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it is still most read and most shared though, which I think says something about the readers of the BBC News more than the BBC themselves. ;) As of this moment, it's also the 2nd most viewed story on Telegraph.co.uk today after "Jennifer Aniston ended relationship with John Mayer because of hi...

It'd be much more preferable for the Zero-Year to be set to the earliest confidently-known date in history. An example being the seige of Troy... except not the seige of Troy as it is (at best) semi-mythical... and if it happened as described, the date doesn't meet the criteria of being known with ...

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Raisin > The Featherie & Firkin > Kate's Bar

I used to love the Four Woods. Over priced, wobbly pool table, always empty. Almost as good as the Castle.

You do realise of course that the art history building used to be the Principle's house, right? From what I gather, the downstairs will be turned into offices and meeting rooms for official University work. There's hardly an overwhelming number of carparking spaces, given it's proposed usage, espec...

Quoting Fawksie from 00:36, 4th Aug 2008
The latest replacement for what will always be known to me as Broons.

Broons? Pah, johnny come latelys. The Four Woods? Now there was a pub...

Sorry if this has been posted before (and for the fact this is a news link - at least it's not the BBC): http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1036382/Crunch-threatens-St-Andrews-vista-fears-disrepair-buildings.html "There is major concern within the R&A about the future of the most f...

Funding is important - obviously - but far more important to me are: the place you will study; the supervisor(s) you will work with. The latter is probably the single most important thing that I can think of - if you end up being unhappy with your supervisor for some reason, then you'll be unhappy w...

Quoting Haunted from 14:53, 8th Mar 2008 4Gb of RAM. RAM is cheap as chips these days, of course, but be aware that 32bit editions of XP and Vista won't be able to access the full 4GB. x64 editions can access >4gb, but there are issues with drivers; most OEMs will sell you a 32bit version of window...

Well, I'm no fan of Scientology, especially after that abomination of a "film" with John Travolta. I've read about Anonymous' attacks on Scientology websites - DDoS attacks, that kind of thing, and their intention is to take misleading material from L. Ron's earthly minions off the web. http://www.t...

Quoting exnihilo from 11:48, 24th Jan 2008 Our friends from Westboro Baptist Church have been at it again: http://blogs.sparenot.com/index.php/workmen/ Yeah, and the numpties at conservapedia are taking cheap shots too: http://www.conservapedia.com/Talk:Main_Page#Milking_deaths_for_political_gain

Quoting Haunted from 11:17, 18th Jan 2008 Anyone looking forward to the new film? In a manner that is probably deeply unhealthy for someone practically in his 30s. Sylar as Spock? Awesometacular. [img]http://trekmovie.com/wp-content/uploads/star-trek-uss-enterprise-b.gif[/img] (First official pic, ...

Quoting G'Kar Narn, Humans, Centauri... we all do what we do for the same reason: because it seems like a good idea at the time. All of those shows are awesome, except Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, which is a steaming pile of dog doo. And series 5 of B5 is disappointing compared to the rest. But...

'mon the Penny Reds!

Quoting Haunted from 11:30, 11th Aug 2007 Ah, the old "God is outside space and time so you can't get him" line of thinking. Not long ago the idea of a physical God was the accepted one, why is not now? Because we know better. The God idea has been backed into a corner and now people say "oh he's n...

Quoting box_of_delights from 14:08, 19th Jul 2007
Most of mine this past week have been "you have received an e-card from a college friend".

Yeah, I've been getting loads of those too, although I have to add that it really made my day to find I had "received an e-card from a worshipper"...

Quoting munchingfoo from 09:33, 6th Mar 2007 I don't think he is suggesting that its the governments fault, merely that they are going the wrong way about solving the problem. Can anyone actually confirm that this is actually a government initiative? As far as I can tell from the story, it's the Po...

Quoting Gubbins from 00:39, 5th Mar 2007 Just so long as they don't go around proclaiming that the English they speak is the only true version and superior to that spoken in England (and other parts) and try to inflict it on the rest of us. And another thing... *gets back in box* [hr] ...but then a...

Don't want to step on anyone's righteous indignation here, but I can't find any reference to the government here other than announcement of an alcohol health plan - the "ban" is being suggested by the Portman group as an amendment to their code of conduct. As far as I know (and I'm willing to be wro...

To be honest, it depends on the school - and the department. When I was teaching I worked in one school in which anything went - teachers with some pretty outrageous clothes, piercings, tattoos, hair colour, you name it (this was a state school with a good catchment area in Cambridge - therefore lot...

Quoting Phantasm from 12:56, 5th Oct 2006 As you say, ace opening then after that it was all a bit meh. Still, it's quite exciting that I have no clue where we will be come the Season 3 finale, so who knows whats in store! [hr] Dean Learner: "I had a cat once. I dropped a safe on it. It was a write...