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DaveAuld wrote: to add some excitement to the whole event!
Lots, on a platform / rig, I'd have thought. 
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DaveAuld wrote: Doha for a spot of tax free living, villa provided, bills paid, free car and school fees for the kids thrown in for good measure.
I hope you get sunburnt.
Everyday.
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DaveAuld wrote: relocating to Doha for a spot of tax free living, villa provided, bills paid, free car and school fees for the kids thrown in for good measure.
Congrats!! 
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DaveAuld wrote: Don't see the attraction at all....
No, strangely - neither do I...
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Why not, they do have Sheeps there you know. 
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Try not to break any Sharia laws... 
Contrary to popular belief, nobody owes you anything.
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Yup. Peel back that thin veneer of modernity and you're living under a medieval legal system. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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DaveAuld wrote: Can find it hard how anyone can want to leave freezing cold offshore North Sea and Aberdeen for slightly toasty offshore Gulf and relocating to Doha for a spot of tax free living, villa provided, bills paid, free car and school fees for the kids thrown in for good measure.
Where is the nearest bar to your house?
Protip: It's in Amman, Jordan. Or possibly Iran, depends which is closer. Hue hue hue hue.
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Can Scotsmen survive when being that far away from a bar? I doubt it's ever happened before, so it might be an interesting experiment.
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It is about 500m North, or 500m South, depending on which ones you want to go to.
Think I'm heading to La Cigale Skyview[^] tonight with one of the other new starts that is in the apartment next door. 
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Nothing more to see here... 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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I use Chrome, and FlashBlock[^] was brilliant fro years (still is).
But I added Stop YouTube HTML5 Autoplay[^] last year sometime, and that gets pretty much all the rest.
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OriginalGriff wrote: FlashBlock[^]
Brilliant stuff.
It's a joy to see that little Play button in the advertising blocks of wankers.
I've got YouTube Center(sic)[^] for all things YouTuberish (pretty much literally "all things").
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Some of the features of that are ... um ... slightly at odds with YouTube T&C's (which don't allow d/l) - hence the "taken down by Google" from the Play store.
"5.1 L you agree not to access Content or any reason other than your personal, non-commercial use solely as intended through and permitted by the normal functionality of the Service, and solely for Streaming. "Streaming" means a contemporaneous digital transmission of the material by YouTube via the Internet to a user operated Internet enabled device in such a manner that the data is intended for real-time viewing and not intended to be downloaded (either permanently or temporarily), copied, stored, or redistributed by the user."
https://www.youtube.com/static?gl=GB&template=terms[^]
But I'm sure that's an oversight on the creator's part, and as long as we both avoid those features...I'll give it a try later.
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If it's youtube you're referring to it can be shut off. But yes, it's another nail in the coffin AFAIC.
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I'm pissed at numerous news sites that do this 
I would much rather read the story than see some crap video with an equally crappy talking head telling me f'all.
However, it seems that the attention span of the planet is rapidly declining so I am destined to become an increasingly grumpy old man...
Like Griff 
I don't speak Idiot - please talk slowly and clearly
"I have sexdaily. I mean dyslexia. Fcuk!"
Driven to the arms of Heineken by the wife
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I was a grumpy old man already at the age of twentyfive.
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I refuse to use SMH because of that and the need to register to turn it off
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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Well I stopped playing find-the-autoplay-video-tab after installing extensions in chrome that block HTML5 and flash videos from auto playing. Now I have a different problem. Whenever I open a video on youtube I am prepared to stop it, but end up playing it instead
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I just haven't updated my Flash and now Firefox blocks it by default.
I'm sure its not supposed to discourage updating though...
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You have to elaborate here, in order for us to laugh and joke around.
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Dear @daveauld is, as I type, at Aberdeen airport running away from the beautiful weather of this sceptered isle to the boring sunshine of the gulf.
So, lets talk about him behind his back...
veni bibi saltavi
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Good luck Dave!
Hope you have a good time in the sun.
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I'm rather worried. Has he seen the sun before? Perhaps he is allergic to it?
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