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That one is only £1899 :thumbup:

Because I'm having my lunch I thought I'd look up a couple of things, my first Gateway desktop, crt monitor and printer cost around £1400 in 1995, which is around £2750 now.

It had a 125k dial up modem, 1.6MB hard drive and 16k memory installed, running ...

Anybody watching this?

https://championschesstour.com/

This is a 10 tournament league building to a final in SF in the Autumn. It's blitz (15 minutes + 10 sec per move) but none the worse for that.

The current tournament has an astonishing entry of 16. All of the world's top 10, numbers 12,13, 14 ...

A really neat one from Dean Mayer today, just to prove that it doesn't have to be fiendishly complicated to be good

"P" breaks for cool beast ----o

On another topic: My wife is watching The Flight Attendant on Sky.

The lead character (played by Kaley Cuoco from The Big Bang Theory) is an alcoholic, some of the very off-kilter camerawork is unsettlingly familiar.

I passed 3 years dry last weekend. I've never felt better.

While I don't feel any urge at all to drink (I just feel completely uninterested in it) I got a sharp reminder on Tuesday morning of how quickly things can unravel. A friend of mine from rehab phoned me at 3.30 am having spectacularly ...

A cryptic crossword about Only Connect!

Not alone does it contain all of the expected answers (not really a spoiler alert) but it has the most fantastic Nina. That elevates it to a work of brilliance.

https://www.theguardian.com/crosswords/prize/28392

This is a really good crossword. Tough but very fair.

Was reading this article on the world population:
The optimum population of Earth – enough to guarantee the minimal physical ingredients of a decent life to everyone – was 1.5 to 2 billion people rather than the 7 billion who are alive today or the 9 billion expected in 2050, said Ehrlich in an ...

Most of the cruciverbalists seem to be here rather than on PR.

This cracker from Saturday's Independent is one of the best clues I've seen in years:

Fathead! Soon deduce a timeless quality, unfortunately, that's shared by Johnson and his cohorts (8,2,8)

It's by Jim Toal (Vlad in the Guardian ...

There is a problem with 8A here.

The solution needed for the crossers & wordplay is actually spelt incorrectly. The setter assumed that the 2nd word in the answer is spelt in the Italian way, when in fact it should be spelt in the Portuguese fashion.

I heard this on the radio on Monday:

A family was having a wake for their father. A man came up to the widow and said that he knew her husband & he'd like to say a word to the crowd. She agreed.

The man walked up to the front of the room & said: "Plethora"

As he walked back down the widow ...

In the end of the day, as soon as the vaccines is available for use around the world, i expect that most countries will most likely have a requirement for a vaccination certificate to travel. So if you hate vaccines, tough luck, you most likely will have to stay at home for quite a while or only ...

It's called preparing the way for Boris' climbdown.

To be fair, and I’m not inclined to be fair to Johnson, a deal isn’t really a climbdown imo, avoiding no deal lunacy is the least terrible option at this stage.

This.

Any business agreement needs negotiation and compromise, which is ...

Out of interest, what specifically is the discrimination in this instance.

Covid is not a notifiable disease. So they are forcing you to undertake a medical procedure for which you may have no use (e.g. you might have already had Covid & hence be immune anyway) simply to fly.

When I heard ...

Bimbowomxn wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 12:42 pm
lilyw wrote: Wed Nov 11, 2020 11:05 am
Bimbowomxn wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:54 pm
Also nonsense considering Felixstowe takes the largest boats in the world.

You sure about that? I know that they did 5 years ago but I don't think that it's true any more.

Boats got bigger?

Yep.

Bimbowomxn wrote: Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:54 pm
Also nonsense considering Felixstowe takes the largest boats in the world.

You sure about that? I know that they did 5 years ago but I don't think that it's true any more.

I disagree. All votes should be sealed until the close of polls - that way there can be no possibility of early voters influencing the outcome by changing the behavior of later ones. In Ireland we don't even allow opinion polls to be published in the 24 hours before an election.

That's a ...

How are they able to complete states like Florida with the amount of postal voting that has taken place?

When the votes are allowed to get counter varies from state to state.
Some states started counting earlier but only announced the results on election day, while some states have stupid ...

A woman in a cafe tried to give me a leaflet about this. Took her less than 20 seconds to blame it on the Jews.

Interesting since 1 of the featured "thought leaders" is Benjamin Netanyahu. When I saw his name & that of Paul Kagame show up prominently I just laughed.

The Great Reset - how to ...

Michael C actually achieved something.

The War of Independence could be successfully waged because of public support. That support was a result of 1916, it wasn't nearly as widespread beforehand.

While the attraction to pick out leaders from the rising/war of Independence is obvious ...

