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I also remember apologising to a female lecturer for falling asleep on the front row of her presentation. She took it rather well I thought.

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Did you ever go to Summer Schools,UD? They had/have a certain reputation,none of which I indulged in,of course. Only one and as it happens my wife had given me free license beforehand as by that time she was sure of my loyalty, which if I'm honest had been questioned years earlier. This is post her...

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May I ask for a little calm. I am minded that I once pointed out to a student that something they had submitted in an OU assignment was strictly speaking plagiarism as they had neither permission to reproduce nor attributed said piece. I chose carefully considered words and believed I was speaking i...

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Just to be clear, Robert, my father had no need of bladder control as he was in the room with the toilet. It was the rest of us that suffered. Black and white was his favoured medium too, especially his competition entries. I know he has published writings, not novels like you, but believe some of h...

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@RobertSnozers Do/did you develop, enlarge and print your photos too. My father was a semi-pro photographer who spent many hours in the bathroom with single toilet (when I was young) made up as his dark room. So you can understand why it is that I could not understand Cameron's bladder retentive tra...

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Please speak freely but am I thick or something, Robert? Fuji Superia 200 and a link to digital photos. Which reminds me I was looking for a photo of the statue I spoke of earlier. As with many others it is on an external hard drive that has packed up... Just another thing I have to sort.

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Thanks, hsom, that pretty well matches my views on Article 50 too but would add that after the election Labour voted to support the referendum and I don't recall any conditions, that is margins, being discussed. See I'm a fast learner dropping the Latin abbreviation of id est. Also future collaborat...

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Having reached the end of the posts I'm disappointed that the cat I found sat on my keyboard after I'd nipped out hadn't added her say.

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... He [Corbyn] seemed to say that that is not what he meant - and that he should have, on reflection, been a bit more careful with the wording. It felt like being punched in the stomach when I heard it that morning - so yes he should be a lot more careful with his choice of words. I felt exactly t...

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Churchill. I reckon Boris thinks Obama has a dim view of him too.

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http://www.disabilitynewsservice.com/documents-show-wca-suicide-death-mirrored-2010-tragedy/ Documents show WCA suicide death mirrored 2010 tragedy Wtf, A. The DWP shelling out £2,700 in benefits after his death. Not that I'm going to go into detail but after my wife's brain haemorrhage, totally ag...

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Sorry for one more non-political post, prompted by mention of dinner parties. There are those that suggest full time work is an excuse for ready meals; maybe on occasion but please, not as a rule. My mother worked full time reared three kids and always cooked from scratch, not least the weekly dinne...

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I have never been a "dinner party guest" not least because they have the wrong name for the meal.Must be their lacking of breeding.tsk. I grew up with them, A. My brother and I used to disappear between courses and do press-ups. Not that I can understand why but doing so made it easier to...

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Well thanks for that, A, albeit not needed. I used to be into crosswords many moons ago, even compiling them before I addled my brain. My father used to photocopy Times, Guardian and Telegraph crosswords and race my brother and I, or should that be me with no implied verb. He always won so we used t...

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Just back and yes I do understand, A. Perhaps I should have said Thomas instead of Tom and yes, I had no doubt whatsoever that your lady was no Edward.

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@HindleA Sorry, A, as it happened I was thinking of you and wondering how things were when lo and behold you spoke of your late partner's flowering rose. I myself had not long bought a Greco-Roman style statue of a young lady of very similar build to my late wife under which I placed her ashes and l...

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Good Morning I don't know whether that be title case or hankering after Deutsch. Even after a 10% drop in Sterling I'm tempted to take what little cash I have left and leave although Germany may not be my first choice. Besides I may have to determine where a Brit of my age is still welcome. In news ...

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Cheers for the info, tinyclanger. Now let me see, 81-85? Three kiddies join the fray, that may explain it.

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Sorry, tinyclanger, I don't think I've ever seen Brookside. Dirty Den and Ena Sharples were around the last time I saw a soap.

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I know when I'm not wanted. I'm disagreeable too.

a) I used to be a LibDem,
b) People rarely agree with me.

Postscript: For example people that disagreed with me: Derek Hatton plus a future leader of the Young Conservatives. That's all I'm saying.

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@yahyah The movement I was referring to was called something like Ananda Marga. I did look into their Indian background and was not at all impressed but none of the Liverpool group thanked me for suggesting they were being exploited. The wholefood shop and restaurant were fine though as was the othe...

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Mmm, '71, not sure it was quite that early, yahyah although the Scotty Road Free School was and the St. George's Project (not the restoration of said building but youth club and suchlike). I can't remember where the ashram was but the place I was referring to was on Hardman Street. I'm furious with ...

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Cults. There was an ashram in Liverpool that one of my mates joined. The followers were opening a centre with a wholefood shop, vegetarian restaurant, art and drama studios plus moving their existing print shop, commercial as well as meeting their own needs, into the basement. Another friend and I v...

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Bit less coin, I presume.

