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| From | Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad |
| Date | 2020-07-26 11:05 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <rfjkgs$dcd$2@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (13 earlier) <1ou3j6e.s9blz1c1qhl3N@de-ster.xs4all.nl> <rfh35h$lcl$1@dont-email.me> <1ou3mqb.hafuvc1mit5suN@de-ster.xs4all.nl> <rfhg3i$1j2$3@dont-email.me> <1ou5cnl.1cmum701w4xbe5N@de-ster.xs4all.nl> |
On 26/07/2020 10:54, J. J. Lodder wrote: > Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > >> On 25/07/2020 12:36, J. J. Lodder wrote: >>> Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: >>> >>>> On 25/07/2020 11:19, J. J. Lodder wrote: >>>>> Richard Tobin <richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> In article <1ou3b1d.dqjmlb191dvlsN@de-ster.xs4all.nl>, >>>>>> J. J. Lodder <jjlxa31@xs4all.nl> wrote: >>>>>>> I know, the English are still sore about having been defeated, >>>>>>> by Unfair Means, in the 100-years war. >>>>>> >>>>>> I think you'll find most English people have no idea when the hundred >>>>>> years war was, who was in it, or who won it. >>>>> >>>>> Now really. Why would that be necessary? >>>>> The English are quite capable of remaining sore forever >>>>> without knowing why, or what it was about. >>>>> >>>>> It is Memorable however that it is called 'The Hundred Years War' >>>>> because the troops signed on for a hundred years, or the duration. >>>> >>>> Fiction, it's called the 100 years war because it was a series of linked >>>> pan-European conflicts that stretched for well over a century. >>> >>> Eh, English humour is beyond you? >> >> Thank you Messrs Sellars and Yateman. >> >>>> There was no singe winner, or loser come to that. >>> >>> Nonsense. There was a clear and obvious winner, France, >> >> Tell that to the Hapsburgs. > > Any sideline will do to distract from an obvious > and painful English loss in a major war? It was 500 years ago, apart from you, no-one cares. > >>> and a clear and obvious loser, England. >>> England lost all of it's French possesions, except for Calais. >>> The French monarchy came out much strengthened, >>> and English kings had to give up all claims to the French throne. >>> The English monarchy was much weakened, >>> and England suffered the Wars of the Roses in consequence. >>> >> >> The so-called Wars of the Roses is almost as much of a fiction, it was >> another series of dynastic quarrels but this time glamourised by the >> Tudor spin-doctor, one W Shakespeare. > > Sure, but while they lasted England was a second rate country > where the real powers of the time meddled in the internal affairs, > supporting one side or the other to further their interests, > That's all right, we like being a second rate country, hence Brexit. -- Graeme Wall This account not read.
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Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-20 16:20 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad David_B <DavidB@nomail.afraid.org> - 2020-07-21 08:41 +0100
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Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Elliott Roper <nospam@yrl.co.uk> - 2020-07-24 10:35 +0000
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Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-24 09:57 +0200
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Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 02:03 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-25 10:15 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-25 10:13 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-24 04:01 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-24 09:57 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 02:20 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-25 10:15 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) - 2020-07-25 10:09 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-25 12:19 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2020-07-25 11:56 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-25 13:36 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2020-07-25 15:37 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-26 11:54 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2020-07-26 11:05 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-26 15:23 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-24 03:49 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2020-07-24 07:03 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 01:58 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-24 09:57 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-07-24 08:17 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2020-07-24 10:39 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-24 10:32 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-07-24 10:37 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 02:37 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-24 21:55 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-08-04 13:08 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2020-07-24 13:32 +0200
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-25 02:23 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-21 10:25 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2020-07-21 11:41 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-21 19:09 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-21 22:17 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-22 15:19 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 15:53 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2020-07-22 19:21 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 23:14 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-22 20:48 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 23:16 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-22 23:17 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-23 16:02 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-23 17:15 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-23 02:54 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 22:23 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 22:20 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Bernd Froehlich <befr@eaglesoft.de> - 2020-07-23 07:09 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk> - 2020-07-23 08:11 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 10:43 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-07-23 16:07 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 11:35 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-07-23 17:07 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 12:23 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-07-23 17:40 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 13:01 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) - 2020-07-23 22:54 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-23 16:34 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 13:01 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2020-07-23 17:47 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 14:20 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-23 20:39 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 16:47 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-23 02:48 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-22 22:19 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-07-23 10:13 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 10:43 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-24 03:58 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-07-23 23:21 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2020-07-23 02:39 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamherethankyou.invalid> - 2020-07-29 08:38 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-07-29 17:43 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamherethankyou.invalid> - 2020-08-02 09:36 +0100
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-02 13:53 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-02 11:44 -0400
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Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-03 17:42 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2020-08-03 13:44 -0400
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2020-08-03 18:03 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad Andy Hewitt <thewildrover@icloud.com> - 2020-08-03 21:08 +0000
Re: Well, finally made the decision to go iPad black.hole@jonbradbury.com (Jon B) - 2020-08-04 12:48 +0100
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