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Old 04-01-2017, 18:13
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Good Lord! Were you born in a barn? "Quantum ille canis in fenestra est?", peasant!
Are you sure you understood the lyrics correctly? I think you have asked how much of the dog is in the window! And in any case pig/dog/cod* latin isn't supposed to be correct, as any fule kno

c.f. Caesar ad sum iam forte etc.



* a regional thing, most likely menu-dependent
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Old 04-01-2017, 18:20
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Saw DFS advertising 'Christmas specials'. WTF, it's the 4th of JANUARY!!
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Old 04-01-2017, 19:22
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I hate them with a passion and was even tempted to move my accounts (I didn't as a) I opened my first account when it was just the Anglia Building Society so been there years and b) I couldn't be bothered with all the faffing about.)

I thought a new advert of theirs appeared last night ( that is all we need) it seemed similar to the rest of the dross when it first came on but I didn't wait to find out, I ran away screaming just in case.
It wouldn't half be better for everyone if Nationwide account holders switched. Interest at 0.65%? There are better rates available.

Having said that, I haven't either. We're lazy burgers, I suppose.
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Old 04-01-2017, 19:57
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Saw DFS advertising 'Christmas specials'. WTF, it's the 4th of JANUARY!!
It's not Christmas across half the world until 6th January! And if they were specials put on for Christmas and there's no changes to prices or offers they can be Christmas specials in the middle of June. I assume that you won't start calling your New Year's Resolutions something else come March?
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Old 04-01-2017, 20:10
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Saw DFS advertising 'Christmas specials'. WTF, it's the 4th of JANUARY!!
I keep seeing Christmas ads! Then I realize I'm watching a recording on my planner. D'oh!!
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:24
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Another magazine ad. This time it's the complete Star Trek novel collection.
First issue £1.99 and then the other 79 for £9.99 each. Comes to a grand total of £791.20!
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Old 04-01-2017, 23:27
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New Mc Donald's ad get stuck in a lift.. then get given a bag of that rubbish
and become a total cow
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Old Yesterday, 00:22
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Another magazine ad. This time it's the complete Star Trek novel collection.
First issue £1.99 and then the other 79 for £9.99 each. Comes to a grand total of £791.20!
So actually rather less than 80 hardback books would cost you these days then?
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Old Yesterday, 06:03
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Another magazine ad. This time it's the complete Star Trek novel collection.
First issue £1.99 and then the other 79 for £9.99 each. Comes to a grand total of £791.20!
Don't know if it's been advertised on the telly but there's also a "Build your own R2-D2" being promoted at the moment. As usual the first issue is dirt cheap, then it goes up to £8.99, There's a hundred issues.

There's also build your own Delorean out of Back to The Future. That one's £8.99 an issue as well (except the first two). That one runs to 130 issues, so that's about £1150. They send you four a month, so it'll take over two and a half years to complete it.

I do wonder how many people see it through all the way to the end and end up with a finished model. And then what do they do with it? Put it on a shelf? There seem to be no end of these things (Flying Scotsman, HMS Victory, Millennium Falcon), etc) so it must be good business for the publishers.

I notice the blurb for the Delorean on their website promises a "Fully functioning, time travelling model."

Well it'll certainly be at least two and a half years into the future before you finish building it.
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Old Yesterday, 12:47
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What 5th January and still no Creme Egg adverts yet
Unless of course somebody knows better
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Old Yesterday, 12:51
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What 5th January and still no Creme Egg adverts yet
Unless of course somebody knows better
Creme Egg ads to premiere 7th January! Read all about it!
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Old Yesterday, 12:58
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Park hampers sick of hearing that song. It's on all the time.
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Old Yesterday, 13:22
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I notice the blurb for the Delorean on their website promises a "Fully functioning, time travelling model."
That contravenes the Trade Descriptions Act. Nothing can time travel, at least not yet, that we know of!
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Old Yesterday, 16:20
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That contravenes the Trade Descriptions Act. Nothing can time travel, at least not yet, that we know of!
I seem to remember Stephen Hawking saying something like it was highly unlikely time travel would ever be possible, at least not from the future to the past. The reason for this is that if it were, we would know about it, as we would already have been visited by people from the future. After all, if two hundred years from now, they worked out how to travel back into the past, surely somebody would say, "Right, let's go back and kill Hitler before he comes to power in Germany. Hey presto, no Second World War, millions of lives saved."

