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Herself watches a variety of TV programmes that hold no interest for me. One of those is "ER", which she set up to record on Sky+ yonks ago, as it is on at 07:00 and she can watch it when she gets back from work.
Today, there are howls of rage, and sufferous swearing as she finds it hasn't been recorded, and isn't in the sky planner, and she can't find it anywhere to put it back...
Don't you love computers and the internet? 30 or 40 seconds to find it's now on at 05:00 on Atlantic (gawd knows why, or what else they show) and she's a happy bunny again...ah...and I get loadsa brownie points for doing nothing particularly difficult 
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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I'm now at 200K wasting time points. 
speramus in juniperus
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In that category though, 200K does not even get you bronze status.
Windows 8 is the resurrected version of Microsoft Bob. The only thing missing is the Fisher-Price logo.
- Harvey
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OriginalGriff wrote: it's now on at 05:00 on Atlantic
That should be either "5 PM" or "17:00" - "05:00" suggests AM. 
OriginalGriff wrote: gawd knows what else they show
Atlantic[^] is Sky's "We won't let Virgin carry this channel" channel. They tend to put anything they think might tempt people away from Branson on it. For example, Game of Thrones, The Borgias, Boardwalk Empire.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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No, 05:00 is in the morning. The 24-hour notation uses 00-23 for the hours and 00-59 for minutes. It isn't hard and most people can pick it up after a few tries.
speramus in juniperus
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: No, 05:00 is in the morning.
Precisely my point. ER is on at 17:00.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Different time zones, the UK is on GMT where as Wales Isn't It is on 1946.
speramus in juniperus
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Yep. It's on at 05:00, or 5AM
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Really? According to http://tv.sky.com/tv-guide/[^], it's "The Devil's Dinner Party" at 05:00; ER is at 17:00.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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90% of what Sky show is "atlantic", that is, cheap stuff sourced from the US that even their viewers got bored of. I don't have Sky and I don't have Virgin. Despite the phone calls we still get from them there's nothing that will tempt me to pay to use either.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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Ahhhhh!!!! The long burning question in my heart has finally got an answer. I was wondering how the hell she married you 
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Shameel wrote: I was wondering how the hell she married you
Surely, "how" is obvious? The real question would be "why". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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That was easy: I lied about my height.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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The portable cat-flap swung it as well? She obviously saw you as an apprentice millionaire. I suspect she's still waiting.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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SeptimusHedgehog 151576 wrote: I suspect she's still waiting.
No, I installed the Portable Cat Flap about ten years ago.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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Does she go through the cat flap or walk around it?
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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She moves it out of the way, obviously - that's why it's a portable cat flap! 
The only access to our back garden is via a window (double glazed with evacuated glass panel) or a sliding glass door (also double glazed). So, to let the cat out you have to leave a door or window wide open, letting the cat in, but also the cold air, rain and snow. Not my idea of fun. But, if you fit a cat flap to a window or the sliding door then you lose the insulation, or can't slide the door.
So, I got a plank, fitted a cat flap to it, attacked it with a router to make it fit in the open gap of the sliding door - then fitted it with handles and door furniture so it could be locked in place. The cat can go in and out, as can we, but the weather can't. A couple of coats of Danish Oil and voila! The Portable Cat Flap is born.
There are a couple of others in the area now, to solve exactly the same problem.
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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After all this time I thought the portable cat flap was just a silliness on your part, but you actually made some? (slap my thights in astonishment)
What I thought you had "invented" was to take a cat flap out of the box and walk around with it. When you went outside with the cat you'd put the flap on the ground and the cat would obediently go "in" and "out" through it. At nighttime, to keep kitty "in", you'd lock it and kitty would sit outside looking through it wondering why it couldn't get "out".
That's one very spoilt kitty you have. That you have now described it and made some is worthy of a five.
If there is one thing more dangerous than getting between a bear and her cubs it's getting between my wife and her chocolate.
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It has some potential for amusement as well.
Once the cast is used to the flap working so it can get in and out, the fun comes when the flap is not in the door, but up against a wall. The look on a cats face when it goes through the flap and finds itself still indoors is priceless!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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You don't look like Hairy either; I just read his first autobiography Arias and Raspberries.
speramus in juniperus
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So did you get rewarded in the appropriate way? Was your BR extra warm for a bit? Inquiring minds want to know...
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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No, that doesn't count as Heroism, so the "usual reward" has not been provided.
Don't know what I'd do with half a kingdom anyway, and it would seem rude to turn round and conquer the other half immediately...
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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hhhrmph! Then, you're "brownie" points are useless.
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.-John Q. Adams
You must accept one of two basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe, or we are not alone in the universe. And either way, the implications are staggering.-Wernher von Braun
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-Albert Einstein
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Oh, I dunno - ask any married man and he'll tell you they are worth a fortune, even if they have no economic value at all!
The only instant messaging I do involves my middle finger.
English doesn't borrow from other languages.
English follows other languages down dark alleys, knocks them over and goes through their pockets for loose grammar.
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