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I find Church bells both musical & interesting :) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_ringing

There certainly is product placement in the UK - see [1]. When watching these shows you'll see an opaque 'PP' logo flash up on the screen to let you know. [1] https://www.itvmedia.…

FWIW, the duration has nothing to do with it - you could be 'long APPL' etc. for only a few minutes (or even seconds, microseconds etc.) - see [0] An alternative phrasing here migh…

It happens if you paste the code into an Outlook email (which used Word as the rendering engine IIRC)

And, somewhere within the depths of modern versions of Windows, there lay, dormant, an old-fashioned System font from 1990 — alongside some vintage software routines necessary to r…

Thankfully there has been a movement to reduce the number of road signs in general - see the 'Reducing Sign Clutter' [1] advice released the the DfT in 2013. [1] https://www.gov.uk…

I think that those van were (are?) mainly for show - http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm

Isn't the problem right there in the first sentence? - "Almost every university in England offers courses in computer science". Obviously not all institutions offering a CS degree …

I assume that you mean any tube station within Zone 1 because otherwise this is just not true. For 1.5k you can rent a 2 bed flat in Zones 2-3 and get much more than this further a…

They seem to focus their campus recruitment events ( http://www.deloitte.co.uk/aem/student-events-calendar.cfm ) heavily towards the Russell Group universities (Oxbridge, London, D…

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

The 2014 list is here: https://www.henleyglobal.com/files/download/hvri/HP%20Visa%2...

I wanted to mention this exact thing on one of the threads earlier today but couldn't articulate it properly. In the UK the department stores John Lewis and House of Fraser are bot…

This happens on the BBC (which is ad-free) & it drives me mad! E.g. Dragons' Den is clearly pre-formatted to be sold to commercial channels with ad breaks - there is about 20 mins …