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You may want to consider hopping on a train for a quick journey(45 minutes from Liverpool street) north to Cambridge to see the colleges, Kings Chapel and evensong is well worth the visit, as well as a punt on the Cam.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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I went years ago for 2 weeks.
The tower of London was fun, north east side of the tower bridge. Big Ben walk and palace, that's a one day thing.
London at night walk, Picadilly area. Hang out in a pub, food everywhere.
The tube maps are way off scale. One night we drank too long past midnight in Picadilly, thought we could walk to Lancaster Gate and didn't realize how far it was, we stopped and asked a Bobby how far and he said you boys look in good shape, another 2 hours.
I met some girls there and went to their house for dinner in Surry Docks. Got to see how most of London lives and how tight money was there. Met some other girls that tried to scam me. That happened every night.
If I did it again, I'd rent a car and go to the BMW factory, look at the English channel. Ride the train to Paris for a day.
Do some British rail traveling north and east or west, just roll the dice on direction.
If it ain't broke don't fix it
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If you have time, take a boat tour to Greenwich.
There is the prime meridian at the Observatory and the Cutty Sark near the river.
I'd rather be phishing!
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The observatory has (or had two years ago) a very good exhibition on time and the attempts to measure time at sea (required for calculating longitude). It's well worth a visit!
Ad astra - both ways!
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Take a walk on the South Bank from Westminster Bridge to Borough Market and have lunch there, especially the grilled raclette sandwiches.
Buckingham Palace, Piccadilly, Trafalgar Square, the usual places.
Use the tube, I think you can get a daily or weekly travel card. Buses are Ok but slow and black cabs are crazy expensive though they know London every which way.
Book a show in one of the theatres in the west end - plenty of places to get half price tickets.
Go for afternoon tea at a good hotel or even the Ritz.
Science and Natural History Museums are a must.
Enjoy!
Keep your friends close. Keep Kill your enemies closer.
The End
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Mike Hankey wrote: for a week
Beyond the standard touristy things your are not going to have time with a week! London is full of interesting sh*t and if you do get bored with museums rent a car outside the M25 and go for a drive.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Maybe go and watc a musical. There are lots of theaters there
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If you forget to set your calculator to degrees, will you have a rad time?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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What a degrading idea!
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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remember if it gets too rad just grab a couple of pi's, that'll get you back around.
Signature ready for installation. Please Reboot now.
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Raddevus, wakey wakey 
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Some folks think doing that is a sin, and people should be sent to hades cos of that, though some make it back with a good tan.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Just a secant...
Ad astra - both ways!
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Hold on a minute, I don't like the arc this thread is taking.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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Well, MR, the MS don't like it either, so C to it you respond accordingly!
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Actually I always had the opposite problem. Everything is in rad but calculators default to deg.
It's not rad, it's degrading.
GCS d-- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Hope you're not plotting another pointless post today. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Lately, I've been hearing an advertisement on the radio that goes something like this...
"Meet Joe. A year ago he was working in a big box store selling car stereos.
Now Joe has a promising career in Information Technology
working fewer hours and making more money.
You too can have start a new computer career in as little as 4 months..."
 What the elephant
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No, you can get a quick Tech certificate and then get a job paying better than working retail.
Everyone is born right handed. Only the strongest overcome it.
Fight for left-handed rights and hand equality.
modified 27-Mar-18 11:41am.
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More to the point - get an education and you don't have to make minimum wage selling car stereos. But if you think you'll be working fewer hours, we'd like to introduce you to a little thing we call, "real life".
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Right now, we have adverts in the subway here in Stockholm that promise to make you into a Java developer in less than 3 weeks... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
modified 27-Mar-18 10:18am.
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I saw that ad too... [^]
"The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge". Stephen Hawking, 1942- 2018
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And they will.
Not one that can survive without SO and CP, and probably one that is quite a bit poorer at the end of the course than they were at the beginning, but ...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I think most syllabus content includes just one line of text. "Go to CodeProject to answer all of your homework questions."
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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