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    removing a supporting wall

    Between them, the Council and the Struct Engineer will likely relieve you of at least £500 to ensure you get the necessary work done and documented.
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    Apostrophe Catastrophe

    Motivational message for a football team (original BBC sport news article amidst BBC Sport - FA Cup third round review: Man Utd out in weekend of upsets)- aside from the stylistically moot "hopefully", I think I counted 7 strikes (not all punctuation), about 1 every 5 words- but every time I...
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    Fiat to Buy Chrysler Out

    I thought FIAT were only interested in Chrysler as a badge they've been using to sneakily sell Lancias again in the UK market.
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    Completely OT

    Now there's a story worth elaborating... you do have a knack for trumping others' anecdotes! I sometimes suffered the more local issue of traipsing down from the data entry offices to the mainframe building to deposit my freshly punched cards, retiring to the bar then returning later to be...
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    Completely OT

    Luxury!:D I still remember the look on peoples faces taking the rush-hour tube to Earl's Court- lumping an old TV (CRT of course) with a colleague from some software house that was too skint to afford the proper monitor. Don't remember any hills though!
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    Completely OT

    The Commodore SX-64, claimed to be world's first "portable" full-colour computer, 1984. "Portable" in this case meant (i) it weighed over 10kg and (ii) despite what the idyllic poolside ad might lead one to believe, it was mains-powered only. So probably not much more portable than the...
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    Completely OT

    Probably more bonkers than impressive! And yes indeed, it certainly improves your coding discipline when you've only got one machine and a tape deck to code and run on- as you say, get it wrong on a loop point and you would watch helplessly as the code ran wildly through the graphics...
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    Completely OT

    I wrote my first commercial C64 game directly in 6502 machine code- I didn't have an assembler then! As a result, I learnt the byte values for most of the instruction set. And every time I added new instructions in a section of code, I had to recalculate all the jumps and loops :o I don't...
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    Michael_Schumacher crashes!

    Well said, but a perfectly reasonable lack of empathy with someone is no excuse for making callous and scurrilous personal comments about them.
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    Michael_Schumacher crashes!

    But it's only ironic or fair enough if he really had been trying to kill people.
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    Michael_Schumacher crashes!

    The "induced coma" bit gives me hope- I've known a few bikers kept in comas for quite a while after brain trauma (resulting from pretty much instant deceleration caused by cars pulling out on them), and making apparently complete recovery. Hang on in there Michael!
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    Do you suffer with migraine?

    I get that quite often if a much brighter light source than what I'm focussed on is on the periphery of my vision- typically bright sunshine through a window out of my line of sight when I'm looking at a computer or TV screen. Goes within 5 mins of avoiding/correcting that situation.
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    Let migrants into UK to take jobs Britons won't do, says Domino's chief

    You mean they...eat OTHER STUFF?! :eek:
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    Let migrants into UK to take jobs Britons won't do, says Domino's chief

    It's just another facet of globalisation of the labour market. The standard of living of someone on minimum wage in London would be the envy of many people working much harder elsewhere in the world. It's not nice but people shouldn't over-estimate their commercial worth in today's...
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    CLA Shooting Brake Spy Shots

    Sadly even more visually challenging than its big brother. It's more van than estate.
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    The difference between draw and drawer...

    The English language evolves dynamically by majority consent on how it is spoken, regardless of pronunication rules or written spellings (more so than American English). For example we have Frank Spencer to thank for "HaRASSED" replacing "HArassed" in common usage, despite the fact that it was...
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    Why don't more people drive luxury brands like Mercedes or BMW?

    Circa 30% discount on a new Vauxhall should be (and was) possible for a private buyer using GM Finance (borrowing the minimum amount to qualify for an additional contribution, said amount then paid off as early as possible- after the 1st 3 monthly payments IIRC). Even bigger discount on...
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    The difference between draw and drawer...

    Interesting- I had to consult a dictionary to confirm that pronunication, as other than on B&W film/TV I don't recall anyone sounding the "er" part. Just doesn't sound right to me, so I'll continue to be a wild non-conformist and flaunt the rules.
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    Why don't more people drive luxury brands like Mercedes or BMW?

    The Insignia (2.0 160bhp Cdi) I p/ex'd for the CLS cost me £161 per month in depreciation over the 3 years I had it. Massive discount when new (surprisingly so for a new model with a 6mth order time). Though the £550 charged for every other annual service was certainly on a par with premium...
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    Had the car remapped and now have problems

    Good question- could explain the dyno plot... but not the sense of a flat spot when on the road?
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