Seemingly trivial things that intrigue you
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Benedictinism was pretty much the default rule for monastic houses across England, at least in the early medieval period, so I don't think that would explain the concentration in East Anglia.
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Saw this as well. Given how that fungus takes control of ants, I don't think it's that surprising at all that a virus has evolved to increase its chances of replication. I think it's more that we like to think of our brains as somehow separate and don't like the idea of not being entirely in control.
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Stumbled across this print of @rick_chasey and @First.Aspect. 😁 The hands-free megaphone: were they ever a real thing?!
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I'm so loud talking normally I often did it all entirely without a cox box.
Not ideal for the old vocal chords but doable.
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Maybe it wasn't hands free at the start of the race but they got fed up with the little guy shouting at them (and as he's sat down they couldn't ram it in the preferred orifice).
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I did have you down as not having an indoor voice, I have to say.
I was in bow most of the time, so I'm all in favour of not having a cox box.
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I too have a voice which can, shall we say, 'carry'.
But it always annoys me when people with average voices think they don't need a mic in a large space with a big audience: in any case, they speak too quickly, don't enunciate clearly enough, and just don't know how to project. In essence, you can only be heard if, in effect, you shout very slowly. In other words, USE THE BLOODY MIC!
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Some people are quieter than others. Some people have less need in the normal course of life to stand on a stage than others.
Personally, I'm on the quieter side. And if I ever do have to give a talk, the subject matters is so dense that you do have to rather crack on with it. People tend not to care if you are evuncular or not.
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Surely a Cox could be replaced by AI? This would save weight making the boat more efficient, add hydrofoils and they wouldn't be marginal gains, they'd be significant gain!
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A footplate can't give tactical instructions, also the AI system could optimize the hydrofoils for more significant gains.
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Oddly enough, FISA does have technical regulations that cover things like that.
But stroke seat or bow seat can do tactics. They would say rather less, but that works perfectly well in a 4.
I never understood why rowers in an VIII need shouting at without a break for 6 minutes, whereas rowers in other boat classes don't.
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It intrigues me why politicians still make the mistake of invoking the holocaust for the purposes of making an analogy.
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Thank you for taking technology seriously Aspect.
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It's the follow up whining about being cancelled that is the cherry on the top.
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I think it's her being a minister in a government that introduced a bill to ban tobacco and vapes earlier this year.
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Social media is just full of Nazis.
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I think we are long past any coordination between words and actions.
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I'd love to know what 'language and attitudes of the time' ITV are giving warnings about for reruns of Crossroads - not surprisingly the Mail & Telegraph are up in arms about the warnings, but apart from outrage, there's no evidence of what they are. I would guess of a racial nature, or casually sexist...
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All of the above including the portrayal of the Benny character as a simpleton. I should imagine the programme was rife with what we would now see as lazy stereotypes, as was typical of the time, rather than any particular incidents or story lines.
I think ‘the warning’ would be applied to nearly everything created in the last century.
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"I think ‘the warning’ would be applied to nearly everything created in the last century."
I'm offended by your criticism of everything created in the last century... 😉
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I defend your right to be offended by my sweeping generalisation 😁
I saw the other day the same warning was applied to 80s teen film Weird Science. Quite right too.
I wonder if a programme like ‘Roots’ would get a warning now, I expect it would even though I watched it as a young teen without warning and got quite upset.
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It's interesting which ones from the 70s and 80s actually don't need warnings. I guess that the warnings for the Black & White Minstrel Show would be interesting. I think Dad's Army would get away without one, maybe Allo Allo (though have only seen a few bits - it never really appealed).
Reginald Perrin? Two Ronnies 'The Worm That Turned', hmm! It Ain't Half Hot Mum: one problematic bit of casting. Are You Being Served? - not sure.
But I did assume that the piece for the Telegraph & Daily Mail were just the tired old trope of "What's wrong with a bit of racial or sexist language... it never did me any harm! It's Woke gone mad!!", especially as they didn't say what sort of attitudes were being referenced in Crossroads.
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The Dads Army has had a warning for Corporal Jones' description of some of those he fought while in Sudan.
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Actually, that's probably a fair one, even if we're supposed to be laughing at his outdated worldview. There's also a reference to 'nancy boys' somewhere, but I suspect that language would have been rife in the period being 'depicted'.
I actually do think that some of these programmes should be shown to schoolchildren as a way of demonstrating how 'political correctness' has encouraged sensitivity to discriminatory language and changed discourse for the better, and has made it easier to spot the people who still hold discriminatory attitudes.
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Or Rising Damp. I think the only evidence Leonard Rossiter existed is that scene from 2001 - but someone will ban that eventually because he's not a real Russian actor.
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The first time I remember seeing that warning was when I watched Trading Places again on Sky a few years back. I'm never quite sure if anything is needed, if you're watching something that was made in a time when you know attitudes were different (or that was set in a time where attitudes were different) then surely you just expect to see that reflected? In some cases the language used at the time was the 'preferred' version that has since came to be considered offensive e.g. some forms of disability as well as references to skin colour / ethnicity.
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