Vagueness and the Aftermath - A sporadic diary

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What does it mean when a seemingly normal and in context word is set within those square brackety things?

Example:

"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

[Jon MW]

What does it mean when a seemingly normal and in context word is set within those square brackety things?

Example:

"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

There might be other ways you could use it but the only convention I know of is that it means the person didn't actually say the bit in the brackets, the person quoting them adds it to make it clearer.

e.g.
They actually said
"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and same applies to your ankles."
but the person quoting them writes it as
"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

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What does it mean when a seemingly normal and in context word is set within those square brackety things?

Example:

"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

There might be other ways you could use it but the only convention I know of is that it means the person didn't actually say the bit in the brackets, the person quoting them adds it to make it clearer.

e.g.
They actually said
"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and same applies to your ankles."
but the person quoting them writes it as
"Your wrists are locked in place by metal restraints, and [the] same applies to your ankles."

Ah, thank you Jon. That makes perfect sense.

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[AndrewT]

Well I got it cut but it was tough going. The poor old mower whined pitifully and shuddered like a man in an ague.

Tom - do you do the quick crossword in the Guardian?

I ask because I'd never heard of the word ague until yesterday, when it was one of the answers in that day's puzzle.

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Well I got it cut but it was tough going. The poor old mower whined pitifully and shuddered like a man in an ague.

Tom - do you do the quick crossword in the Guardian?

I ask because I'd never heard of the word ague until yesterday, when it was one of the answers in that day's puzzle.

I'm glad it's not just me that had never heard of the word. Alas, I don't do the Guardian crossy, so I had to use google. Most impressed.

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Something on my facebook today

The grisly origins of Caxton Gibbet
 
Did you know that Caxton Gibbet is named after a medieval practice of execution? A gibbet was a gallow-type structure where the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hung in a cage on public display as a warning to other potential offenders. At Caxton Gibbet, most criminals were still alive when they were suspended in the gibbet cage and left to die from thirst, starvation and exposure to the weather. This was unusual as at other locations criminals were already dead before being ‘gibbeted’. Fortunately the structure we see on site today isn’t the original.

Wikipedia says this isn't conclusive, but medieval people in positions of power were right wankers, so i am not so sure (It seems Dominic Cummings has the same view of the current incumbents).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxton_Gibbet

The site has been improved by a drive through McDonalds, which isn't something that is often said.

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Well I got it cut but it was tough going. The poor old mower whined pitifully and shuddered like a man in an ague.

Tom - do you do the quick crossword in the Guardian?

I ask because I'd never heard of the word ague until yesterday, when it was one of the answers in that day's puzzle.

In a word, no, so just a coincidence Andrew.

I'm not particularly good at them but I do like crosswords, especially cryptic ones but for some reason I rarely do them.



Someone, (I forget who) said, "It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.

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Something on my facebook today

The grisly origins of Caxton Gibbet
 
Did you know that Caxton Gibbet is named after a medieval practice of execution? A gibbet was a gallow-type structure where the dead or dying bodies of criminals were hung in a cage on public display as a warning to other potential offenders. At Caxton Gibbet, most criminals were still alive when they were suspended in the gibbet cage and left to die from thirst, starvation and exposure to the weather. This was unusual as at other locations criminals were already dead before being ‘gibbeted’. Fortunately the structure we see on site today isn’t the original.

Wikipedia says this isn't conclusive, but medieval people in positions of power were right wankers, so i am not so sure (It seems Dominic Cummings has the same view of the current incumbents).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caxton_Gibbet

The site has been improved by a drive through McDonalds, which isn't something that is often said.

Excellent!

I'm currently listening to The History of the World in 100 Objects on the BBC Sounds app. I can highly recommend it.

BTW- I love drive through McDonalds. (Breakfast only) The tea is first rate and comes free with a breakfast that costs less than Tony pays for a posh coffee.

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Hey, I wonder if the bloke who compiles the quick crossword in the Guardian reads blonde?

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Cable-car crash.

I understand what happened now. The cable that tows the car snapped allowing it to roll backwards along the main support cable. As it gathered speed the emergency brake should have deployed but it had been deliberately disabled due to regular malfunctions.

The car hit a pylon doing approx 100kph and was catapulted free of it's moorings.

Heads will roll for this one.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-57252289

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https://www.facebook.com/199098633470668/videos/215125216889433

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Isn't nature wonderful.

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