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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:12:42 +0200, Martin wrote:

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:19:55 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:

William Black writes:

So...

You've never met any royalty then...

I have indeed met royalty. However, royalty is a special case, and a
very small minority of the population, and not representative.

In the United States, most millionaires are self-made, unlike Europe,
where people aren't allowed to be self-made.

Richard Branson and Alan Sugar are directly descended from William the
Conqueror.

I very much doubt that.

I don't know about Branson but Sugar, as far as I'm aware, is the
grandchild of four Jewish immigrants.


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William Black

On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 20:25:15 +0100, David Horne wrote:

Martin wrote:

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:05:38 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
What I will concede the new TVs are good at is space and energy
savings.

I discovered what I suppose is obvious to anybody else. If you hang a
flat screen TV on the wall, the wall is decorated by all the cabling it
needs. Something you don't see in the adverts. In a Dutch house it
might pull the wall down or maybe even the house. (15-20kg for a 32"
LCD TV)

People I know with one on the wall either had an electrician sort things
out so the wiring is in the wall (not cheap maybe!) or, more usually,
bought or rented a flat that had this already built in.

Or they went down to B&Q and bought some of that one inch wide, half
inch deep self adehsive trunking that more or less disapears when you put
it in a corner...



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William Black

On Apr 5, 8:25*pm, (David Horne) wrote:


People I know with one on the wall either had an electrician sort things
out so the wiring is in the wall (not cheap maybe!) or, more usually,
bought or rented a flat that had this already built in.

You don't even need an electrician; it's a fairly straightforward
thing any jobbing builder or plasterer should be able to handle. You
don't even have to have it dug into the wall; a thinnish tube painted
exactly the same colour as the wall behind it, and affixed to the wall
running either up or down from the screen, doesn't look bad at all.

"William Black" wrote in message
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On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:12:42 +0200, Martin wrote:



Richard Branson and Alan Sugar are directly descended from William the
Conqueror.

I very much doubt that.

I don't know about Branson but Sugar, as far as I'm aware, is the
grandchild of four Jewish immigrants.


Branson is the son of a high court judge but he made his own
money starting by selling records imported from continental
discounters from the boot of his car.

Sugar is as you say descended from jewish immigrants and was born
to parents living in a council flat from Hackney. He started his business
selling car aerials out of the back of a van at the local market.

Contrary to Mixi's claims the latest Sunday Times rich list
shows that only 24% of the top 1000 richest people in Britain
inherited their wealth.

Keith

On Apr 6, 12:00*pm, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:49:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Apr 5, 8:25*pm, (David Horne) wrote:

People I know with one on the wall either had an electrician sort things
out so the wiring is in the wall (not cheap maybe!) or, more usually,
bought or rented a flat that had this already built in.

You don't even need an electrician; it's a fairly straightforward
thing any jobbing builder or plasterer should be able to handle. You
don't even have to have it dug into the wall; a thinnish tube painted
exactly the same colour as the wall behind it, and affixed to the wall
running either up or down from the screen, doesn't look bad at all.

Mains lead, speaker leads, cable TV coax, scart cables ...

One word - Wireless.

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:54:05 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:
[]
Contrary to Mixi's claims the latest Sunday Times rich list
shows that only 24% of the top 1000 richest people in Britain
inherited their wealth.

Mixi said Europe not just GB.

Mixi's comment was full of it, regardless. Because he's down and out in
Paris he assumes everyone else is.

Here's a factoid- Norway has more millionaires (US dollars) per capita
than any other country in the world.

Even less interesting- Europe saw (US$) millionaire households grow by
26.4% in 2006. Boy, those royal families must have been going at it like
rabbits...

(Spain and UK were highest in this growth at 32% and 30%)

US growth in this sector was 9%

--
(*) of the royal duchy of city south and deansgate
www.davidhorne.net (email address on website)
"The fact is that when I compose I never think of and never
have thought of meeting the listener." -George Perle

On Apr 5, 1:04*pm, Martin wrote:
On Sun, 05 Apr 2009 13:52:59 +0200, Mxsmanic wrote:
Martin writes:

It's what you get when you use a laptop without turning on the spelling checker.

Oh. *I didn't think an educated person would need a spelling checker.

Some educated people make typos.
--

Martin

Ability to spell is no indication of intelligence or education.
Shakespere never spelt his own name the same way twice. I have a
degree ad am a published poet but I cannot spell throat [ my
spellchecker got it that time ].

Martin wrote:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 08:36:14 +0100, "Keith Willshaw"
wrote:


"Martin" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 13:05:38 +0100, (David Horne,
_the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:



I discovered what I suppose is obvious to anybody else. If you hang a
flat
screen TV on the wall, the wall is decorated by all the cabling it
needs.
Something you don't see in the adverts. In a Dutch house it might pull
the
wall
down or maybe even the house. (15-20kg for a 32" LCD TV)


Thats a lightweight, my old Toshiba 32" CRT weighed 56 kg

It's what makes them so difficult to "throw" away LOL


Could be recycled into a nice dwelling for Mixi...


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Best
Greg

On Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:29:58 +0200, Martin wrote in post :
:

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 05:24:52 -0700 (PDT), Spencer Primate
wrote:

On Apr 6, 12:00*pm, Martin wrote:
On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 03:49:33 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
On Apr 5, 8:25*pm, (David Horne) wrote:

People I know with one on the wall either had an electrician sort things
out so the wiring is in the wall (not cheap maybe!) or, more usually,
bought or rented a flat that had this already built in.

You don't even need an electrician; it's a fairly straightforward
thing any jobbing builder or plasterer should be able to handle. You
don't even have to have it dug into the wall; a thinnish tube painted
exactly the same colour as the wall behind it, and affixed to the wall
running either up or down from the screen, doesn't look bad at all.

Mains lead, speaker leads, cable TV coax, scart cables ...

One word - Wireless.

Very good! Anymore words to explain how and where at a reasonable price?

Still you'll need two power cables. One for the TV and one for the wireless
receiver. :-)

--
Tim C.

On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 13:28:40 +0100, David Horne wrote in post :
:

Even less interesting- Europe saw (US$) millionaire households grow by
26.4% in 2006. Boy, those royal families must have been going at it like
rabbits...

Because the US$ has dropped by 26.4% since the last time?
It's easy if the dollar is only worth 10p. I wonder how Eurozone
millionaires have faired.

--
Tim C.