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So they've finally got round to the Carer's Allowance. For those of you who don't care this is eighty pounds a week payable to anyone who is a full time carer of, normally, a family member. But don't ...

I find it all too heartbreaking to get involved further. Newsnight ran a piece the other evening on a new report detailing the shocking (and presumably sometimes fatal) failings in NHS neonatal units, ...

I beat my record for views'n'claps for a response of mine to this story https://medium.com/picture-palace/why-you-should-never-date-a-filmmaker-b456445a38db

The glamour of it all though means that ...

Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy.

He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...

Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338

Win a trip to the Paralympic Games
thanks to Visa
This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...

Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...

Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2

Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.

A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.

This state religion evolves into Christianity.
True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...

According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water.
Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...

You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'.

So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East,
They were adopting ...

I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music.
I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.

The most useful purchase I ever made has finally run out. A box of toothpicks. And yet I have never picked a single tooth.

When it did arrive, there was no ring of the bell, no note through the letter box, no email. I found it propped against the front door when I sallied forth to Tesco. If I was the king I would demand m ...

Changing Ends (ITV-1)

Not the sort of broad comedy I would watch (or I would watch and keep quiet about it) but this has two oddities that commend it (1) a real football manager, Graham Carr, of No ...

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Topic: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 686 Views: 181966	Forum: Politics Posted: 12:14 pm Subject: The Tom Sawyer Principle
Mick Harper Replies: 686 Views: 181966	So they've finally got round to the Carer's Allowance. For those of you who don't care this is eighty pounds a week payable to anyone who is a full time carer of, normally, a family member. But don't ...
Topic: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 128 Views: 85922	Forum: APPLIED EPISTEMOLOGY Posted: 10:24 am Subject: PRESUMPTIVE LOGIC
Mick Harper Replies: 128 Views: 85922	I find it all too heartbreaking to get involved further. Newsnight ran a piece the other evening on a new report detailing the shocking (and presumably sometimes fatal) failings in NHS neonatal units, ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 11:12 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	I beat my record for views'n'claps for a response of mine to this story https://medium.com/picture-palace/why-you-should-never-date-a-filmmaker-b456445a38db The glamour of it all though means that ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 2:35 pm Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Something worth knowing which is obvious, but new to me, was in a medium story about strategy. He refused to ever deviate from the published price list because he wanted each farmer to be confident ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 10:06 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Prizes You Don't Want To Win No 338 Win a trip to the Paralympic Games thanks to Visa This was from Barclays and joins the one from Virgin I mentioned a bit ago that waxed lyrical about winning a ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 554370	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 9:49 am Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 554370	Mark Urban is reporting from swing-state Arizona. Lots of local fruitcakes, a new factory churning out Biden chips, a bit on immigration, all the usual. He wraps up the piece standing in front of USS ...
Topic: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 743666	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 7:11 am Subject: The Importance of Sport
Mick Harper Replies: 3926 Views: 743666	Real Madrid 6 Aston Villa 2 Or Olympiakos to scale it down to second city level.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 6:48 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	A new wrinkle for me today. I turned on the computer and instead of pressing the start dubry I pressed the turn the computer off dubry.
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	Forum: History Posted: 6:45 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	This state religion evolves into Christianity. True, Christianity is a state religion but how you get from emperor-worship and polytheism to Jesus-worship and (theoretically) monotheism seems too lon ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	Forum: History Posted: 8:55 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	According to Wiley the Romans establishd control of the Irish Sea zone and so you get Roman Catholics both sides of the water. Obviously this is antithetical to my view. Christianity arrived in Engl ...
Topic: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	Forum: History Posted: 8:44 am Subject: All Things Roman
Mick Harper Replies: 416 Views: 209118	You're right to be nicely scathing. it's not what would be called 'firmed up'. So folks thought it would be a neat idea to adopt a pacifist, mystery religion, HQ Middle East, They were adopting ...
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 4:07 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	I'm like a concert pianist who never gets the Nobel Prize for Music. I'm just putting this here to remind myself to use it some time.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:54 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	The most useful purchase I ever made has finally run out. A box of toothpicks. And yet I have never picked a single tooth.
Topic: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:52 am Subject: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES
Mick Harper Replies: 2679 Views: 646383	When it did arrive, there was no ring of the bell, no note through the letter box, no email. I found it propped against the front door when I sallied forth to Tesco. If I was the king I would demand m ...
Topic: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 554370	Forum: NEW CONCEPTS Posted: 3:43 pm Subject: AE on Telly News
Mick Harper Replies: 2209 Views: 554370	Changing Ends (ITV-1) Not the sort of broad comedy I would watch (or I would watch and keep quiet about it) but this has two oddities that commend it (1) a real football manager, Graham Carr, of No ...