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Commented on Dear Google, am I pregnant?
To quote from the report where PA admitted this is what they had done: " ...upload it to the cloud using tools such as Google Storage and use BigQuery to extract data from it. As PA has an existing relationship...
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gravelbelly22 commented on
Dear Google, am I pregnant?
I know it's off-topic... Hi Sparks :) Agreed with most of that, although my experience of airports has been almost universally positive (barring the time BA managed to lose my ammunition and bolt for almost 24 hours). Martin (PS it was Jon who asked :) )...
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Greg. Tingey commented on
Dear Google, am I pregnant?
Happened at Goose Green - last-minute charge by Brit commandos - quite a few Argentine conscripts were indirectky killed by their facsist guvmint - but the actual means of death was a bayonet. Euw....
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pilot-moondog commented on
Dear Google, am I pregnant?
That would be the Parachute Regiment you are thinking of. Not the Royal Marines. The units concerned take the distinction a tad seriously as I understand it. Although other units did deliver bayonet charges in that conflict, the marines included. Just not at Goose Green as I understand it....
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Greg. Tingey commented on
Dear Google, am I pregnant?
Ah, yes - my oops - red/maroon berets, not green/blue(ish) ones ... The guys wearing sand-brown berets, of course do not participate in bayonet charges ......
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gravelbelly22 commented on
Dear Google, am I pregnant?
Although other units did deliver bayonet charges in that conflict, the marines included. Nope. Standard practice is to assault a position with bayonets fixed, but that's not a "bayonet charge" (think Camerone as commemorated by the Legion Etrangere) no matter what Wikipedia says :) Fixing bayonets is sensible practise - relying on them for anything other than immediate action while reloading is lunacy....
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