Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

yertiz_2

Big Elephants Can Always Use Small Exits

Sally Ann Is Daft

Davesnave

sss555s wrote: »

Mumbai (formally Bombay) which is the 4th most populous city in the world, though not a capital, is the one that sticks in my mind.

I know someone who's from there, and he still calls it Bombay!
He won't have any Mumbai-jumbo.

Davesnave

...And don't let us forget Rutland, which nearly vanished into Leicestershire the 1970s:

'Royal Mail included Rutland in the Leicestershire postal county in 1974. After a lengthy and well organised campaign, and despite a code of practice which excludes amendments to former postal counties,the Royal Mail agreed to create a postal county of Rutland in 2007.'

How could they think of doing such a thing to the home of the greatest rock band ever?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu3T_2GzXSo

chewmylegoff

Stop eating burger king on the train it is rude

Doozergirl

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Stop eating burger king on the train it is rude

Sorry

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Doozergirl

Davesnave wrote: »

...And don't let us forget Rutland, which nearly vanished into Leicestershire the 1970s:

Can I apologise for that as well. It was a long day, that day.

StevieJ

Dear oh dear, talk about a non news story all they have done is offend the old car bods (including me 10 yo).

Bristol City goalkeeper David James has been fined for speeding in a 12-year-old Vauxhall Astra that typically trades for only £500. James, who was capped 53 times by England, was caught doing 90mph on the M5 in the V-reg banger in July of last year — 20mph over the road's 70mph limit.

http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/blogs/world-of-sport/ex-england-star-caught-speeding-banger-130324638.html

zagubov

mystic_trev wrote: »

Just checked, it's Lion - Mac OS X Lion 10.7.3 (11D50b) else I ought to know?

Actually there's other mac users on here so here's some weblinks you might add to your bookmarks

Some of these are free software for OSX in general and some of it is for Lion
http://macapper.com/2008/01/10/mac-os-x-freeware-list/
http://www.magicpubs.com/mac/macosx.html
http://opensourcemac.org/
http://bestmacsoftware.org/
http://www.co-bw.com/DMS_OS_Mac_software.htm

This shows you nifty ways to do things on the mac

http://www.techradar.com/news/software/operating-systems/80-handy-os-x-lion-tips-and-tricks-1044374

And if you want all the iplayer TV on demand stuff on one page use this
http://www.tv-replay.co.uk/

and the best homepage ever
http://www.thebigproject.co.uk/

Enjoy!

StevieJ

yertiz wrote: »

Zimbabwe, formerly Rhodesia

Saint Petersburg, formerly Leningrad, formerly Saint Petersburg

Volgagrad to Stalingrad back to Volgagrad, (as indeed happened with St Petersburg), what is interesting here is that it happened in 1961 well before the breakup of the Soviet Union.

zagubov

StevieJ wrote: »

I was in quiz last week and was shocked to realise that we have a new ocean, The Southern, according to Wiki it suddenly appeared in the millenium Isn't it bad enough all those countries changing their capital cities

As we're supposedly a small planet doesn't it seem strange that the biggest things on it (continents, oceans) that surely only exist in single-digit numbers also seem to be the hardest things to count properly :mad: