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I successfully wrestled a double bed sized duvet into a cover today. A victory worthy of song.

I agree (or maybe the GT version, which was almost as fast and much cheaper), but I think there was a more important one that predates gamersnexus even further - 3dfx Voodoo. The first GPU (and cards) for home use. It was a far larger performance increase than anything else. So much so that it...

I would advise against mixing alcohol with opiods. It's a bad combination.

It wasn't pointless. It satisfied my curiosity and provided some entertainment at work. The civet faeces coffee I bought was a waste of money, though. Nice enough coffee, but nothing out of the ordinary and thus not worth the higher price.

Beecham's Powders. That's what everyone I knew used for a cold when I was growing up and the smell is very distinctive. I know that it's just aspirin and caffeine and some inactive ingredients. I understand that it works better than an aspirin tablet and some coffee for me for psychological...

It's an interesting channel about many aspects of life in high and late medieval England. The presenter does re-enactment and experimental history because it's their area of interest. Whether it's jousting in a tournament, working some of their land as a medieval peasant or walking their land...

I have an arrangement with spiders in my house. My side of the bargain is that I leave them alone and will rescue them if they're silly enough to go into the bath and their side of the bargain is that they stand still while I can see them. Spiders scurrying about give me the heebie-jeebies. The...

Pigs are often underrated by people unfamiliar with them. We tend to have the "cute little piggy" image in mind. People used to hunt pigs with specialised weaponry, in groups. And sometimes were killed by the pig anyway. It depends on the pig, since humans have selectively bred pigs in all...

"I am not a shop" is an insider joke on these forums, stemming from a thread years ago. It doesn't really mean anything. Same goes for queen bees, mustard, Gucci belts, corner sofas and pooing through letterboxes. You're right that it isn't clear from outside, but these forums branched out...

In this case it's a hospital order with restrictions. Release would require permission from the Secretary of State for Justice as well as the relevant doctor(s). The sentence is indefinite.

Which is one of the things I said in the post you replied to. And nothing that says it could. We know next to nothing. We don't even know what life is, let alone what conditions are required for it. Or how it begins. Or if it begins. Maybe life is inherent to the universe and has existed since...

It's not just about money. It's also about power. So they'll even accept a loss in money (which they will recoup by charging their targets higher prices anyway).

It's not even vengeance, since they're not calling for the legal right to kill him. They're calling for a "change" from a life sentence to a life sentence, i.e. no change at all.

Luxury! When I were a lad we used to dream of having a blanket. We had to make do with worn out sacks.

I didn't know, so I looked it up. And now I wish I didn't know. :) The name sounds like a brand of toilet paper, which is appropriate :) I think this post was spot on: My civet faeces coffee arrived today. Guaranteed wild civet faeces coffee, so it's better in ethical terms. We'll try it next...

We know that cats are the true rulers of the world already because their behaviour tells us so :) When I was a kid, we had a cat turn up and move in. No idea where it came from. We tried to find out, but couldn't. The cat was "Yeah, my home now". It mentored some kittens we got a bit later. It...

I'm going to assume for the sake of argument that the 100,000,000 figure was intended to be one estimate of the number of probably rocky planets in this galaxy that could receive an amount of energy from their star(s) that might allow for the presence of liquid water if all the geological and...

No, because I haven't made any. The Drake equation is what it is and you did say that you used it to calculate a figure of 100,000,000.

I never appeared in Supernatural. :)

That wasn't my intention. It was a comment on the randomness of fame and how that applies to Schrodinger, not a comment on your post. Your post reminded me of it, but my reply wasn't directly about your post. With hindsight I can see that I should have marked that separation by starting with a...