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On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 03:30:39PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 25, 2021 at 03:21:54PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> > On 2021-07-25 11:13 a.m., Brian wrote:
> > > Belt and braces? We see you believe in it. :)
> > What do you mean by this ?
> > Belt and braces ??
> 
> "Braces" is a British term for suspenders.  The American version of
> this would be "belt and suspenders".
> 
> If you're not familiar with *either* of these, it means "having
> redundancy".  Wearing both a belt and a set of suspenders gives you
> two ways to prevent your pants from falling down.  Both have to fail
> before your pants fall down.
> 

Be careful: three countries divided by a common language here [.ca, .us and 
.uk :) ]

Belt and braces == British english for two ways to keep your trousers up.
[Braces == US/CA "suspenders" == webbing/elastic that goes from the trouser
top over the shoulders to the trouser top and clips to this.]

"Suspenders" in UK are used with old fashioned silk stockings and a garter belt
or similar: small clips to hook the stockings to. The sort of thing you might
see in a burlesque show, maybe, or for a fancy dress party.

Pants in UK == undergarments (men's underpants, normally).

So yes, belt and braces is redundancy: when my braces broke as I was in
church getting married, my suit trousers didn't have belt loops - so I 
had some difficulties :)

If this is hard: at least we've not got into orthography - how do you spell
tires/tyres - in British English, we can't understand why someone would 
write a verb for the plural noun ... ]

All best, as ever,

Andy Cater.

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needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-25 11:20 +0200
  Re: needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2021-07-25 13:00 +0200
    Re: needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui Michael <ml@hemathor.de> - 2021-07-25 13:10 +0200
      Re: needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-25 20:00 +0200
  Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-25 15:50 +0200
    Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 17:20 +0200
      Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-25 18:50 +0200
        Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 19:40 +0200
          Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-25 21:30 +0200
            Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 22:40 +0200
        Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-25 19:40 +0200
          Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 20:00 +0200
            Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-25 20:20 +0200
              Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 20:30 +0200
      Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-25 21:30 +0200
        Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-07-25 21:40 +0200
          Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-25 21:40 +0200
          Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-25 22:50 +0200
            Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-25 23:10 +0200
            Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-07-25 23:40 +0200
              Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2021-07-26 01:10 +0200
                Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-26 01:30 +0200
              Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Charles Curley <charlescurley@charlescurley.com> - 2021-07-26 02:00 +0200
                Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-26 03:10 +0200
          Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> - 2021-07-26 15:30 +0200
            Re: Receipt [ was : needrestart - how to supress ncurses gui] Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-26 16:30 +0200

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