Sun Chariot
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Fixed that for the Doctor Who fans.Online retailers who sell Time and Relative ... In Space but don't specify the Dimensions.
Fixed that for the Doctor Who fans.Online retailers who sell Time and Relative ... In Space but don't specify the Dimensions.
Maybe that's why they don't specify the dimensions of the rucksacks, if it's bigger on the inside...Fixed that for the Doctor Who fans.
take a bow!Maybe that's why they don't specify the dimensions of the rucksacks, if it's bigger on the inside...
I once bought a fabric holdall from Argos. Basically cuboid shaped. The dimensions were stated, HxWxD in cm. In practice, the only way to achieve those dimensions was to stuff it full and measure across the bulges. I returned the item.Online retailers who sell backpacks but don't specify the dimensions.
The size of the flat pack package it came in wouldn’t have been very helpfulI once bought a fabric holdall from Argos. Basically cuboid shaped. The dimensions were stated, HxWxD in cm. In practice, the only way to achieve those dimensions was to stuff it full and measure across the bulges. I returned the item.
Quite... it's bad enough when the model railway section has wagons listed as locomotives or vice-versa.People who spam eBay categories with irrelevant rubbish - i.e. Reform UK stickers keep popping up in Railwayana. Reported it to eBay, but they don't give a figgy pudding.
"for free" is on my big long list too!It is not 'for free', it is either 'free' or 'for nothing'.
The use of the phrase 'eye watering' when something just isn't.
I applied for a free Nelson Mandela. I never received one...It is not 'for free', it is either 'free' or 'for nothing'.
Yes indeed! Here too."for free" is on my big long list too!
Blimey! I need a lie down after reading all that; and I'm still none the wiser as to why you don't like "big soup"Tinned soup branded or marketed as "Big" or "Chunky" soup -- usually a meat-of-some-kind (in "chunks"), plus ditto vegetable, mix. I have found this theme on the part of the makers, distasteful and off-putting (the theme, rather than the thing in itself) ever since it first came on the scene, a few decades ago I think. This whole bit of "hoopla" raises in me feelings of distaste and un-keen-ness, instead of the presumably hoped-for stimulating of appetite and of impulse to purchase: for me, it feels redolent of "gross" / childish / repellent gluttony. Would never, for myself, choose to buy any tin of soup thus titled-and-branded. One realises that an integral part of the whole advertising / marketing business is the ceaseless dreaming-up of new gimmicks of all kinds, and the putting of same into the public arena; and with so much of this stuff perpetually going on, some of it will -- for some potential customers, at any rate -- fail of its purpose, and be a "turn-off" instead of an incentive to buy. It is thus, for me, with the whole "Big Soup" nonsense.
At least 4 decades. I'm in my late 40s and remember liking Big Soup as a young child, I still have the occasional tin now.Tinned soup branded or marketed as "Big" or "Chunky" soup -- usually a meat-of-some-kind (in "chunks"), plus ditto vegetable, mix. I have found this theme on the part of the makers, distasteful and off-putting (the theme, rather than the thing in itself) ever since it first came on the scene, a few decades ago I think. This whole bit of "hoopla" raises in me feelings of distaste and un-keen-ness, instead of the presumably hoped-for stimulating of appetite and of impulse to purchase: for me, it feels redolent of "gross" / childish / repellent gluttony. Would never, for myself, choose to buy any tin of soup thus titled-and-branded. One realises that an integral part of the whole advertising / marketing business is the ceaseless dreaming-up of new gimmicks of all kinds, and the putting of same into the public arena; and with so much of this stuff perpetually going on, some of it will -- for some potential customers, at any rate -- fail of its purpose, and be a "turn-off" instead of an incentive to buy. It is thus, for me, with the whole "Big Soup" nonsense.
Am aware that extreme verbosity is a vice of mine. However, I don't in the circumstances, see any way of clarifying to you. Best, I feel, to reckon that we aren't on each other's wavelengths; and leave it at that.Blimey! I need a lie down after reading all that; and I'm still none the wiser as to why you don't like "big soup"
At least 4 decades. I'm in my late 40s and remember liking Big Soup as a young child, I still have the occasional tin now.
Thanks -- knew that this "business" had been around for a long time. I don't feel any dislike purely food-wise, of the tins' actual contents -- only, of what strikes me as the ad-man's ballyhoo surrounding the product; which, impractically and irrationally I'm sure, makes me averse to buying it. If the stuff were not marketed in these terms; I would quite likely buy it and consume it with pleasure.I keep half-a-dozen tins of the vegetable ‘flavour’, bought when they were on offer, in the cupboard in case I want something reasonably quick and not as unhealthy as the rest of my junk meals. I bulk them up with either tinned new potatoes (not much good as new potatoes, but useful for this) or noodles. I can’t say that they are my favourite food, but they are better than many alternatives, such as the thin soups that are normally available.
The BBC "Regional News" section on their website, or rather the person who decides how the stories are listed, should be banned or forced to ritually flaggelate themselves in public. For example, if I go to the "West Yorkshire" section, the top story should not be one from the "South Yorkshire" section. Why even bother splitting them out if they're not actually separate?
It comes from Fantasy Football (the game), not "Fantasy Football League" (the TV show hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner).The term 'assist' in football
Unfortunately it's been embraced by the media.
30 years ago it didn't exist. I believe it has come from 'Fantasy Football League'
I was referring to the game, rather than the TV programme. The reason I got the name slightly wrong is probably because its not something I've ever participated in. That's not to to cast aspertions on the game. Just that I've never indulged in it. Nevertheless I do find the fact that the term 'assist' has become mainstream very irritatingIt comes from Fantasy Football (the game), not "Fantasy Football League" (the TV show hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner).
I've no problem with the concept of assists, it's a useful statistical tool... however it does seem odd that a cross converted by an attacker is recorded as an assist, but an equally incisive cross which a defender puts through his own net isn't. Likewise if a defender gets a touch before the attacker finishes, again no assist is recorded.
It comes from Fantasy Football (the game), not "Fantasy Football League" (the TV show hosted by David Baddiel and Frank Skinner).
I've no problem with the concept of assists, it's a useful statistical tool... however it does seem odd that a cross converted by an attacker is recorded as an assist, but an equally incisive cross which a defender puts through his own net isn't. Likewise if a defender gets a touch before the attacker finishes, again no assist is recorded.
I suspect the assist term was originally imported from basketball but it might have been ice hockeyI thought it originally came from one of the sports that are really only played in American, although I can’t remember which one.
Totally agree. A player passes to another player who scores, it’s called an ‘assist’. No….. it’s football.The term 'assist' in football
Unfortunately it's been embraced by the media.
30 years ago it didn't exist. I believe it has come from 'Fantasy Football League'
Not unlike the 'shots on target' stat where a soft kick which even I could have saved** still counts.Totally agree. A player passes to another player who scores, it’s called an ‘assist’. No….. it’s football.
Taking it further, if the goalkeeper rolls the ball to a player who then passes to another player who then passes to another player who then passes to a player who scores, are they all ‘assists’?
I don’t suppose it will be long before every time a goalkeeper touches the ball it will be counted as a ‘save’.