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Loads of snow in the village last night. Put my boots on and trudged through it down to the local pub only to find it locked up. Not one person about. No sign of the landlord or any signs of any living being nearby. Then I remembered. It closed eight years ago for economic reasons. Nothing to do with the snow.

I can remember having a completely pointless argument with a sport-obsessed friend about the semantics of whether Jason Robinson was a shit rugby player or not. All hinging on the word shit and whether anyone could really technically be described as such. I fear that the argument lasted at least an hour. You know it's gone on too long when the onlookers, originally entertained or intrigued by such a bloody stupid debate move on for fear of being used as argument-fodder, "What do you reckon, Dave? Can any player, let alone one that played international rugby really be described as shit?" "LEAVE ME OUT OF IT" exclaims Dave running into the night, hurtling into the oncoming traffic of the nearby arterial route just to avoid becoming an active participant. Oh, happy day.

I've only ever been to St Alban's by mistake (wasn't me left it a pile of smoking ruins, you can't prove a thing ) because of a disaster on the M25 and getting redirected. Very middle class. Artisan coffee, wanky patisseries (sp?) stupid house prices etc People who live in Leek, Staffordshire. They're for the watching. No-righters, every last one. Not sure about Rey (I'm very amused by your bad mood ) but I'd say she sounds more middle than upper. My sister in law who is a lawyer and had a military brat / boarding school education is similar. Upper is simultaneously more drawled and clipped, but the British aristocracy usually throw curve balls. Prince William and his glottal stops for example.

Kudos for ending with "unfathomable" * eta, what I have noticed in the last 4 or 5 years (yes, base twelve unit) is that the influx of Eastern European drug dealers means the young stoners I work with, are having to buy in grams. They do the conversion no bother at all, reminiscent of when I a boy and idiots that wouldn't know 2+2 could rhyme off in seconds what a 25p treble would return at 8/11, 11/2 and 9/4....

Trying not to derail the thread again, but I was only putting forward my experience. What really is ludicrous is making the teaching of metric compulsory for everyone, and then sending them out into a world where people drive in mph, measure in feet and inches and weigh in pounds and ounces. Thus recessing the progress the scheme was undoubtedly intended to make. Who really wants to divide up things into twelfths and fourteenths...it's more difficult. Obviously charon speaks for the seafaring community re the nautical issue. I was never taught it, so I find it unfathomable.

Yes, got no excuses for them. Interesting that I have managed to know more people from that town than you have. Please stop exporting them.

Well, what do I know? They've closed the bloody schools. Deathray 1-0 msc

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someone else beat you to Jose Jose in the 1 spot

Don't recall much international fare before FIFA 78.....

I think the whole "how would you feel if your relatives were discussed on this forum?" argument from our irate visitor can be dismissed now that our new friend 123jeff is literally calculating his great-great-aunt Chiyo Miyako's chances of dying in the next 10 days.

Not surprised - had heard that things had been touch and go at that company......!

Mine is quite tame. Pre-internet, it eventually escalated to a door-slamming tear-stained meltdown because the person I was speaking to refused to believe that Lemmy was in The Damned*. On another forum someone's husband became a seething mess because it was pointed out that it was "unlikely" he had ovarian cancer What's yours DLers? ** Saying Lemmy was never in The Damned is an IP bannable offence.

Just wait for some to submit "members of New Kids on the Block" as a category next time round.

Dunno — He could develop a CorpseWear line and be the first model.

It even snowed in Plymouth and we never get snow normally. Giving us blizzards tomorrow. watch the City grind to a complete halt as a result!

Don't know if your mystery lady fits this particular bill but I came across a couple of Dallas actors who'd starred in Kevin Bacon films.

Thank you. I like her more and more. We have a fair bit in common, despite the huge age gap!

I have, to my knowledge, met only one St Albanian; he wasn't an a*hole in the traditional sense, but more of a twat. You'll be familiar with the classic dropping an ice-cream on the back of a sunbather - he did that, but with a football rather than an ice-cream; he also managed to knock over one of those rotary displays of postcards with his rucksack. 37 years ago, and it still haunts me, guilty by association! The few Aussies I've met all seem to be decent enough folk, until cricket is brought up.

As a fan of the Pertwee/Tom Baker era of Doctor Who I'm very sad to hear of Peter Mile's death. I was listening to the commentary he gave on the Genesis of the Daleks DVD just a few weeks ago and he sounded genuinely enthusiastic about being on the show.He was one of the best villians in the show's history. I will probably watch one of the 3 stories he did for Dr Who in the next few days in tribute to him .Maybe all 3 in fact !

As I sit here typing in a paltry 2g area, wondering when various companies going to get the finger out re upgrading masts, it is with a sense of sickness that I see the next Wilderness Vodafone will put 4g to..... Is the fucking Moon. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2018/02/27/vodafone-install-4g-network-moon/

Centrimetres? But height was in feet, and it's the height of the snow being measured?

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Would have thought the "Kayleigh" royalties would keep them solvent for another decade.