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This BBC article has confused me. €50,000 (£42,000) on sweets? Billions on a house? I'm still getting paid in Euro from an agent in Ireland. What is this article trying to tell me? KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 03:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Today (well, Tuesday) Frank Stewart presented a hand in which North held:
S K3 H JT84 D A42 C Q963
South opened the bidding with one notrump, West passed, and North responded three notrump, which Stewart notated with an exclamation point.
Why, exactly? North has ten HCP and a balanced hand. Slam is out of the question and you definitely want to be in game, unless you're playing weak notrumps 12-14 or something, which looking at the South hand shows is not the case. If you're playing 15-17 notrumps then you might only have 25 HCP between you, but to me 15-17 for one notrump suggests a style where you don't mind being at game with 25 HCP.
I suppose you might futz around with Stayman if you think the doubleton might be worth an extra trick at Hearts, but that will also give the opponents more info, so surely this is anyway a judgment call.
Any idea why Stewart thought this bid was so remarkable? -- Trovatore ( talk) 10:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
A colleague from Costa Rica is visiting England for a week or two, I believe on his first visit to Europe. He's interested to know what he should really see while he's here. I'm struggling to think what the "can't miss" attractions are. One thought I've had thus far is that personally I wouldn't recommend really old and relatively unimpressive (physically) monuments like (for example) Stonehenge.
He's likely to be based mainly in the south-east, but might travel further afield - perhaps not into Scotland or Wales though. He's said he does plan to visit a castle, or perhaps several castles. I suppose he ought to visit a cathedral?
Searching old Reference Desk archives I've found this advice about places to visit in Kent, and also another thread about places to visit for a holiday with interesting walks ( Windsor was suggested). I'm going to suggest HMS Belfast if he's interested in military matters of that era, and indeed other the other branches of the Imperial War Museum. Another colleague also mentioned Chatham Historic Dockyard.
What else? 87.115.94.82 ( talk) 20:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The best part of Britain is the amazing green countryside. It's great to drive around on those ridiculous narrow curvy roads. But if it's a rainy day, and you know there will be one, my favorite indoor attraction that I've been to in the UK is the British Library. The permanent exhibition is incredible: the Lindisfarne Gospels, a Gutenberg Bible, the sole surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscript of Beowulf, the original handwritten lyrics to " A Hard Day's Night," etc. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 02:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Castles: Bodiam is beautiful, but it wasn't necessarily built as a serious defensive unit (Historians differ). The Tower of London, similarly is part castle, part palace. My top tip for a serious castle in England would be Warwick Castle. But if your friend is prepared to go a bit further, Edward I's castles of North Wales are IMHO among the finest in the world: take your pick from my favourites (POV!) Caernarfon Castle or Conwy Castle. The group of them have been recognised as a World Heritage Site. Which leads me on to this NPOV answer: there are just 28 World Heritage Sites in the UK and your friend could do worse than have a look at the list and the "tentative list" (ie candidate sites) just below it. -- Dweller ( talk) 11:18, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
have old case of above cal. bullets have yellow tip what are they ????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.148.134 ( talk) 21:55, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I find myself in the awkward situation of needing to buy new mooney for my mobile phone after it seems to have run out, trouble is, though, this is not somethin I have done before and I have no idea where I would go to do this. the phone is on the virgin network, so I looked in tesco, thinking they might do it, and it seems they have only money available for a couple of other networks and not mine. So, anyone know what would be the quickest and easiest way of fixing this? Would it be possible to do it online tonight?
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 22:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Well that's nice of them, I need to either access my phone's own internet, which it doesn't have, or use my pasword, which I don't have one of either, silly plan inventing all these new rules just to stop people with old phones from using them any more. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 23:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I seem to recall from my time on Virgin PAYG that if you call 789 from the phone in question, you can top up by card instantly -- Saalstin ( talk) 23:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
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This BBC article has confused me. €50,000 (£42,000) on sweets? Billions on a house? I'm still getting paid in Euro from an agent in Ireland. What is this article trying to tell me? KägeTorä - (影虎) ( TALK) 03:49, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Today (well, Tuesday) Frank Stewart presented a hand in which North held:
S K3 H JT84 D A42 C Q963
South opened the bidding with one notrump, West passed, and North responded three notrump, which Stewart notated with an exclamation point.
