If you went into an English tea room for afternoon tea and they served you that monstrosity and claimed it was a cucumber sandwich, you'd be perfectly within your rights to burn the entire place to the ground and not a single judge in the country would convict you.
buried_treasure
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If it has cheese or ham then it's not a cucumber sandwich. It's a cheese sandwich, or a ham sandwich.
That "assuming nothing else changes" is doing a huge amount of heavy lifting.
Something that I heard a few years ago really demonstrated people's rightward political shift as they age like nothing else.
Imagine a child born shortly after the end of the Second World War, say 1948-1950. That child would have been a young adult, 18-20, in 1968. That was both the year that the hippie movement gained greatest prominence as well as the year of radical protest where young people around the world organised and fought back against corruption and repression.
Now fast forwards to 2016. Those very same post-war children are now aged 66-68. That's the demographic that more than any other voted in favour of Brexit. I bet if you'd gone back to those young radicals of '68 and told them they were going to become bigoted, narrow-minded xenophobes they'd have laughed in your face. But it happened.
Looking at that screenshot, even though I've been a very happy KDE user for many years now, I do kinda miss the days when many Xfree86 desktop environments were influenced more by NeXTStep than Windows.
Well like it says in the sidebar, we're the Meh Generation so, I suppose, meh!
Seriously though, I'm not bothered. If anything it's to our credit that we've never done anything bad enough to make us despised by the young'uns.
I've not seen any of the previous series (I think I'm right that this isn't the first series) but I accidentally caught the first episode this time round and now I'm avidly watching each week. I'm really enjoying it.
Also, I want to go travelling again (although on maybe more than 20 quid a day!)
And now, my mind being what it is, I've immediately started wondering if Doctor Legg ever got a glimpse of Ethel's little willy.
TAKE MY MONEY!!!
Nothing changed. I'm not sure what you were expecting would change - the only difference was that instead of driving to Dover, putting your car on a ferry and then getting off in France, you'd drive to Dover, put your car on a train and then get off in France.
The Eurostar passenger services started a year or so later iirc, but again although it was fun to be able to take the train to Paris rather than taking the plane or boat, it didn't really affect anyone who wasn't travelling to Paris anyway.
Maybe do a simple Google search next time?
Rather than resorting to that age-old cry of the cult member "do your own research!" can I respectfully suggest that if you're aiming to change somebody's mind, the onus is on you to provide the evidence, not on them. By all means take hours out of your day to search google and compile a list of things that you think will convince me. Me, personally, I have better things to do with my life.
That's kind of my point. Blockchain evangelists have been banging the drum for many years saying "This is a perfect fit for the financial industry. Why won't fintech wake up and recognise that?"
When in fact fintech took a long, hard look at blockchain a long time ago and decided "nope, there's nothing here that would tempt us" outside of a few very niche applications.
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If the thread had been titled "how do I make a bahn mi" then I'd have upvoted you to the moon. But it wasn't. It was asking how to make that most English (not British, but English) of foods, a cucumber sandwich. And in case that wasn't a clue enough, the community is Ask UK. Not Ask Vietnam or Ask America.