We had this beef scare in Britain a few years ago. I can't remember the number of humans who have contracted CJD in Britain, but it's phenomenonally low. You're about a million times more likely to die in a car crash.
(I know that wasn't really your point, but decided to say it anyway).
I've been to the Wirrel - my auntie lives there. (Shows what a middle class twat I am). And I've driven past hordes of Liverpool council estates with my doors locked.
At some point I intend to do a tour of the Big Six: Slough, Grimsby, Sc*nthorpe, Milton Keynes, Basingstoke, and, of course, the jewel in the crown: Hull.
I'm going to get flamed for this I know, but the odds of any moderators coming from any of the Six is unlikely so I should be ok.
Now I feel stupid. For some reason I thought grammar was the American spelling and grammer the British one.
Why can't English be completely phonetic like Spanish? Non-native speakers have a hell of a time learning our language. (Through, though and thought are spelt the same yet pronounced utterly differently!)
For many people, I think that it is much more important to buy a decent keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer and maybe scanner than it is to get a 3Ghz (or whatever the latest is now) processor. Especially for business users who are using it for 8+ hours a day. So get a computer with a 1GHz chip, 256M ram and a 20G hard drive and splash out on a 17" flatscreen and a nice keyboard and mouse, if you're word processing.
And at the risk of sounding patronising (I don't mean to), well done for the correct use of an apostrophe with "husbands'". It does annoy me when people can't write, but if I comment about it here everyone calls me a grammer nazi.
The fact is, while the gap between rich and poor has widened in the past 50, 100, 200 years, the poor have got richer too. Far, far fewer people in Africa are starving now than was the case 50 years ago.
Don't think I'm knocking charities at all - many of their people are extremely committed, and do a great job which I could never do.
Zahn's trilogy is very good. However have you tried reading Anne Crispin's Han Solo trilogy? I loved it, although it might not be for everyone. Of course, they can't base episodes VII, VIII and IX on Han's life.
And I agree with you that many other Starwars books are crap...
then comes Thatcherism and privatisation of key services and make such a mess of the British railway... costs are cut, people are sacked and every now and then an accident happens. British railways used to be an example of good competent service... ask any Briton about it nowadays?
Read up on the British railway network before privatisation. There were in fact more accidents than there are today - they just received less publicity. And you can hardly call the railways private when the government is constantly setting their prices, and bailing them out of trouble. (I'm not trying to argue that the railways are good in Britain today - just correcting a few facts).
As for good education, it was a left-wing party which abolished grammer schools (which provided the intelligent poor with a decent education), and invented the downright-awful comprehensive system.
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We had this beef scare in Britain a few years ago. I can't remember the number of humans who have contracted CJD in Britain, but it's phenomenonally low. You're about a million times more likely to die in a car crash.
(I know that wasn't really your point, but decided to say it anyway).
No VAT on food, children's clothes, heating fuel.
:-)
A few other things are cheaper as well, plus we have a much better legal system.
But I'm still planning on moving to Spain when I can
I believe that, in the UK, parallel importing of trademarked products is illegal, unless it's from the European Economic Area.
In NZ, it's now legal to do parallel imports.
The Americans were pretty pissed off when your government allowed it, I seem to remember.
God forbid that they should realise it is their 100% capitalist self centered busniess model that is fatally flawed rather than the rest of the world.
Actually, this particular tactic is very anti-capitalist.
Errr, Robyn's a He, not a She -- many apologies. That hasn't happened in years!
Been that long since a woman submitted a story, eh? Aren't we geeks sad?
Wow, the best thing about the Internet is you can insult random people about where they come from and not get thumped...
I've been to the Wirrel - my auntie lives there. (Shows what a middle class twat I am). And I've driven past hordes of Liverpool council estates with my doors locked.
At some point I intend to do a tour of the Big Six: Slough, Grimsby, Sc*nthorpe, Milton Keynes, Basingstoke, and, of course, the jewel in the crown: Hull.
I'm going to get flamed for this I know, but the odds of any moderators coming from any of the Six is unlikely so I should be ok.
Now I feel stupid. For some reason I thought grammar was the American spelling and grammer the British one.
Why can't English be completely phonetic like Spanish? Non-native speakers have a hell of a time learning our language. (Through, though and thought are spelt the same yet pronounced utterly differently!)
For many people, I think that it is much more important to buy a decent keyboard, mouse, monitor, printer and maybe scanner than it is to get a 3Ghz (or whatever the latest is now) processor. Especially for business users who are using it for 8+ hours a day. So get a computer with a 1GHz chip, 256M ram and a 20G hard drive and splash out on a 17" flatscreen and a nice keyboard and mouse, if you're word processing.
Hmm. Would this be the same Liverpool that was recently made European City of Culture?
Says more about the City of Culture award than about Liverpool.
Baskingstoke will probably be next.
Ah, that would explain it.
And at the risk of sounding patronising (I don't mean to), well done for the correct use of an apostrophe with "husbands'". It does annoy me when people can't write, but if I comment about it here everyone calls me a grammer nazi.
You know what they say about men who drive big cars.
(Although nothing much seems to have been said about women who drive SUVs...)
Ever heard the saying 'Give a woman an inch, and she'll try and park a car in it'?
>> Brits make fun of French and Irish
...and just about everyone else, including ourselves.
> and Germans, and Yanks...
Why? Many objectives of the Iraq war have been achieved. Many are on their way to being achieved.
Mindless opposition to the war is just as annoying as mindless support.
My advice to you:
If you find haiku too hard
Use sonnet instead
Surely that should read:
If haiku is too easy
Sonnet is harder
Goodness me, can't people spot a troll when they see one?
This is unfortunately true.
Look at this example
The fact is, while the gap between rich and poor has widened in the past 50, 100, 200 years, the poor have got richer too. Far, far fewer people in Africa are starving now than was the case 50 years ago.
Don't think I'm knocking charities at all - many of their people are extremely committed, and do a great job which I could never do.
"There will always be 110 missing episodes of Doctor Who". --Ian Levine
Now there are 108.
Zahn's trilogy is very good. However have you tried reading Anne Crispin's Han Solo trilogy? I loved it, although it might not be for everyone. Of course, they can't base episodes VII, VIII and IX on Han's life.
And I agree with you that many other Starwars books are crap...
then comes Thatcherism and privatisation of key services and make such a mess of the British railway... costs are cut, people are sacked and every now and then an accident happens. British railways used to be an example of good competent service... ask any Briton about it nowadays?
Read up on the British railway network before privatisation. There were in fact more accidents than there are today - they just received less publicity. And you can hardly call the railways private when the government is constantly setting their prices, and bailing them out of trouble. (I'm not trying to argue that the railways are good in Britain today - just correcting a few facts).
As for good education, it was a left-wing party which abolished grammer schools (which provided the intelligent poor with a decent education), and invented the downright-awful comprehensive system.
Is that possible?
No.
What will they think of next? A train crossing between Britain and Gibraltar?
And each parallel port can handle at 5 lasers (or is it 8 these days, it's been a long time...)
Yet the system hasn't resulted in an increase in CD sales?
More likely to have resulted in an increase in blank CD sales.