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Marvellous. That’s what it’s all about. Who cares if it’s the original venue. Sounds like you had a ball. Wish I was there. 🙂
That must have been before Wyman and Watts joined.
Sorry. I thought you knew. I didn’t mean to burst your bubble. 🙁
Sgt. Pepper’s is a landmark album. It ushered in a new era of music, new recording and songwriting techniques, and remains hugely influential to this day. This is beyond question, even for those who don’t like the music.
The Stones are great (their new blues album, very raw and recorded live in the studio, is excellent), but they never really pushed boundaries. They’ve always been a fairly straight-ahead blues-based rock band, with less emphasis on the blues as time’s gone on (until recently). Nothing wrong with that, but history doesn’t put them on the same level of the podium as the Beatles.
Good for Piriform. It’s a small, private company (or was) with only a handful of employees. Hopefully some people made a lot of money, showing that hard work, perseverance, and the provision of quality products over many years really can pay off. Of course, it’s now yet another British company that’s fallen into foreign ownership, but hey-ho. Fingers crossed Avast doesn’t mess about with things too much (though I expect it will cripple the free versions and push for subscriptions).
It’s not the real Cavern Club, though. 🙁
Shame this wasn’t raised 36 hours ago, as most of the Wileyfox units were heavily discounted on Prime Day. I bagged a Swift 2 X for £150. Today it’s £220. Great phone, though I don’t think I’d pay that for it. Slow sellers on eBay, Wileyfox phones, even when priced below Amazon.
If you listen to a lot of radio and music (especially if you have a virtually unlimited free credit balance for digital downloads!), the Echo/Echo Dot is worth every penny. In that guide, it’s far from a gimmick. Even my mom has one in her bedroom — plays her classical albums and Classic FM almost every day. She’s never quite got the hang of a modern radio or a CD player, but the Echo she can work without trouble.
I suspect there’s a new model about to be launched.
All my stuff will be on sale on eBay as soon as the sale finishes. The Xbox One S and PS4 Slim bundles were astoundingly cheap. No trace of them on the site now, so I must have been lucky.
I’ve spent about £1200 on there so far…
Okay. I surrender. You don’t care for the place and that’s not going to change. End of story. It really makes no difference to me. I was just trying to be positive and suggest somewhere people around the Midlands might like to visit if they’ve never been before (or recently).
I think you may find it’s changed somewhat. I’ve never felt remotely unsafe on my own at night, even in a few of the outlying areas (Stapleford and Clifton, for instance). Even Rock City — which I was told was a trouble spot before I first went — has never been anything but trouble-free and friendly. I guess old reputations die hard, or the whole area is judged on the problems of a few small locations. Being s student city, it’s also diverse and well-integrated. I’ve visited far, far worse places. I believe the centre area is amongst the most desirable places to live and work in the UK.
It’s also the home of the National Video Arcade, three floors of wonder. And two tram stops away are two indoor 18-hole crazy-golf courses. 😉
I have no association with the place — it’s nowhere near where I was born and I only discovered it a few years ago — so I have no axe to grind and no reason to speak other than I find.
Give it a go.
I wouldn’t touch that even if I was wearing rubber gloves.
Nottingham’s modern-day reputation is unjustified. There are rough spots in suburbia, as there are in all cities, but the centre is fantastic and I have never had a spot of bother on any of my numerous visits, and that includes gigs at Rock City (one of the best small venues in the UK). It’s my favourite city around my way — far better than Derby and, in my view, much nicer than Birmingham. The tram system, one of the most extensive in Europe, is fantastic — park for free six miles out and pay peanuts for an all-day ticket. I almost never drive into the centre.
For anyone who lives within an hour or so of the place and who has never been — take a trip. You’ll be surprised. Great shopping, great nightlife, tons of things to do, and quite a cultural place, too. Also lots of interesting architecture, especially from the Art Deco period. The main area is laid out around a big central square, complete with fountain (and a beach in the summer). Quite a compact place. There’s always a buzz.
Some of the outer locations (Hyson Green, for instance) are indeed pretty rough, but the centre is nowhere near those. I visited Nottingham for the first time about four-and-a-half years ago and kicked myself for not taking the chance before. A real eye-opener for me. My fitness is shot at the moment, but I even started cycling there (it’s about 26 miles from me). My son is currently at university there (on the outskirts, in a so-so area).
Collectors’ items, I should think. Who’d want one except for a museum as an historical artefact?
Most likely it’s the phone, but to be sure, you’d need to try the phone with another Bluetooth device or try another phone with the stereo. That’ll give you the answer.
Perhaps the real question is, Why bother? Why not just use Gmail and be done with it?
The original choice was along the lines of, “Would you like a holiday, or would you like to stay at home?” Most people would clearly have voted for the holiday, yet they didn’t know what holiday would be on offer. What if the holiday turned out to be a month in Ethiopia, living in a village with no amenities, with all visitors expected to graft for 16 hours a day to earn the evening meal of beans and rice?
The argument seems to be that the will of people means that you’d have to go — it’s what you voted for. That’s democracy. I think it would be perfectly reasonable and also democratic to then ask, “This is the best holiday we’ve managed to get a deal on. Would you still like to go, or have you changed your mind?”
In a democracy, we do get to change our minds. That’s what general elections, by-elections, and council elections are for. If what you voted for isn’t working out or you don’t like the government’s current direction, you fairly soon get the chance to oust the incumbents and change “sides”. Hardliners now seem to be saying, “There can be no debate on the matter. The discussion is closed. The people have voted. The decision is for ever, with no further questions or choices.”
If a further choice is given and the vote is still Leave, fair enough. The people have been given the chance to make an *informed* decision, with the facts, or many of them, in front of them. If the conclusion is the same, fine. But I think many people, when looking at the situation dispassionately, would admit that there’s a possibility that a fair proportion of people are having second thoughts, now that the mud is clearing. A swing of just 1.9% would see an even 50/50 split. Is it not undemocratic to fail to acknowledge all this and ask the people for their opinion in another eighteen months’ time?
It was established many months ago that nothing is cast in stone until the deadline passes (and the deadline could be extended). Until that point, the rules allow us simply to say, “We’ve changed out minds.” Macron has also said the door remains open.
This was the point behind the Lib Dems’ push for a referendum on the final deal. We would have got the choice to say “yes” or “no” to whatever deal had been wrung out. If the deal were terrible, we could have voted “no”, and the default position from there would have been to scrap the whole thing. Seemed like a fine idea to me, but of course the press and hard-right nutcases were all over it. Never stood a chance.
“Out” seems to mean a hundred different things to a hundred different people. The details and the ramifications were not clear at all, regardless of the simplicity of the initial question. The only reason certain elements don’t want a referendum on the final deal — it’s ignoring the “will of the people” and all that guff — is because they know full well that the final deal and the ramifications will probably not be what many Leave voters envisioned and there’d be a very real chance of rejection. It’s that, and not a second vote, that’s against the notion of democracy.
I have little doubt that the deal will be terrible, that we’ll go through with it, and that not soon after most people will be moaning.
Hotel Wi-Fi is almost always terrible, and until very recently, it was almost always a chargeable service (I’ve been to a few recently where, unexpectedly, it was free, so things are changing).
Shame. I could never live with 1 Mbit/s upload now.
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