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Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie
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As a complete aside, has anyone else started watching million pound drop, purely to be amazed at the sheer lack of logic in the population?
Not necessarily good if you have high blood pressure...It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »As a complete aside, has anyone else started watching million pound drop, purely to be amazed at the sheer lack of logic in the population?
does that mean when you watch mastermind, you come away thinking "crikey! the population of this country is very knowledgable, i would never have thought that a quarter of the population would know so much about saxon kings"?
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chewmylegoff wrote: »does that mean when you watch mastermind, you come away thinking "crikey! the population of this country is very knowledgable, i would never have thought that a quarter of the population would know so much about saxon kings"?
No, it just means I spend just over an hour once or twice a week fighting the urge to punch the tv...;)It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
chewmylegoff wrote: »does that mean when you watch mastermind, you come away thinking "crikey! the population of this country is very knowledgable, i would never have thought that a quarter of the population would know so much about saxon kings"?
I'm glad they don't have Mastermind on over here. I just used to spend the entire program shouting at the TV "No you idiot, it's Eadberht II not I!" or whatever.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »As a complete aside, has anyone else started watching million pound drop, purely to be amazed at the sheer lack of logic in the population?
I've only seen bits of it but was amazed that one couple thought that there were more miles of train track than there are of roads in the UK.
If you pick stupid people on purpose, there's less chance of having to pay out. I think/hope that's what they do.Everything that is supposed to be in heaven is already here on earth.
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PasturesNew wrote: »Yeah, but I'm not the sort of loony that chats to complete strangers
Oh rats, I never realised that I was being loony rather than friendly when I do this.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
Ah yes but they could always put a Corrie question in the general knowledge round to stump the likes of you.
My family are moderately widely scattered over the south of the UK for which I am mostly thankful until I want a baby-sitter I can trust at short notice. I am also trying to reduce my carbon footprint at the moment but can't stand taking the whole day on a train journey with kids especially with the amount of stuff we like to travel with which again makes visiting the family seem a bit carbon extravagant.
I'll post this on the DIY board but I was wondering if any nice people had thoughts on water softeners, Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery or the best way to CH and HW a 200sqm house with 4 bathrooms (mains gas)?I'm glad they don't have Mastermind on over here. I just used to spend the entire program shouting at the TV "No you idiot, it's Eadberht II not I!" or whatever.I think....0 -
I just tried the online version of the £million drop. One of the questions was about Stevie Wonder, and they spelled his name wrong! It's Stevland, not Steveland. Then they caught me out because I (well Google, actually) knew when J-Lo was born but they offered 3 choices 1974, 1970, 1968. She was born in 1969. Are the televised questions wrong too?No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0
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I'll post this on the DIY board but I was wondering if any nice people had thoughts on water softeners, Mechanical Ventilation with Heat Recovery or the best way to CH and HW a 200sqm house with 4 bathrooms (mains gas)?
The uk.d-i-y newsgroup is great for answers to this sort of thing.
Surely, the options for heating are either a gas boiler or a heat pump? For the heat pump, you ideally need to put pipework under a really really large lawn to act as your heat source. I'm not convinced about the ones using air as the heat source, because the thermodynamics seem all wrong to me, but I admit I haven't done the calculations to check the efficiency.No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
I am also trying to reduce my carbon footprint at the moment but can't stand taking the whole day on a train journey with kids especially with the amount of stuff we like to travel with which again makes visiting the family seem a bit carbon extravagant.
Vague memory here but: isn't it the case that in some cases a whole family travelling by car is less carbon heavy than the same journey by train?0
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