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    This links to a different thread but if you like listening to stuff on BBC iPlayer are you familiar with “In Our Time”?

    It’s been on every week for years and years now on R4. Melvyn Bragg presents it, he has three guests who are usually Oxbridge dons or similar and he takes a subject. Could be anything, the life of John the Evangelist, the rubber-sheet theory of the universe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Roman Empire, the fall of man in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.

    Bragg keeps things moving by asking very direct questions of his experts, who are clearly briefed to respond in an accessible manner. You come away feeling like you’ve had an intellectual version of colonic irrigation.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye View Post
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    This links to a different thread but if you like listening to stuff on BBC iPlayer are you familiar with “In Our Time”?

    It’s been on every week for years and years now on R4. Melvyn Bragg presents it, he has three guests who are usually Oxbridge dons or similar and he takes a subject. Could be anything, the life of John the Evangelist, the rubber-sheet theory of the universe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Roman Empire, the fall of man in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.

    Bragg keeps things moving by asking very direct questions of his experts, who are clearly briefed to respond in an accessible manner. You come away feeling like you’ve had an intellectual version of colonic irrigation.
    Never had the irrigation thing so don't know how accurate your comparison is, but R4's the cat's bollocks. Except The Archers and Wumman's Hour.

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    Never had the irrigation thing so don't know how accurate your comparison is, but R4's the cat's bollocks. Except The Archers and Wumman's Hour.
    Never had irrigation either, I was speculating

    R4 is good, I drive a lot with work and usually listen to R3 but will change to R4 if it’s a piece of music I really dislike. I’ve stumbled across some absolute gems in the afternoon schedule, usually half an hour long.

    Also have got back into listening to the World Service. Used to go to sleep to it in my early twenties, a long time ago now. It’s gently reassuring. I’m getting old
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mibbes Aye View Post
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    This links to a different thread but if you like listening to stuff on BBC iPlayer are you familiar with “In Our Time”?

    It’s been on every week for years and years now on R4. Melvyn Bragg presents it, he has three guests who are usually Oxbridge dons or similar and he takes a subject. Could be anything, the life of John the Evangelist, the rubber-sheet theory of the universe, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Roman Empire, the fall of man in Milton’s ‘Paradise Lost’.

    Bragg keeps things moving by asking very direct questions of his experts, who are clearly briefed to respond in an accessible manner. You come away feeling like you’ve had an intellectual version of colonic irrigation.
    Sorry to take the thread off topic, but some of the stuff on iPlayer radio app is really worth listening too. I’m a bit of a technophobe, but we sometimes forget just how good radio can be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lapsedhibee View Post
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    Never had the irrigation thing so don't know how accurate your comparison is, but R4's the cat's bollocks. Except The Archers and Wumman's Hour.
    I listen to The Archers when I'm washing up. It's great.

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    I listen to The Archers whenI'm washing up. It's great.

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    Store security at the doors.

    Sometimes it will bleep but I don't understand why some people will actually turn round and go back into the store

    even if there is no one at the security desk.

    Presuming that they haven't stolen anything, why do they go back in?

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    Quote Originally Posted by pollution View Post
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    Store security at the doors.

    Sometimes it will bleep but I don't understand why some people will actually turn round and go back into the store

    even if there is no one at the security desk.

    Presuming that they haven't stolen anything, why do they go back in?
    Maybe they don't want to bleep if they're going to other shops.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pollution View Post
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    Store security at the doors.

    Sometimes it will bleep but I don't understand why some people will actually turn round and go back into the store

    even if there is no one at the security desk.

    Presuming that they haven't stolen anything, why do they go back in?
    To.make sure i dont have one of those plastic security tags left on something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pollution View Post
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    Store security at the doors.

    Sometimes it will bleep but I don't understand why some people will actually turn round and go back into the store

    even if there is no one at the security desk.

    Presuming that they haven't stolen anything, why do they go back in?
    In case there is a security tag on a garment that they will struggle to remove once back home is one reason when buying cloths. Not that I need any help removing them ;-)

    Tricks of the trade learnt from my days in retail security, not old shoplifting skills before anyone asks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby View Post
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    In case there is a security tag on a garment that they will struggle to remove once back home is one reason when buying cloths. Not that I need any help removing them ;-)

    Tricks of the trade learnt from my days in retail security, not old shoplifting skills before anyone asks.
    I wish I knew! (And not because I'm a shoplifter!)

    It's happened to me a few times (and didn't even beep, or I'd have known.) Most recently, my daughter bought a top in a shop in London that doesn't have a branch in Scotland. We got home, she found the tag...

