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Pancho
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Do you ever wish we still did some of the things we used to do? Or still wore some of the things we used to wear? Are there any things you miss from your childhood, or were popular when you were young and wish it was popular again? Anything from the past you think would make the present day more pleasant and less dull?
Capes! I want people to wear capes again. Why should they be just for superheroes and little boys who think they're Superman and jump off the garage roof? They're so practical, and stylish, why did we stop wearing them? I want capes to make a comeback.
What would would you like to make a comeback?
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Ariel
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Writing letters. Nobody does that any more - even emails seem to be dying out in favour of Facebook status reports or texts, and a fountain pen is some kind of novelty.
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cattyish
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I still write letters, because I like them better than emails. I doodle in my letters and include cards and pressed flowers and things.
Having just bought a 1933 Singer crank-handle sewing machine, it's the best thing ever and we should all go back to them. It's almost cured my sore back, and I've only used it for a couple of days.
Also, can we revert to video tapes? They load immediately and don't lose their place.
Cattyish, 20th Cenntury Girl.
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Writing letters. Nobody does that any more - even emails seem to be dying out in favour of Facebook status reports or texts, and a fountain pen is some kind of novelty.
I second that, and not only because I'm a postman.
Calling vicars "Parson"s, and not calling them "Rev. Smith" (or whatever their surname is), because, however common it is nowadays, it's wrong. If you want to be formal, it's "Rev. Mr (or Miss, Mrs or Ms, nowadays) Smith", but less formally, just "Mr (Mrs, Miss, Ms) Smith" is perfectly acceptable, as is "Parson Smith".
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cattyish
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I still write letters, because I like them better than emails. I doodle in my letters and include cards and pressed flowers and things.
Having just bought a 1933 Singer crank-handle sewing machine, it's the best thing ever and we should all go back to them. It's almost cured my sore back, and I've only used it for a couple of days.
Also, can we revert to video tapes? They load immediately and don't lose their place.
Cattyish, 20th Cenntury Girl.
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Steve H
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Being able to smoke in at least some pubs, and other indoor public places. I don't object to some restrictions, but the blanket ban goes too far, and the latest nonsense of banning the display of tobacco products is just mean-spirited and stupid.
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Ariel
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Just one other thing: old-fashioned politeness and courtesy.
(That might be two actually, but never mind.)
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Steve H
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British Rail. Actually, everything that's been privatised since TBW's time should be re-nationalised, but most urgently, the railways, the most disastrous privatisation of all.
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Sioni Sais
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Proper swingparks, with all the uber-dangerous equipment like witches hats, swingboats, see-saws and 'cheese-cutters'. With concrete surfaces. How did so many of us survive? Were the weird park-keepers of our childhood the 'groomers' of today? I think some of them were, so we'll do without them.
The most dangerous things kids get in playgrounds now are needles and dog turds. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif)
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Ariston
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It's actually not a bad thing that fountain pens have gone a bit by the wayside—it means that people like me who use them get noticed for it. Believe it or not, it's actually not hard to find places—and not just on the Internet!—where you can buy very, very good used and new fountain pens at a reasonable price.
That said, I would like proper men's hats to make a bit more of a comeback so I don't look quite so strange in my porkpie. Yes, I realize that fedoras and flat caps are a bit in vogue, but, let's be honest: most people, especially those under 40, who wear either look horrible in them. A good hat, one chosen because it works well with your face and head, and not just because every other hipster has one, is a Very Good Thing Indeed.
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Pigwidgeon
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quote:
Originally posted by Pancho:
Capes! I want people to wear capes again. Why should they be just for superheroes and little boys who think they're Superman and jump off the garage roof? They're so practical, and stylish, why did we stop wearing them? I want capes to make a comeback.
I love capes! I have several that I wear throughout the winter (or what passes for winter in central Arizona!).
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Trousers with cuffs...
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PaulBC
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Let us add showing respoect to seniors
addressing clegyfolk by title and not their Christian name , unless asled to
a sense of reverance in church , not the chat fest I see in many places
O.K. but I can hope can I not ? ![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Edith
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Hula hoops, snobs (that's what we called them in Nottingham I think they may have different names in other parts of England) street cricket, carts made from two sets of old pram wheels, whip and top, BBC radio Children's Hour, allotments freely available, Robin starch, Dandelion and Burdock....
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Edith:
carts made from two sets of old pram wheels,
"Trashers", we called them in Stockport 50-odd years ago when I were nobbut a lad.
Never heard of "snobs". What were they?
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Steve H
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Originally posted by PaulBC:
addressing clegyfolk by title and not their Christian name ,
Yes, but with the proviso that it should be the correct title - see my earlier post.
Revolting students. Modern students never seem to demonstrate about anything but their loans, the selfish little yuppy-puppies. Back in my day, they spent half their time demonstrating or holding sit-ins on issues that mattered, such as the Vietnam war. Where are the student demos and sit-ins against Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Albertus
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Calling clergy 'Parson', British Rail, some smoking pubs, properly revolting students- Steve H, you are a man after my own heart!
