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Posted on: Apr 20 2012, 07:35 AM |
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 19 2012, 08:38 PM) Three months from the 17th January is the 17th April and not the 16th... Disagree, that could be interpreted as 3 months and 1 day. Generally, this has demonstrated one of the criticisms of the court in that its judges are inexperienced. The confusion over the date should never have arisen. |
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Posted on: Apr 19 2012, 07:23 PM |
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 19 2012, 07:57 PM) Three months from the 17th of January is when exactly? That's right, it's the 17th of April. Some may disagree and argue that three calender months from 17 January expire 23:59, 16 April. In any event, you want this guy to stay here? |
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Posted on: Apr 19 2012, 04:42 PM |
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QUOTE (Dodgys smarter brother. @ Apr 5 2012, 10:00 PM) Spot on.
That is not siraluns boardroom. It's a set specially built in the Black Islands studio in Park Royal. (that's why there's no windows).
That's not his P.A. (it's an actress / production assistant)
All candidates are filmed leaving the Viglen offices in St Albans in one shoot.. These are then inserted into the progamme as each one gets fired. That's why sometimes they're not wearing the same clothes they were wearing when they got fired. In the first couple of series they were filmed leaving the Amstrad 'factory' in Brentwood, but as A.M.S. no longer owns that they went to his Viglen office exterior to film.
Haven't seen much of the new series but the Cafe the losers are sent to was the Bridge Street Cafe in Acton. It probably still is.
Very little in the production of the programme is 'real'. Candidates are eventually chosen for their ability to engender a 'reaction' from the audience. Comination of: Looks, Delusion, and Arrogance. The business idea is WAAAAY down the list. (if it goes tits-up, he'll just write it off against tax.)
Last years winner invented the 's' shaped nail file for 'siralun'. And how we were all waiting for that. Right?
The one from the year before is still suing AMS for wrongful dismissal.
Before that, the winner got herself pregnant after working for only for a few weeks (by the Development Manager) (No jokes please) and never returned to work.
Anyone not chosen to appear on the programme should breathe a sigh of relief. Yes, I agree. The boardroom set is designed to look as if they are in "The Gherkin" - note the design of the set walls. The other thing to consider is that with such a low number of "contestants" it is statisically feasible that a white male could "win" for several series in a row - and the BBC would not allow that. So, good entertainment, but that's all that it is. |
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Posted on: Apr 14 2012, 06:35 PM |
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Apr 13 2012, 12:01 PM) It depends, but probably not. Aquifers are really big, like many tens of miles across, but the water in them is not terribly mobile, so drawing down the water table in one location doesn't greatly influence the water table in other locations (though it depends on what kind of ground it is) unless you're creating a really big gradient by pumping out millions of gallons. Mostly the ground water is just moving down the water table gradient until it emerges in a stream, and that journey can take many years (I know rivers rise when it rains, but that actual water might have fallen ten years ago and was effectively squeezed out of the aquifer by the weight of the rain joining the queue in the uplands) so to some degree if you don't use the ground water it isn't saved for someone else to use, it just flows out to sea. Yes. In addition to bore holes, many big estates also treat their own sewage. Along with the rain that falls on the land, the ground gets replenished following local human use. The general problem we have with water in UK is concentration of population and housing in certain areas, such as the drier south east. |
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Posted on: Apr 12 2012, 06:46 PM |
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QUOTE (Ruwan Uduwerage-Perera @ Apr 9 2012, 11:46 AM) Has Richard Benyon MP & the Minister for Water had a 'Clinton! moment when he stated "Neither I, nor my family, nor anyone who works for me turned that hose on”? I think the "Clinton moment" may soon be for the journalist. An anti-Tory showbiz hack who decided to call in on a bank holiday to discuss the hosepipe ban? Maybe Ladbrokes are conducting their own investigation into betting patterns on this. |
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Posted on: Apr 12 2012, 04:23 PM |
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Posted on: Apr 12 2012, 03:58 PM |
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 12 2012, 06:17 AM) My serious point is that (as the Direct Debit is often cancelled) the charity gets nothing, or at very least a very small proportion of the donors payments. I think the direct debit has to be in place for quite some time for the charity to recover what thay have to pay to the firm that employs the chuggers. Puts me in mind of the "charity clothing bags", where x% of post tax profits go to the charity. |
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Posted on: Apr 8 2012, 08:31 AM |
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QUOTE (NWNREADER @ Apr 8 2012, 09:27 AM) Poor Mr Benyon - it seems he has been 'got at' by journos... According to The Telegraph today a journo and photographer found a hose running at his property.... He says they turned it on It is stated he has called in Plod to investigate. Original story: http://www.people.co.uk/news/uk-world-news...02039-23817573/ |
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