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- Sun 14 Oct, 2012 12.28
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Baffling local news stories
- Replies: 333
- Views: 204462
Re: Baffling local news stories
I live in a very quiet town and you can tell the local newspaper struggles to fill its pages. I love the fact that the "News In Brief" section invariably includes a two-sentence story which is just a local pensioner saying what he's seen in his garden. (This week: a red admiral butterfly.)...
- Sat 21 May, 2011 18.26
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The Rapture
- Replies: 13
- Views: 4167
Re: The Rapture
One of my neighbour's rabbits is missing. Maybe it's been raptured. Or maybe it's just run off and will turn up in someone else's garden like last time. WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
- Fri 06 May, 2011 14.17
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The Alternative Vote
- Replies: 166
- Views: 44265
Re: The Alternative Vote
AV seems to me to be a variant of how the X Factor voting works. Week 1: 5 contestants, 1 eliminated Week 2: 4 contestants, people who voted for last week's eliminated contestant vote for somebody else and so on until you're down to one. In AV it continues until somebody has over 50% of the votes. ...
- Mon 28 Mar, 2011 23.17
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Things that scared you as a child
- Replies: 31
- Views: 10224
Re: Things that scared you as a child
Martin Jarvis. Incredibly creepy. How was he ever allowed to appear on children's TV?
- Thu 11 Nov, 2010 10.12
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: 11am, 11/11/1918
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1555
Re: 11am, 11/11/1918
Something's just struck me about this "eleventh hour" business. If it was 11am French time, doesn't that make it 10am GMT? Or was Paris on GMT in 1918? EDIT: Hmmm. Apparently it was on GMT. France didn't go to Central European Time until it was imposed on them by the Germans in WW2, and th...
- Sun 03 Oct, 2010 17.50
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: TV Forum Watch News and Information Board
- Replies: 9280
- Views: 2728415
Re: TV Forum Watch News and Information Board
apologize Bloody Americans. It's always been the preferred spelling in the OED. It's only very recently that the -ise variant has been included in the Concise Oxford, and the online edition of the full OED (which is based on the 1989 second edition, though it gets regular updates) only lists apolog...
- Thu 16 Sep, 2010 18.23
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: The Pope
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5613
Re: The Pope
Lovely to see a senile old reactionary shoot himself in the foot.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515
What a twat he is.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-11332515
What a twat he is.
- Sat 19 Jun, 2010 23.46
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Death penalty - can it be justified?
- Replies: 28
- Views: 7399
Re: Death penalty - can it be justified?
For people who REALLY get on my nerves, oh yes.
- Mon 31 May, 2010 19.03
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Find the Hitler
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10688
Re: Find the Hitler
Mornington Crescent -> Pour l'Amour des Chiens -> Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band -> Adolf HitlerNick Harvey wrote:Why do I feel like I ought to be saying 'Mornington Crescent'?
- Mon 31 May, 2010 17.51
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Find the Hitler
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10688
Re: Find the Hitler
You could have gone straight from Tom Torlakson to World War II and saved yourself two links.
- Mon 31 May, 2010 15.46
- Forum: The Lounge
- Topic: Find the Hitler
- Replies: 36
- Views: 10688
Re: Find the Hitler
Sarah, Plain and Tall -> Christopher Walken -> Germans -> Adolf Hitler
Nigel Powers -> Belgium -> Blitzkrieg -> Adolf Hitler
Nigel Powers -> Belgium -> Blitzkrieg -> Adolf Hitler