The railway south of Cambridge splits just south of the city, with one line heading to Liverpool Street and one, the faster shorter route, to Kings Cross or St Pancras. Ever since I learned the point where they split is called “Shepreth Branch Junction” I’ve taken delight in saying “we’re taking the Shepreth branch” as if this is some forgotten branch line bywater of the network rather than the main route to London. Conjuring the romantic from the mundane just from a bit of railway geekery. Adlestrop, or the slow train.
Shepreth itself is a bit of a bywater. Express trains, like this one, skip it and its neighbours Foxton and Meldreth, so if you want to partake of their delights — a safari park! A path through a field! Tech startups that couldn’t afford Cambridge! — you’ll need to take the actual slow train.
Oh, Google.
You wanted:
Commission Regulation (EU) No 330/2010 of 20 April 2010 on the application of Article 101(3) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.
You got:
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As a child, I grew up speaking the East Midlands dialect of English.
But I was led to believe that were I to “get on in life”, I would need to speak Standard Southern British English.
As I believed this, I willingly embraced it and now I mostly do speak SSBE.
But I’m somewhat bitter about needing to, even if I did willingly embrace it at the time because, as I was taught, I thought my own dialect was “unsophisticated”.
It wasn’t; it was just different, but in the 70s and 80s even local celebrities who made it big on the national stage were encouraged to drift linguistically towards London, and if they didn’t, that acted as a barrier.
It’s less the case now, but with the benefit of hindsight I do feel a bit resentful about it.
As times have changed, and as I don’t feel that I have anything to prove, I increasingly find myself drifting back towards the way I used to speak as a child.
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And the rest of us thinks that most English accents are cool. Funny world huh?
(Emphasis on most. There’s some bad ones out there.)
Yeah, that's definitely what you said, so I'm now a little confused about how I came to be confused.
Or at least surprised; I knew my working memory was totally borked, but I hadn't realised it was that bad.
Though I suppose, given the nature of the problem, maybe I HAD realised, but then forgot about it?
Been trying to contact a shipwright, ANY shipwright, in France, to help with my annual boat maintenance and, is it a French thing that NOBODY EVER FUCKING ANSWERS THEIR FUCKING EMAIL?
Do not make me fucking phone you. I am neurodivergent and I don't speak French.
Update: Tried texting one.
Not only did he reply, he said I can speak English with him, AND THE TEXT BUBBLES ARE BLUE!
Thank god!
Just replaced my old Apple TV 4K with the newer model that is also a Thread border router. I now have two: the HomePod Mini (WiFi) and the Apple TV (Ethernet).
And OMG, Thread is so much faster & more reliable!
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Slightly embarrassing moment at work yesterday. There's been a bit of a bug going round various people in the office, so when a coworker walked in saying "ooh, I'm feeling a bit grotty today" I moved to jokingly make the sign of the cross to ward off the plague before stopping myself because I remembered he's Muslim.
I'm atheist, but societal Christian defaultism can always rear its head!
Been thinking about Sarah’s history of English royalty since William t he Conquerer. Let me know if I left anything important out:
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved, negotiated succession.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Descendant forced to accept terms.
Stability for a bit while they’re busy fighting other people.
Succession crisis -> civil war.
Civil war resolved violently.
Succession crisis (religion). Civil war narrowly averted.
Dynasty goes extinct. Succession negotiated.
Descendant of negotiated successor pisses everyone off -> civil war.
Civil war resolved through decapitation.
Succession crisis. Civil war averted via negotiated succession.
Succession crisis -> civil war fizzles
Dynasty goes extinct (yes, Charlie, it did. Shut up)
Parliament is finally utterly fucking sick of this lot starting civil wars, installs German puppets. The end.
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You’re scared we’re going to beat you at sports.
We’re scared you’re going to beat us to death.
We are not the same.
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BREAKING! In a move that the Liberal Democrat party hopes will finally deal with their transphobe problem, they have handed the Sudetenland to the transphobes.
In exchange, the transphobes pinky promised that they won’t demand any further concessions, “you know, for a bit anyway”.
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NEW! Force femmed immigrants in YOUR neighbourhood eating YOUR cat!
Trump watches some very weird porn.
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My mobile gameplay channel (Tekkan Plays): @TekkanPlays It's crazy how good phone games look these days. I mean, who would have thought we'd be playing game...YouTube
@Alan Braggins bet I know which ones get played and played and played.
Never seen anyone on a train or plane or bus playing a 3D FPS thing on their phone.
But word searches and distant descendentes of Tetris? All the time.
Now smartphones are mature products we’re into the annual “this is an incremental upgrade over last year. I’m so mad replacing my 2 thousand quid perfectly functional phone with one that’s almost the same for another 2 thousand quid” cycle.
My brother in Christ; have you considered just … not?
I’m upgrading this year. My phone is 3 years old and the camera stuff is worth it for me. My step daughter is getting my old one, which she is thrilled with.
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Yesterday I saw a discussion about whether you can smell in a dream.
As fate would have it, I had a lucid dream last night (I have a cold. That’s probably why), so I decided to test it.
Yes, you can smell in dreams.
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in reply to Alexandra Lanes • • •At RailMapOnline.com/UKIEMap.php?… one can see why it's named after Shepreth: that's where the branches from the two directions met.
(far too much detail here: web.archive.org/web/2023060613…)
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