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Previously on "Monday Links from the Bench vol. DXIII"

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    If you're very (un)lucky you may get one, but it won't be from me
    Why else was admin invited?

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by Zigenare View Post
    Does that mean I'm not going to get a lap dance?
    If you're very (un)lucky you may get one, but it won't be from me

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  • Zigenare
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    I think it's favouritism. Where's my cancellation?
    Does that mean I'm not going to get a lap dance?

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    An offer is not an agreement
    Thats what ex-mrs-bp said.....

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    It was about to be issued. But then you agreed to lend NAT your spare Christmas Jumper.

    Plus we want to meet HWMBO.....
    An offer is not an agreement

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    I think it's favouritism. Where's my cancellation?
    It was about to be issued. But then you agreed to lend NAT your spare Christmas Jumper.

    Plus we want to meet HWMBO.....

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  • ladymuck
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    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    And there was me grappling with the several million reasons not to go to Manchester...
    I think it's favouritism. Where's my cancellation?

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  • Mordac
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    Most of which revolve around the fact that we almost always lose in Manchester...

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    And your invite to the Manchester social is cancelled.
    And there was me grappling with the several million reasons not to go to Manchester...

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  • BrilloPad
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    Originally posted by Mordac View Post
    And I wonder why I don't get invited to so many parties these days...
    And your invite to the Manchester social is cancelled.

    Originally posted by ladymuck View Post
    I think it's a never ending cycle of bang - expansion - contraction - bang - expansion - contraction. Every now and then it's all turned off and then back on again.

    We don't have evidence for the contraction part yet as we're still in the expansion phase.

    That's why some people think they've had former lives, and is the reason for people believing in reincarnation and stuff.
    I look forward to living my life backwards.....

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  • ladymuck
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    I think it's a never ending cycle of bang - expansion - contraction - bang - expansion - contraction. Every now and then it's all turned off and then back on again.

    We don't have evidence for the contraction part yet as we're still in the expansion phase.

    That's why some people think they've had former lives, and is the reason for people believing in reincarnation and stuff.

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  • Mordac
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    Originally posted by BrilloPad View Post
    What Came First: Inflation Or The Big Bang?

    Inflation came first, and its end heralded the arrival of the Big Bang. There are still those who disagree, but they're now nearly a full 40 years out of date. When they assert that "the Big Bang was the beginning," you'll know why cosmic inflation actually came first. As far as what came before the final fraction-of-a-second of inflation? Your hypothesis is just as good as anyone's.

    I think it was God dying.....
    And if was the Big Bang, what caused it? My original theory of one of MFs ancestors farting after a particularly good lunch hasn't exactly met with universal approval from the scientific community.

    Nobody has been able to explain what was there before the BB. My own (new) theory is that the BB was two huge galaxies colliding, destroying the previous universe, and what we have now is the new universe expanding into the space vacated by the old one.

    And I wonder why I don't get invited to so many parties these days...

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  • BrilloPad
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    What Came First: Inflation Or The Big Bang?

    Inflation came first, and its end heralded the arrival of the Big Bang. There are still those who disagree, but they're now nearly a full 40 years out of date. When they assert that "the Big Bang was the beginning," you'll know why cosmic inflation actually came first. As far as what came before the final fraction-of-a-second of inflation? Your hypothesis is just as good as anyone's.

    I think it was God dying.....

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  • NickFitz
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    Here it is on the 1965 1:10,560 OS map (with the Post office labelled), and on the 1905 6-inch map

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  • DoctorStrangelove
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    Originally posted by DoctorStrangelove View Post
    There's a photo somewhere of a train on that track between the houses in Dowlais.
    And here we go:

    http://www.alangeorge.co.uk/Images_A...kham_small.jpg

    Surprise!

    Surprise Level crossings - UK Standard Gauge Industrial Modelling - RMweb

    OCT 74B Shunter crossing Dowlais High Street, September 19… | Flickr
    Last edited by DoctorStrangelove; 29 October 2019, 15:07.

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