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    [News] Battle of Britain Sunday

    Boxgrove Church has a Spitfire window and a memorial to Billy Fiske, Pilot Officer, the first American to be killed in action during the Battle of Britain. http://www.boxgrovepriory.co.uk/billy_fiske.htmlhttp://www.boxgrovepriory.co.uk/billy_fiske.html Quite a number of graves for overseas...
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    [Football] A genuine question - what did the UK gain from Indian occupation?

    I've had the same experience too. Oddly, some people at a wedding in Pune, who I had never met before, were keen to tell me how less corrupt India was under British rule. They wouldn't entertain my argument that there might have been a different form of corruption going on. On your last point...
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    [Albion] Roberto De Zerbi - JOINS AS NEW HEAD COACH (4 year contract)

    I like the sound of this guy, he seems to have a good set of values on and off the pitch
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    [Football] Will Potter succeed at Chelsea?

    I think he'll manage to keep them up this year
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    [Albion] RATE Albion's transfer window

    The evidence suggests that the club have a plan and know what they are doing. The football looks good most of the time now and the finances seem sounder than since the 70s. So, 7 from me, a first class transfer window especially with some of the previous year's transfers now in the squad.
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    [Misc] Professor Dave explains Trans stuff

    That's "professor" Dave with a second attempt masters in chemistry. Just another YouTube "influencer" stirring the pot. As others have said, who cares what other people are. My partner watches hs stuf, I think he does flat earth and astrology stuff too - designed for a better educated US audience.
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    [Help] Wood Burners - price and installation advice

    I'm with you on all this. In any case it seems tyres are even worse: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyres-produce-more-particle-pollution-than-exhausts-tests-show I've always had a wood burner/fire/stove. You can boil water and dry clothes when the tumble dryer breaks...
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    [Politics] Gorbachev dead

    Wow, I can't believe that he relesed this in 1989. Was a bit of a PW Botha, collapsed the system around himself. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2qe6XRY81w&list=PLn17C0KS7cuVmRC1YgQd1a1YPgQHdH-GW
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    [Football] Premier League 13-15/8/22

    This makes sense, one of my colleagues in Oslo disclosed to me that he was a Leeds fan. It turned out that he and his young friends all picked a differnt Division 1 team to follow in the 70's. It now makes sense if winter Saturday afternoons were spent watching the TV.
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    [Other Sport] Homophobia alive & well down under

    I once had a colleague say to me "people like you should have your throats cut or be driven into the sea. Flags can be quite divisive.
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    [Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

    Your argument is not congruent and you have now changed it, I did point out the difference in rates, you are confusing not in employment with unemployment, in part. You've then merged that which my response to drop out rates, why? I was pointing out that there are plenty of groups overly...
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    [Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

    But what you said is not true. The data you point to is about EMPLOYMENT. Unemployment rate is not 1-employed rate. You also, possibly selectively, chose the employment rate for a particular ethnic group, it doe not apply to all, using the outdated term, BAME people. The UPP report said: Many of...
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    [Help] What's your car?

    This always makes me smile and has lasted me 30 years, so far
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    [Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

    more like NFTs? Up for sale
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    [Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

    Oh, I hope I didn't come across as a rabid tory, I'm more green when I engage in politics. But I think your comment demonstrates what I meant by the different meaning from MPs. To me smaller government would mean, for example, that local authorities could borrow and build real social housing...
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    [Politics] Tory meltdown finally arrived [was: incoming]...

    It's a weird one this. On the one hand, low taxes, small government and personal responsibility sound fine. The problem for me is that these seem to mean very different things when they come out of an MPs mouth. Note, I don't take small government to mean small services.

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