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Thought of the Day

OriginalGriff24-May-19 4:52

24-May-19 4:52

Is the retail price the cost of repairing the back of the plane?

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Re: Thought of the Day

megaadam24-May-19 4:59

24-May-19 4:59

And: is curtail the discounted cost?

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Re: Thought of the Day

jeron124-May-19 5:13

24-May-19 5:13

Nice way to elevator game, it's rudder genius.

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Re: Thought of the Day

lopatir24-May-19 5:15

24-May-19 5:15

it's the delivery costs that'll get you, particularly if sent mid flight

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Re: Thought of the Day

Kschuler24-May-19 7:52

24-May-19 7:52

Yes, and it nose-dived lately.

Re: Thought of the Day

MacSpudster25-May-19 9:45

25-May-19 9:45

Yaw gonna need more than a vertical stabilizer to steer us to your jokes.

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Trekkies: this could be interesting

OriginalGriff24-May-19 1:14

24-May-19 1:14

Star Trek: Picard – Official Teaser Trailer - YouTube[^]

Due at the end of the year as a 10-part TV series: Star Trek: Picard - Wikipedia[^] - I guess it depends what it is concerned with whether it's any good (I can't see 10 hours of "Winemaking in the 24th Century" being that enthralling).

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

glennPattonWork324-May-19 2:36

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24-May-19 2:36

I can see vintage of wine could be different... but where are the Klingons...

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Mark_Wallace28-May-19 9:41

28-May-19 9:41

glennPattonWork wrote:
I can see vintage of wine could be different

Depends 'ow 'ard the grapses are to pick, Guv.

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Maximilien24-May-19 2:38

24-May-19 2:38

LOL!!! Major fail on the part of the producers ...

they spray the vines with pesticides (and/orevery other *cides they can find... ) That does not seems like a Picard things to do, he looks to be a non intervention kind of wine producer.
They put Bourgogne wine in a Bordeaux type of bottle !!!

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

OriginalGriff24-May-19 2:40

24-May-19 2:40

Quick - flush the wine box down the loo, it's the Wine Police! Unsure | :~

Unsure | :~

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Maximilien24-May-19 3:13

24-May-19 3:13

I aim to please.

I'd rather be phishing!

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

lopatir24-May-19 3:37

24-May-19 3:37

ohh an expert

which way around are you supposed to store wine boxes in the racks?

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Maximilien24-May-19 4:27

24-May-19 4:27

Don't know, I drink them before I need to store them. Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

Roll eyes | :rolleyes:

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Forogar 24-May-19 2:48

24-May-19 2:48

I noticed that as well, but then remember these are Muricans writing this.

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Jon McKee24-May-19 7:03

24-May-19 7:03

Careful with assumptions about 'Muricans and wine.[^]

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

dandy7224-May-19 7:09

24-May-19 7:09

Maximilien wrote:
they spray the vines with pesticides

Could be water for all we know.

Maximilien wrote:
They put Bourgogne wine in a Bordeaux type of bottle !!!

This takes place over 400 years in the future. Has not a single wine bottle changed at all over the last 400 years?

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

Richard Deeming24-May-19 3:41

Richard Deeming

24-May-19 3:41

Previously, on Star Trek...[^] Big Grin | :-D

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

dandy7224-May-19 7:10

24-May-19 7:10

OriginalGriff wrote:
I can't see 10 hours of "Winemaking in the 24th Century" being that enthralling

Might still be more watchable than Discovery.

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

markrlondon25-May-19 0:33

25-May-19 0:33

I get "This video is not available". Perhaps I'm on the wrong planet. Cry | :((

Cry | :((

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

OriginalGriff25-May-19 0:46

25-May-19 0:46

Possibly - they seem to have "changed the rules" and it's only available in the US (or via a US Proxy)
Try this one: "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3om4V_-Y0Q" via the US server of ProxySite[^]

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Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

markrlondon25-May-19 1:14

25-May-19 1:14

Thanks.

Smile | :)

Wine making (and angst) in the 24th Century indeed.

It is ironic that in a tv show that is (very broadly) based upon Rodenberry's concepts of post-money human intellectual and cultural attainment and progress, that trailers for a new show are geoblocked (for apparently no beneficial reason to anyone whatsoever, rights holders included).

And how long before the fans demand that Picard gets Data's mind working in the spare body...

Re: Trekkies: this could be interesting

OriginalGriff25-May-19 1:16

25-May-19 1:16

Series 2, Episode 1 would be my guess. Laugh | :laugh:

Laugh | :laugh:

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Oi Nagy! Programming Question of the Week?

megaadam23-May-19 23:57

23-May-19 23:57

Will gin improve my random memory access?

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Re: Oi Nagy! Programming Question of the Week?

Daniel Pfeffer24-May-19 0:02

24-May-19 0:02

It might make your disk array go into horizontal mode.

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