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Jamez wrote:

all new Phil wrote:Yeah isn't Google great?

No. It spies on its users.

I use Yahoo!

Who in turn use google, do they not?

From Monday, it will be illegal in the UK for anyone below the age of 18 to buy cigarettes.

SPAM stands for Spiced Ham

iPods were introduced in October 2001. However, the word "ipod" did not become a registered trademark of Apple until 2005, having been assigned to a series of internet access phone kiosks since 2000.

If anyone's interested what the first iPod looked like, voila.



Hitler was a vegetarian and enjoyed urolagnia.

Alexia wrote:Hitler was a vegetarian and enjoyed urolagnia.

Well of course. Everybody likes Italian food.

Here's a good one.

In 1974 there were 74,000 petrol stations in the UK. Today there are less than 9,500 - the lowest level since 1912.

rdobbie wrote:In 1974 there were 74,000 petrol stations in the UK. Today there are less than 9,500 - the lowest level since 1912.

That's probably misleading. In 1974 the average petrol station probably had 2 or 3 pumps. These says many of the Megastores have integral petrol stations with 20-30 pumps. Chances are the actual number of petrol pumps has increased over the intervening 34 years.

Nevertheless, it's an interesting fact and represents a significant change. It's not often these days that you come across a small independent petrol station.

What happened to all the petrol stations then, given that the amount of cars on the roads has increased massively in that time, hence there'd be enough of a market to keep them all afloat.

Beardy Bob wrote:What happened to all the petrol stations then, given that the amount of cars on the roads has increased massively in that time, hence there'd be enough of a market to keep them all afloat.

Competition ground them down to the numbers we have now, especially after supermarkets got on board.

StuartPlymouth wrote:It's not often these days that you come across a small independent petrol station.

I think there are nearly as many as there are small, independent ITV companies.

There's quite a few small indie stations in west wales.

Usually quite expensive, though. I had to stop off at one today and unleaded was 98.9p a litre.

You lucky bugger!

Round here, unleaded's gone to 99.9p a litre, yesterday, thanks to Mr Phuquing Brown, and deisel's gone to 102.9p.

That's at the major chains; I hate to think what an independent would charge, if I could find one.