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Edith
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Snobs are a set of five clay cubes painted in different colours. It was played mostly by dextrous girls. There are many rounds with each player having to successfully complete the movements before progressing to next round. As far as I remember they were: onesys twosys, threesys foursys, laying eggs, Jack's tower, spider, and some more that I can't remember now. I haven't seen it played for years, it kept us happily occupied for hours.
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Pyx_e
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Just one other thing: old-fashioned politeness and courtesy.
(That might be two actually, but never mind.)
...never mind, please.
AtB, Pyx_e
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Originally posted by Steve H:
British Rail.
Stuff that - bring back the Big Four ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Rag & Bone men with a horse & cart and a bell!
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The Weeder
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Childrens Hour on the wireless. The Home Service, not Radio 4.
We had TV as children, but when we came home from school, the first thing we did was turn the Radio on for Childrens Hour. If I had to choose, Jennings or William would be my favourites.
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Albertus
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Originally posted by Marvin the Martian:
quote:
Originally posted by Steve H:
British Rail.
Stuff that - bring back the Big Four
The Big Four? Is post-1922 Geddesite heresy! Is outrage!
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Albertus:
Calling clergy 'Parson', British Rail, some smoking pubs, properly revolting students- Steve H, you are a man after my own heart!
I'm delighted to hear it!
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Steve H
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Originally posted by Edith:
Snobs are a set of five clay cubes painted in different colours. It was played mostly by dextrous girls. There are many rounds with each player having to successfully complete the movements before progressing to next round. As far as I remember they were: onesys twosys, threesys foursys, laying eggs, Jack's tower, spider, and some more that I can't remember now. I haven't seen it played for years, it kept us happily occupied for hours.
Well, you learn summat new every day!
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Steve H
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The proper spoken form of years. Until 1999, we said them as two two-digit numbers, e.g. "Nineteen ninety-nine", but since 2000, we've (well, you've - I never have) been saying them the same way as the ordinary number, e.g. "Two thousand and twelve", which is two syllables longer than "twenty-twelve", as well as inviting confusion with the number as opposed to the year. Why? It made sense in "two thousand", which is shorter than "twenty hundred", but we should've gone back to the usual system in twenty oh-one.
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Steve H
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quote:
Originally posted by Pyx_e:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Just one other thing: old-fashioned politeness and courtesy.
(That might be two actually, but never mind.)
...never mind, please.
AtB, Pyx_e
It's bad manners to correct a person's manners in public. (Yes, I know I'm doing it as well, but I'm an ill-mannered boor.)
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What to bring back? Proper crusty bread sold in ordinary shops instead of all this damp moist pap that's taken over. And decent wholemeal bread in ordinary shops. Actually we didn't have that when I was a kid either. It seemed to come in in the 1970s and go out oin the 1990s. I can buy lovely bread in shops now, but either I have to go to posh organcy places and pay four times as much, or else go to Greek and Turkish shops. Not that I have a problem with that, its yet another excuse to ignore Sainsbury's and Tesco's.
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Originally posted by Steve H:
Being able to smoke in at least some pubs...
If you seek ye shall find.
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
m. A good hat, one chosen because it works well with your face and head...
If you are worried about what a hat looks like you aren't doing it right! They have three purposes, jkeeping the sun of your head, keeping the rain of your head, and keeping your head warm. Which is why they are good Things.
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Originally posted by Steve H:
Where are the student demos and sit-ins against Iraq and Afghanistan?
We had quite a lot of them in London. Huge ones.
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Originally posted by Steve H:
The proper spoken form of years.
Round here, we've been using the proper spoken form since twenty ten.
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Pigwidgeon
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Independent shops instead of mega-chain stores that are exactly the same wherever you go.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Banana seat bicycles.
Great if you have a banana seat arse. Saddles are personal things, not fashion accessories.
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Jengie jon
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Originally posted by Steve H:
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Originally posted by Edith:
Snobs are a set of five clay cubes painted in different colours. It was played mostly by dextrous girls. There are many rounds with each player having to successfully complete the movements before progressing to next round. As far as I remember they were: onesys twosys, threesys foursys, laying eggs, Jack's tower, spider, and some more that I can't remember now. I haven't seen it played for years, it kept us happily occupied for hours.
Well, you learn summat new every day!
It is Jacks but played with bits of clay instead of Jacks. Although that article says snobs is another name for them. As someone who was not normally dextrous yet could play this pretty well, it seems to me require persistence as much as dexterity. I would play by myself for hours at this, the result being I was generally on par with my more dextrous friends who did not put in the extra time.
Jengie
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Evensong
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Banana seat bicycles.
Great if you have a banana seat arse. Saddles are personal things, not fashion accessories.
Crickey.
Has someone had a bad day?
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by Evensong:
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by Evensong:
Banana seat bicycles.
