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[quote user="Tandem_Pilot"][quote user="chocccie"] Also can somebody tell me why the comma and the N on my keyboard aren't working??!!!!  It's most annoying.  It's been like this a while sometimes when I reboot it is working fine and then the next time it is duff again.  MOst annoying  [:@]  [:@]  [:@] [/quote] Try another keyboard? [/quote] I think I might try stamping on it first ... show it who's boss and all that!  [;-)]  If that fails - though I'm confident it won't - another keyboard might be the only option.  Damn more money to fork out [:(]

[quote user="Dog"]They are called ligatures. For further info read this: http://www.fonts.com/aboutfonts/articles/fyti/ligaturespartone.htm They make reading easier and it is annoying when they are not used. As a typographer I am put right off books when they are not used. The book you are reading may be unusual in it's use of ligatures - is it perhaps from the 1920s or 30s?   [/quote] Thanks for the info. Yes it is an old book (Cranford - don't laugh!!!) Why are the ligatures only used when a C or S is followed by a T though?   Would it be down to the peculiar style of the printer? Re the link you provided .... I've seen that style (used pretty widely) ... but this particular sequence I've never seen before.   It's really off-putting, though not enough to make me put the book down, which is good because it's making me laugh and smile a lot  [:D]

It surprises me that you're surprised that I noticed them.  I'm an observant person - though it's absolutely impossible not to notice them ... I've never seen a book (or anything else) printed like this before - although it's obviously deliberate. I don't know what fixed width fonts are.  Please enlighten me.  (Or were you being sarcastic?  If so why????)

I'm reading an old book and have noticed what when the letter T follows wither C or S ... the top of the C or S is conected to the top of the T.   Does anybody know why this is?     (if this description doesn't make sense I can take a photo of it and load it up) I thought it was a printing error at first but it's clearly not.  It looks like some old way of writing/printing.   Would somebody better educated (or possibly just older) than I tell me what it is please!  [:$] Also can somebody tell me why the comma and the N on my keyboard aren't working??!!!!  It's most annoying.  It's been like this a while sometimes when I reboot it is working fine and then the next time it is duff again.  MOst annoying  [:@]  [:@]  [:@]

Madonna/Céline Dion                     don't like either of them -I'll go with Madonna if I must choose Justin Timberlake/Tomas Dutronc    Tomas Dutronc Kelly Clarkson/Yael Naim               Yael Naim Kyo/Tokio Hotel                             Don't know either of them Bob Sinclair/50 Cent                      Don't know Bob Sinclair but would never choose 50 cent so Bob Sinclair it is     Dire Straits/Gipsy Kings                 Gipsy Kings  [:D] Holden/  Linkin Park                      Don't know them so choose Linkin Park cos I like the name Daft Punk/2 Unlimited                    Daft Punk !!! (best French band ever). great live   [:D][:D] Biotonic/Dj Coone                         Biotonic Raft/Jonas Brothers                   Don't know Raft, but they gotta be beter than Jonas Brothers, so I choose Raft! Please tell us what the research is for.  thanks

[quote user="Dog"] Chocccie I'll tell you if I am vegan if you tell what diet you follow? [/quote] Vegan.  And you? [quote user="Dog"]It hasn't been quite one sided. I think these people havn't a hope in hells chance of changing their ways they have always eaten meat and fish and will continue to until there are no fish left and the seas are a toxic sludge. Shock therapy may work. The language meat eaters use is hypocritical and designed to mislead. They call dead pigs when they eat them pork, dead cows when eaten are called beef, dead sheep are mutton etc etc. It disguises the source of the flesh of dead animals, the early english stole the French words as they were posher and used in the royal palaces. [/quote] Your shock therpay doesn't seem to be working with many Dog.  I understand your passion but there are more ways to re-educate people.  You're being pretty aggressive -and again whilst I understand why - your attitude is unlikely to convert anybody - or even have them think more about the ravages some of their food choices cause.

I'm overwhealmed by the kindness of strangers [:D] Maybe I should just be brave and try and work my way through it all.

I guess you don't want to answer if you are vegan or not?  [:(]

oh you are funny!  That brought a tear to my eye!  [:D]

I have a bottle of sloe vodka that I made year before last.  Apart from drinking it straight (yummy!) ... what would you mix it with? I also made some blackberry vodka, but I can't bear the thought of mixing that with anything, except maybe a splash of soda water. Have also got sloe gin waiting to be drunk.  I can't believe I've been able to leave it alone all this time to mature [Www]

Dog - I agree with your facts but often the best way to encourage people to re-think what they eat is not by 'throwing stones'.  If you really want to encourage this, maybe re-think the language you use (it is a bit aggressive - and when did that ever win anybody over to your side?)  Use language in order to help achieve your desired end result, rather than putting people's back's up? (by the way, are you vegan?   )

[quote user="ErnieY"] Frankly, unless you have some horribly old and inefficient equipment, on either side, the difference is likely to be of little or no consequence. [/quote] Only my husband!   Thanks for the info ... I suspected there probably wouldn't be much in it.

