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  1. 1 hour ago, nebristolred said:

    Yep Revolut, Starling, Monzo, any of the new so-called 'neo-banks' are great for travelling.

    Slightly off topic……does Revolut allow you to have your account in sterling, Euros, both? And to set up things like direct debits in Euros through the European banking system? It’s becoming an increasing problem doing that with the traditional banks since you know what. 

  2. 13 minutes ago, Robbored said:

    I wonder why the Debenhams building isn’t being converted into flats/apartments? It’s a massive premises with enough space for literally dozens of them. 

    Demolishing the building seems unnecessary to me - but then I’m not and engineer or architect.

    Dozens, but not 502. I’d guess that’s at least a part of the answer! 

  3. 2 hours ago, TonyTonyTony said:

    It is incredible isn't it? Supposedly finished in 2026, which is when I’ll go and see it again.

     

    What really took my breath away was the inside. The outside is spectacular, but you can see photos of it, so it’s not a big surprise, apart maybe from the scale. But I really hadn’t expected how beautiful it is inside.

    Yes, we’re planning to go again when it’s finished. Trouble is, I think half the world has the same idea. 

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  4. 1 hour ago, Sleepy1968 said:

    Thanks Silvio.

    I do check in with the OS daily, so must have missed it.

    I sympathise, Sleepy! It was evidently there, as @Silvio Dante’s link shows…..but I looked and didn’t see it yesterday either. It would be good to have a proper fixture list somewhere.

    A friend confirmed it, so I was able to make it, and I enjoyed it. I saw the Sheff Weds game a couple of weeks ago and left feeling that there was no-one going to get anywhere near the first team squad. I left feeling a bit more positive today. There were some good performances. 

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  5. On 15/04/2024 at 14:37, Curr Avon said:

    Why has virtually every thread turned into a "wedge issue"? Is this a City fans' forum or the Conservative Campaign Headquarters?

    Absolutely, 100%, spot on, CA.

    This is, quite literally, the first thread on the football forum that I've even looked at for 6 weeks. The thread on the pre-match press conference before the Swansea game was the final straw for me. The place seemed to have become little more than an echo chamber of people looking for reasons to hate Manning.

    I can't say I've missed it so wasn't thinking of looking, but I happened to see a 'latest post' headline and thought I'd be interested to see how Yeboah is progressing. Maybe find out how he's doing, some discussion on whether he's showing strengths, weaknesses, whether any of these might be a fit with our style and set up. None of it. About four posts about Yeboah and then it turns into 'reasons to slag off Manning' and 'Pearson v Manning' yet again.

    It's just pathetic. 

     It seems like little has changed in those 6 weeks, so thanks for confirming that! I'm off again!

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  6. 2 hours ago, spudski said:

    I'm gob smacked you've never heard of cloud seeding. I thought everyone knew about it. It's been going on since the 40s. 

    It's been used to control weather in both good and bad ways. 

    Disrupt the weather of an ' enemy ' country, destroy it's produce, manipulate their export and profit. It's all documented. 

    In the same way people try to debunk chem trails. You've only got to look up in the skies to see it now. Water vapour vanishes. You get what are dismissed as thin veil clouds fogging the skies like a white mist. 

    We had blue skies, clouds and planes water vapour trails in the past. We now get that...as well as the Criss cross of trails that don't vanish, just spread into a white dull mist in the sky. 

    I've been in some countries where I've woken in the morning to be seen a criss cross pattern in the sky...not on any plane routes...white trails that just turn into one big thing white veil in the sky. 

    Happened in California a lot. 

    I’ve heard of it as a concept, Spud. Just not that UAE are doing what they’re doing with those specific objectives. 👍

    41 minutes ago, Slacker said:

    Surely we have got some spare rain they can have?

    Swap for some oil? 

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  7. 19 minutes ago, TonyTonyTony said:

    Where did you get the cloud seeding from? All ive read is it was a severe rainstorm, that effected most of the UAE and also Bahrain and Oman.

    Climate change.

    I’d never heard of it either, but this article suggests a link.

    https://www.independent.co.uk/news/ap-dubai-uae-saudi-arabia-british-b2530005.html
     

    And a Google comes up with quite a few references, from apparently reliable sources, to the UAE making a concerted effort to test this technology during 2024……….

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  8. 8 minutes ago, Open End Numb Legs said:

    It is surprising to hear that a driving licence is ok, mine has such a poorly contrasted and coloured photo of me I can hardly recognise myself. If I was at Security I wouldn't let me through!

    The original photo was fine, it was the licence card process that managed to fade it.

    Mrs ID still has her old paper licence. She’s never had to change anything on it so it’s never gone back to DVLA. So her passport is pretty much the only photographic ID she has! 

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