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Nice people thread part 8 - worth the wait
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PasturesNew wrote: »There was a girl in the papers in the past month who has only just been allowed to get a job etc and she's in her 20s as there was no record of her birth.
I googled it - here it is http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320656/Woman-left-legal-limbo-14-years-finally-receives-passport-aged-26-DNA-test-prove-shes-British.html
That's a fairly usual set of circumstances. Born in South Africa, and the hospital closed, and no central records there, and lost the original copy of her birth certificate.
In her case, though, it's not a question of whether she was entitled to British citizenship, but proving it - evidential issues, rather than legal ones.So what nationality does born on board a ship give you? Do you get stateless people because they don't qualify under any countries' rules, or is that a myth?
There are some stateless people, but in most circumstances, being born on a ship doesn't make a person stateless. Different countries have different rules about nationality, but in almost all cases, the child of a citizen of X is also a citizen of X, no matter where the child is born.
There are various caveats about legitimacy (some countries only pass citizenship via a married father, for example) and descent, but that's the normal rule.
Some stateless people are, for example, Asians chucked out of African counties....much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
vivatifosi wrote: »Is anyone else jealous of missk's new badge?
Badges seem to be the latest addition to the forum. There are lots of them - click on the "What's this" link under Missk's badge and there's a list. Which do you think would be the easiest badge to earn? Will some people end up with a huge collection like a cub scout?Do you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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Badges seem to be the latest addition to the forum. There are lots of them - click on the "What's this" link under Missk's badge and there's a list. Which do you think would be the easiest badge to earn? Will some people end up with a huge collection like a cub scout?
I think quite a few of us have had posts on the email thingy. So perhaps we will again. In which case that strikes me as potentially the easiest.0 -
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Wow - you've all been chatty
I've been dipping in and out over the weekend...
Firstly - all the best for tomorrow, lir and old girl. Will be thinking of you.
What a difference today is - drove straight to work from Shakespeareshire, and it was a very rainy journey indeed.
Can't believe what lovely weather we had over the weekend... Saturday we had a barbecue and sat outside until 10pm (putting wood on the dying barbecue to keep ourselves warm). Sunday we went on a bit of a day out - went not so far from lir and came back via a stop off in the cotswolds for an ice-cream and a lovely walk in a pretty pretty village known for its water.
Then yesterday was the spa day
Was quite a struggle getting my head back in to work this morning
But then this afternoon I got an email telling me I'd won some random competition at work, so I am now a member of the kindle-owners club. Good job I didn't buy one of the cheap Nooks as mentioned on the Grabbit board a few weeks ago. 0 -
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lir sorry to hear about old girl.
nikki: sounds like a fabulous weekend!
I'm still at work. My lack of doing anything this month is now biting me in the bum0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I think I am in the first volume of Burke's right now ... snuffling around, trying to join up the dots.
Thank goodness for archive.org!Please stay safe in the sun and learn the A-E of melanoma: A = asymmetry, B = irregular borders, C= different colours, D= diameter, larger than 6mm, E = evolving, is your mole changing? Most moles are not cancerous, any doubts, please check next time you visit your GP.
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PasturesNew wrote: »I think I am in the first volume of Burke's right now ... snuffling around, trying to join up the dots.
*****POSH ALERT*****
With nibs on
“The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, Love Among the Chickens0 -
No, it was digitised on google... tough going though. Then I found another site that was awkward to navigate and understand, but piecing it all together.vivatifosi wrote: »Thank goodness for archive.org!
I started with "I'll write about this old house" then wondered "where did it come from...." and then I ended up tracing a family from the 1000s, through the dissolution of the monasteries and some fast/dodgy dealing by the head of a monastery who moved all the properties to his mates on the cheap, then an arranged marriage, a quick "buy-to-sell" bloke who bought/sold the freehold back to back, back to the original solicitor that set up and wrote the original dodgy deals and arranged the dodgy marriage.... and there is was: mansion safely in the hands of the toffs.
And 500 years later they've still got it.0
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