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 The Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), subtitled "The Life and Death of a Man of Character", is a novel by British author Thomas Hardy. It is set in the fictional town of Casterbridge (based on the town of Dorchester in Dorset). The book is one of Hardy's Wessex novels, all set in a fictional rural England.

 

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At a country fair near Casterbridge, Wessex, a young hay-trusser named Michael Henchard gets drunk on rum-laced furmity and argues with his wife, Susan. He decides to auction off his wife and baby daughter, Elizabeth-Jane, to a sailor, Mr. Newson, for five guineas. Sober the next day, he is too late to recover his family. When he realises that his wife and daughter are gone, he swears not to touch liquor again for as many years as he has lived so far.

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That makes MrsVM feel much better knowing that. She felt it and wondered what the guy upstairs had done to shake the house :)

But yeah, we got a wobble and the lights went funny.

3rd one for me.

1st one was centred in Carno i think. That was when I was in school 80's/90's.

The 'great Dudley quake' was the best one even over the border. That made all my doors rattle.

Today was more like what was that?

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3 hours ago, Chindie said:

KFC... Dumped a specialist in a very specialist field, for a generalist, the suspicion having to be for cost savings. And it immediately goes wrong.

Idiots.

I just seen that this is a national problem not just my local KFC! The amount the idiots have lost now has ruined any profits they would have saved going with DHL. Everyone knows how crap DHL are. Serves them right.  

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6 hours ago, Chindie said:

KFC... Dumped a specialist in a very specialist field, for a generalist, the suspicion having to be for cost savings. And it immediately goes wrong.

Idiots.

Don't worry, the bigwig at KFC who decided to change suppliers will still collect a bonus no doubt. 

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1 hour ago, Xela said:

Don't worry, the bigwig at KFC who decided to change suppliers will still collect a bonus no doubt. 

So he should. Look at the excellent savings he delivered shareholders. These are just teething problems, in the long term shareholders will get much very value.

Or other such shit.

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1 hour ago, Xela said:

Don't worry, the bigwig at KFC who decided to change suppliers will still collect a bonus no doubt. 

In the absence of any meaningful facts, you've decided that it's the fault of a "bigwig" and that said "bigwig" should be financially punished?

Wow.

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