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Paul

Are you playing in the British Chess Champs in Liverpool. I will probably go to watch, and will look out for you if you are.

Paul

Thanks - Good luck and I will see you later

Paul

Congrats on win. When I arrived, you had a lovely position. Later I saw you were 2 pawns up with a lovely knight on d5. I missed the end and I could not find you later.

I think I played you at Hastings in the 70/80s.

Hope to be there for the start on Thurs.

Thanks jigjag. Any further posts on this I will put in the Chess Thread.

Hope to see you on Thursday and actually find out who you are. If I played you years ago I will have the game, in true chess nerd fashion, in an old score book.

The very essence of an England that I remember can be found in Edward Thomas's Adlestrop and another favourite, Frances Cornford's To a Fat Lady Seen From a Train.. Looking through YouTube, I find that this is now listed as To a Lady Seen From a Train.

Why? The poem itself says that she is fat and white.

swarbrules

At school, we were not allowed to call girls "fat". We had to say they were "pleasantly plump". We could call boys "fat".

I’m sure you know that G. K. Chesterton wrote a verse in response called "The Fat Lady Answers"…

YouTube has become ridiculous in its attemps to be PC or woke or call it whatever you like.

Often late at night I like to watch a true crime show, be it police interviewing a suspect or a lawyer commenting on an ongoing trial (I usually watch US ones), but the dialogue has become absurd. People are now 'unalived' and any crime that has dialogue related to sex is now bleeped out entirely. Oh, and it's not just the shows host that has to do this, anyone sending in comments has to write them in this bizarre new speak or else they won't get shown. Some of the more courageous legal YouTubers commentators like The Emily Show and Nate the Lawyer still include these words but they are demonetised because 'it violates YT's advertiser-friendly content guidelines'.

It really has become farcical and, if you think I'm exaggerating, spend an hour or so watching The Lawyer You Know or any host of others and you'll see that, if anything, I've understated it.