[tim60]

Don't waste time with such trivia, lad! That's for philosophy undergrads, not people studying, er, what was it again?

I recall it was useful stuff.

Except sometimes philosophy is useful, but it was not that.

[tim60]

Yesterday I went for a wander in a small cemetery in Jericho called St Sepulchre’s Cemetery. Wonder why any parent named their kid Sepulchre.

One of the people interred was a man killed while passenger in a racing car on Isle of Man, about 1934. The driver whose surname was Don got a government sponsored holiday in their resort after conviction for man slaughter. The passenger’s wife passed in 2000, 66 years later, and her ashes are interred in the same plot.

[Racer X 69]

I recall it was useful stuff.

Except sometimes philosophy is useful, but it was not that.

Philosophy is what helps us understand why the world is the way it is.

Philosophically speaking, of course.

[Racer X 69]

Yesterday I went for a wander in a small cemetery in Jericho called St Sepulchre’s Cemetery. Wonder why any parent named their kid Sepulchre.

One of the people interred was a man killed while passenger in a racing car on Isle of Man, about 1934. The driver whose surname was Don got a government sponsored holiday in their resort after conviction for man slaughter. The passenger’s wife passed in 2000, 66 years later, and her ashes are interred in the same plot.

I like going to old cemeteries and snooping around. There is an old one down the lane from me, a few dozen headstones, mostly for the pioneers of this area, mid to late 1800s.

I should plan another visit this coming October.

With a camera.

[StiffLegged]

Philosophy is what helps us understand why the world is the way it is.

Philosophically speaking, of course.

Nice punchline.

[MarkJerling]

Nope. I wonder how he's doing?

Welcome back Robert.

[bertwert]

Don't waste time with such trivia, lad! That's for philosophy undergrads, not people studying, er, what was it again?

I too am confused with what I am studying - it's all rather complicated...

[bertwert]

Nice you came back.

Welcome back Robert.

Thanks thanks. Had a busy summer with work, and then straight into school. Haven't had time to pick up a camera since May...

[Racer X 69]

Thanks thanks. Had a busy summer with work, and then straight into school. Haven't had time to pick up a camera since May...

You what?



(I've picked mne up plenty of times, to move it out of the way . . . . . . . .)

[slartibartfast01]

Yesterday I went for a wander in a small cemetery in Jericho called St Sepulchre’s Cemetery. Wonder why any parent named their kid Sepulchre.



One of the people interred was a man killed while passenger in a racing car on Isle of Man, about 1934. The driver whose surname was Don got a government sponsored holiday in their resort after conviction for man slaughter. The passenger’s wife passed in 2000, 66 years later, and her ashes are interred in the same plot.

That cemetery has a website listing all the inhabitants. This one caught my eye.

[Racer X 69]

That cemetery has a website listing all the inhabitants. This one caught my eye.
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Married to two milkmen, and her son.

Quite the promiscuous woman.

[StiffLegged]

Married to two milkmen, and her son.

The son only lived 9 years, so….

[tim60]

In those days Jericho, where the cemetery is, was Victorian working class slum, with poor housing, outbreaks of cholera and a lot of TB. The kind of place Dickens described in Hard Times. The other side of Walton Street and just further north was rather better class with a lot of 4 floor large houses. The occupants of the slum worked in the iron works and other industrial sites nearby and the people in the better part worked in the university.

The Jericho house have mostly moved up market and now typically cost USD600k for a two bed and kitchen and dining room on the ground, and usually the bathroom is downstairs only. And the insulation is poor. Some are still a bit squalid being rentals for disadvantaged people and others are owned by the colleges and used for student accommodation and the students make them look squalid.

No wonder the lady’s son died so young.

[lesmore49]

English labour has not got any better, roofers who build roofs that leak and painters who cannot get a coat of paint on all visible surfaces.

In the case of my old British motorcycle, I don't think the cause of oil leaks was necessarily the individuals who built the machine, way back in August of 1967. It was more the design of some parts, and perhaps the quality of the gasket material.

British craftmanship can be pretty good. I think of products such as Rolls-Royce, Bentley, modern day Triumph motorcycles, etc.

[lesmore49]

Thanks thanks. Had a busy summer with work, and then straight into school. Haven't had time to pick up a camera since May...

Glad to see you back on the thread, Bert. Hope all is going well.