The problem is, of course, alter the timeline in the past, and you are likely to radically alter the future. The original Star Trek series episode City On the Edge of Forever dealt with this well. It's considered by some to be the best ever episode of any series of Star Trek, which is good going considering it's fifty years since it was made.

Unless of course there are time travellers from the future tinkering about behind the scenes trying not to get noticed..
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Old Yesterday, 17:09
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"Right, let's go back and kill Hitler before he comes to power in Germany. Hey presto, no Second World War, millions of lives saved."
Interesting notion.. I wonder what the world would be like now if there'd been no WW2. Wars push technology forwards out of necessity so I think we'd all be driving around in Ford Anglias still, and computers would need their own air conditioned room and use floppy disks. Planes would be propellor driven and have to land by sight, no instrument landings! (Not sure when jet engines were developed, perhaps they were by 1945.) But of course we'd still have atomic bombs, after all they ended the war with Japan.

And what if Hitler had succeeded in invading us? When you think of how close we are to France it's a miracle they never did. We'd be a very different country to what we are now, that's for sure.
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Old Yesterday, 17:17
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Royal London with the sinister victorian cartoon man on the penny farthing .the budget must have been a tenner.
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Old Yesterday, 17:32
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Interesting notion.. I wonder what the world would be like now if there'd been no WW2. Wars push technology forwards out of necessity so I think we'd all be driving around in Ford Anglias still, and computers would need their own air conditioned room and use floppy disks. Planes would be propellor driven and have to land by sight, no instrument landings! (Not sure when jet engines were developed, perhaps they were by 1945.) But of course we'd still have atomic bombs, after all they ended the war with Japan.

And what if Hitler had succeeded in invading us? When you think of how close we are to France it's a miracle they never did. We'd be a very different country to what we are now, that's for sure.
Jet engines were certainly in use by the end of the war. Look up Me262 on Wikipedia.
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Old Yesterday, 18:10
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New Mc Donald's ad get stuck in a lift.. then get given a bag of that rubbish
and become a total cow
Why would a lift engineer have thought to buy them a McDonalds in the first place??
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Old Yesterday, 18:39
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Sky now using lego batman to advertise, that's another film I'm going to hate characters from before I ever even see it
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Old Yesterday, 18:42
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Another thing, "Diabetes Lottery" .
I lost out in that, I have diabetes type two, the one that's one's own fault
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Old Yesterday, 18:52
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Jet engines were certainly in use by the end of the war. Look up Me262 on Wikipedia.
Or being a tad more patriotic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloster_Meteor
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Old Yesterday, 19:18
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That contravenes the Trade Descriptions Act. Nothing can time travel, at least not yet, that we know of!
Don't you mean Twade Descwiptions Act?!
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Old Yesterday, 19:26
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Having spent the last two weeks in the Canaries, I wasn't expecting to be able to post one so quickly, but I have.

And it's from our old friends Clear Score, and it's hard to know which part's worse: him using his phone in a bathtub, or the dog wanting to jump in with him. (At least we know something else - his lady friend can walk.)
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Old Yesterday, 20:31
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Companies which are too stupid to change their American ads for English audiences. That one for Lenor air fresheners where the stupid woman keeps going on about keeping a fresh closet.
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Old Yesterday, 20:38
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And what if Hitler had succeeded in invading us? When you think of how close we are to France it's a miracle they never did. We'd be a very different country to what we are now, that's for sure.
Try watching"The Man in the High Castle" which explores an axis victory, some of it is quite chilling, particularly the racial and medical purity notions.
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