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Limey wrote:
There are still a couple of villages based on the pre-fabricated temporary accommodation of military camps in the UK somewhere I believe. Paging Carruthers!! He'll know!
Nothing springs immediately to mind, I’m afraid.
By strange coincidence a copy of ‘Legacies of the First World War’ arrived earlier this week which I hoped might help.
It covers archaeological and architectural remains of practice trench lines, munitions works, government factories, army and PoW camps, airfields and airship stations but no villages based upon former army camps.
The nearest I can get to anything like that is the PoW camp at Sedrup just west of Aylesbury.
It started out as a greyhound racing track and was later used to house Italian, then German, POWs.
Dad remembers quite clearly the Italian prisoners being taken to work on local farms but has no recollection of the Germans being moved in.
This is probably due to his receiving a cunningly worded invitation from HMG to participate in WW2 at about the same time.
The camp was decommissioned shortly after the end of the war and eventually a development of about fifty houses was built on the site. No trace remains of its former role.
RFN, I just learned that the Magnifier that comes with Windows will read to you.
I'll. Be. Dipped.
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Gravdigr wrote:
It is very nice to hear from you, Mr. C!
Thank you, Mr G. It's good to be here!
I have dropped by from time to time recently but don't want to admit to 'lurking in the Cellar'.
It sounds somewhat unsavoury, doesn't it?
Well, it's not like it's a kiddie playground or anything...
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Not any more, thank goodness. Welcome back, old chap! Also, I'm back from southernville. just. buncha weirdos down there
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Carruther wrote:
I have dropped by from time to time recently but don't want to admit to 'lurking in the Cellar'.
It sounds somewhat unsavoury, doesn't it?
Gee, you make it sound like a bad thing.
TIL that in Firefox 88, there is no provision for copying the text of a link.
You get the link, too, which is fine if that's what you want. I had an idea for a thread, but it involves copying text from a site where that text is a link. Numerous times. I don't want the link, I want the text. And you don't need/want a link for every entry in the thread.
There used to be a provision for copying the link text, just the text, not the location. No more.
That's what I get for having an idea, I guess.
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Police dont care if I use heavy eye shadow, they write tickets for speeding. period.
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saw that one coming... LOL
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TIL
Cricut (something home crafty scrapbooky people seem to get excited about) is pronounced "cricket" rather than cry-cut.
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TIL (well, re-learnt) what it's like to have a houseful of company ya don't really want.
Remember the pandemic, and not traveling, and the lockdown?
Man, those were the days.
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sounds hell, sorry
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.... I want people to keep not touching me :/ I mean WTF is wrong with them? I'm considering taking up smoking so i can develop a cough to scare them.....
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Negative Visualization-
Unlike the general focus of creative visualization of inducing an imaginary positive psychological and physiologic response, negative visualization focuses on training the practitioner on the negative outcomes of realistic life scenarios in order to desensitize or create psychological fitness in preparation for real-life losses and also to induce feelings of gratitude towards the real things or actual status that the practitioner has.[6][/url][url= ][7][/url] The severeness of negative visualization range from as mild as thinking of a minor inconvenience, e.g. having to abandon a minor pleasure, to as severe as total immersion in an imagined scenario in which the worst fear(s) of the practitioner has (have) really occurred, e.g. the loss of resources, status or life.[url= ][8][/url][url= ][9]
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griff wrote:
Negative Visualization-
Unlike the general focus of creative visualization of inducing an imaginary positive psychological and physiologic response, negative visualization focuses on training the practitioner on the negative outcomes of realistic life scenarios in order to desensitize or create psychological fitness in preparation for real-life losses and also to induce feelings of gratitude towards the real things or actual status that the practitioner has.[6][/url][url= ][7][/url] The severeness of negative visualization range from as mild as thinking of a minor inconvenience, e.g. having to abandon a minor pleasure, to as severe as total immersion in an imagined scenario in which the worst fear(s) of the practitioner has (have) really occurred, e.g. the loss of resources, status or life.[url= ][8][/url][url= ][9]
This is a good one. I remember when I was "today years old" about this.
Modern, popular usage of the word "stoic" has really obscured the principles and practices of classical Stoicism.
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Brits and Merkins pronounce encephalitis differently
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you misspelled "aluminum"
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monster wrote:
Brits and Merkins pronounce encephalitis differently
Interesting--how do Brits say it? en-seff-AL-it-is?
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BigV wrote:
you misspelled "aluminum"
Hah!
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Clodfobble wrote:
monster wrote:
Brits and Merkins pronounce encephalitis differently
Interesting--how do Brits say it? en-seff-AL-it-is?
no
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Clodfobble wrote:
monster wrote:
Brits and Merkins pronounce encephalitis differently
Interesting--how do Brits say it? en-seff-AL-it-is?
en -KEFF..... srsly. they do. I guess I never watched crap fly-on-the-wall medical documentaries when I was there.....
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monster wrote:
Clodfobble wrote:
monster wrote:
Brits and Merkins pronounce encephalitis differently
Interesting--how do Brits say it? en-seff-AL-it-is?
en -KEFF..... srsly. they do. I guess I never watched crap fly-on-the-wall medical documentaries when I was there.....
And we also know how to spell aluminium.