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Post by yellowperil on Aug 6, 2023 6:34:58 GMT
Of course it is, as in Slaughter (Upper and Lower). That correction I acknowledge and am duly abased - I blame it on the state of my health. which borders on total collapse. I have not been myself for several days and my usual self would not make such an elementary spelling error. Oh… here was I thinking that the difference in spelling between “onslaught” and “onslought” was the whole point of the joke. Maybe I could argue that in the days of Castle Rising at its peak spelling was pretty flexible.
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Post by batman on Aug 6, 2023 7:35:57 GMT
I have been to the Slaughters as one of them has one of Donnington Brewery's beautiful stone-built 15 tied houses.
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 6, 2023 9:46:14 GMT
Oh… here was I thinking that the difference in spelling between “onslaught” and “onslought” was the whole point of the joke. Maybe I could argue that in the days of Castle Rising at its peak spelling was pretty flexible. Nice square hole. Good corners. Quite deep enough. You may stop digging now.
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 6, 2023 10:06:56 GMT
you spelt it wrong as well. it's "onslaught" Of course it is, as in Slaughter (Upper and Lower). That correction I acknowledge and am duly abased - I blame it on the state of my health. which borders on total collapse. I have not been myself for several days and my usual self would not make such an elementary spelling error. Oh dear, I do hope you get better soon.
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 6, 2023 10:09:23 GMT
I have been to the Slaughters as one of them has one of Donnington Brewery's beautiful stone-built 15 tied houses. The other of course is Lamb's.
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Post by batman on Aug 6, 2023 10:24:23 GMT
Or Andy.
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Post by iang on Aug 6, 2023 17:38:37 GMT
There's also Great Slaughter, where intrepid nun and forensic scientist Sister Boniface investigates murder on a weekly basis
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 6, 2023 20:24:09 GMT
There's also Great Slaughter, where intrepid nun and forensic scientist Sister Boniface investigates murder on a weekly basis And finally there's Bring-your-daughter-to-the-Slaughter, where hard rock music is the order of the day.
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Post by johnloony on Aug 7, 2023 0:28:40 GMT
Brenda Slaughter was a candidate for the Workers Revolutionary Party.
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Post by minionofmidas on Aug 7, 2023 7:01:22 GMT
you spelt it wrong as well. it's "onslaught" We were discussing Norfolk.
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Post by Crimson King on Aug 7, 2023 7:57:33 GMT
I’m finding all this Norfolking good
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Post by East Anglian Lefty on Aug 7, 2023 8:15:47 GMT
Let's go back to hundreds and wapentakes. Makes it easier.. South of the Trent/Mersey = hundred North - wapentake. Sorted. 👍 It was the areas subject to Danelaw which generally had Wapentakes, so Lancashire has Hundreds. Also note that in Kent, the Hundreds are grouped into five Lathes. And some counties have their own names: Cumberland: Wards Durham: Wards Northumberland: Wards Sussex: Rapes Westmorland: Wards There are also sokes, although in practice that of Peterborough which really operated separately from the rest of the county.
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Post by carlton43 on Aug 7, 2023 11:06:48 GMT
I’m finding all this Norfolking good They may well be bunburying of course in a county where no one goes on account of its awful flatness.
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Post by Chris from Brum on Aug 7, 2023 11:21:39 GMT
I’m finding all this Norfolking good Norfolk enchants.
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Post by The Bishop on Aug 8, 2023 10:47:26 GMT
I’m finding all this Norfolking good They may well be bunburying of course in a county where no one goes on account of its awful flatness. Norfolk may not have mountains or even many hills, but there is quite a lot else to be said for it.
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Post by Disgusted Of Tunbridge Wells on Aug 9, 2023 3:03:01 GMT
An encouraging result for the LibDems in Norcot which, if my memory serves me correctly, used to be held by the Liberals many years ago. Norcot contains some dodgy estates, which have undergone significant demographic change over the last 30 years. The Lib Dems have no chance these days, and should focus further west and/or south to wipe out the remaining West Berks Tories in Aldermaston, Bradfield, Calcot and other parts of Tilehurst.
