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Nice theory, but because I have no signal and am retired I have no use for a smartphone or its costs so don't have one. I am correct, not speaking about now but about the fact that across Africa they had mobile phone payments years go and long before we had any phone means. Those supposedly...

Once again it will expose the false claim of 95% mobile coverage. Just like the similar false claim about broadband coverage. It's our governments who are the Luddites, trailing far behind the oriental countries in our technologies in both coverage and speed. We even lagged behind Africa in...

You mean like skills and competence in those other countries? .

I wasn't able to get that working, but didn't try very hard. I don't use wireless connections in flats for security reasons, my whole system is hard wired, computers, TV, digital TV recorders. For the same reasons my smart meter doesn't work, like all the others round here. .

Except for people like me who can't use it. With no mobile signal at home I can't give them a number to use or receive the text. The result was no business for them but for Machine Mart instead, since they are more flexible. Also you might not be so impressed if you were queuing in the car...

Seems quite logical to me. Many oriental peoples eat insects and their larvae which they laboriously gather, so letting a bat do that work for you and eating the bat is merely labour saving efficiency. .

Your missing letters stand for States of America Realistically. :) .

As I said, not out of the question at all, just the less likely. .

You are speaking of probabilities, we are speaking of possibilities. Both exist. .

Perhaps there was. With most only suffering cold or flu like symptoms there could well have been without it being recognised as something new. I'm still aware of how some died in San Francisco from a mysterious unrecognised illness that was later recognised to probably be aids. That was long...

It wasn't any blunder, but you can remain in ignorance if it pleases you. .

As Ross said, we don't do much dirty work down here. We even import people to pick veg and fruit for us. I'm surprised Kent didn't bring in foreign miners to dig the coal out, they now bring in Eastern Europeans to pick hops, though most of our hops we import now from Eastern Europe. Saves...

Because the military games were held there? .

I nearly posted this myself, but didn't since it was such an isolated example in the south. .

Indeed, it's most commonly military establishments and all "other ranks" take part in these guard duties. It can get serious too, a friend of mine in my army years was shot in the stomach guarding a very mundane army unit. That was by the IRA hoping to get access into the armoury for weapons. .

Historic sour grapes perhaps, derived from former French Indo-China, now known as Vietnam. .

You've probably missed the government clarification on what you can buy. After Northampton police made fools of themselves by trying to dictate what shoppers could buy, the government made it clear that while out buying any essential, they could buy whatever else they liked from the store. In...

That's correct, the type of soft asbestos moulded around pipes or anything else needing insulation. There's lots of it on central heating pipes in large buildings. It's safe all the time it's covered with paint or any other intact coating, but dangerous once that gets broken. .

I never saw any walls like that in my four terms there as a guinea pig for experiments, probably because I'm not classed as a rat, whatever others might think. However there may well have been in animal experimentation labs, but of course I was in the human experimentation labs side. Still...

It isn't confusing, as the government have confirmed, you can buy anything you like from any shop legally open. The actual words used in relation to shoppers were: "They can buy anything they like". They hardly needed to clarify, since the guidance only said one should only leave home for...