Fortunately we've got a path to the main road, but if our younger dog thinks there's something wrong one of us HAS to go open the door, look outside and reassure him it's all OK Given our previous dog scared off burglars by asking for a petting I kinda like the barking—Except when it's a fox at 3am

He did have several kids, nephews, etc, so descendents will be about, statistically you're probably one anyway ;-)

Yeah, one of the UK anti-corruption campaigners I know keeps complaining about a fairly obviously corrupt Russian using 'fake' names. Except one is Julia, the other Yulia, surnames similarly done. If you know how Germans pronounce vs English it's the same name but it looks dodgy to monoglots

It can be REALLY hard to relate to just how BIG places are when looking at maps. I think of North Carolina as a coastal state because, well, it's on the east coast. But it's vast, thanks to thetruesize.com here's a comparator pic The bit flooded is over Ireland. London is the coast. Vast

It's the same family name as The Admiral, right? That's normally written Yee but again isn't 'correct' just close enough

Oh, I had picked up there were differing naming conventions but not what they specifically were, clever

Actor who was in everything. Amongst other things Mrs Mcgonathingy in Hairy Potter and the Mother Superior in Sister Act Very distinctive voice, very snide personal sense of humour, lots of actors said she was great to work with while she was still alive, even more doing it now

Ah, cool, OK, I'd default assumed that different words are spaced but that's a transliteration issue more than a comprehension one Languages are weird and cool (oh, and I've finally nearly finished Imjin War after I found it in a storage box I was unpacking!)

That's been a fairly standard analysis for decades now, yeah, and it's broadly true. Vampires are nobels, bankers or in some dodgy cases jews, zombies are the great unwashed It can be a racism thing, a poor people thing, or a consumerism bad thing, it's normally a combo

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