Michael C actually achieved something.

The War of Independence could be successfully waged because of public support. That support was a result of 1916, it wasn't nearly as widespread beforehand.

Actually the rebels were roundly derided after 1916 and the destruction of Dublin city ...

Padraig Pearse - in his own lifetime achieved almost nothing on a national scale; however his actions in 1916 & his execution led directly to Irish independence 5 years later.

Michael C actually achieved something.

The War of Independence could be successfully waged because of public ...

Padraig Pearse - in his own lifetime achieved almost nothing on a national scale; however his actions in 1916 & his execution led directly to Irish independence 5 years later.

It all looks rather grim, and Rugby will be far from the only sport seeking a bailout. The business / financial model for most clubs must be completely shot.

It was nice to see the Junior Minister tell Premiership football clubs today that if they think they can pay players £600k a week and ...

Most novels etc I just gave to our local hospital. (Of late I've bought so few novels on paper that it's a moot point.)

I keep all reference, compendia, non-fiction ones, and certain novels that I re-read or writers that I particularly love (Murakami, James Joyce, A Suitable Boy, early Rushdie, In ...

mat the expat wrote: Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:01 am Same.

It's odd how people don't like protesters - but are perfectly happy to have holidays and sick leave, etc.

The horror!

Since that statement apparently doesn't mean what everybody else has read it to mean - what did you intend to say?

EnergiseR wrote: Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:31 am 7's is shite. Once the line is broken it's the long trot to the whitewash...and again..and again. To add insult to injury the set pieces look stupid

It's basically basketball with all of the defensive smarts removed.

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CEYXws1jSB ... hare_sheet

Simple but far too true to life. I'm not on Instagram so I don't seem to be able to just link the video itself.

Does he say why he thinks Rugby needs a 20/20 version or what that would look like if it's not 7s?

To my mind the major benefit of 20/20 is that it created a version of cricket that doesn't go on for days. Rugby doesn't have that problem when matches are only 80 minutes (+ a bit here and there ...

I actually don't know why the schools went to such bother with pods etc.

I was in Naas at lunchtime - the kids from 3 of the secondary schools in town were hanging around in groups, no masks, no social distancing, complete mixing between different schools. It makes a farce of all of the work being ...

What insurance issue is there? Has their insuranxe company changed their terms and conditions? The principal is making a presumptive diagnosis that they aren’t qualified to make. The person who is qualified is saying that it’s unlikely to be Covid. We need some common sense to get the country ...

What insurance issue is there? Has their insuranxe company changed their terms and conditions? The principal is making a presumptive diagnosis that they aren’t qualified to make. The person who is qualified is saying that it’s unlikely to be Covid. We need some common sense to get the country ...

So my sister in law sent her 6 year old back to school today. within an hour the school phoned to say he had a cough and needed to go home (cough is related to an issue from a few months ago and not Covid).

They phoned the doctor who confirmed that it was unlikely to be Covid and he should ...

Complete diversion. Watching Jurrasic Park with the kids. And along with a number of kids movies from my teen/early adulthood that I've watched with them recently what's stood out is the slow build up. An hour in before anything 'happens' which seems to be a stark contrast to modern movie making ...

Gav wrote: Wed Aug 26, 2020 6:24 pm Lilyw is probably having a furious, drunken wank right about now.

You ok there love? You seem a bit obsessed with me. It's very roomy here in your head.

I do strongly object to the word "drunken".

ffs - speaking of hyperbole ?! its got valid point about people being afraid to get tested ; come out that they're positive - Hogan was being an utter Cnut and giving 2 fingers to everyone else ; lets not conflate the 2

But you're forgetting that Hogan is a Blueshirt. If you say that he did ...

A friend of my daughter took her car in for service on Friday. She complained about an intermittent warning light that she was getting (the car is only 171 so it's not an age thing). When she picked it up yesterday the garage told her that it was a problem with water in her petrol tank; they drained ...

I'm very sorry to hear that, and feel for your friend.

However Covid restrictions didn't stop every shinner in the country travelling to Belfast for a funeral, and I don't recall a whimper from you about that, nor any demand that MLOD resign.

Hogan was told that the dinner was compliant, and ...

I’ve slowly slipped back to the old ways, lockdown didn’t help. Of course lockdown was actually an opportunity to get really fit, but I took the other option...

Anyway, stopping again on Monday for a few weeks and see where we go. I know my life is better without it which really makes me pissed ...

I’ve slowly slipped back to the old ways, lockdown didn’t help. Of course lockdown was actually an opportunity to get really fit, but I took the other option...

Anyway, stopping again on Monday for a few weeks and see where we go. I know my life is better without it which really makes me pissed ...

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