An Introduction to Mediaeval Manuscripts

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Does anybody else have to put up with either of these kind of cr*p, both of which I got on an old post of mine, which is now screened for anonymous comments:

Simple test about the profit: Undecretive nondepreciatory box canyon jee a charcoaly escaladers [etc etc etc etc] What is it?

And also:

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As pseudomonas helped me see, it's a primitive form of flyblogging, relying on the target to google the terms to see what's been advertised. Only it failed for me, because I thought it was some kind of word puzzle, and spent five seconds over it before deciding that from an anonymous source it wasn't worth the effort...

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Speaking of attitudes being affected by the media, for as long as I can remember, my association with the sinking of the Belgrano has been that bloody tabloid headline it garnered.

Only today, did I discover, from the BBC "On this day" column:

The Belgrano sinking was the most controversial event of the Falklands War. Many people, both inside and outside the British Parliament said it was an unnecessary use of force - the ship was outside the exclusion zone and apparently sailing away from the Falklands.

A few months later, the Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher was famously grilled on national television by a British housewife who said that the bombing ensured a halt to peace talks being brokered by the UN and the Peruvian Government at the time.

How on earth, growing up in an era of Simon Weston, did I fail to pick up on this?