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On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:06:42 +0000, John38 wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm Last Updated: Friday, 28 July 2006, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK Old news. Mike |
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John38 came up with the following;:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm 'twould appear John38 doesn't bother reading the newsgroup before posting, or he/she/it would have seen this already being discussed. -- Paul ... (8(|) Homer Rules ..... Doh !!! |
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') wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm Yes, we know. It's stupid, and it won't happen. We'll have to waste time opposing it, however. Yawn. -- (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; If Python is executable pseudocode, ;; then Perl is executable line noise -- seen on Slashdot. |
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Mike Causer wrote: On Wed, 02 Aug 2006 04:06:42 +0000, John38 wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm Last Updated: Friday, 28 July 2006, 17:09 GMT 18:09 UK Old news. True, but at least now we have someone to vote for instead: http://news.independent.co.uk/people...cle1209723.ece The campaign to persuade the petrolhead to stand for the Tories as London Mayor - against the "newt-keeping lunatic" Ken Livingstone (his words) - faces opposition from his friend and Top Gear colleague Richard Hammond. "If he stood he would win it," Hammond tells me. "But can you bloody imagine it? He'd be scary. He would roar around London in a Lamborghini with a huge mayoral flagpole, shooting cyclists. I hope he doesn't go for it." If clarkson got in, the city would grind to a halt with the extra traffic on the road, and cyclists would have a free reign. The large flagpole would allow us to see him and take an alternative route |
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Paul Weaver wrote on 02/08/2006 09:46 +0100:
If clarkson got in, the city would grind to a halt with the extra traffic on the road, and cyclists would have a free reign. The large flagpole would allow us to see him and take an alternative route But even the BBC says you can't take the WHW seriously "The Committee believed that the majority of the Top Gear audience would have been aware that Jeremy Clarkson often uses the most exaggerated stereotypes to support or defend his opinions and would not have taken his comments seriously..... However, the Committee did not believe that, when looking at the audience as a whole, they would have felt that the comments were anything more than Jeremy Clarkson using outrageous behaviour to amuse his audience" http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/text...2006_text.html -- Tony "Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory." - Leonardo da Vinci |
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On Wed, 2 Aug 2006 07:31:54 +0100, Paul - xxx
wrote: John38 came up with the following;: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm 'twould appear John38 doesn't bother reading the newsgroup before posting, or he/she/it would have seen this already being discussed. umm, (he) *does* read the newsgroup before posting, just not every flipping thread. The thread marked "Ken being a berk" is not immidiately salient to the subject (especially if one doesn't live in London). As you have gathered, I didn't read that thread, so, please accept my humble apologies for putting your nose out of joint. -- John38 |
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John38 said the following on 02/08/2006 10:58:
umm, (he) *does* read the newsgroup before posting, just not every flipping thread. The thread marked "Ken being a berk" is not immidiately salient to the subject (especially if one doesn't live in London). You've made a basic mistake - London is the centre of the universe, and things that happen there are representative of the rest of the country. The rest of the country in turn is expected to know who "Ken" is simply on hearing his first name uttered. The above is all false, because everyone really knows that Somerset is where it's all at :-) Must remember to brush the straw out of smock before going to visit "the city" (Wells!!!) -- Paul Boyd http://www.paul-boyd.co.uk/ |
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"Paul Boyd" wrote in message ... John38 said the following on 02/08/2006 10:58: umm, (he) *does* read the newsgroup before posting, just not every flipping thread. The thread marked "Ken being a berk" is not immidiately salient to the subject (especially if one doesn't live in London). You've made a basic mistake - London is the centre of the universe, and things that happen there are representative of the rest of the country. The rest of the country in turn is expected to know who "Ken" is simply on hearing his first name uttered. And which Londoner posted the thread "Ken's being a berk"? |
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Simon Brooke whizzed past me shouting
in message , John38 ') wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/5225346.stm Yes, we know. It's stupid, and it won't happen. We'll have to waste time opposing it, however. Yawn. Could we do a deal where we get to keep newts instead? -- Sue ] Does anyone remember why they stopped licensing sound radios? |
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