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clarion

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #950 on: 08 August, 2015, 01:11:47 pm »
She's got balls!
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graculus

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #951 on: 08 August, 2015, 03:53:01 pm »
The assailant was described as 'having a young voice'. Was this before or after she had dealt with him, I wonder?
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billplumtree

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #952 on: 10 August, 2015, 07:33:24 pm »
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mcshroom

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #953 on: 26 August, 2015, 04:41:58 pm »
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L CC

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #954 on: 07 September, 2015, 12:44:00 pm »
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #955 on: 09 September, 2015, 09:36:20 am »
The provinces of Russia

Good work, I say, to the kids.  :thumbsup:
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pcolbeck

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #956 on: 09 September, 2015, 05:01:04 pm »
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #957 on: 14 September, 2015, 09:18:41 pm »
I have no idea (obv) about what's actually on this CD.
The 'symbolic writing' on it is merely 'Hallelujah' and 'Jehovah' scrawled in Hebrew.
Shame the CD is upside down.
You might have thought the BBC would have just about enough people to spot this in London or Hertfordshire...
... even if you don't read Hebrew, that crucifix seems the wrong way up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828
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Andrij

  • Андрій
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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #958 on: 14 September, 2015, 09:30:50 pm »
That link is about bananananas.  ???
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #959 on: 14 September, 2015, 10:07:08 pm »
Ooops!
Corrected now.

Obviously hadn't copied the last link.
Apologies!
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Cudzoziemiec

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #960 on: 14 September, 2015, 10:13:43 pm »
Quote from: hellymedic on 14 September, 2015, 09:18:41 pm
I have no idea (obv) about what's actually on this CD.
The 'symbolic writing' on it is merely 'Hallelujah' and 'Jehovah' scrawled in Hebrew.
Shame the CD is upside down.
You might have thought the BBC would have just about enough people to spot this in London or Hertfordshire...
... even if you don't read Hebrew, that crucifix seems the wrong way up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828
Perhaps deliberately? Must be satanic!
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hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #961 on: 14 September, 2015, 10:53:49 pm »
Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 14 September, 2015, 10:13:43 pm
Quote from: hellymedic on 14 September, 2015, 09:18:41 pm
I have no idea (obv) about what's actually on this CD.
The 'symbolic writing' on it is merely 'Hallelujah' and 'Jehovah' scrawled in Hebrew.
Shame the CD is upside down.
You might have thought the BBC would have just about enough people to spot this in London or Hertfordshire...
... even if you don't read Hebrew, that crucifix seems the wrong way up!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-34243828
Perhaps deliberately? Must be satanic!

 ;) ;D

The Hebrew is 'pointed' (marked with small vowel characters, mostly below the main letters). This is something really only done by beginners and foreign scholars. The writing is block, not cursive. This all points to someone with only rather basic education in Hebrew.
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Cudzoziemiec

  • Ride adventurously and stop for a brew.
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #962 on: 15 September, 2015, 12:07:30 am »
Just in case it's not clear, I meant that the BBC/the photographer/someone responsible for the photo had decided it looked better with an upside-down crucifix, not that the person responsible for the CD had got it the wrong way round.
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hellymedic

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #963 on: 15 September, 2015, 12:39:29 am »
I appreciate that!

It irks me when I see Hebrew upside-down; I know there are times when it can't be avoided but all too often it seems to spell a level of apathy.
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tiermat

  • According to Jane, I'm a Unisex SpaceAdmin
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #964 on: 15 September, 2015, 09:20:24 am »
Once again, sloppy reporting from the beeb, in Helly's link...

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Officers will be making house-to-house inquiries to retrieve any discs they may have been given.

Does that mean the houses have been given the CDs?

Or that the officers were given the CDs and need to retreive them?

Or something else?
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pcolbeck

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #965 on: 15 September, 2015, 12:10:42 pm »
Backsheep passenger (sic)

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/13720430.Police_spot_backsheep_passenger_on_A19/

Years ago my next door neighbour had two on the back seat of his week old Mercedes saloon parked in our shared drive. 
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I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

Steph

  • Fast. Fast and bulbous. But fluffy.
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #966 on: 16 September, 2015, 04:05:15 pm »
Seen in Horley station on a billboard:

HORLEY MAN KEEPS ALBINO MOLE IN FREEZER

Here's the story
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Horley-mole-catcher-strikes-gold/story-27766326-detail/story.html
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hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #967 on: 17 September, 2015, 06:30:05 pm »
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Kim

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #968 on: 23 September, 2015, 11:34:20 pm »
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Torslanda

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #969 on: 23 September, 2015, 11:43:18 pm »
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Quote from: trekker12 on 16 July, 2016, 08:54:33 am
Well that's the more blunt way of putting it but as usual he's dead right.

hellymedic

  • Just do it!
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #970 on: 28 September, 2015, 12:23:57 pm »
Outer Londonton drags feet into 20th century.
It might stretch credulity to term BT's FTTC 21st century.
http://www.harrowtimes.co.uk/news/13784060.Thousands_of_homes_to_benefit_from_broadband_expansion/?ref=eb
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Kim

  • Timelord
    • Fediverse
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #971 on: 28 September, 2015, 12:26:57 pm »
FTTC is, like many things, a triumph of technology over the cost of Doing Things Properly:

VDSL is pretty clever stuff, squeezing improbable amounts of bandwidth out of 19th century twisted-pair technology.  Fibre to the premises would likely have happened in the 1980s, if it weren't for Thatcher.

Clever bodges to do things on the cheap.... how 21st century do you want?
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Wowbagger

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Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #972 on: 29 September, 2015, 10:40:23 am »
In the dead tree version of the Kent Messnger Maidstone Extra, the headline is "Order for jacket from the palace". It would appear that flunkies use the internet to buy clothes.
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Legs

Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #973 on: 29 September, 2015, 11:12:50 am »
Quote from: Steph on 16 September, 2015, 04:05:15 pm
Seen in Horley station on a billboard:

HORLEY MAN KEEPS ALBINO MOLE IN FREEZER

Here's the story
http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Horley-mole-catcher-strikes-gold/story-27766326-detail/story.html

This is notnews.  If one in every 100,000 moles is albino, then 99,999 in every 100,000 are notalbino.  If you catch a mole, the chance of it being notalbino is 0.99999.  Assuming the incidence of albino moles to be a random occurrence, let's say Mr Fearn catches 30 moles a week (he says "up to 40") for 52 weeks per year (though it's probably seasonal) and that he has a long and prosperous mole-trapping career of 35 years, then the probability of catching only notalbino moles is 0.99999^(30x52x35) = 0.58.  In other words, he has a 42% chance of catching an albino mole in the course of his career.
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Redlight

  • Enjoying life in the slow lane
Re: Little Eye On The Provinces
« Reply #974 on: 05 October, 2015, 01:06:47 pm »
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