    I tried a couple of shops to see if they had similar tags, failed, and eventually her big sister cracked it only after trying just about every other shop in town.

    On a similar note, I now never refuse a receipt on the self -checkout till, after my receiptless M+S steaks started beeping on my way out the door. They were very good about it, however.
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    Quote Originally Posted by s.a.m View Post
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    I wish I knew! (And not because I'm a shoplifter!)

    It's happened to me a few times (and didn't even beep, or I'd have known.) Most recently, my daughter bought a top in a shop in London that doesn't have a branch in Scotland. We got home, she found the tag...

    I tried a couple of shops to see if they had similar tags, failed, and eventually her big sister cracked it only after trying just about every other shop in town.

    On a similar note, I now never refuse a receipt on the self -checkout till, after my receiptless M+S steaks started beeping on my way out the door. They were very good about it, however.
    They are all fairly easy mate as it’s a pin held in place by ball bearings and a spring mechanism in most cases. I can do most of them in seconds.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs. S View Post
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    To.make sure i dont have one of those plastic security tags left on something.

    This was at a Tesco store and I can't imagine their clothes are tagged but good point all the same

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    Prosecco

    Just a cheap/worse version of champagne, which I'm not overly keen on anyway.

    It became a big thing amongst women a few years ago and now seems to becoming popular with guys too

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    Quote Originally Posted by WeeRussell View Post
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    Prosecco

    Just a cheap/worse version of champagne, which I'm not overly keen on anyway.

    It became a big thing amongst women a few years ago and now seems to becoming popular with guys too
    I prefer it to Champagne, I think it tastes better - although I'm not overly keen on either (throw in some flavoured gin and we start getting somewhere though).

    Given I'm not keen on either - I'd rather sip my way through £9 than £40.
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    Quote Originally Posted by danhibees1875 View Post
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    I prefer it to Champagne, I think it tastes better - although I'm not overly keen on either (throw in some flavoured gin and we start getting somewhere though).

    Given I'm not keen on either - I'd rather sip my way through £9 than £40.
    I'm the same. Hate champagne and can only take prosecco with flavoured gin or chambord.

    We were at a wedding last year and got three free glasses of prosecco during dinner. I had a hip flask filled with chambord to flavour it. I ended up havibg to go back to the room to refill it as everybody at the table wanted some

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    Quote Originally Posted by pollution View Post
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    This was at a Tesco store and I can't imagine their clothes are tagged but good point all the same
    I can confirm Tesco tags clothes - my missus suffered the fate of discovering the tag when she put the garment on later.
    Luckily we had the receipt and a more local branch removed the tag for us.

    Funnily enough it DIDN'T beep on the way out, or we wouldn't have taken it home!

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    People who tell you they don’t like a particular food then confess to never actually trying or tasting that particular food

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    Quote Originally Posted by Scouse Hibby View Post
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    People who tell you they don’t like a particular food then confess to never actually trying or tasting that particular food
    I do that.

    I just can't look past the texture or the smell of some food.

    Realise i'm in the wrong though and i'm a total hypocrite as i give my boy **** for not trying stuff.

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    I do that.

    I just can't look past the texture or the smell of some food.

    Realise i'm in the wrong though and i'm a total hypocrite as i give my boy **** for not trying stuff.
    Im the same and was really strict with the kids growing up about trying different things as its a pain trying to find places to eat when your fussy. Mostly smell and texture for me too.

    Having said that my boys made me taste fried octopus ball flavoured juice the other day. It had a marble in the lid that you pushed down and made the liquid fizz. Very bizarre. Vile doesnt come close.

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    The appeal of lap dancing clubs.

    Went to one on a stag do in Budapest and it was terrible.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mrs. S View Post
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    Im the same and was really strict with the kids growing up about trying different things as its a pain trying to find places to eat when your fussy. Mostly smell and texture for me too.

    Having said that my boys made me taste fried octopus ball flavoured juice the other day. It had a marble in the lid that you pushed down and made the liquid fizz. Very bizarre. Vile doesnt come close.
    I wouldn't really have expected octopus' balls to taste anything other than vile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jones28 View Post
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    The appeal of lap dancing clubs.

    Went to one on a stag do in Budapest and it was terrible.
    Same here. I was on a boy's weekend in Prague recently where some of the guys would have happily spent the whole weekend in titty bars. Don't get me wrong, I like titties as much as the next guy but there's just something incredibly seedy about these places that makes them sexually sterile in my opinion.

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