THE BRITISH THREAD II

Izzie wrote:

(so much easier!)

You've obviously never been ticked off by McT, Steve, and cohords.

(Hi, Izzie!)

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Ooooooh...not yet Shocked

I'm sure Mac will appreciate a cuppa nevertheless.

(await an ear-bashing at some stage no doubt, from someone Rolling Eyes

)

However, a freshly made cuppa tea is usually most welcome, with good company, at Chez Izzie. Smile

(Nice to see you Walter. Trust you are fighting the good fight still with the paperwork.

Hey Steve too.)

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Izzie you have to be careful of that Walter character. Just when you are having a chat and a cup of coffee with him, made from best instant coffee bags, he takes a magnetic resonance imaging scan of your brain and posts it on the internet. He knows what you are thinking. Probably before you do.

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there appears to be smoke coming from my front temporal lobe. That proves I was on the Brit thread at the time.

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Quote:

Writing in the journal Nature, the scientists, led by Dr Jack Gallant from the University of California at Berkeley, said: "Our results suggest that it may soon be possible to reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience from measurements of brain activity alone. Imagine a general brain-reading device that could reconstruct a picture of a person's visual experience at any moment in time."

"And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life and life only."

Bob Dylan. It's Alright Ma, I'm Only Bleedin'.

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Is that nice mr Zimmerman still a Christian?

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Steve 41oo wrote:

he takes a magnetic resonance imaging scan of your brain and posts it on the internet. He knows what you are thinking. Probably before you do.

Noted Steve thank you - but at this point in time any scan would appear inconclusive to my brain being present and active! Rolling Eyes

Gosh, if he knows what's going on inside my head - oh........ please can he tell me!

However, he could certainly try again in a couple of months and see if there has been an improvement. Smile

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you are far too modest and nice a person to be on the brit thread Izz.

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Steve 41oo wrote:

you are far too modest and nice a person to be on the brit thread Izz.

Right back at ya Steve - but hey, we're Brits - we are nice people (oh, that was the "royal we" - just in case anyone says I don't speak for all Brits)

Trust your day is going well Steve with whatever you are doing - well, I hope it is anyway Smile

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A.A.Gill said in the Sunday Times something to the effect that if you use a sentence with the word "nurse" in it and fail to include the words "angel/angels" and "grossly underpaid" you can be had up for treason.

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Werll, you know, spendi, who really knows if former heroin addicts always stay clean or what the addiction made to their brains?

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Someone asked me what those little cardboard handles on Tetley's Earl Grey teabags were for.

I said that they were posh. That they are a metaphor for bourgeois marriage.

Just dunk them up and down a few times avoiding the necessity of getting your fingers wet squeezing them out.

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Are you sure its the Tetley's Earl Grey and not the Tetley's Extra Smooth you're on S?

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Good evening Gentlemen,

My teabags don't have posh little cardboard handles on to dunk with.

Place the tea-bag in the cup, let it brew, take out with fingers, chuck tea-bag in sink. No worries. Smile

Pleasant evening to you all.

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spendius wrote:

I said that they were posh. That they are a metaphor for bourgeois marriage.

Actually a relict from an earlier forerunner of the teabags (the kind known today was invented by the German Adolf Rambold from the firm 'Teekanne' [tea pot] in 1929): the German Imperial Army had them during WWI on the "tea bombs" = kind of teabags, made out of gauze.

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I thought it was Bismark who invented teabags. Cool

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Steve 41oo wrote:

you are far too modest and nice a person to be on the brit thread Izz.

Yes - I told her that before....bbbbut she's a slow learner -- she's persisting!

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georgeob1 wrote:

I thought it was Bismark who invented teabags.

He invented the Bismarck herring.

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Well wouldnt you just know it. The Germans got there first with their prototype tea bombs.

And as for "chucking it in the sink"...well I'm really surprised, not the sort of behaviour I would have expected from a refined lady. The upper classes dump it in the bin. Or that is what I am reliably informed HMQ instructs her First Teabag of House to do with it.

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Steve 41oo wrote:

And as for "chucking it in the sink"...well I'm really surprised, not the sort of behaviour I would have expected from a refined lady. The upper classes dump it in the bin. Or that is what I am reliably informed HMQ instructs her First Teabag of House to do with it.

"Refined lady" Laughing

oh yep, that's so me!

I do endeavour to empty the sink of tea-bags at least once a day :wink:

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