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[oursin]

On this day in 1928: passing of the Equal Franchise Bill.

And my glad whistling of 'March of the Women' comes to an abrupt halt when I read this: After learning about the tricks that trainers use on wild animals, Amy Sutherland decided to try the same techniques on her husband - with dramatic results. Creepy, or what?

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In other news: Why bother

Comments

[sam_t]

On the other hand, if someone had told me, when I was eighteen, that I had a straight choice between studying hard and expensively for three years and attempting to become the Duke of Edinburgh, I'd still have chosen the former.

[oursin]

Am reminding of Pete and Dud sketch - 'if 6,353,111 people died, I'd be Queen!'

[owlfish]

Canada privatized postal outlets a while back. Just the outlets, not the infrastructure. But there are real differences between the function of Canadian post offices and British ones. The Canadian ones are all about mailing letters and parcels and perhaps picking up undeliverable parcels. British post offices - well, sometimes the mailing of things seems to be the least of their multitude of functions.

[clanwilliam]

Nonsense. Whips and chairs, that's what you need for training men, I tell you. G. is so much easier to handle ever since I upped the beatings to daily... :) He used to snarl, now he rolls over to have his tummy tickled.

[oursin]

But can he balance a lump of sugar on his nose until you say 'paid for'?

[clanwilliam]

He'd probably eat it. But he does play dead most convincingly - all you need is a large club with a nail in it and a small aubergine.

[oursin]

There Are Some Things It Is Better For Us Not To Know...

[redbird]

If it's just about the letters, yeah, don't bother. But you won't learn anything from those honorary degrees, or if you do it'll be minor and incidental: visiting a new place can be educational, but I doubt Prince Philip stayed in Monash long enough to benefit.

[oursin]

And would have been carefully minded wherever he went.

[oursin]

Similar to the 'village post office' and 'sub-post office' system in UK - where there would be limited PO services, stamps, parcels, poste restante, postal orders, etc - at back of small shop. But they don't run the full range of PO services - though even main Post Offices these days are chokka with Marketing Opportunities, i.e. racks and racks of really naff greetings cards and similar.

Need an O tempora! O mores! icon!

[rivka]

Need an O tempora! O mores! icon!

That certainly makes for an interesting Google Images search.