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Old Sep 12th 2014, 5:03 pm
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Originally Posted by Steerpike
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Hotscot's friend, maybe, but not Boiler's. Boiler and Quote hate each other's guts!
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 5:03 pm
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Sally: Anything on telly tonight?
I'm so envious of you being back home having escaped the California nightmare...
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Originally Posted by Hotscot
Sally: Anything on telly tonight?
I'm so envious of you being back home having escaped the California nightmare...
I'm in hog heaven mate

I actually haven't watched that much telly since being back.

I'm just about to heat up some Cornish Pasties and then we're going to the staff pub.
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"Originally Posted by Hotscot View Post
I hate you, rubbing in it like this.."

I meant rubbing it in but it works either way
I'm spaced after a 1000 mile drive through the ecological disaster that California has become.

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Old Sep 12th 2014, 5:31 pm
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 6:38 pm
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Originally Posted by Hotscot
I know but being conservation minded I try not to use characters needlessly.
Maybe it doesn't matter if you quote? Cause they've already been used...so it's just recycling?
With the constant 'greening' of our lives, together with the constant miniaturization of devices (eg Apple watch), we should also move towards smaller fonts and shorter words ... Maybe even adopt 'texting speak' as a formal language (some people do that already on here ... "r u wi me?").

Slightly more seriously, I'm surprised there isn't more effort to shorten needlessly long words. Obviously this comes up a bit on this forum in the 'American English' discussions, but beyond that, there does seem to be some value in shortening words. There can be no ambiguity, for example, by using 'Analog' instead of 'Analogue', or 'color' instead of 'colour', so why not adopt the shorter version purely in the interest of conservation of resources (space, paper, bits of storage, bits of transmission, etc).

Now back to the much more serious discussion of what to do with 5 million people at the tip of an island ...
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Some good points there.
I must admit though that I detest text speak. I quite enjoy the complexity and elegance of the written word at times.
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Originally Posted by Steerpike
With the constant 'greening' of our lives, together with the constant miniaturization of devices (eg Apple watch), we should also move towards smaller fonts and shorter words ... Maybe even adopt 'texting speak' as a formal language (some people do that already on here ... "r u wi me?").
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 6:47 pm
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Originally Posted by Steerpike
With the constant 'greening' of our lives, together with the constant miniaturization of devices (eg Apple watch), we should also move towards smaller fonts and shorter words ... Maybe even adopt 'texting speak' as a formal language (some people do that already on here ... "r u wi me?").

Slightly more seriously, I'm surprised there isn't more effort to shorten needlessly long words. Obviously this comes up a bit on this forum in the 'American English' discussions, but beyond that, there does seem to be some value in shortening words. There can be no ambiguity, for example, by using 'Analog' instead of 'Analogue', or 'color' instead of 'colour', so why not adopt the shorter version purely in the interest of conservation of resources (space, paper, bits of storage, bits of transmission, etc).

Now back to the much more serious discussion of what to do with 5 million people at the tip of an island ...
'DFO' fits a lot of situations and saves resources.
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Originally Posted by Pulaski
Yeah! That's what we need, more government and more bureaucrats!

Ejecting Scottish and Welsh MPs from the chamber when discussing matters otherwise devolved to Scotland and Wales would achieve the same thing without the need for additional bureaucracy or even reorganization.
Its either a parliament of the UK or it isn't IMO. You don't "eject" anyone from it you limit the powers it has. It's worked fine for the Scottish assembly.

Otherwise you just end up with continued resentment all round at a parliament in London that is distant and not representative of the people - pick any of the UK constituent states and I'd argue that could apply to any of them.
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I see Jim Sillars SNP is making some pro-business points. I'm sure new business will come flooding in with this welcoming attitude.

"He said BP will have to “learn the meaning of nationalisation” and if it wants access to “monster fields” off Shetland “it will have to learn to bend the knee to a greater power – us, the sovereign people of Scotland.”

And there I was considering moving my business to Scotland at some point, but by then my knees will be a wee bit stiff...
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Originally Posted by Sally Redux
'DFO' fits a lot of situations and saves resources.
'whoosh' once again, I'm afraid!

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing
Please tell me you're joking
The use of 'slightly more seriously...' should confirm that I was not being serious at all about the first paragraph, and only slightly serious about the second. I too hate 'text speak' and never use it. But I do find words like 'Analogue' to be unnecessarily long and awkward now that I've got used to 'Analog'. On the other hand, 'lift' does well in place of 'elevator'.
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