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Apologies if this has already been discussed, but as I the only person who thinks it’s odd that more isn’t being made of this story?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-52995428
For two people to be murdered in the same incident must be quite rare.0 -
Mozambique. Easypeasy.Foxy said:
4 national flags incorporate firearms, but only one has an automatic weapon. Which country?Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!0 -
Which country has a nutmeg on its flag?1
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Ah Sir Edward Watkin. He did love his prestige projects that never did what he wanted.Omnium said:
It's a bit peripheral LG - but I quite like the trivia.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Following Paris' construction of the Eiffel tower, which other capital city started construction of a similar but taller structure?
(You'd have to check the details, but there was a big building programme in Wembley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin's_Tower)0 -
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name the other three...rcs1000 said:
Mozambique. Easypeasy.Foxy said:
4 national flags incorporate firearms, but only one has an automatic weapon. Which country?Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!0 -
I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?0
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What a load of bollocks.Andy_JS said:
It won eight Oscars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Academy_Awards3 -
I'm encouraging my wife to try out Terry Pratchett and started out with Hogfather as it's my favourite but on hindsight would have recommended Going Postal as it is such a good book.kle4 said:
Then you have clearly succeeded as a parent. Many congratulations.rcs1000 said:
My daughter (12) just listened to the audiobook of Going Postal and thought it was the funnies thing she'd ever heard.ydoethur said:
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?rcs1000 said:
At least two.ydoethur said:
New York is a good one. I wonder how many people know that’s not the original name.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)
SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats.
Death shrugged. WELL YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
I think the only Discworld I didn't like was Rock Music: it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as all the others I've read.0 -
Guatemala has a rifle in its flag.Foxy said:
name the other three...rcs1000 said:
Mozambique. Easypeasy.Foxy said:
4 national flags incorporate firearms, but only one has an automatic weapon. Which country?Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!0 -
I suspect more people drive to work than drive to those places on a daily basis.fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?1 -
There is no Discworld book called Rock Music. I suspect you mean Soul Music.anotherex_tory said:
I'm encouraging my wife to try out Terry Pratchett and started out with Hogfather as it's my favourite but on hindsight would have recommended Going Postal as it is such a good book.kle4 said:
Then you have clearly succeeded as a parent. Many congratulations.rcs1000 said:
My daughter (12) just listened to the audiobook of Going Postal and thought it was the funnies thing she'd ever heard.ydoethur said:
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?rcs1000 said:
At least two.ydoethur said:
New York is a good one. I wonder how many people know that’s not the original name.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)
SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats.
Death shrugged. WELL YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
I think the only Discworld I didn't like was Rock Music: it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as all the others I've read.1 -
More Fun with Flags:
Which US State has a Union Jack on it?2 -
Yep - that's him.ydoethur said:
Ah Sir Edward Watkin. He did love his prestige projects that never did what he wanted.Omnium said:
It's a bit peripheral LG - but I quite like the trivia.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Following Paris' construction of the Eiffel tower, which other capital city started construction of a similar but taller structure?
(You'd have to check the details, but there was a big building programme in Wembley. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watkin's_Tower)
Wembley has had an interesting history. Unfortunately the place is now blighted by football
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Oh dear, that's a good point - *googles* yes, of course, I'd forgotten it was a Cromwellian fort, so inherently pre King Willie, and originally The Garrison of Inverlochy (so that's a third name for Luckyguy).IshmaelZ said:
More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?2 -
HawaiiFoxy said:More Fun with Flags:
Which US State has a Union Jack on it?1 -
Yep.Black_Rook said:
HawaiiFoxy said:More Fun with Flags:
Which US State has a Union Jack on it?
Which country has a different picture on each sides of its flag?0 -
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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How many National flags have a union jack on them0
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Really? My sister said it was.Sean_F said:
Incest is hardly taboo.kinabalu said:
Ah OK!Anabobazina said:
Not really as they are brother and sister!!kinabalu said:
What about Monica and Ross? Can that work?AlastairMeeks said:
Monica can't shag Chandler. Neither of them live alone.Scott_xP said:
Except, Ross and Phoebe live alone.AlastairMeeks said:So, to take an example, if Monica, Phoebe and Rachel are sharing one flat and Joey, Chandler and Ross are sharing another flat, Ross and Rachel are still on an enforced break (as are Chandler and Monica). Only Phoebe and Joey, if they have partners living on their own elsewhere, have the chance of getting their leg over.
