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  1. I bought Mrs Benjamin a Kindle Fire HD. After a few false starts she has finally started to use it and is very impressed. She has read many titles and we would now like to delete them from the Kindle but don't know how. Any suggestions?
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    Bing

    Thanks for the replies but I've still got it. Looking around the net it appears that Bing gets downloaded during Windows 8 updates. Even if I manage to get rid of it, it will probably reappear at the next update. I don't have enough techy knowledge to intervene with the updates and then selectively download. PaulT When I click the IE icon I don't get any options such as "tools". All of these must be masked in the same way my back and forward buttons are. Insidious Microsoft or what?
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    Bing

    On my (fairly) new laptop running Windows 8 (spit) I appear to have downloaded Bing. When I click on my Mozilla icon to bring up Google as a search engine I get Bing instead. I also appear to have lost my back and forward buttons although my "Bookmarks" icon is still showing. I've also seen the word "Conduit" associated with Bing appear. Having looked through my list of installed software neither Bing or Conduit appear there. Any idea as to how to get rid of both of these bits of software. Incidentially I also use Hotmail which now appears to be Outlook (spit).
  4. I wouldn't worry wooly. With this lot's record Vince or Nick will object, Danny will dither, and in the end it will be dropped.
  5. [quote user="idun"]Rabbie, manual workers in France wear 'les bleus de travail'........ so blue collar workers too and often essential workers as you pointed out. Miners in my family and my husbands' and my mother worked in a factory sometimes, she had passed her 11plus, but no money for her education and she said that we had to get white collar jobs. No menial tasks, no factory work, because one could eventually earn a decent wage and not be under a relentless and unachievable work load. For my mother, blue collar for women, meant being underpaid and overworked. As I eventually saw myself when I worked in the offices at a clothing factory........ and to add insult to injury the women had to buy their own needles, thimbles and scissors, part of my job was  to collect the pennies from them every week to pay for them. I doubt I would have stayed if I had had to pay for my pens etc. I grew up with respect for blue collar workers, and was thankful that I escaped such work. [/quote] For someone who was leaving this thread never to return several pages ago I'm surprised that you're still posting or is it a platform for you to trot out your own political beliefs over a remarkable woman's death? My Dad also started his working life in the pits but I don't feel it has moulded my thoughts for ever and a day .
  6. Hi Ian I can't remember anyone on the forum having the exchange rate questioned when they've submitted their declaration. So long as you use a rate that you can somehow justify (the rate at which Deb's pension was transferred or the rate at which any of your funds were transferred for example) then you'll be fine if ever questioned. As far as the two submissions are concerned then I would check with the Impots as I always thought that how the year started set the allowances for that year but the Notaire could be right. Keep going.  
  7. Interesting interview with Lord Young, former Minister, on BBC this morning. He brought up one or two things that are now forgotten. When Maggie became PM we were known as "the sick man of Europe": all that changed. We now build more cars in the UK than at any time previously and at much higher quality levels. The next one I'm not so sure about but he said that the reason the mining industry disappeared was that there was no more coal. I think he should have added that there was no more (coal) that could be economically mined. I agree with Quillan that the Poll Tax could have been a very fair system if it had been thought through and implemented correctly. The more adult people in your house the more the household paid rather than the widow next door paying the same amount. Devisive? Yes. Incisive? Most certainly.
  8. Q Continuing our exchange from yesterday I did a bit of Googling. You may be interested in this fact. http://uk.reuters.com/business/currencies/quote?destAmt&destCurr=EUR&srcAmt=1&srcCurr=GBP And who said what at 9.45 am this morning? http://www.londonstockexchange.com/home/homepage.htm The only bit of serious information I have read about exchange rates was on this forum, although I don't know if it was repeated from elsewhere, which went something like,"the two best days for changing money are yesterday or tomorrow".
  9. My insulting post has somehow disappeared.    [:(] SSDD Welcome back KKK.  [:P]
  10. Governments do not pay compensation! Taxpayers do as decided by an encumbent Government. Doesn't it just make you cringe when some Minister or other comes out with the phrase "We have decided to pay...........". And yes.. They could do with a bit of help. Maybe Tesco et al may decide to pay a bit extra for the ones that are left. Which is a bit of a bugg*r as Mrs Benjamin and I do enjoy a bit of early season lamb.
