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Offline born2run

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Re: Niggles
« Reply #510 on: March 10, 2012, 12:45:17 am »
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This is when your mates or kids send you text with initials instead of words, I hate it, spending at least 5mins totaly bewildered trying to desipher what they mean?

Ones like:
TTFN = Ta Ta For Now
TY     = Thank You
LOL   = Laugh Out Loud.
Well I've come up with a couple of my own
IDUY = I Don't Understand You ?
FOTP = F**k Off Text Properly!!

LOL IM WIV U ON THAT 1 M8

Seriously though, I reckon mobile phones and texting will bring the downfall of civilisation ... the messages are so impersonal and open to misunderstanding.
Addiction to Facebook and other sites is also a bloody annoying and dangerous thing.



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Doesn't bother me as I work in Oil & Gas - literally everything is an abbreviation! There are thousands of them we use every day,  TBH I see it as a positive thing! :P

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Re: Niggles
« Reply #511 on: March 10, 2012, 07:55:17 pm »
How do seagulls know when I've just washed the car or cleaned the house windows?


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« Reply #512 on: March 11, 2012, 01:45:48 am »
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?  ?{}?
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« Reply #513 on: March 11, 2012, 12:37:56 pm »
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?  ?{}?

How do you know it isn't?    Feed it to the OH and see if he starts squeaking!       _))*
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Re: Niggles
« Reply #514 on: March 12, 2012, 08:42:28 am »
How do seagulls know when I've just washed the car or cleaned the house windows?

Seagulls? Think they must be pterodactyls by the size of what lands on our car ! _))*
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Re: Niggles
« Reply #515 on: March 12, 2012, 11:56:05 pm »
A few days ago in this thread an earlier post from Pendragon was shown. She mentions abbreviations being annoying, mainly on text messages
 One example she mentions was TTFN. Well, forget about this being a recent phenomenon . It's actually around 70 years ago that the late Tommy Handley brought this out on ITMA (it's that man again). In case anyone doesn't know this was a wartime variety show recorded in Llandudnos own Grand Theatre and was quite seriously considered to be a valuable part of the home front. It kept people laughing. Mike

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« Reply #516 on: March 13, 2012, 07:58:14 am »
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_That_Man_Again

Wiki says it was broadcast from Bangor.
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« Reply #517 on: March 13, 2012, 08:08:18 am »
TTFN, however, has quite a lineage...
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« Reply #518 on: March 13, 2012, 09:26:24 am »
The Grand Theatre was used for BBC radio shows during WWII:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/northwest/sites/history/pages/vernonjones.shtml

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« Reply #519 on: March 13, 2012, 09:36:04 am »
"Broadcasting from Bangor during WWII was a very exciting time. Due to the heavy bombing of London and Bristol, the light entertainment department was relocated to North Wales. This included popular programmes such as ITMA and Ray's a Laugh broadcast live from the County Theatre."

Where is the 'County Theatre'? I wondered if that was perhaps another name for the Grand.
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« Reply #520 on: March 13, 2012, 11:01:20 am »
The County Theatre in Bangor is the building now known as the Octagon nightclub on Dean Street:


The Octagon, Bangor by [davidrobertsphotography], on Flickr

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Re: Niggles
« Reply #521 on: March 13, 2012, 04:59:31 pm »
I always understood that Itma and The Hapidrome (on a Sunday night) were produced in the Grand Theatre but broadcast from Bangor.  We were  always told that it was the wonder of high tech at the time, somehow the words were spoken in Llandudno but managed to be transferred to Bangor to be broadcast.

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« Reply #522 on: March 13, 2012, 05:21:47 pm »
The BBC leased the Grand Theatre from 24th March 1941 until 3rd December 1944.  It was chosen because, unlike the Bangor venues used by the BBC, it could accommodate the large theatre organ used in some of the shows. Programmes such as Music Hall and Happidrome were broadcast from there. Only one episode of ITMA was broadcast from the Grand, the hundredth show.

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« Reply #523 on: March 29, 2012, 10:45:40 pm »
Here I go again.... its the Llandudno Swimming Pool, up to their old tricks.

You may recall, despite me being a gym member of this facility I get thwarted regularly when I try to use the pool.
Use of the pool was a key selling point to me when they had me sign up.

The pool is rarely available to the public after 3.45pm, (and despite my paying membership I am designated as 'public') ... and on many other days is totally unavailable due to swimming fetes and galas.

So imagine my dismay when on Weds this week, I tried to stay within the Pool's tight hours of use, and I made my way down there with my cossie and my towel.   
I was confronted by a sign informing me that the pool was CLOSED due to being hired PRIVATELY.

Who the heck gave them permission to rent out a public facility for private use.  $angry$
Can I please have a refund of at least part of my subscriptions (and maybe council tax) for this?
I am once again paying for something that I cannot use through no fault of my own.






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« Reply #524 on: March 30, 2012, 02:10:02 pm »
There were lots of schools coaches parked there and on the coach park so maybe there was some sort of competition.  Perhaps it's the only way they can make money by letting it out. Next thing you know they will be closing it due to "financial constraints."