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  1. StretfordEnd

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    Today is International Women's Day.

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    The next Total Solar Eclipse over the UK like we saw in America recently will be on 23 September 2090.
    Sorry I can't get a time as to when it will happen. Over Cornwall it will be so get your hotel rooms booked now.
     
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    I look forward to 111 year old me watching it whilst holding hands with my 104 year old Wife. :love:
     
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    Taffy C'mon you reds.

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    Aw.

    While sharing a bag of Werthers Original sweets. Lovely.

    See ya there in 2090 if I can become the oldest person in the world.
     
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    Taffy C'mon you reds.

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    The longest word in the world is given to a chemical in the human body, it contains nearly 190,000 letters. I shit you not.

    Deep breath.......Methionylthreonyglutaminylarginyl......blah blah blah.....isoleucine.

    Would hate to be the doctor who has to write this in his notes on a patient.
     
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    Sorry but that’s only 55 letters.
     
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    Sorry this just reminded me of…:laugh:

     
  9. Taffy

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    I was going to type in every single letter but thought this is going to take at least ten minutes.
     
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    we have a growing collection of international women in our office, three in my direct team including my line manager
     
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    Good.

    Need to get up to 50/50
     
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    An 'ultracrepidarian' is a word for someone who voices thoughts beyond their expertise.


    Or in short Toryphobia.
     
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    Miranda rights that are read out to anyone arrested ( you have the right to remain silent etc etc ) are named after a suspect in a rape case in the 1960's. Ernesto Miranda gave a confession without the presence of legal representation. He served a few years in prison only to be released when he won his appeal. He was eventually convicted of the attack though his confession could not be used.

    He was stabbed to death years later and Ironically the person who carried out the killing invoked his right to remain silent and fled the country when released on bail. He was never traced.
     
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    Pagnell MISERABLE C**T

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    I've never been a Jag fan, but I found out something remarkable over the weekend. They now only make SUVs, so all the saloons they're traditionally known for have been chopped. Absolute madness.

    Despite having a Mercedes SUV myself (not through choice I might add) I hate what they have done to the car world in the last ten years.
     
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    Crazy.

    I presume they now see the regular customer as only wanting massively heavy suvs and the premium customer only wanting a sports car.

    These.cars are big and heavy and easier to pack with batteries I suppose.
     
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    You're surely a part of the problem if you own one?
     
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    As you say all the classic saloons cars that Jag have been known for since the 50s have gone, and so have the sports coupes. The company that gave the world the E Type and the MKII saloon now only makes tractors. :(

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