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Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- Quote: as I have the sim backed up > How is that done maxxi? a simcard reader/saver like these http://www.amazon.co.uk/tag/sim%20card%20reader/products
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Should ED make a stand and boycott News Corporations NOTW
maxxi replied to georgegarrett's topic in The Lounge
Wonder which will be first national newspaper to print Brooks' picture alongside damning evidence with the headline: GOTCHA! -
7.3 *am playing the decimal version*
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e t a whoops = ignore me
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73's what? *expects pedants won't be allowed to play* Ohhhh... 73s!
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Laddy Muck Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sub-section II of Clause 9.3.1(b)(iv) provides > that where a valid score is preceded by an > offensive or potentially offensive post, then that > score shall be invalidated. > Otherwise known as the Keys-Gray clause.
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I see dead foxes. *hums twilight zone theme*
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On my own pics (rather than those I find on line) I use MS Office Picture Manager (r click image and select edit option, 'resize' then tick 'predefined width and height' box and choose 'web large' in drop-down menu. This changes a typical pic from say 2.8MB to 125KB.
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Words that have become fashionable for no apparent reason.
maxxi replied to randombloke's topic in The Lounge
mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > I'll remember to use the tags next time > ;-) Aren't those the colourful little thingies people sewed onto jeans back in the 70s? like...:) -
Should ED make a stand and boycott News Corporations NOTW
maxxi replied to georgegarrett's topic in The Lounge
Loz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I for one would like to see the flame-haired > husband-beater in the dock... With Ross Kemp giving evidence from behind a screen and using dolls "The she touched me there...". -
As a bit of a phone luddite I'd just like to say that the payg Samsung C140 I've had for the last three years cost ?19.99 new (including ?10 call credit so really only ?9.99) and has been extremely reliable. Being a phone only it has never attracted covetous glares and does not even know what a pixel is let alone an 'app'. It is light, durable and - as I have the sim backed up - never causes me to worry unduly if I think it's been lost or stolen. But then again my idea of a mobile office is a caravan with a desk in it.
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Words that have become fashionable for no apparent reason.
maxxi replied to randombloke's topic in The Lounge
David Mc Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Or make three mistakes in a sentence criticising > someone else's errors? It's called Muphry's law. ETA: No that's not a joke - it really is called that. -
Should ED make a stand and boycott News Corporations NOTW
maxxi replied to georgegarrett's topic in The Lounge
As the other boycott thread (about boycotting French cheese over the behaviour of IMF man) was moved to the businesses section ONLY because the OP had titled the thread "Brie at the Cheese Block" thereby involving that excellent establishment in a brouhaha not of their own making; perhaps this thread belongs in the General ED issues/Gossip section - that's where all that guff sensitive debate about lollipop people started... just a thought *goes back to pondering the NOTW quick crossword* -
Should ED make a stand and boycott News Corporations NOTW
maxxi replied to georgegarrett's topic in The Lounge
I have always bought News of the Screws because occasionally I like to pick at my own scabs and this will make no difference. It is a GM laden factory-farmed hamburger with toxic relish but man cannot live on goodness alone. It is a scandal sheet and is the one paper I see "Observer/Indie" readers poring over avidly in supermarkets ("I'll wait here darling, you go and see if there's any single estate olive oil") before reluctantly taking their approved broadsheet to the checkout. There are worse things, worse corporations and worse people in the world than those in the news of it, we just don't know who they are. -
I think the idea of hw boxers having a film career is old hat as they look cumbersome & slow compared to the martial artists/parkour exponents used for action stuff these days. Lewis/Klitschko in Ocean's 11? Tyson in Crocodile Dundee/Rocky Balboa? He may end up fighting wrestlers or doing 'I'm A Celebrity...'
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do NOT pm donkeyone - it's a bot (thought it had been eliminated in last purge but there are always one or two that get missed)
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That's how to get away with a handball - no 'Henry-like' flick but hold onto it and carry it a little, this will so baffle the ref - who won't be able to believe his/her eyes - that he/she will convince themselves it coulodn't have happened.
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Stanley Green - against all protein (nuts included) - see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Green ETA: Love the "and sitting" added as an afterthought after the list of foodstuffs he wanted us all to avoid - and with its own separate sign.
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mockney piers Wrote: --------------------------------------- > Does anyone know if the birds eye chili existed at > all in Thailand before the sixteenth century as > it's so integral to so many of their dishes now. Don't think they existed anywhere outside of S. America until - as Nette said - the Spanish and Portugese introduced them to Asia although peppercorns were used to spice up food in Thailand up to that time. Originally they were eaten by Portugese sailors on long voyages as a source of vitamin C (to prevent scurvy) before oranges were discovered to do the same thing, although this 'fact' comes from the same source that says "All original sources of the chilli pepper can be traced back to one lone plant in Bolivia." which I don't know to be true but may well be (like the Bramley apple). This has some interesting stuff on chillies - http://www.kew.org/plant-cultures/plants/chilli_pepper_history.html -including this quote, "In the 16th century the celebrated musician Purandarasa described chillies in lyrics as a comfort to the poor and the great flavour-enhancer." which sums it up really.
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hmmm interesting but wiki also has this... [ETA: re the CCF] Today, unit contingents exist in UK independent schools, many grammar schools and a handful of comprehensive schools. and this... The CCF movement is dominated by the independent sector with the majority of contingents still being based in public schools. It was reported in 2008 that some Public School CCF detachments would be opened to pupils of local state schools.[10] I was just making the fairly obvious - although now less true - point that CCF was for posh kids and ACF for the oiks. *salutes in oikish manner* ETA also: Michael Gove very much behind making CCF more accessible to oiks like me - he said: "We know there are many state schools who would like to have cadet forces. We know the resources haven't been there in the past. I would like to do everything possible to encourage more state schools to have cadet forces and more independent schools who already have cadet forces to help state schools go down that road."
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nashoi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > No I don't. Just asking Nash - the comprehensive school I attended had an ACF unit (which I joined for three weeks) and I always understood the CCF to be the private/grammar school version with very few exceptions - you must have been at one of the exceptions no?
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karter Wrote: > You can only come in if you know the secret > handshake, bit like the forum handshake...or if > you are wearing one of those rings...B) Is it like a 'Bazooka Joe' ring, the kind you have to put your lips on and blow? *Don't you dare Nette(!)*
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where to start... I ate hot curries in the 70s, chillis have been cultivated in India for 500 years, it's scotch bonnet not scottish and while that's a predominantly Carribean chilli India cultivates and uses more naga and birds eye chillis, a refined palette does not mean eating fewer chillis or those lower down the Scoville scale, and finally beware Indian friends on a wind-up.
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RosieH Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > maxxi Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > i think they are like EDF aristocracy > > Are you mental? They're like EDF idiocracy ;-) > > > > edited to add a winky punctuation face, because > that might have appeared ruder than intended. And the difference/your point is? Apologies if it was a "Aristocarcy? More like...!" but you did forget to add the *boom-tish! A-thankyou!* ;-)
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