Ross can shag Rachel. Monica can shag Chandler. As long as none of them get sick...
But it could be taboo breaking then.
Like Brookside's lesbian kiss.
COAT!0 -
United Kingdom? (No, that can't be right - plenty of others are asymmetrical too, like NZ, Imperial German naval ensign. etc.)Foxy said:
Yep.Black_Rook said:
HawaiiFoxy said:More Fun with Flags:
Which US State has a Union Jack on it?
Which country has a different picture on each sides of its flag?0 -
None, because it's officially called the Union flag?Alistair said:How many National flags have a union jack on them
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How about working out modern names from Latin names?IshmaelZ said:
More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?
A few easy ones:
Londinium
Glevum
Corinium
And then some more obscure ones
Deva
Verulamium
Segontium
Camulodunum
Durnovaria
And then some really nasty ones
Letocetum
Andoretum0 -
It's a side effect of my MA, on the Spanish contribution to the Allied victory in the Peninsular War.Richard_Nabavi said:Messrs @Sean_F and @Peter_the_Punter got that one fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island0 -
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I was (in my car) at In'n'Out Burger drive through and the man in front of me was on a bicycle, and put his order into his rucksack.fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
He was - I accept - the exception.0 -
But if you fly then at the jackstaff on a ship it becomes OK ...Luckyguy1983 said:
None, because it's officially called the Union flag?Alistair said:How many National flags have a union jack on them
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There’s Jack sense in that comment.Luckyguy1983 said:
None, because it's officially called the Union flag?Alistair said:How many National flags have a union jack on them
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It is only a movie.ydoethur said:
What a load of bollocks.Andy_JS said:
It won eight Oscars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12th_Academy_Awards0 -
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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I have to say that the first chapter of Going Postal, which for those not familiar with the book is about a confidence trickster in a condemned cell awaiting execution, is one of the finest pieces of comic writing I've ever read. Unlikely but true.rcs1000 said:
My daughter (12) just listened to the audiobook of Going Postal and thought it was the funnies thing she'd ever heard.ydoethur said:
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?rcs1000 said:
At least two.ydoethur said:
New York is a good one. I wonder how many people know that’s not the original name.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)
SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats.
Death shrugged. WELL YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.1 -
Quite right: it clearly made a mark!ydoethur said:
There is no Discworld book called Rock Music. I suspect you mean Soul Music.anotherex_tory said:
I'm encouraging my wife to try out Terry Pratchett and started out with Hogfather as it's my favourite but on hindsight would have recommended Going Postal as it is such a good book.kle4 said:
Then you have clearly succeeded as a parent. Many congratulations.rcs1000 said:
My daughter (12) just listened to the audiobook of Going Postal and thought it was the funnies thing she'd ever heard.ydoethur said:
WHO KNOWS WHAT EVIL LURKS IN THE HEARTS OF MEN?rcs1000 said:
At least two.ydoethur said:
New York is a good one. I wonder how many people know that’s not the original name.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)
SQUEAK, said the Death of Rats.
Death shrugged. WELL YES, OBVIOUSLY ME, he said. I JUST WONDERED IF THERE WAS ANYONE ELSE.
I think the only Discworld I didn't like was Rock Music: it wasn't nearly as enjoyable as all the others I've read.0 -
To accuse you of doing anything so silly would be Aslander.ydoethur said:
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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Witch is a very nice thing for you to say.IshmaelZ said:
To accuse you of doing anything so silly would be Aslander.ydoethur said:
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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Time and effort clearly well spent, Sean.Sean_F said:
It's a side effect of my MA, on the Spanish contribution to the Allied victory in the Peninsular War.Richard_Nabavi said:Messrs @Sean_F and @Peter_the_Punter got that one fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island0 -
..but where is the wardrobe?ydoethur said:
Witch is a very nice thing for you to say.IshmaelZ said:
To accuse you of doing anything so silly would be Aslander.ydoethur said:
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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Is this the military history one you're currently studying for now?Sean_F said:
It's a side effect of my MA, on the Spanish contribution to the Allied victory in the Peninsular War.Richard_Nabavi said:Messrs @Sean_F and @Peter_the_Punter got that one fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island0 -
With The Magician’s Nephew, of course.squareroot2 said:
..but where is the wardrobe?ydoethur said:
Witch is a very nice thing for you to say.IshmaelZ said:
To accuse you of doing anything so silly would be Aslander.ydoethur said:
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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Yes, it's entitled The Great Forgotten. So far as I can tell, there is no such academic study in either English or Spanish. There are a load of studies about various aspects of the Spanish contribution, and chapters about it in solid academic works, and a really good thesis about the Portuguese contribution, but this will be original work.Casino_Royale said:
Is this the military history one you're currently studying for now?Sean_F said:
It's a side effect of my MA, on the Spanish contribution to the Allied victory in the Peninsular War.Richard_Nabavi said:Messrs @Sean_F and @Peter_the_Punter got that one fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island2 -
In fact if you pronounce them as an Indian would Mumbai and Bombay sound very similar.dixiedean said:
Point of order. Neither of those have changed their name. Only how their name is transliterated.rcs1000 said:
There are some easy ones you could do: Peking, Bombay, etc.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)0 -
Without looking them up on wikipedia:-ydoethur said:
How about working out modern names from Latin names?IshmaelZ said:
More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?
