A Brit who loves baseball and college football. History-lover. Likes reading about US law.
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I have recently made a tweet that I may cause some people to dislike me. But frankly something like it was going to happen at some point.
So I am going to say something bluntly.
In the early 2000s I was sexually assaulted by a woman in a senior position to me.
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It is but the deep breath before the plunge.
So said Beregond to Pippin.
Sums up my thoughts right now.
Time to tune in but mute the news channels.
Because there wil be enough idiocy tonight without listening to talking heads who mostly don't know anymore than we do. Especially at the moment.
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For Channel 4 to entitle its film 'Churchill's Secret Apartheid' is a disgrace. He chaired the War Cabinet meeting of 13 October 1942 that concluded about the US Army, 'They must not expect our authorities, civil or military, to assist them in enforcing a policy of segregation. It was clear that, so far as concerned admission to canteens, public houses, theatres, cinemas, and so forth, there would, and must, be no restriction of the facilities hitherto extended to coloured persons as a result of the arrival of United States troops in this country.' ie Churchill took the exact opposite stance to that implied by Channel 4, who chose a novelist to present the programme rather than an historian #churchill #ChurchillShow
Just listened blind to Medical Marijuana vs Horn. Still struggle to tell some justices apart. No view on likely outcome - I'm just an overseas yahoo after all - but I did prefer the style of the second counsel. First counsel seemed quite argumentative & more spray and pray.
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The White Ensign 'flies' again on destroyer HMS Exmouth after a team of divers surveyed the wreck.
Exmouth was the first RN surface ship lost with all hands in #WW2, torpedoed off Wick in Scotland in January 1940.
🔗 royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2024/o…
ALT Lt Cdr Jen Smith shines her torch on the White Ensign over the wreck of HMS Exmouth
My department got moved into a new office building today. Must say one of the better office moves I've endured. Hats off to my colleagues who had to help shift c200 chairs.
"Lucky" me had a 3 hr meeting instead. I think I would have rather helped with the chairs :)
I consider myself so fortunate that the years when I often watched tennis happened to coincide when Nadal and Federer were both at the pinnacle of their prowess.
bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/artic…
Regarding the sinking of the HMNZS Manawanui, the idea that the captain's gender is in any way relevant is absolute tosh. Plenty of ships with male captains sink too. Sometimes when something goes wrong all you can do is try to avert and limit loss of life.
And plenty of male captains can be incompetent - see Captain Francesco Schettino of the Costa Concordia.
Commander Gray managed to get her entire crew off with no loss of life. Regardless of the precise cause of the sinking - which the investigation will hopefully uncover -
Random query to any Yanks who are unfortunate enough to have chosen to follow me:
Do you guys ever use the word conflab or is this more a British thing?