EU & Brexit Bunker

[First Aspect]

Pointless trivia anecdote... a friend of mine, who was a policeman at the time (went on to become a professor of sociology), was in the police station when Derek Bentley (who uttered the famous "Let him have it") was brought into the station after his arrest.

How old are you? He died in 1953.

 

[briantrumpet]

How old are you? He died in 1953.

The friend is in his 90s. And one of the wisest, nicest people I know.

 

[secretsqirrel]

Pointless trivia anecdote... a friend of mine, who was a policeman at the time (went on to become a professor of sociology), was in the police station when Derek Bentley (who uttered the famous "Let him have it") was brought into the station after his arrest.

It was a sad story. I did think someone might point out that comment was tasteless, but I couldn’t resist.

 

[First Aspect]

The friend is in his 90s. And one of the wisest, nicest people I know.

I suppose I/we probably overlapped with people born in the 1800s so perhaps not that remarkable. (I know I did anyway.)

What was he in the police station for?

 

[PurplePenguin]

The last recipient of an American Civil War pension died in 2020.

 

[briantrumpet]

I suppose I/we probably overlapped with people born in the 1800s so perhaps not that remarkable. (I know I did anyway.)

What was he in the police station for?

For being a policeman.

He was born in 1933, I think, so maybe it was his first job after school. He did his academic stuff much later in life. He was also involved, as an expert witness, in the case of a woman who wanted in vitro fertilisation from her husband who had died prior to the fertilisation but given his express permission. It was all over the news at the time, for raising previously unconsidered moral questions.

 

[briantrumpet]

I suppose I/we probably overlapped with people born in the 1800s so perhaps not that remarkable. (I know I did anyway.)

What was he in the police station for?

My great uncle was born in 1897, and he lived well into my 20s, despite being no particularly great age.

 

[First Aspect]

The last recipient of an American Civil War pension died in 2020.

If that factoid was a graph, you would complain about the axis. She was 92 when she died and her father was 83 when she was born.

As someone who always liked westerns, which seemed from far back in history when I was a kid, I find it more surprising in some ways that the last survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn died in 1955.

 

[Pblakeney]

If that factoid was a graph, you would complain about the axis. She was 92 when she died and her father was 83 when she was born.

As someone who always liked westerns, which seemed from far back in history when I was a kid, I find it more surprising in some ways that the last survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn died in 1955.

That is not an insignificant stat about the father!

 

[First Aspect]

That is not an insignificant stat about the father!

I think his surname was Ecclestone or something like that.

 

[PurplePenguin]

If that factoid was a graph, you would complain about the axis. She was 92 when she died and her father was 83 when she was born.

As someone who always liked westerns, which seemed from far back in history when I was a kid, I find it more surprising in some ways that the last survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn died in 1955.

There was also a widow that died in 2020, but she never claimed the civil war pension she was entitled to.

 

[briantrumpet]

Yay, a Brexit benefit!

 

[briantrumpet]

Erm, please sir, please sir 🙋‍♂️

 

[AuroraSaab]

As someone who always liked westerns, which seemed from far back in history when I was a kid, I find it more surprising in some ways that the last survivor of the Battle of Little Bighorn died in 1955.

One of the Apollo astronauts, as a child, met one of the Wright brothers, which seems incredible in one way but really just shows the phenomenal rate at which science and engineering progressed last century.

 

[briantrumpet]

Just chatter, obvs, but all the same...

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