I seem to remember that, even with means-tested grants, every student got a minimum grant of about £50 a year. Beer up north was 13p a pint in 1973 and the weekly rent for a shared house in Brighton worked out at around £3-5 a room at the beginning of the seventies. By the time I got to be a...
A thread like this will at least ensure that Kosh remembers the location of the shop where he bought an eternity ring. Next time he needs to purchase a similar item he will have no difficulty in finding the shop that sells them.
What's wrong with the whole electronics industry developing a standard that would allow all bits of kit to connect up with all other bits of kit, regardless of who the manufacturer is?
The same argument applies to light bulbs.
One of the toughest days I ever had, as a moderator on NSC, was the day that tickets went on sale for the play-off final at Cardiff.
"Someone" (no names, no packdrill) started a thread that said something along the lines of "If you don't get yourself down to Withdean in the next half hour...
British society has been adapting to changing circumstances for hundreds of years. Some of us are proud to recognise this and the benefits that these changes have brought.
Do you REALLY think that we should leave the management of social change to politicians?
I wasn't so much upset by the spelling as by the apparent invitation to the opponents of multiculturalism to come out and spew out their bile. Ignorance is rampant and one indication of this is the inability to spell words like "Ramadan".
If this puts an end to the BBC's irritating habit of bombarding the TV screen with inane tweets by footballers during MOTD, it can only be a good thing.
There can't be many professional footballers capable of stringing together a message with 10,000 characters, shirley?