Well, I stand corrected by both of you, but as you said wells, it doesn't appear to be happening at the same time as the TSB rebrand.

Yes, they are. Cheltenham & Gloucester appear to have got first dibs on the crap temporary signage, but there's at least one branch of Lloyds TSB I've seen with the temporary boxy signage (Sherwood, Nottingham).
But that's one of the branches that's to become a TSB. In the literature sent to ...

wells wrote:Not really that odd. Many wouldn't be expecting anything new from ITV so wouldn't bother checking the thread, so makes sense to spit it from the main topic.

+1

The UK's chief medical officer was quoted as saying you would need to eat 500 pure horsemeat burgers at a time to reach a harmful dose of bute.
That rather ignores the point that there exist established laws and standards that bute should not be present in food for human consumption, even in ...

Ben Shatliff wrote:I blame the likes of Big Brother for a new modern style of lazy thinking which is not correct at all.

No discernible irony.

Not so sure about moving over to Skype which has a far inferior text IM system
This always frustrated me when Skype became more popular and everyone stopped using MSN. But apparently the problem of receiving people's messages days after they've sent them should now be solved.

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Updating the trackpad drivers on my laptop made a world of difference. Gestures make the experience a lot smoother.
Could you expand on that? Are trackpad manufacturers releasing updates for Windows 8? I have a two year old laptop with a Synaptics trackpad, their website seems to have no mention ...

You really ought to put your IRA tendencies aside, eoin. We've had all this from you before and it was boring to the point of suicide last time as well.
You were similarly abusive last time too. I have found your posts amusing in the past, so I'm a bit disappointed to have become a target of them ...

nodnirG kraM wrote:Oh so it's solely to prove a point then, yeah?

My point was that your dismissiveness (and similar sentiment expressed by others) could well be the cause, rather than the result, of the kind of pettiness you assume is the motivation for independence.

Wildly off-topic (but clinging in on the pretext of how a border would work between the countries), I was quite intrigued by a trip I made to the Republic of Ireland a couple of years ago. I went there by plane and managed to lose my British passport somewhere between getting on the flight and ...

...what is the actual reason behind wanting to break away? That alone is the biggest thing I don't understand. Why?
The story has never interested me so I have never given it much thought.
You've partially answered your own question there, I should think. Why remain part of a union in which the ...