I have no idea what G’s my phone pulls when it bounces across the Workshop floor. Is there anyway to find out?
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As long as it does bounce I wouldn’t worry about it 
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Rubber coated. Bounces very well, not quite as good as the old super ball.
What???
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I have to think that was drawn by someone who hadn’t actually read the book. I read it in 2021, and having studied Animal Farm at school, wasn’t prepared for something so dark.
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Animal Farm is pretty dark though…
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Amazing technology. Strange how street crime is worse than it’s ever been. It’s not of much interest to me that the police apprehend the person that stabbed me to death (not that they seem to be any good at that either), I’d prefer if they were on the beat and stopped me getting stabbed in the first place.
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It seemed almost childish and obvious. It may have been the brutality of growing up in a fairly tough area of London, but the predictability and simple imagery made it seem crude and far from threatening. You can see the horse will be glue, and wonder why it took so long for the pigs to sleep in beds.
I sometimes wonder what happened to some of the kids from back then, the ones who loved to bully and torture, who surrounded themselves with others that also enjoyed cruelty and would find ways to hurt those who couldn’t escape. I’ve met a few others since who would be like that if circumstance permitted, but it seemed a common set of traits then, and entering adult society where the majority weren’t like that was a bit odd.
You only have to read Lynda La Plante.
Agreed. I liked Animal Farm but at the same time I’d heard so much about it that I was left feeling underwhelmed when I actually studied it.
I also studied Lord of the Flies at pretty much the same time. More interesting and much deeper than Animal Farm.
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Well Piggy would have thought so 
Between Animal Farm, 1984, Lord of the Flies and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, it possibly isn’t much of a wonder I developed a somewhat fearful view of society.
Progressive ‘70s teaching to launch us into a more realistic world maybe but it is telling that the novels I chose to read myself were all optimistic fantasies of a more perfect world, either in history or the cosmos. I’m still a dreamer.
If you shout “Help, I’m being deliberately mis-gendered!” as soon as you see the knife, the Met will be there in seconds.
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and the reply is “Hold on Sir a car will be round when one becomes free”
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