Forum: The lounge
18th August 2018
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Replies: 20
Views: 430
Re: What a mad world we live in......
Propaganda seems to have become the new truth, John. What I have seen developing in the way things are presented in the press over the last 20 years has becoming very disturbing. In my view.
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Forum: The lounge
18th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
You might even be tempted to think that being hanged for stealing a silk handkerchief (therefore a wealthy person's handkerchief) or sent to Oz for having a meeting unapproved by Parliament might be...
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Forum: The lounge
18th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
Re: Political: We're doomed, Captain Mannering...
Oh, I don't know! In the press this morning, it says that one Nigel Garage is trying to return to front line politics to upset Mrs May's applecart regarding the Chequers Plan. My suspicion is that...
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Forum: The lounge
18th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
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Forum: The lounge
18th August 2018
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Replies: 20
Views: 430
Re: What a mad world we live in......
Having read it properly again, it wasn't in the complaint, and her granddaughter said that she made no such complaint. It was, she said, made up by the newspaper. The complaint was about two...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 20
Views: 430
Re: What a mad world we live in......
I just read the story in the Mirror on line, and the story is rather different from the "too many Spaniards" one. Seems that she and her friend, who went with her, were compensated because their...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 20
Views: 430
Re: What a mad world we live in......
I complained a few years ago about a hotel on the Isle of Man being misrepresented by a big travel agency, and therefore mis-sold to us. It was, in fact, the only one offering to cater for diabetics...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
So who is pretending that a problem doesn't exist? I certainly am not; however, my cousin does tar all with the same brush. You don't get anywhere by doing that - except make a bad situation...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Re: Router Problems
Well, if the router is prevented from working by interference by a more powerful one, then surely it's better to use a temporary ethernet cable than having a laptop that can't receive/send emails,...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 15
Views: 308
Re: Thermotech
Is that mutually exclusive, Ian? Could have been a certain embassy.... :D:D
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Re: Router Problems
One of our secretaries wasn't very tall, even wearing her 4 inch stilettos. The snag was, one day, a heel went down into a gap in the floor, and she was stuck there. Someone had to almost lift her...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
Greece still has national service. And islands like Lesvos are the sort of places they have to do most of it.
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 20
Views: 430
Re: What a mad world we live in......
Whilst doing airbag testing in Peterborough, we had a German engineer come from the customer to observe. He said to me, were we far from Dunford, and was it worth seeing? I said, not very far, told...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Re: Router Problems
When cars had a choke to pull out, some makers made the first half inch or so of its trade do nothing, because so many women pulled it out a bit to hang their handbag on it.
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
That sounds a bit insulting, John. Point is, I've had to work with all sorts of people over the years, including many Asian peoples, Russians, Americans, South Africans, etc., etc. You have to...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
Yes, I did; and yes, it is a problem. But that doesn't make it right to tar all Muslims (or indeed all of any group) with the same brush. Demonizing all Muslims will simply drive more into the arms...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 24
Views: 385
Re: Router Problems
Nowt to stop you using an ethernet cable, and unplugging it, when you want to walk around.
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 129
Views: 2,313
Re: Angry?
Now you're REALLY sounding like my cousin! :D:D
I joke about my cousin, but he's very much like John Z said, especially about specifically Muslims, and he can't drink much because of health...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 2
Views: 213
Re: Whitehouse Security Farce
Would that be for staff whom he takes a dislike to?
Ever read the Shardlake series? The description of the Fulford meeting of Henry VIII's Progress with the dignitaries of York is, I think,...
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 15
Views: 308
Re: Thermotech
His/her name didn't end in...ov, by any chance?:D Or even ...tin? :D:D
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 2
Views: 257
Re: Top Trumps
Leitz did similar ones, and also an adapter to fit them into their film cameras. You could get fantastic macros!
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
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Forum: The lounge
17th August 2018
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Replies: 4,112
Views: 110,616
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