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Post by oldhamexile on Aug 9, 2023 17:24:20 GMT
Brenda Slaughter was a candidate for the Workers Revolutionary Party. Isn't that Barbara Slaughter? AFAIK she and her husband Cliff Slaughter split from the WRP in the mid-1980s. Having worshipped Gerry Healy for decades until that split, she is now (in her mid-90s) a de facto supporter of another brutal dictator, campaigning with her fellow 'Fourth Internationalists' against Western support for Ukraine.
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Post by evergreenadam on Aug 9, 2023 20:11:18 GMT
My initial observation was perfectly normal pedantry which should be expected and respected on this forum where everyone should care about the distiinction between a ward and a division (and one would expect the ALDC to do so also). The post you were quoting was in response to yellowperil seeking to excuse their error on the basis that the county division had the same boundaries as the district ward, as if this introduced some kind of ambiguity to the situation. This was a fuckwitted take which merited the response it got. I can appreciate that fuckwitted takes are something you are able to relate to. Pedantry is pedantry, it is never a perfectly normal reaction. I absolutely agree that your statement about the difference between wards and divisions is correct, but maybe more than a little erring on the side of pedantry. I hold no brief for ALDC and was not seeking to excuse them for their error- it was more an explanation of how such errors occur. I imagine their info came from the Eastbourne borough party who will be very much geared to fighting in the Eastbourne wards, and will think of Eastbourne Meads as one of toughest Tory wards to crack. The managed 1/3 of the seats in the last borough elections, itself an incredible achievement. This time they won it when the ward has temporarily turned itself into the East Sussex division. I don't imagine the focus was on the county that much and I'm not surprised they referred to it as the ward - even tho' the side benefit was sending East Sussex into NOC. I do know Meads very well given it is home to my brother, and I visit several times in a typical year. It is much posher than most of Eastbourne, but I know a lot of people there who are not just Tory but viscerally anti-Lib Dem. It is mostly the bit uphill from most of Eastbourne climbing up towards the South Downs and Beachy Head, looking down literally and metaphorically on central Eastbourne. When Meads goes Lib Dem you know the world's clock has stopped. So Ratton is the now only Eastbourne ward or East Sussex division within Eastbourne BC never to have voted anything other than Tory?
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Post by Pete Whitehead on Aug 9, 2023 20:42:07 GMT
Pedantry is pedantry, it is never a perfectly normal reaction. I absolutely agree that your statement about the difference between wards and divisions is correct, but maybe more than a little erring on the side of pedantry. I hold no brief for ALDC and was not seeking to excuse them for their error- it was more an explanation of how such errors occur. I imagine their info came from the Eastbourne borough party who will be very much geared to fighting in the Eastbourne wards, and will think of Eastbourne Meads as one of toughest Tory wards to crack. The managed 1/3 of the seats in the last borough elections, itself an incredible achievement. This time they won it when the ward has temporarily turned itself into the East Sussex division. I don't imagine the focus was on the county that much and I'm not surprised they referred to it as the ward - even tho' the side benefit was sending East Sussex into NOC. I do know Meads very well given it is home to my brother, and I visit several times in a typical year. It is much posher than most of Eastbourne, but I know a lot of people there who are not just Tory but viscerally anti-Lib Dem. It is mostly the bit uphill from most of Eastbourne climbing up towards the South Downs and Beachy Head, looking down literally and metaphorically on central Eastbourne. When Meads goes Lib Dem you know the world's clock has stopped. So Ratton is the now only Eastbourne ward or East Sussex division within Eastbourne BC never to have voted anything other than Tory? Ratton has voted Liberal/LD a number of times
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Post by johnloony on Aug 11, 2023 19:39:44 GMT
Brenda Slaughter was a candidate for the Workers Revolutionary Party. Isn't that Barbara Slaughter? AFAIK she and her husband Cliff Slaughter split from the WRP in the mid-1980s. Having worshipped Gerry Healy for decades until that split, she is now (in her mid-90s) a de facto supporter of another brutal dictator, campaigning with her fellow 'Fourth Internationalists' against Western support for Ukraine. Oh yes. I always get those two names mixed up for some reason.
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