A few easy ones:
Londinium
Glevum
Corinium
And then some more obscure ones
Deva
Verulamium
Segontium
Camulodunum
Durnovaria
And then some really nasty ones
Letocetum
Andoretum
London,
Gloucester,
Cirencestar,
Chester,
St. Alban's,
Pass
Colchester,
Dunstable,
Pass,
Andover.0 -
Not bad.Sean_F said:
Without looking them up on wikipedia:-ydoethur said:
How about working out modern names from Latin names?IshmaelZ said:
More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?
A few easy ones:
Londinium
Glevum
Corinium
And then some more obscure ones
Deva
Verulamium
Segontium
Camulodunum
Durnovaria
And then some really nasty ones
Letocetum
Andoretum
London,
Gloucester,
Cirencestar,
Chester,
St. Alban's,
Pass
Colchester,
Dunstable,
Pass,
Andover.
First five are correct, and Colchester.
The others are, in order:
Caernarfon
Dorchester
Lichfield
Pevensey0 -
He's having a giraffe.ydoethur said:
I would be lion if I said yes.Alphabet_Soup said:
Has anyone tried riding through a safari park on a bicycle?fox327 said:I love how the government is telling people to travel to work by bicycle, while reopening drive-in restaurants, drive-in cinemas, and safari parks. Has anyone tried ordering food from a drive-in restaurant while riding a bicycle?
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The government has been terrible since Johnson went into hospital, which isn't surprising in many ways.Scott_xP said:0 -
I was wondering about this earlier.rottenborough said:0 -
Shambles. Meltdown. Lost the plot. The list could go on.Scott_xP said:
This is a slow motion disaster movie.0 -
I bet there were fuckers whinging about Culture Wars when we decriminalised homosexuality.rottenborough said:Well, seems fair to say that once again we have imported an American fashion.
Cultural wars.1 -
Its quite clear now that what Whitty and Vallance are trying to hang onto is their influence.Scott_xP said:
Catapulted from total obscurity, out of nowhere they control the lives of untold millions of people, with no sanction or accountability. They are tied to the public purse for ever, doubtless with excellent salary and pensions arrangements.
This should never have been allowed to happen, and it simply cannot go on.
Huge decisions like these should always have been and should always be in the hands of the accountable.
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Neither of those two have made any decisions.contrarian said:
Its quite clear now that what Whitty and Vallance are trying to hang onto is their influence.Scott_xP said:
Catapulted from total obscurity, out of nowhere they control the lives of untold millions of people, with no sanction or accountability. They are tied to the public purse for ever, doubtless with excellent salary and pensions arrangements.
This should never have been allowed to happen, and it simply cannot go on.
Huge decisions like these should always have been and should always be in the hands of the accountable.0 -
https://twitter.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1270782035918012418contrarian said:Huge decisions like these should always have been and should always be in the hands of the accountable.
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Correct: they gave advice to the government and the government made the decisions.RobD said:
Neither of those two have made any decisions.contrarian said:
Its quite clear now that what Whitty and Vallance are trying to hang onto is their influence.Scott_xP said:
Catapulted from total obscurity, out of nowhere they control the lives of untold millions of people, with no sanction or accountability. They are tied to the public purse for ever, doubtless with excellent salary and pensions arrangements.
This should never have been allowed to happen, and it simply cannot go on.
Huge decisions like these should always have been and should always be in the hands of the accountable.
