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French protests over the retirement age
Life expectancy in France has increased to over 81, implying almost 20 years of government pension. It is har
12 commentstime flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana
Finishing up a lesson this afternoon she said 'time flies' and the above well known sentence popped into mind,
3 commentsWatching 1883 (2021-2) Sam Elliott
Not bad, maybe not quite the IMDB 8.7 though, and the young romantic relationship with a Comanche? stretched b
2 commentsA little Cuban Music for a change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpP131uxpOg Buena Vista Social Club - Green Eyes Aquellos ojos verdes de m
3 commentsSo Japan crunches USA 3-2 in the WBC final
Shohei Ohtani they say will score a $500m contract, big bucks! You can imagine the celebration in Japan. May
1 commentsSleepers, Slippers, Sleepers Awake, Wachet auf
With a Brazilian student today he said/I heard 'wearing my shorts and sleepers like a student...' So we spent
0 commentsA bloody lot, the Tudors!
Henry VIII in particular, 50,000+ being hung beheaded starved or burnt during his reign alone. By contrast Am
8 commentsWondering about Samuel Pepys 350 years or so ago
writing his wonderful diary encrypted every night for years on end by candlelight, how his eyes could cope
1 commentsAmusing to read a Kiwi laughing about America's lack of coffee nouse in Linkedin.
If Starbucks and Gloria Jeans are representative, she has a strong case. Unfortunately they have hoist their
1 commentstreaty of the high seas
well now this is a global agreement, a thing surely rarely achieved, but it happened last Saturday. https://w
7 commentsWhilst I have followed Tommy Emmanuel
I wasn't really aware of his older brother Phil who died young https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zW1w1PbqkCQ
1 commentsZakat
I had not heard of this until a recent radio program by a Muslim woman of great repute. It is a voluntary or
17 commentsMiscegenation
Abhorrent word - what think you? North & South: Book 1, North & South S1E4 watching the movie, white woman ma
14 commentsDrunk History
I stumbled across this series - hell's bells, 6 seasons! Can I last this out? Well after 20 hour-long episod
0 commentsI watched 'poong the joseon psychiatrist'
22 episodes over two seasons - surely the slowest love story of all TV time - but then when you dig beneath th
20 commentsRichard Adams and James Fallows in a tribute to President Carter
Jimmy Carter: Unlucky president, lucky man James Fallows was the chief White House speechwriter for former pr
2 commentsDo hiccups ever take you over
make you do what that is, the involuntary spasm of the chest?
11 commentsSome images just spell certainty
Here is one such, a 'like' today. I wonder why CS doesn't pick up these obvious fakes. https://photos.connec
3 commentseine baden-württembergische Frau mit riesigen Titten ...
eine baden-württembergische Frau mit riesigen Titten sagt, sie mag mich! A woman from Baden-Wuerttemberg in p
6 commentsA surprise tonight
The woman beside me at the local club On the phone was speaking German and I could understand quite clearly
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