As a boy I'd have been in dead trouble if I'd ever used the name of Jesus as a swear word at home. Blasphemy just wasn't tolerated, even though my parents were non-believers. The boundaries between acceptable and unacceptable language are shifting al

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Eating Habits Helen:Although a lot of British people wont eat animal organs like chicken feet or heads, theyre okay with chicken liver or goose liver. So we went out and tried to find out what people really thought about eating animal organs. English

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That office consists in mincing the horse-pieces of blubber for the pots; an operation which is conducted at a curious wooden horse, planted endwise against the bulwarks, and with a capacious tub beneath it, into which the minced pieces drop, fast as

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