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"Telephone the bar and ask how much your favourite drink will cost. This is F. Multiply this by the number of drinks you will have, D. Add to this the cost of transport there, T and back again B (traditionally, B>T, but your mileage may vary)...." [
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"Time for an anecdote - at my sister's "sure start"1 class a woman described being on the tube and standing, when a seat came free. She moved to sit in it and a young lad of 20 or so ducked in front of her and took the seat. She said..." [
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"I had a student once who handed in an essay which was clearly a patchwork of different sources - a paragraph from here, a paragraph from there. Using google and findsame I located about half of his essay on the internet, from about 6 different sites...." [
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"I'm in the BCSWomen group - British Computer Society's women's network.
We had a "premiere day" trip to Bletchley with one of the original Wrens showing us round, who was just amazing. This woman - Jean Valentine - was a total..." [
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"I was on that Welling march in 1993. Talk about piss-poor policing - the march was re-routed at the last minute so it didn't go past the nazi bookshop, and when the head of the march (holocaust survivor, people in wheelchairs, that sort of thing)..." [
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"Caveat: I'm not a parent. And I've never been a 3 year old boy. Or a nun.
I'd do nothing. Ask your daughter to tell you if it happens again but unless it's a repeated behaviour it really isn't anything to worry about. Whatever you do don't tell a..." [
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"Exercise may help. I am nowhere near your fiancee's level of physical perfection - no heads turn, no advances - but I feel much more comfortable with myself and my body when I am using it. Indeed I feel more like I am my body when I'm exercising..." [
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