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- 14:59 Thu 14 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Presentation and performance is everything. Hard to do with a spreadsheet; I spent all yesterday filling a big one in the hope that the number in the bottom right would be the number we started with (it wasn't, but that was sort of the point). Get away with your spreadsheets.
- 00:33 Wed 13 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
My pleasure, Owen. It was great fun. And rather thrilling that you liked it too, hmm?
- 23:11 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Well well. Who could have expected that we'd arrive here so soon - only a page and a half remains and it makes no sense to leave half the final exposition until tomorrow so here you are, the end of the road and a dose and a half of goodness. Enjoy it. It's been fun. Soyez soin. A bientôt. https://up...
- 22:15 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
Re: One quiz at a time
Yes. Alex's turn. Rather nice here in The Dominican. But not looking forward to the day-long meeting tomorrow in which 6 people try to finish filling in a European Commission funding application for €5m.
Note to self: don't get taxis from the airport in future.
Note to self: don't get taxis from the airport in future.
- 18:01 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Wow! I can't wait to post tonight's episode (get back!) now we that know so much about 1908!
- 17:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
Re: One quiz at a time
YesAHB wrote:Am I allowed to answer?
- 17:59 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
Re: One quiz at a time
NoDRT wrote:Not even half a mark for my working out?
- 08:31 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
- 00:15 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
Re: One quiz at a time
Nice try. And effortlessly, charmingly humorous as always. But wrong.
- 00:00 Tue 12 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Then someone's been interfering with your maid.DRT wrote:Yes. I bought the book yesterday.
- 23:59 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
One quiz at a time
See Travel. Name the hotel.
(Show your working.)
(Show your working.)
Brussels?
Any recommendations for good port in Brussels? I'm there from tomorrow and staying in a hotel where Alex's famous forebear used to live.
- 23:54 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Nice idea. But is it right?
- 23:33 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: One quiz at a time
- Replies: 9703
- Views: 1839899
Re: One quiz at a time
This is a wild guess... 2 x Lagavulin 16, a Talisker 10 and an Aberlour 12 ?
It's just a guess to get us started.
It's just a guess to get us started.
- 23:23 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
What a tantalising ending to tonight's episode!! Has anyone guessed the twist yet?
- 15:12 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
According to the Office for National Statistics in 2014 there were 245142 male deaths of which 3682 were due to prostate cancer; 3682/245142 is almost exactly 1.5%. We already established that the figure quoted was not a percentage of all male deaths, but of males in the UK. What kind of cancer did...
- 13:27 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
Derek is innumerate.
- 11:19 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
I have known people who died of prostate cancer, including in my own family. Does that rebalance everything?
- 00:34 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
The medical profession is sticking up for itself and ganging up against us.
- 00:10 Mon 11 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
Am I dying or not? The statistical likelihood of that happening appears not to have changed.
Cheers.
Cheers.
- 23:33 Sun 10 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Oh go on then. You've been so good until now.
- 23:32 Sun 10 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Port and literature
Not at all. I'm watching Jake Chapman speak some of the most intelligent sentences yet heard on BBC TV, while I make a bolognese.LGTrotter wrote:It's your time we're wasting.
Now do you want to know what happens in the cellar or not?
- 22:42 Sun 10 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Oh in that case…
- 20:54 Sun 10 Jan 2016
- Forum: Port Conversations
- Topic: Port and literature
- Replies: 263
- Views: 129548
Re: Port and literature
Are you ready? I'm ready.
- 20:53 Sun 10 Jan 2016
- Forum: Meaningless Drivel
- Topic: Alcohol and health
- Replies: 340
- Views: 202192
Re: Alcohol and health
You were doing so well...