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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 2h

They've turned the Aga off? Sound more like <sniff> Rayburn people.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 5h

Wokefinder Corporal at best. Definitely not officer material.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 5h

I agree - I was bristling and then - kapow!

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 7h

Munich went with open source (Linux and Open Office) some 20 years ago. It was not unsuccessful but ultimately they got lent on by msft and ultimately they caved in.
Time to try again, though. For a while OS was UK gov policy, but they've backslid from that, inevitably.

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 9h

All too often there are local news stories of dog owners going into tumultuous seas to rescue their foundering pets, only themselves to succumb to the waves.
Almost inevitably the sad coda to the story is 'the dog was later found safe and well'.

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 10h

... sold at a premium to transport time-critical goods such as medical supplies.
In due course, it's 'All Aboard' for the VIPs and near NY they might just overtake their luggage. On landing, they would be escorted to VIP and given more treats while the luggage is found and reunited with its owners.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 10h

I heard that VIPs on Concorde would be invited to arrive early for champagne, canapés, and ego -stroking. Their bags, meanwhile, would be checked in and whisked off to a scheduled jumbo, where they would lumber over the Atlantic in advance of the Concorde.
The luggage space thus vacated would .../1

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 22h

That reminds me - how's the next season of Severance coming on?

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 23h

I remember seeing a programme about the Chelsea Pensioners. Until relatively recently only Army and RAF NCOs were allowed in, all to do with swearing to Crown vs Parliament and with 17thC civil war and Navy pitching for wrong side (RAF excused, as fighting was over weekends and they were all away).

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 23h

All the photos of Lincoln were black and white so this is entirely faithful.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 23h

"Oh dear, I seem to have a smut in my eye."

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

What about the Royal Marines? Formally part of the Royal Navy, but with a ranking system similar to the Army.

Also isn't there (or used to be) something about Army and RAF swearing allegiance to the Crown, while RN (and RM?) swearing to the Board of the Admiralty?

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

Red trousers and tweed jacket never go out of style.

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

One of those tricky posh surnames designed to trip you up. Does it start like 'ounce', or as in 'cough', or 'through'. Or one of those 'cholmondely' types, and you actually say Oozed.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

I remember going on a lads' Thames boating* holiday as my first 'adult' holiday in 1978, and there was a warehouse by the wharf where we picked the boat up; it was absolutely rammed with these vehicles withdrawn from service.

*of course I fell in. In a filling lock near Reading.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

She's right though.

One of them acted inadvertently while trusting professionals to do something they had offered and promised to do on her behalf, while the other conducted the offence seemingly quite gleefully.

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

Not unfair, though. I'm often disappointing myself, with good cause.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 1d

Love this. And here's a simple checklist to accompany it:

bsky.app/profile/nige...

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 5d

I keep a handy ColorNote on my phone of the ECHR main points, to ask people 'Which of these rights do you wish to be denied to you and family?'
Oddly, very few wish to eschew these for themselves; only for 'others'...

https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/human-rights-the-uks-international-human-rights-obligations

The substantive rights and freedoms contained in the Convention are:

Article 2: the right to life
Article 3: the prohibition of torture and inhuman or degrading treatment
Article 4: the prohibition of slavery and forced labour
Article 5: the right to liberty and security
Article 6: the right to a fair trial
Article 7: the prohibition of retrospective criminal penalties
Article 8: the right to private and family life
Article 9: the freedom of thought, conscience and religion
Article 10: the freedom of expression
Article 11: the freedom of assembly and association
Article 12: the right to marry
Article 13: the right to an effective national remedy for breach of these rights
Article 14: the prohibition of discrimination in the protection of these rights
The UK has also ratified Protocol No. 13 to the Convention on the abolition of the death penalty in all circumstances, as well Protocol No. 1, which contains three additional rights:

Article 1 of Protocol No.1: the right to free enjoyment of property
Article 2 of Protocol No.1: the right to education
Article 3 of Protocol No.1: the right to free and fair elections

See also, as it incorporates the ECHR, the UK Human Rights Act (1998)
https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/human-rights/human-rights-act

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 2d

@dankaszeta.bsky.social - one more sovereign remedy to add to your list of 'Why the F* Did You Use That?'

Although in this case no tears were shed - except by little Tommy Two-Dads, of course.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 2d

bsky.app/profile/nige...
Reposting...

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 5d

I keep a handy ColorNote on my phone of the ECHR main points, to ask people 'Which of these rights do you wish to be denied to you and family?'
Oddly, very few wish to eschew these for themselves; only for 'others'...

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 2d

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on

Augustus de Morgan

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 2d

And, as a treat, don't throw away the seeds but separate them from the guggy-bits (technical term), sprinkle with a bit of olive oil and salt, and bake for a bit (another technical term, sorry).
Enjoy.

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 3d

Only Greens/Lib Dems care enough about keeping these rights to vote to protect them...

bsky.app/profile/nige...

Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 5d

I keep a handy ColorNote on my phone of the ECHR main points, to ask people 'Which of these rights do you wish to be denied to you and family?'
Oddly, very few wish to eschew these for themselves; only for 'others'...

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 3d

...keep showing up and not asking pertinent or critical questions.

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Nigel (no, not that one) - I ♥️ 🇨🇦 @nigelingledew.bsky.social · 3d

Ah the 'Danny-ing Kruger Effect' - where people with low ability in a specific task overestimate their competence.

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