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On the subject of doctors I once had a cyst, much like the one Jean-Claude Van Damme has on his forehead, removed by the South African doctor with the three syllable name. My favourite doctor didn't want to work on such a prominent place but wanted to attend. Several injections later and so it began...

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Sorry to hear you're having to be prodded and poked UD. Thanks, yahyah. I must admit I told my doc she was no longer my friend even if she means well. Nothing cancerous but at least I'm now being treated for what was found. 'And one for A since I gave up the fags in September (I think). I keep bein...

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Patient choice. On seeing the doctor AGAIN on Monday after they'd phoned me on Friday, I am offered the choice of two hospitals for further examination. Naturally I choose the nearer. Now I have a letter to which I must respond offering me the same two hospitals but two different departments for one...

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Fruit-picking used to pay off student debt. I gather it just don't pay enough these days.

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Speaking of fags in lips, A, I remember a bloke at a place I once worked who chain smoked the whole day only removing his fags to light the next one. Half his face was nicotine stained. I trust you're not that bad.

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Sorry no links just stuff I've noticed recently. Refugee children with family in Britain remain stranded in Calais, the Home Office appealed and overturned a court ruling granting asylum to three others in Calais, 20000 further refugees that Cameron promised asylum are unlikely and the Australian fa...

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I've just looked at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications again and still they keep coming. May be back later if I find something worth reporting.

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JonnyT1234 wrote:In her prime, I would say Margaret Beckett. But our media is much too cruel for her to have stood any chance merely because of her looks.

Sad but true.

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Didn't anybody tell you? Oh well, far too late now, ephe. You were supposed to save your used loo rolls over the years to build a giant telescope. No wonder you've no idea where you're headed.

A belated edit to remove a stray 'w'.

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But can you remember what it was like to head a soggy football back in those days, Jonny, or are you too young?

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Perhaps something I said yesterday was in poor taste given its extent, having read 'What law am I breaking?' How a Facebook troll came undone ( https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/jul/30/how-facebook-troll-came-undone ). Nevertheless I still feel they are denied oxuygen by refusing to engage ther...

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I've just been asked whether it feels like fifty years ago. Well no it doesn't really... and then I remember that a football was a cross between a pumpkin and a medicine ball.

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There is a stretch of road that whenever I pass during daylight hours a lady is busying herself picking up litter. Right in the middle of her patch this morning is a huge pile of poo, I assume it's dog. It truly is the end of the world!

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Just to be clear, if parliament did not categorically overrule the referendum result delaying Article 50 only makes matters worse. It exhibits the same level of disrespect that was shown to EDF yesterday.

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... Fri 24 Jun: Leave victory declared. Corbyn makes his speech in reaction to the declaration, seemingly without calling a shadow cabinet meeting... Seemingly still doesn't answer my question though, JonnyT. Other than Corbyn's response to Cameron at the dispatch box I've heard no account of Frida...

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I've often found myself in complete agreement with you, Willow, and like you felt let down by Corbyn's response post referendum. Nevertheless I couldn't help but feel it a natural reaction to Cameron's behaviour, complete acquiescence and washing his hands of it entirely, without discussion or backi...

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Speaking of lines that only I appreciate I recently posted a comment I figured worthy of Guardian readers under David Cameron's spin doctor writing book about EU referendum ( http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/jul/26/david-camerons-spin-doctor-writing-book-eu-referendum ). I wanted to post 'An...

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The poor girl, ephe. Still in my case I learned never to be intimidated and my sister's a pretty tough cookie herself. My brother was fair so only tended to suffer abuse secondhand, just as painful mind when it happened... always outnumbered or older lads. Mmm outnumbered then too. No wonder we were...

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In terms of policy development Is it realistic for Corbyn to have, even partially developed, policies after 9 months under the conditions he has been leader under? Did Miliband have defined policies by mid 2011 - did he hell! More fool me too (sorry I can't help repeating the odd line that only I a...

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Looking on from the outside, I wonder how much the PLP refuse to accept that they really have little chance of beating the Tories alone. Have any of the anti-Corbyn members suggested reaching out to other parties?

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I know I ought to sympathise but often find myself wondering how much bullying is really suffered by those who shout loudest. Try walking in my shoes as a prepubescent lad that was regularly beaten up for having a head start on my tan. I also remember my mother finding my five or six year old sister...

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I used to live in Jess Phillips neck of the woods back then and people literally spat at my parents in the street, a blue eyed blonde with an Indian chap. You should have heard the comments too, indeed we kids were smacked if we spoke like them (sorry howsillyofme1, not quite the Black Country). Pos...

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I'd like to claim that as my own, ohso, but am beginning to think my mother may have told me something similar when I was young.

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Some people spend so much time looking down their nose that all they see is the bogey man.

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Providing balanced views or arguments is worthless when the questions have no merit.

Postscript: That must explain Toby Young. Strangely enough I actually agreed with something he said a week or so ago... but then he had to go on, didn't he?

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I'd better retract my earlier comment, because when it mattered professionally I would never have stated much that I do under my real name. Having said that, and now I am speaking of tone rather than specific content, I do wish that people would not address others online in a manner that they would ...

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