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andrewducker- 1. Anyone want to tell me how worried I should be by the latest Covid mutation?
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- 2. The Trolley Problem: model train edition
- (tags:trains philosophy funny video )
- 3. Notable items missing from English Wikipedia
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- 4. Workers Discover 700-Year-Old Lead Coffin Beneath Notre Dame Cathedral
- (tags:Paris religion archeology catholicism christianity )
- 5. SNP pledges to charge commuters to enter Edinburgh-wide congestion zone to cut traffic
- (tags:Edinburgh driving transport snp )
- 6. The parts of 90s TV you'll have to explain to your children
- (tags:TV history )
- 7. Where did the Easter bunny come from?
- (tags:rabbits easter history myths )
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Date: 2022-04-17 06:12 pm (UTC)3. Notable? Meh...
5. Don't commuters from outside the city tend to be poorer and have fewer and worse public transport options? Join those dots FIRST - or at least at the same time!
7. Amused that the Germans seem to be also responsible for the sweetie version (both are still very popular here). We just had the game of hiding the treats round the garden for the kid(s) to find today :-).
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Date: 2022-04-17 06:16 pm (UTC)(Also hopefully, once enough people switch to buses they won't need much in the way of subsidies)
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Date: 2022-04-17 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-18 10:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-04-18 11:27 am (UTC)Asking who Dudley Moore and Demi Moore are reminds me of the time, about ten years ago, that I was in a grocery checkout line and the party in front of me had kids asking their father who were the people named in the headlines of the tabloids on the racks. Like John Denver or Katharine Hepburn. Or (oh lord) O.J.
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Date: 2022-04-18 11:31 am (UTC)