Great if you have a banana seat arse. Saddles are personal things, not fashion accessories.
Crickey.
Has someone had a bad day?
I spent Saturday lifting staging and erecting a recalcitrant gazebo (from the remains of three other gazebo's I think). Right now I appreciate comfort and I reckon it's especially valuable on a bike, where there are too many possibilities for discomfort.
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lilBuddha
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
That said, I would like proper men's hats to make a bit more of a comeback so I don't look quite so strange in my porkpie. Yes, I realize that fedoras and flat caps are a bit in vogue, but, let's be honest: most people, especially those under 40, who wear either look horrible in them. A good hat, one chosen because it works well with your face and head, and not just because every other hipster has one, is a Very Good Thing Indeed.
Yep! On both men and women. My newest is a diamond crown porkpie. Ignore ken's comment, he is obviously a philistine.
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Forming queues for buses and entering the bus in queue order.
I believe this used to be a legal requirement. Nowadays it's more often a rugby scrum and devil take the hindmost.
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Ariston
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
A good hat, one chosen because it works well with your face and head...
If you are worried about what a hat looks like you aren't doing it right! They have three purposes, jkeeping the sun of your head, keeping the rain of your head, and keeping your head warm. Which is why they are good Things.
I have hair for those three things. A hat is a Statement—it is hattitude. Plus, my silver straw porkpie is horrible at keeping my head warm—which, dare I say it, is why I got it. Anyone who would wear a headwarmer in 100º heat probably deserves what's coming to them.
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Polly Plummer
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Edith and Jengie, you are speaking of what we called fivestones, usually played with those coloured clay things but sometimes with pebbles.
Do children still play cat's cradle?
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Do children still play cat's cradle?
It was a mythical, historical thing to learn when I was a child - and that was the 80s.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by AristonAstuanax:
A good hat, one chosen because it works well with your face and head...
If you are worried about what a hat looks like you aren't doing it right! They have three purposes, jkeeping the sun of your head, keeping the rain of your head, and keeping your head warm. Which is why they are good Things.
I have hair for those three things. A hat is a Statement—it is hattitude. Plus, my silver straw porkpie is horrible at keeping my head warm—which, dare I say it, is why I got it. Anyone who would wear a headwarmer in 100º heat probably deserves what's coming to them.
Lucky you. I don't have much hair on top so a means of keepng the sun off is as welcome as a means of keeping the heat in.
That's where a Panama does a good job, although you need to dress decently to do it credit, while you can wear a flat cap with almost anything.
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Originally posted by Avila:
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Originally posted by Polly Plummer:
Do children still play cat's cradle?
It was a mythical, historical thing to learn when I was a child - and that was the 80s.
I loved cat's cradle as a child (I was a child of the 80's)
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Avils, yes they do, and very skilful they are as well.
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Ariel
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I wish they'd bring back the imperial measurement system and coinage. Never mind the euro, I'd like the shilling back, and I want it to be worth something.
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
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Originally posted by Ariel:
Just one other thing: old-fashioned politeness and courtesy.
(That might be two actually, but never mind.)
...never mind, please.
AtB, Pyx_e
I just wanted to thank you for bringing that to my attention.
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$2.50 per gallon gasoline. ![[Tear]](graemlins/tear.gif)
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Steve H
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Originally posted by ken:
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Originally posted by Steve H:
Where are the student demos and sit-ins against Iraq and Afghanistan?
We had quite a lot of them in London. Huge ones.
Yes, but not particularly student-led, unlike the big demos of the 60s and 70s. I went on the huge anti-Iraq-war demo in February 2003 (that's twenty-oh-three), but it was mainly older people, and not obvious student types, nor the usual demo types.
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Firenze
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Who does or doesn't go on demos and whether or not they're in higher or further education is just a wee bittie tangential to this thread.
Firenze
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ChaliceGirl
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Wearing hats in church. (women)
They still do in a lot of the black churches in America, and I suppose the British royals wear hats to church, but I'm talking in general. In my Episcopal church there's not a hat to be seen, not even on Easter.
It's a shame, I love hats, they are pretty, feminine and a great fashion statement.
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Bathing suits that cover 100% of a woman's buttocks, rather than the string bikini which covers at most 10% of same.
Especially when lining up at the concession stand on the beach to buy an ice cream cone, and not all that anxious to see a sea of moon pies before my poor eyes.
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TODAY'S SPECIAL - AND SO ARE YOU (Sign on beachfront fish & chips shop)
Posts: 5954 | From: Southeast of Wawa, between the beach and the hiking trail.. | Registered: Nov 2004
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nickel
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Cabooses on trains, Brach's Royals candy in the shiny wrappers, and Reynolds plastic wrap. (Well, looks like the candies are available on line, but that's not the same as from a glass fronted bin in a department store. And the wrappers are different.)
Posts: 547 | From: Virginia USA | Registered: Aug 2004
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