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Vienna much smaller than I'd expected. Saw a few posh horses poncing about. Went to one of the famous coffee houses, which was frankly nothing special. Very expensive place.
I'm trying to find a copy of a famous football painting. Mr Google can't help. It's a crowd scene of one away supporter wearing the wrong colours in the home stand and shouting, and ALL the other supporters staring angrily at him. It's kind of cartoon-ish, and possibly from the 1930s. Most people on here would probably recognise it if they saw it, but I'm damned if I can find it. Any ideas? (It's definitely not a Lowry)
To resurrect this thread, can anyone explain to me why - and when - *asterisks* have replaced "inverted commas" in text-speak? I don't recall ever being notified about this change.
It might be nickel sulfide (as we are now supposed to spell it) inclusions, or it might not. I used to have contact with some very knowledgeable fenestration surveyors and engineers, and they reckoned Nickel Sulfide inclusions were often used as a blanket excuse for what was often poor fitting practice. If you make the tiniest nick in the edge of a sheet of glass - even by resting it momentarily on a grain of sand on your steel toe cap boot - then it has the potential to spread (laminated glass) or shatter (toughened glass). Maybe in an hour, or a week, or a year, or five years in the future. It's a very interesting material, glass.
Electric cars is a big factor. One minor bump that damages the drive battery (which is basically anywhere around the bottom of the car) and the whole vehicle is a write-off. And we're all paying for it.
Wow, what an amazing thread. As a (retired) journalist, I know that punctuation is vital to getting your point across. But I gave up trying to explain it to people years ago. In my opinion, you either get it, or you don't. I always just copied writers that I admired. Look at Nick Hornby (love him or loathe him) - he breaks classical punctuation rules, but you always know what he's trying to say. Whereas that James Joyce - blimey!
a great and invaluable service staffed by very hard working people
Yes, and those hardworking people have always been under pressure to make bigger profits for Post Office Ltd. I'm friendly with our local postmaster, and he has been told to offer foreign exchange to all his customers at peak holiday times - it's a big thing in the branch, with posters etc. But the exchange rates the Post Office provides are absolutely derisory compared to the rates anyone can get by shopping around. Not quite as bad as airport rates, but not far off.
What happened to the "stolen money" if there was no theft? This appears to be an unintended consequence of The Proceeds of Crime Act 2002 - brought in by the Blair Government. It allows for the confiscation of assets from convicted persons. In this case - combined with bonus payments to the investigators for successful prosecutions - it forced wrongly-convicted postmasters to sell their homes to pay for non-existent shortfalls. Disgraceful. I remember passing-by a tent set up by the Police in Ipswich town centre to publicise this thing at the time. A fresh-faced young detective thrust a leaflet into my hand and asked me to complete a questionnaire - did this new Act of Parliament make me feel safer, he asked - no it fcking did not, I replied, I thought it sounded like very dangerous potential risk to innocent people. Little did I realise quite how dangerous it would turn out to be.
Genuine question from someone who has never owned a dog: when in one of these special dog fields - or indeed, when running around the park or walking along on the pavement - do dogs ever tread in other dog's sh1t?
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