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Reply | Plastic bottle tops stuck to plastic bottles
at 09:15 3 Aug 2024
The principle is good. Remember when beer cans had detachable ring-pulls? They used to get thrown away, and were razor-sharp if you trod on one on the beach. So the packaging industry introduced a ring-pull that stayed attached to the can - result. I'm sure lots of people complained about them at the time, though. |
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Reply | Plastic bottle tops stuck to plastic bottles
at 21:10 2 Aug 2024
It is actually the result of an EU directive. And since the bottle manufacturers sell to a worldwide market, they will not be making special non-tethered bottle tops for Brexit Britain. This has recently been noted with fury in the pages of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard. |
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Reply | General Election Thread
at 09:49 30 May 2024
Sounds shocking. Better vote Conservative to stop this flagrant abuse of the benefits system. Oh -- hang on . . . . |
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Reply | QPR Halesworth
at 22:57 4 May 2024
I go to the dentist in Halesworth. I never speak to anybody. |
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Reply | Ohhhh Viennnaaaaaa
at 19:35 12 Apr 2024
Vienna much smaller than I'd expected. Saw a few posh horses poncing about. Went to one of the famous coffee houses, which was frankly nothing special. Very expensive place. |
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Thread | Help identifying a famous football painting
at 20:55 21 Mar 2024
I'm trying to find a copy of a famous football painting. Mr Google can't help. It's a crowd scene of one away supporter wearing the wrong colours in the home stand and shouting, and ALL the other supporters staring angrily at him. It's kind of cartoon-ish, and possibly from the 1930s. Most people on here would probably recognise it if they saw it, but I'm damned if I can find it. Any ideas?
(It's definitely not a Lowry) |
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Reply | Bright
at 20:42 21 Mar 2024
Just what I was thinking - looks like a WWI gun sticking out of a bunker. |
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Reply | Bright
at 10:51 20 Mar 2024
That's brilliant! Any chance of getting an interview with Bright on Patreon? |
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Reply | Win double
at 11:10 18 Mar 2024
Good call Col, what odds did you get on Putin winning? |
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Reply | Does anyone know what the uses of a semi colon !!!
at 21:21 11 Mar 2024
To resurrect this thread, can anyone explain to me why - and when - *asterisks* have replaced "inverted commas" in text-speak? I don't recall ever being notified about this change. |
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Reply | Chair jailed for a year
at 14:36 23 Feb 2024
According to the Sun report, the incident happened in France. So why is he being tried in Belgium? Anybody know? |
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Reply | Advice requested on shower door shattering
at 20:57 21 Feb 2024
It might be nickel sulfide (as we are now supposed to spell it) inclusions, or it might not. I used to have contact with some very knowledgeable fenestration surveyors and engineers, and they reckoned Nickel Sulfide inclusions were often used as a blanket excuse for what was often poor fitting practice. If you make the tiniest nick in the edge of a sheet of glass - even by resting it momentarily on a grain of sand on your steel toe cap boot - then it has the potential to spread (laminated glass) or shatter (toughened glass). Maybe in an hour, or a week, or a year, or five years in the future. It's a very interesting material, glass. |
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Reply | Car Insurance
at 22:22 20 Feb 2024
Electric cars is a big factor. One minor bump that damages the drive battery (which is basically anywhere around the bottom of the car) and the whole vehicle is a write-off. And we're all paying for it. |
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Reply | Michael Gove again
at 22:15 20 Feb 2024
Nothing to declare then. So why did he just apologise for not declaring it?  |
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Reply | Does anyone know what the uses of a semi colon !!!
at 22:56 10 Feb 2024
Wow, what an amazing thread. As a (retired) journalist, I know that punctuation is vital to getting your point across. But I gave up trying to explain it to people years ago. In my opinion, you either get it, or you don't. I always just copied writers that I admired. Look at Nick Hornby (love him or loathe him) - he breaks classical punctuation rules, but you always know what he's trying to say. Whereas that James Joyce - blimey! |
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Reply | Post office / Horizon show
at 13:34 12 Jan 2024
a great and invaluable service staffed by very hard working people
Yes, and those hardworking people have always been under pressure to make bigger profits for Post Office Ltd. I'm friendly with our local postmaster, and he has been told to offer foreign exchange to all his customers at peak holiday times - it's a big thing in the branch, with posters etc. But the exchange rates the Post Office provides are absolutely derisory compared to the rates anyone can get by shopping around. Not quite as bad as airport rates, but not far off. |
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