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Anti-Beatles Prejudice
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Anti-Beatles Prejudice
It can be hard to disentangle judgement and prejudice at times (actually it’s always impossible, but you can do a fairly decent job most of the time). I occasionally wonder whether my dislike for and low opinion of the Be[…]

Constriction
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I have what I imagine is about an average amount of fear of crocodiles, heights and so on, but what I have always found much the most terrifying thing to imagine is being stuck in a narrow tunnel (and I am guessing it didn’t make the top 25, so[…]

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HISTORY OF HISTORY-of-ART BODYSHOCKS (dept of genealogy)
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HISTORY OF HISTORY-of-ART BODYSHOCKS (dept of genealogy) :
ok learning that robert quine wz the nephew of willard van orman quine is one thing, but being told (by Tom) that Buster (Buster comic fame) is the son of andy capp has turned my entire unde[…]

If so much of this here blog is devoted to the pleasures of food…
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…may I interject with one of it’s pains? I believe that my kitchen is infested by weevils. Or some such vermin.
I’ve spent the evening alternately looking up the offending parties, comparing them to actual samples thereof, and empty[…]

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