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Bike tyres are even worse quote from Cycling UK For example, some tyres marked 28" are actually much less than 27 inches in diameter, while 26×1.5 and 26×1½ are two completely different sizes. and Tyres of the same size may come with lots of different markings: 28×1¼×15/8, 28×1¾×1¼ or 700×32C, for example, which are all 32-622. it is all crazy - there is an ISO system - but it doesn;t get used much!

We went to an Indian restaurant last night As the main course arrived a little old lady came over and said "You are such a nice man - you wife is so lucky to have such a polite, gentmanly and well dressed husband such as you - and you are so lucky to have such a beautiful and intelligent wife" then she wandered off I asked the waiter who she was and he said "She is you complimentary Nan" Thank you

It would also be nice if they chose singular or plural for the units not that I am one to complain about grammar but........

Yes - bit of a dilemma though When to get the Prime subscription started - now - or wait until after our holiday in September (have I mentioned that I'm retired??) or wait until Rings of Power is out as well??? and other stuff?? hmmm

I was going with "someone dropped a Clanger" but that'll do instead!

Took me a few seconds!

Personally I would take a photo and get into work however sick I was - just so I could report the reason maybe I watched Reggie Perrin too many times??? "Sorry I'm late Miss Jones - escaped Minion, Switch Island" would make my year (I really should get out more!)

Looks great!

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I think he needed a bigger boat!!! mind you - brave guy - I would have been reaching for that knife WAY sooner!!

I believ @witch is really good at scrabble I have heard she is really good at spelling

My friend thought she could beat me at Scrabble. But I wooden letter.

LArge fries please I do have a nephew that is an Everton supporter he also has minor brain damage from an anurism- I do not believe the 2 are unconnected!!

In Widnes they have been cunning and put an "out of town" shopping park on the back of the High Street - with an alley between them Hence it is easy to park in the "out of town" bit and have access to places like Next, M&S, River Island, Poundstretcher and .... Wilco Then you can walk through the alley to the old High Street easily the market is also at the far end of the High Street so they have managed to extend the life of the high street by giving an incentive to the big stores to be right next to it Probably the one and only sensible town planning thing I have seen around here - anyone trying to figure out "The gyratory" ends up wondering what they must have been smoking when they came up with the plan!!! but the High STreet bit is brilliant! I suspect Wilco will be one of the last to go because it is right by the start of teh alley - hence loads of passing trade!

It'll fit mate - no worries

Thanks and Get Well Soon @ZeroHour

Were you watching???????

I used to get phone calls at all hours from the computer room in the picture - and 2 others like it One was in Preston and the only phone the operators could use to ring me was in the middle of a triangle of those line printers and the most likely time for the systems to go wrong was also the time when all the printing needed to be done and - remember - this was before the concept of dialling into a remote system was "a thing" so trying to get an operator to read out a console printout line by line at 2 a.m. with only the phone to help - and with 3 line printers hammering away within feet of the phone was "interesting" Oh - and one of the shift leader was partially deaf - so getting him to understand what you wanted him to type into the console was also "interesting" Just to make it more "interesting" the console sin questions were a fair distance from the phone and - funnily enough - there "wasn't any budget" to swap the phone for a cordless one many hours spend sitting on the phone with my eyes closed trying to imagine what was being said while the dog lay on the floor watching me and wondering why in the name of $deity I was up at this point and does it involve a walk/biscuit??

True - and sad as well

Careful - I believe the admins still have @witch 's phone number - or cauldron address or whatever

Forgot about that!!

How dare you Sir, -proper mini computers when there was a proper distinction!! (probably about 15 of them in one room - air con was noisy!!! but not as noisy as the line printers - especially as they had a tendency to jam on page throws if the lid was down - which had all the soundproofing - so the operators left the lids up!

WIlco is probably the most useful shop on our High Street (Yup we still have one!) place you can go to get all those think that everyone else has stopped selling like fuel for refillable lighters (for candles - we don;t smoke!) Problem may the range of stuff they have - everything from DIY and bike parts to make up which is the good thing about the place - but may not be economically efficient!

Thanks - The Good Old Days AKA the days when I knew what I was doing - before all this GUI nonsense and PCs - proper dumb terminals and users that could only do things we told them they could do!!! none of all this power on the desktop rubbish and giving users the freedom to come up with their own ideas!!!!

I thought Daleks could fly???