  11. No wonder this forum is heading South. You're all lavatorial.  [+o(]
  12. [quote user="You can call me Betty"]B R I C K s[/quote] Unless we're adding in Korea (North or South?), it's the BRIC counties. In answer to other posters, if you want to be there and spread it around a little then invest in an Emerging Markets fund. Plenty of those around but watch their charges. You can still find brokers who rebate their commission, or most of it, to you.
  13. [quote user="Quillan"] As I said if you really believe all this rubbish about the Euro crashing and disappearing then your in for a surprise. In fact one currency that may really crash out could be the Pound. [/quote] Come on Quillan! You seem to spend a lot of your posting time just lately extolling these two ideas. Got any "facts" to back this up or are you just speculating?  [6] Or is it because most of your income is in €uros?   [:P]
  14. I have an email in my in box this morning purporting to come from Pay Pal and confirming that I have made a payment to Skype for an "Online Number". This has gone straight through my Junk Filter. It invites me to click on a live link to "Pay Pal Dispute Centre" if I haven't authorized (American spelling) this charge to get a full refund. Googling Pay Pal Dispute Centre shows that this is a Paypal facility but Googling "(orders@Skype?uk)" , also on the email shows that this is a scam. Beware out there.    [:D] Now for a chat with my email provider.   [6]
  15. The simplest way of dealing with this scam is to tell them that you don't have a computer.    [:D]
  16. [quote user="Rabbie"]Two extremists[/quote] So that's Arthur and Red Robbo. Any others?      [6]
  17. [quote user="minnie"]Well Quillan we've not all had a depressing weekend with the rugby, have we Sweet? Through and through welsh couldn't believe our luck, especially after the first half of the Irish match. I really thought that was it for this year....Happy now though[/quote] You lot don't get a lot to celebrate so enjoy the moment.  [B]
  18. Well, not quite.    [:D] Jilly, a Petit Basset Griffon Vendeen (sic), has been voted first in the Best in Show category at Crufts 2013. Yet another example of 85 being the place to be.   [:-))]
  19. I am deeply disturbed by the attitude of some posters to immigrants which, to be brutally frank, are more rooted in the UK of the 60s, 70s and 80s. I grew up near to Wolverhampton as a teenager and young man and I worked in Wolverhampton for a time. Enoch Powell's Rivers of Blood speech in April 1968 set the tone but my opinions were formed, erroneously as it happens, from listening to white people around me. Over the years and watching the immigrant population grow out of their initial environment and begin to integrate into their surroundings (be it housing, jobs or outward lifestyles) I gradually realised that my opinions were wrong. I am pleased to say that it's been a pleasure to have them changed. I liken it now to how, since returning to live in the UK almost three years ago, we have, and continue to, adjusted our opinions of the younger generation. Grow up. Get a Life and move on but don't blame immigrants for all the country's woes.
  20. Eastleigh and UKIP? Standard "protest" vote for a mid-term by-election.  [Www]
  21. I've posted this before on a similar thread some time back but from firsthand family experience I can tell you that there are no longer any hedge funds based in the UK. When tax was hiked a couple of years back they all packed up and left for Switzerland or the Far East. I wonder how much that smart ar*ssed move cost the Exchequer?
  22. At some point (I think during the last 12 months) Lloyds reported that in 30% of the claims for PPI compensation the claimants had never had a Lloyds bank account. Who do we have to thank for this situation (and costing the rest of us £millions), but the proliferation of claims companies and many in the legal profession who are blatantly encouraging bogus claims.  
  23. Think also on the situation in the Kingdom where most of us have lived or are living, that it's citizens, if Dave gets in, will be given a simple yes or no vote to stay in or get out of the EU. Will you trust the voters who regularly put EastEnders, Coronation Street, Top Gear and the Undateables at the top of TV viewing figures to come to an informed and considered opinion on this topic? It makes me shudder.
  24. sweet 17 We eat our main meal at lunchtime. Buy yourself a timer but remember you are then starting from cold.
  25. gg and her companion's decision is fairly clear cut but what happens when an untrained individual is expected to make an instant judgement based upon a risk assesment which they have no experience of? I do hope that French law takes this into account when at a later date an "expert" witness decides that the risk that the individual thought they saw did not in fact exist.
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