This links to a different thread but if you like listening to stuff on BBC iPlayer are you familiar with “In Our Time”?This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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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Thread: Things you don't get.
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14-09-2018 05:56 PM #511There's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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14-09-2018 07:43 PM #512This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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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 oldThere's only one thing better than a Hibs calendar and that's two Hibs calendars
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14-09-2018 09:54 PM #514This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
United we stand here....
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15-09-2018 04:16 PM #515This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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15-09-2018 11:18 PM #516This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Womans work no?
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16-09-2018 08:29 AM #518
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16-09-2018 08:54 AM #519
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People who force their children to go running with them.
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17-09-2018 07:08 AM #520This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
You've got an itchy delete button finger.
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17-09-2018 07:47 AM #521
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25-09-2018 04:38 PM #523
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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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25-09-2018 04:45 PM #525
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25-09-2018 04:45 PM #526This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Tricks of the trade learnt from my days in retail security, not old shoplifting skills before anyone asks.Last edited by Scouse Hibee; 25-09-2018 at 04:48 PM.
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25-09-2018 05:10 PM #527
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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.Last edited by s.a.m; 25-09-2018 at 05:31 PM.
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25-09-2018 06:31 PM #529
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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
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26-09-2018 11:46 AM #530
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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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26-09-2018 12:48 PM #531This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Given I'm not keen on either - I'd rather sip my way through £9 than £40.Mon the Hibs.
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26-09-2018 03:13 PM #532
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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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26-09-2018 03:26 PM #533This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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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26-09-2018 08:58 PM #534
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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26-09-2018 09:04 PM #535
Old guys who do a sort of running motion but don't actually go any quicker. Guy was at it crossing the road in front of my car this morning. Just walk.
PM Awards General Poster of The Year 2015, 2016, 2017. Probably robbed in other years
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27-09-2018 08:20 AM #536This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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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27-09-2018 08:50 AM #537
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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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27-09-2018 09:04 AM #538
The appeal of lap dancing clubs.
Went to one on a stag do in Budapest and it was terrible.
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27-09-2018 09:52 AM #539This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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