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From: Brimstone on 1 Apr 2010 09:48 "JNugent" <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message news:V4udnZgF0Ii6PCnWnZ2dnUVZ8h9i4p2d(a)pipex.net... > paul george wrote: > >> JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote: > >>> You *must* be thinking of the Labour government, who commissioned, >>> approved >>> and paid for this TV advert: > >>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXoUJN1O8i0&feature=PlayList&p=78B3873...> > >>> As you should be able to see and hear, the term "road tax" is used >>> there - >>> both orally and in writing. And this is in an offical government >>> publication. >>> That is because "road tax" is - quite simply - the everyday term used to >>> describe the amount of money one has to pay to the government in respect >>> of >>> the use of a particular motor vehicle on the roads. > >> And "Hoover" is - quite simply - the everyday term used to describe >> a vacuum cleaner. Doesn't make it the correct term. > > Did you have a point you were trying to make? > Is every ball point pen a "biro"?
From: David on 1 Apr 2010 09:57 "Brimstone" <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9u-dnenXwKSmOSnWnZ2dnUVZ7vWdnZ2d(a)bt.com... > > > "JNugent" <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message > news:V4udnZgF0Ii6PCnWnZ2dnUVZ8h9i4p2d(a)pipex.net... >> paul george wrote: >> >>> JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote: >> >>>> You *must* be thinking of the Labour government, who commissioned, >>>> approved >>>> and paid for this TV advert: >> >>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXoUJN1O8i0&feature=PlayList&p=78B3873...> >> >>>> As you should be able to see and hear, the term "road tax" is used >>>> there - >>>> both orally and in writing. And this is in an offical government >>>> publication. >>>> That is because "road tax" is - quite simply - the everyday term used >>>> to >>>> describe the amount of money one has to pay to the government in >>>> respect of >>>> the use of a particular motor vehicle on the roads. >> >>> And "Hoover" is - quite simply - the everyday term used to describe >>> a vacuum cleaner. Doesn't make it the correct term. >> >> Did you have a point you were trying to make? >> > Is every ball point pen a "biro"? > >
From: Dylan Smith on 1 Apr 2010 10:41 On 2010-03-29, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: > There was no update when I checked it before leaving home. > >> So - you look at the ETA an hour or two before you're due to leave, in >> order to see if you need to bring the collection time forward. > > As long as the website is updated. Handy tip: FlightAware is automatic and uses data supplied by ATC radar feeds, so is always up to date and shows you on a map just where the flight actually is and in most cases will give an ETA and in places it doesn't you can get a pretty good guess from the map. http://flightaware.com HTH, HAND.
From: Brimstone on 1 Apr 2010 10:54 "Dylan Smith" <dyls(a)alioth.net> wrote in message news:hp2ba4$o2s$1(a)xen1.xcski.com... > On 2010-03-29, Brimstone <brimstone(a)hotmail.com> wrote: >> There was no update when I checked it before leaving home. >> >>> So - you look at the ETA an hour or two before you're due to leave, in >>> order to see if you need to bring the collection time forward. >> >> As long as the website is updated. > > Handy tip: > FlightAware is automatic and uses data supplied by ATC radar feeds, so is > always up to date and shows you on a map just where the flight actually > is and in most cases will give an ETA and in places it doesn't you can > get a pretty good guess from the map. > > http://flightaware.com > > HTH, > Since it appears to be devoted to flights in the USA, and southern Canada it doesn't when the flight one is wish to track is in Europe. > HAND. I will, thank you.
From: JNugent on 1 Apr 2010 11:00
Brimstone wrote: > > > "JNugent" <JN(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote in message > news:V4udnZgF0Ii6PCnWnZ2dnUVZ8h9i4p2d(a)pipex.net... >> paul george wrote: >> >>> JNugent <J...(a)noparticularplacetogo.com> wrote: >> >>>> You *must* be thinking of the Labour government, who commissioned, >>>> approved >>>> and paid for this TV advert: >> >>>> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXoUJN1O8i0&feature=PlayList&p=78B3873...> >>>> >> >>>> As you should be able to see and hear, the term "road tax" is used >>>> there - >>>> both orally and in writing. And this is in an offical government >>>> publication. >>>> That is because "road tax" is - quite simply - the everyday term >>>> used to >>>> describe the amount of money one has to pay to the government in >>>> respect of >>>> the use of a particular motor vehicle on the roads. >> >>> And "Hoover" is - quite simply - the everyday term used to describe >>> a vacuum cleaner. Doesn't make it the correct term. >> >> Did you have a point you were trying to make? >> > Is every ball point pen a "biro"? Yes. Though not every one of them might be a Biro. |