DEEJAYKEG

Difficult to judge relative prices when the volume of the cans/bottles isn't specified. However, I buy my German beer (5%) from the local ALDI at an equivalent price of around C$25 per 24 bottles (33cl each). Beer taxes here are too high. For a pint (56.8cl) of real ale one pays around £3.20 (C$5) in a pub.

Latest news on this large piece of space junk is that it is expected to fall to earth on Friday sometime during the afternoon (EDT). NASA says it will not be over the USA at that time (oh, thank you NASA! Your junk won't be coming down anywhere near you then!). A French astronomer has taken images of the satellite's transit over....Dunkerque! Merde! That is too close for comfort! Hopefully this means it won't come back anywhere near the Northern French coast (and thus the southern English coast!!!) on Friday! A mes amis à l'autre côté: bonne chance, le vendredi prochain! Portez les casques! Photos: http://legault.perso.sfr.fr/uars_110915.html BBC News story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15009337 NASA updates: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/uars/index.html

No need to rinse afterwards either...

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Pleased to read that your worries are over and you'll soon have the new PC. Is there no law in the Netherlands to protect the consumer? We have a couple of good ones here (and I thought much of our consumer law was directed from the European Commission these days - they always seem to be putting out directives). I have dealt with several bad companies over here and the best way to reward them is to spread the word about them and never do business with them again. I reckon I managed to lose one American PC manufacturer about £30k of business just by telling my story of how they treated me to people who approached me for advice! I nearly sought the prosecution of another company that duplicated my order and then refused to refund the money they had taken in error until their goods arrived back in their warehouse!

It's glurge... http://www.snopes.com/glurge/carry.asp

I am quite shocked by the revelation of the USA's "War Plan Red", devised in the 1930s for the purpose of waging war on "The Red Empire". Who was the "Red Empire"? The Chinese? The Russians? No - the United Kingdom and all its territories and dominions! The principal theatre was to have been Canada with chemical weapon attacks included. Very relieved that history followed a different path but I shall not view Douglas MacArthur, who signed this off, in the same way ever again... Apparently, the document was declassified in 1974 causing a major stir in US-Canadian relations but I do not recall seeing or hearing about this at that time on this side of the Atlantic. Perhaps it was too hot a potato and the press were persuaded not to carry it? Here's the Daily Mail's article from Tuesday and the Wikipedia article on the topic... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2039453/How-America-planned-destroy-BRITAIN-1930-bombing-raids-chemical-weapons.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Plan_Red Had you read about this in the USA and Canada?

And when RP and street speak meet, this happens...

DEEJAYKEG Sonovabich Fuck nobody with half a brain speaks like that twat anymore, do they? What? You mean "properly"? Probably not... SOB, I was repeating MJ's gag... I know full well from my visits up north that we southerners are regarded as "Cockneys" universally up there. Through earlier studies of the English Language with the OU, I became aware of "Communication Accommodation Theory"; in simple terms, this says that we tend to modify the way we speak so that the other party understands us better. As you have adequately demonstrated, the "Received Pronunciation" accent is widely regarded in a negative way, these days - unfairly, perhaps, as people tend to speak as they were taught to speak and one can't judge a person's character by accent alone. Though less faithful to the Germanic origins of the language, we southerners shall continue to pronounce "bath" and "grass" in our own 'peculiar' way!

Ahoy, me hearties! 'Tis time to splice the mainbrace and imitate the pirates! A-harrr! (Watch the sing-along and pay special attentino to 'Slapeye' early on as he really does sound like 2ManyBeersADM! Do you think RickJames wears one of those panda hats?? )

Sonovabich Fuck nobody with half a brain speaks like that twat anymore, do they? What? You mean "properly"? Probably not...