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What we need to know is what single filly is in the PMs bubble...Scott_xP said:0 -
Maryburgh.Carnyx said:
Oh dear, that's a good point - *googles* yes, of course, I'd forgotten it was a Cromwellian fort, so inherently pre King Willie, and originally The Garrison of Inverlochy (so that's a third name for Luckyguy).IshmaelZ said:
More comprehensible as Inverpeffer.Carnyx said:Luckyguy - you don't have to go that far for a few names.
Try the Highlands -
Fort William was (and, importantly, also remains) An Gearasdan ('The Garrison').
Edinburgh: Dùn Èidean.
Though Dingwall might be unfair (Inbhir Pheofharain).
I'd have guessed Fort William was called Fort William first and then An Gearasdan, cos what garrison would there have been there beforehand?1 -
Bejam!Peter_the_Punter said:
ASDA...?isam said:
Iceland...rcs1000 said:
There are some easy ones you could do: Peking, Bombay, etc.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)0 -
This thread has
Failed to identify ten Roman civitum.
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I don;t blame them I blame Johnson. He painted himself into a corner, what a spectacular and cowardly fool.rcs1000 said:
Correct: they gave advice to the government and the government made the decisions.RobD said:
Neither of those two have made any decisions.contrarian said:
Its quite clear now that what Whitty and Vallance are trying to hang onto is their influence.Scott_xP said:
Catapulted from total obscurity, out of nowhere they control the lives of untold millions of people, with no sanction or accountability. They are tied to the public purse for ever, doubtless with excellent salary and pensions arrangements.
This should never have been allowed to happen, and it simply cannot go on.
Huge decisions like these should always have been and should always be in the hands of the accountable.
The thing is they know that. Their advice now is nothing to do with science and everything to do with human nature0 -
Well done Sean. That sounds really interesting.Sean_F said:
Yes, it's entitled The Great Forgotten. So far as I can tell, there is no such academic study in either English or Spanish. There are a load of studies about various aspects of the Spanish contribution, and chapters about it in solid academic works, and a really good thesis about the Portuguese contribution, but this will be original work.Casino_Royale said:
Is this the military history one you're currently studying for now?Sean_F said:
It's a side effect of my MA, on the Spanish contribution to the Allied victory in the Peninsular War.Richard_Nabavi said:Messrs @Sean_F and @Peter_the_Punter got that one fast!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pheasant_Island
I'd love to read it one day.0 -
Thanks FoxyFoxy said:
I don't think there is a single instance of someone having a second episode of disease, so it seems pretty certain given the scale of the epidemic that antibodies give immunity, albeit we do not know how long for. I am awaiting my own antibody results as part of the NHS testing programme.Richard_Tyndall said:Just out of interest, has there been any further proper work done on whether having had the virus confers immunity? The reason I ask is I am having my annual blood sugar test tomorrow and have been told that if I want it they can do an antibody test at the same time. I am going to say yes, partly from a sense of morbid curiosity but also of course because I am hoping that when and if they say it confers immunity, I will feel a lot happier about moving around in company without fear of passing anything on.
Caution though, it is quite possible for an immune person to transmit the virus, via contaminated objects, while not personally at risk.
as I said earlier I am not inclined to change my current habits whatever the outcome and whatever the Government advice. I will sit tight until we have a much clearer picture.0 -
Only non-rectangular flag? NepalLuckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Or how about cropping a bit from a flag, on a common theme ( birds or animals?) and asking which country it belongs to?
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Bombay did in fact changed its name to Mumbai.dixiedean said:
Point of order. Neither of those have changed their name. Only how their name is transliterated.rcs1000 said:
There are some easy ones you could do: Peking, Bombay, etc.contrarian said:
Kaliningrad/Koenigsburg (more controversially).Peter_the_Punter said:
Earlier names is a good one - Oslo/Kristiania, Istanbul/Constantinople etc.Luckyguy1983 said:I am a beneficiary of slave labour. Every week I enlist PB to help me with my questions for work Zoom quiz, with no payment.
This week I've been given flags and capital cities, but that's too boring so I want to do a riff on it, and try not to ask the questions in the same way. I thought maybe do images with 'where am I?' or do some trivia about the capitals etc.
Any ideas, they would be most welcome!
Harare /Salisbury (even more controversially).
ho Chi Minh / Saigon (you see where I am going with this)0
