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I don't think you can count it as British. German/Chinese maybe? 
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Story on non-UK website: fair and balanced reporting
Same story on the BBC: IT'S BECAUSE OF BREXIT!
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YAWN!
Take it to The Soapbox.
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. - Mark Twain
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Thomas Cook have been hanging on by their fingernails for sometime now..... They kept a large and expensive network of High Street shops when everyone else was moving online. They also operated on very slim margins.
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Yeah, on a later new bulletin they showed a graph of the share price for the last few years. Slippery slope...
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Yay we won 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Who? Europe or The World? 
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Never throw anything away, Griff
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You're in Europe, which even includes Cymru! But next year is anyone's guess!
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Wales will still be in Europe next year. It may not be in the EU.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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A tennis competition between Europe and the rest of the world in honour of Rod Laver
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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ok, wh... nah, you lost me at I lost interest at "tennis"
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It's either very hot[^], or made of seaweed[^]
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Please tell me you don't eat lava bread  
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Lava bread would probably be better than laverbread, for sure.
The latter is "an acquired taste" which I have diligently managed not to acquire. I suspect the only reason for eating it was that it was the only food you could get back in the day.
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Ok didn't know it was spelt in Rods honour - had it once and decided it was the most disgusting thing I'd ever tasted with the exception of jellied eels ( I can't even stand next to someone eating those abominations ) yucko
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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"Oh come on, it can't be that bad. I'll try it."
Gag.
"OK, it's worse."
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A cup used for laving? 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Something you dip your shaving brush into?
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I'm building a box to house my 3D printer, and I wanted a 12V supply to power LEDs and a extractor fan - so I raided the "dead phone" box and grabbed a barrel connector PSU and started looking for a panel mount female 5.5mm OD.
That's when I discovered there are two types: ID or 2.1mm or ID or 2.5mm.
And a little research* gave me the "official test" to find out which is which.
Grab a toothpick, break it in half. Stuff it in the hole in the middle. Turn it upside down. If it falls out, it's 2.5mm, if it doesn't, it's 2.1mm.
Because there is an standard for the thickness of round toothpicks: 2.1 to 2.2mm
And that's what I learned today: someone, somewhere, documented the size of a wooden stick ... and everybody went along with it. 
* OK, OK ... a quick Google
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You strange boy 
"We can't stop here - this is bat country" - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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My toothpicks are triangular.
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Which size would you like? Just take your pick.
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I think what it teaches me is that we may need to wait a few more thousand years before we actually reach a standard for power connectors. But that we'll get there in the end, just like toothpicks.
(Imagine the problems people had hundreds of years ago... "Hey, Bathilde, pass me a toothpick..." "Sure, a 2.1mm or a 2.5mm one?" )
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