Mal ,'War Stories'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sue -- Halifax was where a lot of the unidentified bodies went, right?
Reading about true crime in the 1800s, I found a researcher who was using the courtroom transcripts to find out a lot about the ordinary lives of household help and common laborers, because the cross-examination gets down to what was precisely happening just before, during and after the crime occured. She said it was like digging up Pompeii, in that a moment in time was exactly captured.
Sue -- Halifax was where a lot of the unidentified bodies went, right?
Yeah, I think it was where most of the recovered bodies went and were buried. (Survivors went to NY.) There's a grave in a cemetery near my house of a person named J. Dawson, which inspired DiCaprio's character to be called Jack Dawson. That caused a lot of weird movie-inspired tourism. Which tourism types totally exploited.
Theo, another job I used to do when I worked retrieval in the archives was to check microfilms of old newspapers to see if they were readable. That lead to me reading a lot of the crime reports published for Halifax back in the 1880's. It was so interesting, the picture it created over time as the same people and areas of the town were being arrested all the time. Let's just say there was a lot of drinking, fighting and prostitution on the streets adjacent the main military fortification.
From Victor, elsewhere, JK Rowling rips the Torys a new one:
Nobody who has ever experienced the reality of poverty could say “it’s not the money, it’s the message”. When your flat has been broken into, and you cannot afford a locksmith, it is the money. When you are two pence short of a tin of baked beans, and your child is hungry, it is the money. When you find yourself contemplating shoplifting to get nappies, it is the money. If Mr Cameron’s only practical advice to women living in poverty, the sole carers of their children, is “get married, and we’ll give you £150”, he reveals himself to be completely ignorant of their true situation.
My boss just sent me an email with a link to pictures of someone skinning a cat. Ew!
Did it show more than one way?
t is for sure going to hell
Ew.
FINALLY, other people are focusing on the project I've been supposedly working on, which is now due next week. Too bad no one seems to be talking to each other, and I'm pretty sure someone is about to duplicate work I spent a fair amount of time on last week. @@
Why would someone do that!?
Taxidermy? Some people really really like their deceased pets...
"I love my dead gay cat!"