It rules because no-one here knows how to skate. There's a Canadian version that's very different.
Jameson Tucker
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Torontonian in Birmingham, mostly doing cricket, cycling, and Higher Education.
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It seems taken for granted that cars would be unlocked in some 1940s films. Philip Marlowe is always opening doors and looking at driver registrations, and it's not made clear that that's sneaky behaviour.
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Riding a bike is fun; each time I cross the Atlantic I start my trip by grabbing the front brake (never on the side you think) hard, nearly launching myself over the handlebars.
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The agency workers in Birmingham covering the regular striking bin workers, have themselves voted to go on strike
Birmingham bin agency workers vote to join strike
Unite claims a growing number of agency staff are refusing to cross the picket lines.
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A mandate for this is coming into full effect in S Korea as we speak isn't it?
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I had never known the backstory on them all! Never known a tom stick around like Charlie, bless him.
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[this photo shows a cathedral window from the inside, with 'down' painted on it in white paint]
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WWII-- firespotters set up at night in the tower of Lichfield Cathedral. To help find their way around up there in the dark (it's all small doors and spiral stairs), they painted directions in glow-in-the-dark paint. Here, the stairs down are being marked. 85 years later, they're still there.
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If you go up Lichfield Cathedral (amongst many others surely), you can find directions for 1940s firespotters in luminescent paint still
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Yep, that was a week 3 or 4 exercise for them for just that reason. Just from a practical point of view I found it more useful to use endnotes if you have them.