After beingmarried for thirty years, a wife asked her husband to describe her. He looked at herslowly then said, "You're A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K." She asks....."What does that mean?" He said,"Adorable, Beautiful, Cute, Delightful, Elegant, Foxy, Gorgeous, Hot. She smiled happily and said, "Oh,that's so lovely. What about I, J, K?" He said,"I'm Just Kidding!" His left eye is still swollen, but thedoctor has informed him that he is likely to see things much clearer inthe future.

And this is how the rest of us speak...

Welcome to the clan!

SgtHarryWeezer Fascinating stuff DeeJay but is a cats meat vendor what it sounds like? I have relatives from throughout England: http://ogdensburg.info/genealogy/places-oneletter.php?offset=1&tree=&psearch=England Harry, I guess we now know what happened to the poor old horses when they were worn out from pulling those cabs...

It made a national tabloid newspaper over here... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2035780/Google-Street-View-captures-naked-woman-stood-outside-home.html

Harry, I did quite a bit when, after clearing a deceased aunt's house, we found a treasure trove of documents dating back into the 19th century. I followed my father's line back to the early 1800s which is when it gets very difficult over here as there was no national system of birth, marriage and death registration prior to then. However, through contact with other, previously unknown relatives, I learned a little more that pointed our family's origins to an unexpected source - the County of Norfolk in England. Just last night (and don't ask me how I stumbled across it - I don't recall how I got to the website), I learned of a very large cluster of potential ancestors in a village in that county. It is the reputed resting place of Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, who led a revolt against the occupying Roman legions in A.D. 60, has Viking links and was the birthplace of Winston Churchill's grand-daddy. I already knew that I had some Celt in me, courtesy of a medical specialist, but there's likely to be some Anglian and Viking mixed in as well, I guess! No royal or upper-class connections yet revealed. My family moved to London during the Industrial Revolution and became hansom cab and then taxi cab operators. The most unusual fact I learned from the 1901 census was that my great-grandfather was a "cats meat vendor"! All census data is confidential for 100 years here so the latest to which we have access is 1911's. I expect I shall delve some more in the future, but, as you'd be aware, much now requires payment of subscriptions or purchase of credits to search/ get copy documents. In the case of parish records, such as they are (two civil wars and the Reformation haven't helped!), one may have to physically travel to the church involved. I was looking at the service record of a late Great Uncle who served on WW1 hospital ships only to find that the crew lists I wanted checked were in a university in Newfoundland! The better news is that the BBC is to make a documentary film about the loss of one of them - HMHS Rohilla - in the near future.

If you are the parent, grandparent or carer of a young child, please read the Time magazine article at the end of the following link. Most importantly, keep young children away from remote controls and other devices that use lithium batteries. The effects of ingestion are horrific. CLICK: http://healthland.time.com/2011/09/14/remote-controls-arent-toys-lithium-batteries-prove-deadly-to-kids/

hxtr I been to some of them castles just dont remember which ones but know I have pictures.. i was 12 - 14 and having a great time. What is impressive is the Koln cathedral. I walked up it 3 times the narrow spiralling staircase all rock stair till the very top to see the bells. WOW impressive!!! Germany is the shit and the food is out of this world. It's the german in me i guess. Great Pictures... love stuff like that. I guess my physical condition when we finally got up to the top of those steps in Koeln Cathedral is best described by what my son asked... "Dad, if a paramedic had to come up here, would he have to climb those steps too?"!!! Never again...

Welcome, Exe!

Here's a site about our local one, Beers, first built in 488 A.D. by Aesc, son of Hengist and King of Kent: http://www.saltwoodcastle.com/index.htm There is another, younger castle, a few miles to the east, at Sandgate, built in 1539-40 A.D. by King Henry VIII: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandgate_Castle I guess you've heard of the big one at Dover (built by King Henry II in the 1160s)... http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/daysout/properties/dover-castle/

Great on DM! Looking forward to seeing how it measures up on freezetag. Good find!

"Eternal rest, grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen."

mikey1799 yep sorted now guys Thanks, Mikey, you're a star!