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It's even GRIMMER up North after MEGA SKY BROADBAND OUTAGE
Life in the famously grim north of England became even more appalling today following a massive Sky broadband outage. Sky's service via a number of exchanges across the North West has collapsed, crippling broadband connections for customers living in the badlands surrounding Manchester and Liverpool. The provider said the …
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Friday 17th October 2014 11:11 GMT Anonymous Coward
"It talks of a broadband outage but only mentions Sky. So was it just Sky customers or all ADSL customers?"
Sky's fibre customers, if I'm reading it right. They do offer ADSL ("Broadband Connect") but it's in a very small area of their advertising blurb, unless you check whether you can get the great stuff that's plastered everywhere else :)
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Friday 17th October 2014 12:07 GMT Anonymous Coward
"Broadband connect" is their ADSL product provided over the BT network and is available to everyone, and it's crap because they refuse to pay BT for enough capacity. It's basically there so they can say to the rural plebs that they can take broadband from them.
A bit like how Virgin offers a dire ADSL connection for people not in their cabled areas, so that they can't get out of contracts because they're moving to a non-cabled house.
They also offer LLU ADSL to people who are connected to a telephone exchange with their equipment installed, probably "unlimited" or whatever it is - which is apparently a much better service than connect (when it is working). Then they offer fibre as well.
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Friday 17th October 2014 12:46 GMT MyffyW
Re: Plus net phone and broadband down here for us
PlusNet are hopeless when there is scarcely a zephyr in the air, so no surprise that a few gusts causes them problems.
And they offer good-honest-Yorkshire-broadband, so from their point of view you (@David_Dawson) are the wrong side of the Pennines.
[I speak as someone with Lancashire and Yorkshire blood, so if you fancy flaming this particular Tudor Rose it wouldn't be the first time]
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Friday 17th October 2014 09:41 GMT Terry 6
Re: North?
Well, there's also the Bury (Home of the late Robert Peel and origin of the Black Pudding) area to the North of Manchester.
And Southern Softies indeed, Alderly Edge. So all those footballers and their current wives, and the astronomy types from Jodrell Bank may well be scooped in to that as well.
Unless it is just Sky. In which case, serves 'em right.
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Friday 17th October 2014 11:18 GMT theblackhand
Re: Are Eccles Cakes subject to the appellation controlée laws?
Exactly - what is the point in having a petty, bureaucratic organisation if they aren't going to be petty or bureaucratic?
If something isn't done to stop this, foreign cakes, with their fancy icing, will flood UK cake shelves and cause good, honest British cakes to be left on the shelf.
Vote some random organisation to stop or start this outrage!
Mines the coat with Labour/Conservative/Lib Dem/UKIP crossed out and replaced with "what is the point?"....
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Friday 17th October 2014 23:10 GMT Destroy All Monsters
Re: Are Eccles Cakes subject to the appellation controlée laws?
You may be surprised to learn that the Eccles Building is the
NaziRomanic-style building of the Federal Reserve located inmodern babylonWashington D.C., which, contrary to its name, does not house a reserve, just a computerized print shop. Set up by Monsieur FDR who thought it might be useful to control economic busts.
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Friday 17th October 2014 10:51 GMT Chemist
Re: Well..
"Saas Fee. Dullest ski holiday i've ever been on. (FYI)"
Well I don't ski but I do walk/climb. If I did ski I could do it at the moment - many of the main ski teams are here including Japanese. The Swiss team has >18 minibuses.
I can't see the runs at the moment as there is some cloud ( it snowed last night down to ~3000m )
http://www.saas-fee.ch/en/aktuell/Webcam_Mittelallalin
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Friday 17th October 2014 09:56 GMT Anonymous Coward
Article crap. Try this instead.
Here's a suitable replacement article, with accompanying video.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ftw7Qb8mYU
Play loud.
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Friday 17th October 2014 12:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Article crap. Try this instead.
Skipton, best place to live?
I can remember childhoods in Yorkshire not many miles away, playing on ten foot snowdrifts in winter, wallowing in the miserable isolation and backwardness. So apart from the weather, the locals, and the fact that it's the official Middle Of *ucking Nowhere (MOFN) perhaps it is a good place to live if you're a bored London journo scraping up some contracted copy for the Huff post.
