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David Pick
@davidmichaelpick.net
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Can't DM here so use Whitehall1212.05 on Signal or [email protected]. Love a good pun and truly relish a bad one. SFF Fan who followed a bunch of favourite authors and historians here. Worked in IT at a UK university since 1970, now IT Security.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2h
...and the references to the old English folk song "A Frog he would a-wooing go"...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 13h
Hmmm...

I was connecting my university mainframe to a public packet switching network in 1977...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 14h
Sorry, I don't understand the fuss. Why should Hungary be criticised for doing what I'm sure many other countries are doing (both members and non-members)?

Now, criticising them for being inept enough to get *caught*...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 1d
Treacle Layer Pudding

Line a pudding basin with suet and a layer of breadcrumbs in the bottom. Soak in golden syrup. Add a disc of suet and another layer of breadcrumbs, and soak as before. Repeat the layering to the top of the bowl. Cover and steam the pudding. Best with custard.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
Perhaps the Proud Boys will replace the National Guards deployed there. Might be politically easier, but they would need equipping properly. One capacity or another...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
At least the previous lot *announced* they'd have a "VIP Lane"...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
Pineapple on Pizza... 😇
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
Another slightly "odd" one would be Chatham House in London.

Also, very recently reopened, the Great Hall at Barts Hospital in London.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
"Reasonably priced" could be an issue and I've no idea of the actual costs, but any university would be a plausible starting place depending on time of day.

There are cinema-style theatres in the basement of Selfriges flagship store in London.

There are function rooms in the Royal Instution. /
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 2d
"From ghoulies and ghosties and long-legged beasties *and true believers of all stripes*, Good Lord deliver us!"
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 3d
@chrischirp.bsky.social
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 3d
And yet, for all that, there are some positives. The tools this site has that allow individuals to self-curate are *so* much better than some other "services" and this enables the humanity of *most* members to show through.

*If* I were cynical I might think it's running a social experiment...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 3d
Keep it going at a level that makes it impossible for most of us to decide between "will they" and "won't they".
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 4d
This blocklist needs mirroring as a starter pack. 😇
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 4d
I know. I was drawing a parallel to point out an advantage of being multilingual.

But to answer your question, English, some schoolboy French, and a very little liturgical Latin. In practice, just English (British English).
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 4d
Good point.

A man who can't (or won't) keep faith with wife is hardly likely to do so with his electorate.

A Man who can't (or won't) keep faith with his family is hardly likely to do so with his shareholders.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 4d
using each one more accurately and effectively. I'm sure the same is true for natural languages.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 4d
I claim to be multi-lingual. Besides English I'm fluent in Fortran 66, Fortran 77, Algol 60, Algol 68, Pascal, Modular 2, Python, C, BCPL, various Assemblers, SQL, Coral 66, Plasyd, POP-2, COBOL, and several more.

Point is the knowledge of multiple (programming) languages certainly helps /
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
This is a lovely example of a "Classic British Understatement"...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
I think the language thing *really* helps. The UK has been exposed to a lot of material originally aimed at the US *without the benefit of a different perspective*.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
Ah, that's it. Libraries are dangerously subversive organisations.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
Ah. Have to do the same again to be truely gross...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
Regnal numbers as in Henry VIII.
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 5d
I suspect the real idea is to redefine the word "human" to a narrower version than that associated with the ECHR. Then the government can act against the new non-humans without violating the rights of the humans.

This process always ends well...
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David Pick @davidmichaelpick.net · 6d
Depends on the pension. The UK "state" pension works the way you describe and like most state benefits. Most UK occupational pensions work the way people *think* *all* pensions work. This helps confuse people who don't realise there's both systems in use.
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