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pcernie
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Just saw an MS ad that portrayed a woman who had a four year old desktop PC and didn't see the need to upgrade to a laptop (that wasn't even her own notion, seemingly), as if that was a tragedy. It's made even worse then when laptops start 'catching her eye'... Whoever advises MS on ads needs sacking  EDIT - Tesco has an ad taking the piss out of choosing a laptop by it's colour  _________________Plain English advice on everything money, purchase and service related:
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l3v1ck
What's a life?
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Location: The Right Side of the Pennines (metaphorically & geographically)
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+1 I was thinking something similar when I saw that advert too.
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Blue_Nowhere
Spends far too much time on here
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 8:57 pm
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Location: Here for now...
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One of your very worst John. *Opens door* 
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lacloss
Doesn't have much of a life
Joined: Fri Apr 24, 2009 7:48 am
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Location: Marbella Spain
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Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely, but rather to skid in sideways, chocolate in one hand, wine in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming...
Damn, What a ride!!
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Amnesia10
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The issue with that ad is the woman got a lot of assistance to help her choose. That rarely happens in a retailer. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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John_Vella
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Location: Manchester.
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Corrected  _________________John Vella BSc (Hons), PGCE - Still the official forum prankster and crude remarker  Sorry I'll behave now. Promise
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bobbdobbs
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Damn I missed this one! http://www.teefury.com _________________Finally joined Flickr
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belchingmatt
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I think the follwing phrase would work quite well. "If you've got it, then we can reverse polarise it."
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ProfessorF
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Enjoy: http://igor113.livejournal.com/51213.htmlFWIW, this is one of the anti-ship missile equipped variants.
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Amnesia10
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The Caspian Sea Monster or Ekranoplane if I remember rightly. These were designed to move hundreds of troops very quickly and cheaply vast distances. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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Looks like it would use a million gallons a second; it's all engine!
_________________jonbwfc's law: "In any forum thread someone will, no matter what the subject, mention Firefly." When you're feeling too silly for x404, youRwired.net
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| Tue Aug 30, 2011 7:37 pm |
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ProfessorF
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The Caspian Sea Monster was the progenitor of this variant. Same layout as this one, but this one's much smaller and was missile equipped. The USSR had a small fleet of this variant, ready to hail fiery death across European shores. Invisible to both radar and hydrophones, immune to mines and faster than any boat, it was a bit of a problem for the west.
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ProfessorF
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And that's just one reason why it's awesome.
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Amnesia10
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Not invisible to radar just flew below normal radar but downward looking radar would find them easily enough. Also only immune to mines when flying. As soon as they touched down they had the same problems of ships with mines. Still very formidable and yes very worrying to the West for a while. _________________Do concentrate, 007... "You are gifted. Mine is bordering on seven seconds." https://www.dropbox.com/referrals/NTg5MzczNTkhttp://astore.amazon.co.uk/wwwx404couk-21
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ProfessorF
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They were capable of beach landings - so marine mines wouldn't be much of an issue, but common land anti tank ones might be thinking about it.
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