There's probably no easy answer to this ... but I was wondering which way of listening to the radio would use least energy ... either via my tv, or via my PC with the screen switched off. Anybody in the know?  Or is to all down to technical spec of the TV/PC waffle which I am utterly ignorant of?  [:$]

I have old oaken shutters which are currently stained.  Thinking about painting them to add a splash of (muted) colour.  But I'm imagining that they will flake in time and will be a lot more time and work to sand down and repaint, rather than just slap on some more stain when the time comes. Any advice/experience please?

Bah!   I tried to subscribe to the red list and got an email saying my service was incompatible.  Phoned Orange and discovered that because my calls go through  a Livebox I am not eligible to stop the nusciance calls via the Red List. I would have to change my subscription and my line would be down for two weeks (so I was advised by Orange) .... or I could change to another company I told him.  Yeah he said, not remotely bothered.  I could almost hear him yawning. [:@]

Clair - if I ever win a lotto and can afford to pay somebody an obsenely huge amount of money to organise my life, you'll be  my first point of call! Thanks x

I'm being inundated by nusiance calls from call centres ( to add insult to injury, they are the type where the call centre dial automatically dial loads of  numbers and whoever picks up first gets a message telling them to hold on and then get the joy of speaking to the call centre!!!!) It there anywhere I can write to to have my name taken off such lists? I did tell the phone engineer when I had the phone installed that I didn't want to be in the phone book.  But guess what .....

thanks folks. I shall send it onto you directly Clair for disposal! [:)]

What is it??! I've just been clearing out the wine rack (as it's so thick with dust I can no longer read the labels!!) and came across a bottle of this.  My partner has bought it, opened it, had one and it's sat there.  For at least a couple of months, probably longer. I've never had it... what is it?  Is it like a wine (and therefore needs to be thrown away) ... or more like a fortified wine (and therefore can be drunk)? Is it sweet?  I never buy sweet wines so am clueless. THANKS! [:D]

One can book in online 14 days before departure now, rather than 5 days ... makes life much easier .... and flying with ryanair is always pretty easy anyway [:)]

I'm looking to book a ticket from Limoges to Paris .. I guess the sooner I do it the cheaper it will be? I can get an upgrade to first class for not too much more money ... is it worth it?  If anybody has travelled first class on this line (if indeed it differs from any other line) how does first class differ?  Is it just a slightly more comfy seat or is there anything else on offer? Thanks

does anybody know where I can buy this?  And what it's called? My polytunnel suffered rather in the high winds  [:(]

[quote user="Bannon"] I've always found it an uncomfortable term. I'm never singled out as a Christian and others I know are never singled out as Muslim - so why Jew? It seems strange to me that many of us are willing to use labels in this way when it comes to the Jewish faith. I and many others I suspect would never say for example 'ah yes, we had a couple of Christians move in next door' . Makes you think, and as for the France, there is in my opinion and in my experience an overt undercurrent of anti semitism.     [/quote]   But if you were having a general conversation about Christianity, why would it be unusual or unkind to the mention Christian neighbours who moved in next door, and then go on to discuss something which you've learned from them, or something specific to the way their religion guides their lives, as part of a natural conversation.  Providing any conversation is with a generous and open heart which shouldn't they be refered to in that way.  Same as if the same newly arrived Christian neighbours were also bikers and you were in a conversation about biking, it would be perfectly natural to refer to the two bikers who've just moved in.   Since my colleague said what he did, I have veered away from using the word "jews" even though I didn't believe that all Jews/Jewish people would find it offensive. For instance, if somebody asked what Kosher was I would have previously used the word Jews in my answer - my use of that world wouldn't have contained one bit of disrespect or malice, yet still I now don't use it.   Still, it shows what a worry-free and cosseted life I have (ie, clean water, enough to eat, stress free voting, etc) that I can afford to "worry" about this sort of thing.

[quote user="Dick Smith"]Surely the point is that if the person you are speaking to you objects to the term, you respect their feelings, no? What sort of person would do otherwise? [/quote]   Certainly one wouldn't use a word to the person who didn't like it ... but why should one remove it from one's vocabulary entirely (as he desired), on one person's say so.  (I've know several, not that many, Jewish people thoughout my life, and not one of them has made the same point.)

[quote user="WJT"]Phil and Pat, for some reason the quote function isn't working for me. Not an alternative but from a non Jewish person I feel it is more polite to use the term Jewish not Jew. The latter has been used in the past in a very derogatory way and I wouldn't feel comfortable using it particularly when speaking to a Jewish person. [/quote]     but the word "Jewish" has also been used in a very derogatory way, so why do you feel uncomfortable using one and not the other?     Though the people I really wanted to hear from were those of the Jewish faith and hear what they think (I doubt they would appreaciate being refered to as "poor things" !)