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Friday 17th October 2014 12:29 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: North??
"North?? More like the Midlands"
Speaking on behalf of Worcestershire, I'd like to say that we don't want any association with them Scouse and Manc criminals.
Obviously we need a new name to encompass this region, but as Manchester Liverpool and Sheffield are growing into each other a single town name will do. Sh1tchester, anyone?
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Friday 17th October 2014 10:46 GMT Anonymous Coward
Manchester is not northen
Hate to tell everyone in the UK but Manchester is not in the north, its only just midlands.if you remember there was this great big thing about Scotland staying as part of the UK, which it did. looking at the UK that puts Manchester in the middle of the country ie. midlands. As we in Edinburgh say Manchester just a bunch of soft southerns.
If you are outside the UK, you can be forgiven for thinking Manchester is in the north due to their propaganda about it. To find where Manchester is take a map of the UK, one with out all the outlying islands is easiest, and fold it in half, south coast to north coast, and Manchester is roughly on that fold
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Friday 17th October 2014 16:44 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Manchester is not northen
"And I say that as a poncey southerner who braved life on the windswept peaks of Carrbrook for many years."
I'll back that, having moved from the pleasant and civilised south to the uncouth north for my growing up years. By God! It was like being a missionary amongst savages! Or a legionary atop Hadrian's wall. There was I sole speaker of the Queen's English for a hundred miles, and all around the Yorkshire vermin were spitting in the gutter and bah't tatting before setting off to Ilkley Moor with whippets in tow and cloth cap upon head. It was only as we passed Watford Gap on the way south that mum would let me turn the Brownings to safety and come out of the Cortina's rear turret.
Looking on the bright side, thanks to Blair, most of the BBC and their middle class Guardian reading liberals have been exiled to the Manchester Gulag. Before the native Mancs know it they'll have been gentrified and become the people they currently loathe in the less grim suburbs. And then the Glaswegians will have undisputed title of the expression "northerners".
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Friday 17th October 2014 12:13 GMT Tom Cooke
Re: That's not the north!
>Northumbria used to stretch from Edinburgh down to Sheffield. I'd think anyone in that vicinity could be forgiven for calling themselves Northern!
Upvote for reminding of a piece of history that gets far too little coverage these days IMO.
Edit: There's a place very near my old home in Sheffield, called "Dore", which I understand really was the *door* to Northumbria from whichever other Anglo-Saxon kingdom was adjacent.
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Friday 17th October 2014 13:43 GMT Spoobistle
Re: @rpb - Currant in Yorkshire
> In Yorkshire we feed Eccles cakes to pigs although we have to blend them in with other things
As a child in Manchester it was a tricky choice between the Egg Custard and the Eccles Cake; not till I came to Yorkshire did I discover that some local genius had combined the two in the Curd Tart. Its only disadvantage is having to avoid the Hulture Secretary temptation in the bakery.
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Friday 17th October 2014 14:57 GMT Thecowking
Re: @rpb - Currant in Yorkshire
Oooh, egg tart.
I've not had one of those in years. Of course, I live in the desolate wastes of the South now (Cambridge has only one Greggs and that's a Greggs café, bloody barbaric I tell you), so such pleasures are lost to me.
Ask for a bacon barm round here and they look at you funny. Ask for a donner kebab and they serve you some anemic little thing in a sodding pitta rather than a proper portion in a naan like you get back in Manchester.
I do miss it there. One day I shall move back and revel in proper food and being near hills again.
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Saturday 18th October 2014 08:26 GMT Anonymous Coward
Goodness me Jasper, we do have it in for the North.
How can anyone hailing from Essex, refer to areas of south Manchester and Cheshire as the 'Badlands'?
I suspect quite a small percentage of people living in the 'Badlands' have sky broadband given the numerous other unaffected providers out there.
One benefit of living in the North is we have something called mobile internet which is quite fabulous, this is especially good when land based internet goes down it means people in the 'grim north' just 'carry on regardless'.
When I stumbled across your piece my first thought was, which pompous southern cretin has written this? Someone that has clearly never been north of Milton Keynes.
I leave you to pen more drivel.........