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  1. Ticklishchap

    WWII/old-fashioned military slang for passing gas.

    Fartulent and fartulence are more expressive words than the correct adjective and noun.
  2. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    I was a Full-Back, for my sins. Sorry about your rotator cuff: very annoying and disappointing
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    It seems a pity he's so far away from you, Smithy: the distance between Norway and NZ is considerable, to say the least, although of course there is email, Skype, facebook, etc. I seem to recall from another thread that you were until recently in Australia?
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    School and college sports

    That's interesting because I interpreted your description of gym classes as coed, even though there was a 'curtain'! But that's because I went to a single-sex school, which I know is less frequent in the US. It's interesting that there are so many differences as well as similarities between...
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    School and college sports

    This whole idea of co-ed games lessons sounds bizarre and I'm glad I didn't experience that in any form. But this could be a cultural difference.
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    British degrees have always been more specialised but until the recent past it was assumed that most students would be broadly educated and the courses themselves encouraged or provided time for other interests and activities - and encouraged a wide-ranging curiosity. The lack of curiosity and...
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Very good luck to your nephew. I wish him well.
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    I'm definitely not saying they're 'bad' in any way as people, just that there is a noticeable inarticulacy - having to add the word 'like' to everything, for instance - compared to young people from Central and Eastern Europe, who often speak better English, can form sentences and are equipped...
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    School and college sports

    The last post is entirely outside my experience as fortunately (IMHO) I never went to a co-ed school!
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Very interesting. I am sure it was one hell of a contrast.
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    I was being slightly facetious, although I think that there are quite a number of degrees (in the UK) that don't have all that much intrinsic value and I am struck by the ignorance and mediocrity of a large number of graduates. Although an arts graduate myself, I am disappointed that technical...
  14. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    I like that comment! At my boarding school from 13-18 years old I only had to do 'games lessons' (PE) in the first two years. The master who taught us was actually quite good - although games lessons and games in general had been pathetic and a complete waste of time at my junior (preparatory)...
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Although with many British degrees now it's possible to end up cleaning lavatories or stacking supermarket shelves. ...
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    Thanks for your 'like' recently. They seem to have tidied up the website a bit.

    Thanks for your 'like' recently. They seem to have tidied up the website a bit.
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Thanks for a interesting and really inspiring post.
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    School and college sports

    Could you take it up again?
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Several of my German friends at university managed that. Several others did Army service and quite enjoyed it and one did community service.
  21. Ticklishchap

    School and college sports

    It's a windy and rainy afternoon here and I associate these conditions with school sports as throughout my teenaged years I had to turn out onto the Rugby field come rain or shine - and I even did it when it was no longer compulsory. However we didn't call it Rugby but 'Rugger' at my school. I...
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    Experience of service in the Armed Forces

    Did you have experience of National Service?
  23. Ticklishchap

    Caspar David Friedrich

    Very much agree. I love his work and recall especially an exhibition at the National Gallery here in London in a very hot summer - I think 1995. The paintings transported me from the heat and pollution of central London to the crisp mountain air, clear blue skies and the overwhelming green of...

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