Why, exactly? North has ten HCP and a balanced hand. Slam is out of the question and you definitely want to be in game, unless you're playing weak notrumps 12-14 or something, which looking at the South hand shows is not the case. If you're playing 15-17 notrumps then you might only have 25 HCP between you, but to me 15-17 for one notrump suggests a style where you don't mind being at game with 25 HCP.
I suppose you might futz around with Stayman if you think the doubleton might be worth an extra trick at Hearts, but that will also give the opponents more info, so surely this is anyway a judgment call.
Any idea why Stewart thought this bid was so remarkable? -- Trovatore ( talk) 10:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
A colleague from Costa Rica is visiting England for a week or two, I believe on his first visit to Europe. He's interested to know what he should really see while he's here. I'm struggling to think what the "can't miss" attractions are. One thought I've had thus far is that personally I wouldn't recommend really old and relatively unimpressive (physically) monuments like (for example) Stonehenge.
He's likely to be based mainly in the south-east, but might travel further afield - perhaps not into Scotland or Wales though. He's said he does plan to visit a castle, or perhaps several castles. I suppose he ought to visit a cathedral?
Searching old Reference Desk archives I've found this advice about places to visit in Kent, and also another thread about places to visit for a holiday with interesting walks ( Windsor was suggested). I'm going to suggest HMS Belfast if he's interested in military matters of that era, and indeed other the other branches of the Imperial War Museum. Another colleague also mentioned Chatham Historic Dockyard.
What else? 87.115.94.82 ( talk) 20:27, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
The best part of Britain is the amazing green countryside. It's great to drive around on those ridiculous narrow curvy roads. But if it's a rainy day, and you know there will be one, my favorite indoor attraction that I've been to in the UK is the British Library. The permanent exhibition is incredible: the Lindisfarne Gospels, a Gutenberg Bible, the sole surviving Anglo-Saxon manuscript of Beowulf, the original handwritten lyrics to " A Hard Day's Night," etc. -- Mwalcoff ( talk) 02:36, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
Castles: Bodiam is beautiful, but it wasn't necessarily built as a serious defensive unit (Historians differ). The Tower of London, similarly is part castle, part palace. My top tip for a serious castle in England would be Warwick Castle. But if your friend is prepared to go a bit further, Edward I's castles of North Wales are IMHO among the finest in the world: take your pick from my favourites (POV!) Caernarfon Castle or Conwy Castle. The group of them have been recognised as a World Heritage Site. Which leads me on to this NPOV answer: there are just 28 World Heritage Sites in the UK and your friend could do worse than have a look at the list and the "tentative list" (ie candidate sites) just below it. -- Dweller ( talk) 11:18, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
have old case of above cal. bullets have yellow tip what are they ????? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 208.100.148.134 ( talk) 21:55, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I find myself in the awkward situation of needing to buy new mooney for my mobile phone after it seems to have run out, trouble is, though, this is not somethin I have done before and I have no idea where I would go to do this. the phone is on the virgin network, so I looked in tesco, thinking they might do it, and it seems they have only money available for a couple of other networks and not mine. So, anyone know what would be the quickest and easiest way of fixing this? Would it be possible to do it online tonight?
148.197.81.179 ( talk) 22:50, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
Well that's nice of them, I need to either access my phone's own internet, which it doesn't have, or use my pasword, which I don't have one of either, silly plan inventing all these new rules just to stop people with old phones from using them any more. 148.197.81.179 ( talk) 23:29, 1 February 2012 (UTC)
I seem to recall from my time on Virgin PAYG that if you call 789 from the phone in question, you can top up by card instantly -- Saalstin ( talk) 23:31, 1 February 2012 (UTC)