The Euro at $1.55

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 21:08:09 +0100, "William Black"
wrote:


... ...
... ... The airhead speaks with her usual erudite babble.
...
... Tim, you are looking like a fool... Oops, it's the old yapping
bitch... Who left the door
... open again?!
...
... Yet more babble from the airhead

Yet more yapping from the annoying bitch...

For God's sake you two.

Get a room...

With her? Ugh.

In article ,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

erilar wrote:
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"Tim C." wrote:

On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:44:47 +0200, Magda wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 13:37:09 +0200, in rec.travel.europe, "Tim C."
arranged some electrons, so they looked like
this:

... On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:24:13 +0200, Martin wrote:
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... Welsh = sheep lovers?
...
... There's nothing wrong with sheep, boyo!

I find them delicious.
Good point. Actually lamb is quite difficult - not impossible - to get over
here :-( It's normally pre-marinated for barbecues. It's all pork.

I find it in the specialty section of my supermarket meat section, but
it's really expensive 8-(

Actually, Trader Joe's markets in the U.S. usually have lamb available
(although much of it is imported frozen from Australia).



I only get to a Trader Joe's when I visit my daughter, who lives in a
much more populous area than I do 8-) They have lots of neat stuff.

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You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

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"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

Dave Frightens Me wrote:
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:05:37 +0200, Magda wrote:

On Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:45:01 GMT, in rec.travel.europe,
(John Kulp)
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

...
... Babble, babble, babble

The imbecility champion was found, ladies and gentleman! Johnny, the
Yapping Little Bitch,
goes home with a mud covered medal.

(It could be worse.)

I have to say that you could be thought of as silly for replying to him.

Indeed! I kill-filed him shortly after the first gratuitous redneck
insult. (Unfortunately I keep seeing his posts because some of you
optimists actually think he might occasionally be capable of reasoned
discourse.)

Killfiling is sometimes not enough, unfortunately 8-) People keep
answering the dead. .

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

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(David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

erilar wrote:

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"Mike........" wrote:

Following up to erilar

I find them delicious.

The young ones, certainly. I don't think I've ever encountered grown-up
sheep meat 8-)

mutton , especialy free range hill mutton has more flavour, needs careful
cooking though.

I believe it was basically free range lamb I ate in Iceland, where I
really fell in love with lamb. At any rate, all the sheep I saw there
seemed to be roaming around pretty freely.

Where would they escape to?

Exactly 8-)

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

In article ,
"EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque)" wrote:

erilar wrote:
In article ,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

erilar wrote:

In article ,
"Tim C." wrote:
[]
Good point. Actually lamb is quite difficult - not impossible - to get
over
here :-( It's normally pre-marinated for barbecues. It's all pork.
I find it in the specialty section of my supermarket meat section, but
it's really expensive 8-(
I remember that in the US. It's quite ubiquitous in supermarkets here-
and a wide range- organic etc.

I'm envious 8-) I wish it were more popular here; then I could
probably find more variety. I don't see much except lamb chops.

I'm not sure where in the U.S. you live, but if you're on the West
Coast, or Northeastern seaboard, find a Trader Joe's market. Most of
them have frozen leg of lamb and rack of lamb roasts from Australia,
those in the Los Angeles area also have fresh lamb roasts as well as chops.


I get to a Trader Joe's about once a year, 350+ miles from home. . .

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

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(David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:

erilar wrote:

In article ,
(David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
[]
Their itunes 'policy' was plainly illegal IMO, but it did take the EU
machine a long time to fix it, and for that matter, it ain't fixed yet!

Most of what's on my iPod came from my own music library 8-)

Mine too, but as a quick way of accessing a recording (and they've got a
vast library) it's hard to beat. Just checked, I've bought almost 18
hours of music from itunes...

Well, it's a lot easier than converting old LPs, I must admit. I've
bought the odd album, but mostly individual songs.

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo*

EvelynVogtGamble(Divamanque) wrote:

David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*) wrote:
Mike........ wrote:

Following up to vid Horne, _the_ chancellor

Of course, but no one here suggested having to accept anything because
they were told it was good. You're introducing a red herring here.
its an element of the defewrence art is given.

By whom? Not by me. I try and keep this based on my own opinions, and
civil, and then posters like Tim throw all this crap around. I'm out of
it now. If you like the copies as much as the originals, fine.

Well, at least copies allow many people to "see" works which they will
never have the opportunity to see in the original. Are you saying
that's a BAD thing?

No, and I never said such a thing. If you'd read my posts in the thread
properly, you wouldn't have asked the question.

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Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

JohnT wrote:

"David Horne, _the_ chancellor (*)" wrote in message
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John Kulp wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 08:00:43 +0100, "Mike........."
wrote:

Following up to Alfred Molon

No, at the moment manufacturers are charging 50% more in Europe, for
no
apparent reason. They must be thinking Europeans are stupid.

They are doing it because they can. There have been campaigns to get car
prices down in UK. Should we be looking at buying via web from US? I
remember Amazon has some restriction on the number of US "issue" either
CDs
or DVDs you can buy.

That may be due to different regional coding used on them

Region coding is not an issue for users in the UK, as DVD players
reading all zones are common here. However, don't get me started on
laptops which have this idiotic region coding built in...



I have a software fix for that for laptops and can send you a copy as an
e-mail attachment if you wish.

You don't have a software fix for my laptop.

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onus is on them to show that there is anything there to talk about.
Otherwise they should just shut up about it." -Richard Dawkins

In article , Martin
wrote:

On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 17:12:12 +0100, (David Horne, _the_
chancellor (*)) wrote:

Mike........ wrote:

Following up to Hatunen

In America only fools pay the manufacturer's suggested retail
price. Electronics items, in particular, are almost always sold
at a deep discount from the manufaturerer's price.

its same here for electronics.

Apple is an exception, both here and in the US- as the prices are
generally very close to the list price. (I do get an academic discount,
which isn't particularly fair in a way.)

Does it partly make up for being an Apple lover? )

BTW price fixing is illegal in UK and all over the EU.

But its OK for the government of France to basically dictate when you
can have an annual SALE ?

jay
Fri Apr 04, 2008

Go Fig writes:

But its OK for the government of France to basically dictate when you
can have an annual SALE ?

French government has long been very instrusive, and French people seem to
like it that way, or at least they put up with it (perhaps they don't know any
better).