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While Turner took the lead in TV, via CNN, he was a decade and a half late in politicising media as such.
Murdoch went for newspapers and Magazines already in the sixties and seventies, but he didn't buy Fox until 1985.
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"Commonwealth" is the politician's way of getting the sheeples to believe they have wealth when in fact it should be called "CommonPoverty."
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The real name of the "Commonwealth Games" is "The Empire Games" (the British Empire that is) but we don't like anyone else to know we still have an Empire - so we disguise it as a "Commonwealth" these days.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Lopatir wrote: the last USA election had less days of news than the one before.
Are you sure?
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Lopatir wrote: Not sure why it's called common wealth with Aus and UK snatching up about half of all the medals, that hardly seems like sharing does it?
It is important to remind people who can, and who cannot, afford swimming pools and velodromes.
98.4% of statistics are made up on the spot.
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Yes it's pretty harmless, but it should probably have been posted in the soapbox anyway.
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Reason: Sunday...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Sunday closing isn't a "thing" in the UK any more, except for Easter day itself.
Needless to say, people panic buy because the supermarkets are closed for a single day...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I don't call it "panic buying", just "stocking up for the winter/summer/Christmas/Easter/Halloween/Bank Holiday* ... (*delete not applicable)".
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nowadays there are 24 hour supermarkets, so even less need to stock up.
except if the shops are going to close for a whole holy day,
holy mass batperson! that's 24 whole hours! What happens if ...
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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And here I thought, what??? You posted an inappropriate message in the lounge???
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Marc Clifton wrote: inappropriate message in the lounge
There is such thing?
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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It took me a while ...
BTW, this does not apply to me as some of our supermarkets are open
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Who cares how many of you have a supermarket to visit if I'm bored to death here
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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SO HOW ABOUT DOING SOME WORK?
-- The Boss
Ad astra - both ways!
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If you want to be my boss, first learn to behave!!!
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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SO HOW ABOUT DOING SOME WORK? :mad: If reading CP is so boring, would you consider doing some work instead? :)
-- The Boss He who might be obeyed
Is that better?
Ad astra - both ways!
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It will do if you bring some coffee and chocolate chip cookies...
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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Quote: if I'm bored to death here
No wonder ... it's still Sunday, ...
but I am at work puzzling with https certificates no fun at all here ...
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... that he is only moving the price higher...
The price of backups | CommitStrip[^]
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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I preferred Notifications[^]
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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And the corollary, "As a cost-saving measure, we are cutting the staff that tests that our backups are working."
And the corollary to that: "You are now individually responsible for your own backups."
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