Re: TV as background
women, jesus, my missis does the same, only with laptop, tv, freesat box on.
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They did touch salad cream, some years ago mind. it wasn't as nice as the original, but after so many years I've got used to it.
Bacon sarnie for me is smoked streaky, fried so crisp, that the frying pan stops sizzling and the bacon crumbles. Topped with Heinz salad cream or HP fruity sauce on nice thick fresh bread or crispy baguette.
In our area BT Openreach are upgrading to FTTC, you can see the chunkier street cabinets dotted around.
Did a speed check on talktalk, they said we could get 40 and 63Mb.
Tried the checker using a new postcode we will be moving to, and it said 40/79Mb.
I don't beleive that for one minute, but if so, jesus that'll be pretty quick. Maybe my missis will shut up about facebook gaming speed.
That's exactly what you can get where I live in Ripley, Derbyshire, check out W3Z, it's part of a company called Zycomm and they do wireless internet locally, based in Ripley.
I don't use them as I have 12MB wired broadband, but some villages round here do benefit from their services.