taxes, but we keep them in limbo for as long as possible meaning they cost us a lot more than they need to. Why?

Stop looking at the refugees, look at the people paid to house and feed them. Look at the profits they make, look at the money moving from public purse to private hands, look at whose interest it is in to make sure we keep them in these hotels whilst demonising them and blaming them for all our countries ills. We don't have to spend billions a year on them, we want to. We do it gladly, because why people donate to the tory party. To steal our taxes.
 
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