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If military/cold war interest you , there is a former ballistic missile submarine, Le Redoutable, that you can go round. It's at Cite de la mer in Cherbourg

Minority of two.... I find them terribly dull (see also Elbow)

Unfortunately older drivers sometimes can't be told, even by those who care most about them, and need a (metaphorical) kick up the arse. We had a guy in court for careless driving. He was in his 80s, clean license for 60+ years, pillar of the community etc. He'd gone into town, tried to park in...

Me. I was in St Wilfreds shop about 5 years ago (I do the rounds once a month looking for CDs) and they asked if I'd sign up to their lotterty for £1 a week. I said "yes", thinking I'd do it for a few months then cancel. Two weeks later I got a call saying I'd won first prize, £1000, so now...

NSC isn't representative of the general population, half of which have below average intelligence. For the record I'm not saying all Leave voters are thick, just most of them.

Reversing Brexit can't realistically start until the majority of those who supported it, the "Red Wall" and elsewhere, realise that they were lied to and sold a pup. The's not going to happen overnight as victims of confidence tricks are notoriously difficult to convince they've been conned...

You can't go in with that sort of wishy-washy strategy. You'll be lucky to make 2AM. I'm planning to go and vote mid afternoon, couple of pints on the way back, early-ish tea and then (this is the clincher) a nice nap early evening. Get up about 9, prepare some snacks and stick a few beers in...

DUR ! Anyone could have told us that.

Can you dig your own trench or get a local to mole-plough a duct in, then the telco can blow thier fibre down it ?

Did similar a few years back. One of the IT managers was Alan, a lad I'd known at school and he was, to be blunt, a complete dunce. Heaven knows how he got to be a manager. Anyways he was given a project to equip all of our team with printers for home use. The printers he ordered were USB only...

“Here come the Germans. Kuntz"

Throttling aka traffic shaping, will not be done on the router, it will be done on the providers network.

My great Uncle was an on-course bookmaker in the 30s. On more than one occasion he did a runner because he didn’t have the funds to pay out. A couple of times he got duffed up by an angry punter.

A speedtest is not indicative of real world performance. There could be bottlenecks or throttling going on, the fact that through a VPN it works fine suggests it’s some sort of traffic shaping in the Virgin network. To narrow it down, try watching a long 4k or 8k stream on youtube with and...

Dentist, yes, I’ll give you that, we probably pay a couple of 00 for checks/hygeinist; fortunately we’ve only needed a couple of fillings. Opticians, being over 60 I get free eye tests (and being at risk of glaucoma I get checked at the hospital too) and I get glasses from online retailers for a...

Define “affordably”. I took early retirement when I was made redundant in 2019. We live a humble, but affordable, lifestyle. There’s little room in the budget for health insurance.

That’s retired and unemployed people f***ed then.

A diving colleague of mine spent over half an hour inverted after a bit of an incident involving a lost weight belt and having to reel himself up to the surface.

Happy birthday Terry. You share it with me and Donald Trump.