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moojito said:
London is a city (the capital) of England, which is a part of the UK, or 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'.

In before "what is Great Britain", that'd be England, Wales and Scotland combined.
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Does that mean Scottish are British? Is there a difference between Britain and Great Britain?
 
Zoltrix said:
Does that mean Scottish are British? Is there a difference between Britain and Great Britain?
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Yip, nationality on my passport says British and I'm from Scotland. Britain and Great Britain are the same thing. Apparently people from Northern Ireland have British as their passport nationality as well, even though the whole definition of the UK sets them apart. Just to keep things nice and clear ;o)
 
how are traditional cable companies going to survive with a severely limited and dated technology against fiber optics?
 
Wait, I thought it was London is the capital, England is the bottom portion of the island, Scotland is the top, and both together form the UK. (London being the capital of England that is.)
 
So when a girl has 2000 photos on facebook, but you click on them and can only see 600, does that mean that she has 1400 bikini pics that only a few close friends can see?
 
Great Britain and Northern Ireland together form the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK)

The UK consists of four countries.. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The capital of England is London, Scotlands capital is Edinburgh, Wales capital is Cardiff and Northern Irelands capital is Belfast.

England, Scotland and Wales together form Great Britain.

Are some of you guys being serious? :lol
 
Is there some ridiculous button combo on the ps3 slim that will set it to autoplay? I brought it to a friend's to watch blurays and I forgot the controller. Even an iPhone app or a way to interface over the network through a pc?
 
Kenak said:
Wait, I thought it was London is the capital, England is the bottom portion of the island, Scotland is the top, and both together form the UK. (London being the capital of England that is.)
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The only reason we are called the UK is because Northern Ireland are separate to the Island of Great Britain. If the Irish Nationalists get their way and Northern Ireland becomes independent, we will just be Great Britain.
 
Neverender said:
Is there some ridiculous button combo on the ps3 slim that will set it to autoplay? I brought it to a friend's to watch blurays and I forgot the controller. Even an iPhone app or a way to interface over the network through a pc?
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Nope. You'd have to have the autoplay option enabled.
 
painey said:
The only reason we are called the UK is because Northern Ireland are separate to the Island of Great Britain. If the Irish Nationalists get their way and Northern Ireland becomes independent, we will just be Great Britain.
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And if anyone was wondering what the basis of the whole terrorism/troubles/IRA stuff in Ireland was about, that's pretty much it there, too.

The thread that keeps on giving!
 
m0ngo said:
Great Britain and Northern Ireland together form the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK)

The UK consists of four countries.. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The capital of England is London, Scotlands capital is Edinburgh, Wales capital is Cardiff and Northern Irelands capital is Belfast.

England, Scotland and Wales together form Great Britain.

Are some of you guys being serious? :lol
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Oh I'd love to go to Belfast and overdose on Guinness.
 
Alucrid said:
Where the hell is that Risky Christ bat signal picture?
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I feel like I'm missing some inside joke. Why does everyone bash Risky Chris?
 
I want to purge my computer (as in delete, literally, EVERYTHING) by going to a trusted third party to do it because I have a lot of worms, viruses, etc, that JUST won't go away. Only thing that's REALLY important to me is some of the MS word documents i have, which I saved on a USB. When its purged, and reinstall safe software, will the viruses be gone? Or do you recommend me get new HDD and the like?
 
Sure, a simple format like you get as part of the windows installer will do that. Word documents can have malicious scripts in them, though. Make sure you install a good av program before putting the usb drive back in.
 
A while back there was a news story about some Russian divers that got killed by scary unidentified shit in a lake or something. Google yielded little results. Not even sure if they were Russian. Anyone know what I'm talking about or where I can find the story?
 
So I just bought a load of candy from the US. Nearly everything has a grape flavour, Jolly Rancher, Laffy Taffy, Skittles and so on. Then there's grape sodas. Yet I can't think of one single candy in the UK that has grape. The fuck?! Grape is probably the most godly flavour there is. Every time I've visited the US I've become more jealous... Buy anyway, where's the damn grape?!

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josephdebono said:
Oh I'd love to go to Belfast and overdose on Guinness.
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I say this time and time again. Belfast is shit. You really do not want to come here.
 
Fucking LOL at the Uk confusion :lol :lol

Kylehimself said:
So I just bought a load of candy from the US. Nearly everything has a grape flavour, Jolly Rancher, Laffy Taffy, Skittles and so on. Then there's grape sodas. Yet I can't think of one single candy in the UK that has grape. The fuck?! Grape is probably the most godly flavour there is. Every time I've visited the US I've become more jealous... Buy anyway, where's the damn grape?!
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Purple Starburst, Purple fruitella? About all I can think off but they may be blackcurrent..

Anyway.

Is there a free program that can limit the bandwidth of a pc/laptop connected to your wifi?

My family's got this piece of shit laptop that they use endlessly and when its logged into the wifi it makes xbox live unplayable, youtube videos need time to load and it just generally craps up the connection.

