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Free IBM Computers For UK Households
Albanach writes "The Scotland on Sunday newspaper is reporting that UK firm Metronomy are offering 200,000 IBM PCs free of charge to UK households. Of course, there is a catch - advertising. Accepting the terms and conditions will get users a free IBM PC running Windows XP, but they will also be required to watch three minutes of TV style advertising for every hour of computer use and undertake to use the PC for a minimum of 30 hours per month."
If you're going to pretend to be British at least have the intelligence to disguise your North American upbringing.
"Welfare"? Nobody in the UK would call it welfare - that's such an Americanism it's unbelievable. As is "hawking". Try using more colloquial terms in future: eg, "benefits" instead of "welfare", "flogging" instead of "hawking". By the way, nobody uses the word "horrid" here either, apart from people living in a time warp.
"Realized"? Oh dear. Worse than using Americanisms is using American spellings. Outside North America the word is spelt "realised". Perhaps if you actually were from the UK you'd have learnt that.
If you truly are British care to tell us where your from? Want to name half a dozen British retailers you'd find on the typical high street? Care to explain the offside law? Or tell us what top job a Swede holds in England? Want to tell us what's bigger over here, Frasier, Friends, Scrubs, Sienfeld or Will and Grace? Want to tell me what the most famous football terrace in Britain's called? Or name the comics you grew up reading when you were a kid? Or which TV quiz conundrum round? Didn't think so.
Apart from all that, nice troll attempt. Now stop pretending to be something that you're not, you pathetic little man.
"Accept that some days you are the pigeon, and some days you are the statue." - David Brent, Wernham Hogg
How was this offtopic?
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Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
Because we dread the day when the EULA attached to our new DRM trusted Pheonix BIOS requires the same.
Well... cowshit.
And I don't know about "for people to eat", even in the case of eating the cow instead of eating what it turns the grass into. You are made of meat: why not slice yourself up, pack yourself onto a styrene tray and toddle down to the local supermarket?
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing