Question – What does “scraped” mean here?… it's my understanding that member-only groups don't tend to get scraped by Google etc. and thus provide a minor level of privacy compared to completely open groups.
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- Fri Jul 06, 2018 9:44 pm
- Forum: Abuse cases and related discussions
- Topic: Should the forum be behind a registration wall?
- Replies: 51
- Views: 13641
Re: Should the forum be behind a registration wall?
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:21 am
- Forum: General Chat - Non CH
- Topic: Hello! I'm back! Is there anybody here?
- Replies: 44
- Views: 27498
Re: Hello! I'm back! Is there anybody here?
It seems highly, highly unlikely, but one never knows.
Was the Peter Knight mentioned above, Peter Luke Knight, Barnes A, 1948-54, who left CH for a distinguished career in the services?
Was the Peter Knight mentioned above, Peter Luke Knight, Barnes A, 1948-54, who left CH for a distinguished career in the services?
- Sat Jun 09, 2018 5:09 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Damian Le Bas, Radio 4 Book of the Week
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3959
Re: Damian Le Bas, Radio 4 Book of the Week
In the late 40s and the 50s the ‘swill bins’ were simply called ‘pig bins’ where I lived and they mainly contained potato peelings. These bins were emptied by the usual garbage collectors (called ‘dustmen’ then, in a less elegant town than Farnham, Surrey), for behind their lorry there was an open t...
- Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: UK’s Top Schools - where’s CH?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3842
UK’s Top Schools - where’s CH?
Friends have chosen Tonbridge School for their son, assuring me that it is an old and excellent school. (I was surprised to learn it’s one year younger than Housey with the same founder.) Together we looked up one of the (many) internet sites which rate UK schools. These sites use different criteria...
- Mon Sep 04, 2017 9:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11149
Re: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
Thanks for this informative posting. For those interested in Occitan there are films in that language; most recently a 2017 film with French subtitles. It is entitled, “Dins la votz dels segles” or in French, “Dans la voix des siècles.”
- Sun Sep 03, 2017 9:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 11149
Re: Did You Learn to Swear at CH? And Do You Still Eff It Today?
The above sort of language divergence also occurred between French-French and Canadian-French. Both languages were identical in the 18th century, when “catin“ (= poupée) meant a child’s female doll in both countries. But their forms of language diverged until radio, films, TV, etc slowed such drifti...
- Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:50 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH, Assisted Boarders and the TES
- Replies: 10
- Views: 5034
CH, Assisted Boarders and the TES
There is an article of interest to forum members in the Times Educational Supplement (TES), published on 9 June 2017, available at https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-views/when-exclusive-inclusive Don’t read the article for nostalgic reasons only, but to learn that CH is a pioneer in this...
- Sun May 28, 2017 8:28 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 62408
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
I’m pleased, Katharine, your software could understand the three dots and got straight to the correct web page. I presume this is true for all other forum readers, for there have been no further comments. However I have tried many times, always with the same result. Using the abbreviated (3 dots) ve...
- Tue May 23, 2017 6:34 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 62408
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
Thanks Michael, for your diligent research and informing us of its results. I was wrong and clearly the Michael Cherniavsky of the book review (named simply Michael Cherniavsky and not Michael Theodore Cherniavsky) was not ours. They do look alike and have similar glasses. Perhaps they are related. ...
- Sat Apr 22, 2017 4:28 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 62408
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
Although I haven’t read the Kantorowicz book, nor even the extracts on the internet, I am sure the photo is of our MTC. Also Cherniavsky is a very unusual name and I have never come across it (apart from MTC, his father and his brother, a few years younger who was also at Oxford). The MTC of the rev...
- Thu Apr 13, 2017 3:17 pm
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Michael Cherniavsky
- Replies: 93
- Views: 62408
Re: Michael Cherniavsky
In the Times Literary Supplement of 24 Feb 2017 there is a book review containing a prominent photo of a young Michael Cherniavsky, with another medieval historian. However don’t rush to read it to learn more about the Chern, for the review is of Ernest Kantorowicz: a Life, (by Robert E Lerner and p...
- Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:06 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: Housey Coat 'badge'
- Replies: 25
- Views: 9344
Re: Housey Coat 'badge'
Yes John, that was quite correct. It arose from a donation given by the UK government to Sir Barnes Wallis for his meritorious war effort. These contributions went far beyond the Dam Busters’ bombs which destroyed the Mohne and Eder dams. Barnes Wallis gave all this money to CH and so the RAF Founda...
- Sat Jun 25, 2016 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6545
Re: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
Thanks Michael. I am aware that Seaman made big changes and that my memory is not perfect.
- Sat Jun 25, 2016 9:04 am
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6545
Re: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
Thanks for mentioning the criteria for buttons. Things have changed since my days, well over 50 years ago, as they should. Then Grecians were also those in the sixth form. Up to three years could be spent there with designations third, second and first parting Grecians, as one aged. The year before ...
- Thu Jun 23, 2016 2:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat - CH Stuff
- Topic: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
- Replies: 14
- Views: 6545
Re: CH featured in London Financial Times newspaper last weekend
It seems surprising to me that the vast majority of the Grecians East house have no buttons and that there is a very small member in the right hand file of the next-to-last row. But perhaps deps are included in this house and for there to be a very small (and young?) dep; why not? I have little know...