Theres no options on the router to do it, only thing ive found is turning it (the wifi signal) into a hotspot that has a limit but that kinda blew my mind.
 
Okay here goes. I have monitor problems. The colors are overly red to the point of annoyence. I've ruled out screen problems since it shows colors correct from my laptop and when I'm updating drivers on my PC. When it's done updating drivers it reverts back to overly red. What causes this and how can I fix it?
 
Johnlenham said:
Theres no options on the router to do it, only thing ive found is turning it (the wifi signal) into a hotspot that has a limit but that kinda blew my mind.
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Are you sure? I don't think I've heard of a router that didn't either have QoS options or a simple quote setting. What kind of router is it?

Any bandwidth limiting program like netlimiter would have to be installed on their pc, not yours.
 
kinoki said:
Okay here goes. I have monitor problems. The colors are overly red to the point of annoyence. I've ruled out screen problems since it shows colors correct from my laptop and when I'm updating drivers on my PC. When it's done updating drivers it reverts back to overly red. What causes this and how can I fix it?
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If it's fine with no drivers, then when you put the drivers on the problem appears... yeah, I'll go with the drivers as being the problem. Might want to get in about the control centre app you have with it and see if the colour settings have been moved from their defaults, failing that you can adjust them down from there yourself.
 
Anyone know what this new Youtube player I am getting? It is only on some videos, not all of them.

Here is what it looks like:

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Two questions

1) what is the origin of this "In before riskychris" meme?

2) a really dumb question: How do I make it so that links can be words instead of just the url (hyperlinks I think they're called?)
 
Is it possible to develop an allergy? I've noticed that I have started getting sick everytime I eat peanuts or anything made with peanuts I.E. M&Ms. I didn't have this problem when I was younger.
 
JCX said:
Two questions

1) what is the origin of this "In before riskychris" meme?

2) a really dumb question: How do I make it so that links can be words instead of just the url (hyperlinks I think they're called?)
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You have to wrap the words in URL tags. [*URL=URL here]words[/URL]
Without the asterisk.
 
czartim said:
Is it possible to develop an allergy? I've noticed that I have started getting sick everytime I eat peanuts or anything made with peanuts I.E. M&Ms. I didn't have this problem when I was younger.
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Yes.
 
Why is the pronounciation of Women so different to Woman? I mean there are a lot words where the pronouncation feels off. Is there any general rule for that?
 
Lach said:
Why is the pronounciation of Women so different to Woman? I mean there are a lot words where the pronouncation feels off. Is there any general rule for that?
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The general rule would be that the pronunciation and the spelling of a word have bugger all in common. Sometimes words are pronounced as you would expect, sometimes not. It confuses me no end.

I haven't really answered your question, have I?

To, Too, Two.
 
moojito said:
Are you sure? I don't think I've heard of a router that didn't either have QoS options or a simple quote setting. What kind of router is it?

Any bandwidth limiting program like netlimiter would have to be installed on their pc, not yours.
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Well unless your from the uk you wont be familiar but its a Bt home hub ver 2.
" there are parental controls and a firewall, but no QoS. " according to a review of it.

Balls it has an admin password for installing stuff. Hmmmmm
 
m0ngo said:
Great Britain and Northern Ireland together form the "United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" (UK)

The UK consists of four countries.. England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

The capital of England is London, Scotlands capital is Edinburgh, Wales capital is Cardiff and Northern Irelands capital is Belfast.

England, Scotland and Wales together form Great Britain.

Are some of you guys being serious? :lol
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Canada and Australia are?
 
Glad I'm not the only one who was confused about the whole UK, Britain, England thing. Now, if I only knew why the fuck people from Holland are called "Dutch".
 
Trent Strong said:
Glad I'm not the only one who was confused about the whole UK, Britain, England thing. Now, if I only knew why the fuck people from Holland are called "Dutch".
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Well, people from Holland are called Dutch by English speaking people only. In German and French and even in Russian they are called

- German: Holländer, Niederländer
- French: les Hollandais
- Russisn: gollantskij
 
why does windows 7 sometimes tell me there are updates available, and gives me a little notification that says that an update needs to be done, giving me an opportunity to postpone it for like 10 minutes or an hour or whatever, yet sometimes it just restarts itself, causing me to lose stuff I was working on/with?

happens with my laptop and my wifes as well.
 
Trent Strong said:
Glad I'm not the only one who was confused about the whole UK, Britain, England thing. Now, if I only knew why the fuck people from Holland are called "Dutch".
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Whell that is pretty confusing, it has something to do with people calling parts of Holland Nederduitsch (Lower Germany), Northern Holland also has it's own language which is closer to English than Dutch is.
 
ShutDown202 said:
I have a question.

How come being a prostitute is illegal but being a porn star is not? isnt it pretty much the same thing?
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It's illegal to be paid for sex? A porn star is a paid actor whose job involves sex.. am i right?
 
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