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Is it morally acceptable to watch this just to point and laugh? I don’t really want to give them any viewing figures.

Big Wagon Wheels

I once pished myself outside a pub I once shat myself outside a pub I once glassed myself outside a pub

Asda used to do a cheese sausage but don't anymore. It was just the mainline unfancy pork link with cheese in it. The faux-fancy caremelised red onion and cheddar is not a suitable replacement.

Watched American Hustle for the first time last night. Some fantastic performances: Christian Bale and Amy Adams are as good as you'd expect, Jeremy Renner was unexpectedly not dull and Jennifer Lawrence was absolutely brilliant. The story was entertaining enough, but where there's conmen or undercover stuff going on (or spies but that's nor relevant) i expect some twists and subterfuge in the plot. It was all too upfront. And the script was a bit clunky. 6/10

Silent treatment is a rare treat. I'm up to day 3 now and hoping for a record stint to cover the group games.

Remember when France went to a 35 hour working week and all the UK and US commentariat laughed about the lazy continentals crashing their economy while us hard working Anglos did 50 hour weeks. Stupid froggies.

To go from the Caribbean to the Pacific through the Panama canal you go East. Geography is broken

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I don't follow English football and am too lazy to look this up. Are Brighton still in the Premier?

-the beer

In what way?

I can't stop crying. I'm thinking of ending it all. Why can't people share my understanding of a vague geographical descriptor? Why? Oh god why?

Sorry, i couldn't be bothered reading this because i don't care what you think. Didn't like your tone so i thought i'd waste some of your time.

Coal doesn't extract itself. Back in say 1800 people weren't driving or taking the bus to work so would live near their work. Therefore settlements near mines either expanded or started. So presence of coal would have had a major effect on population density. You can see that the distribution of coal maps closely to areas of high population density across the whole island. It might have been found in rural areas but they didn't stay rural for long. In the early industrial revolution it was often cheaper to move industry to the coal than the other way around, hence shipyards at Methil and Burntisland. Not on the scale of the victorian ones on the clyde, but heavy industry nonetheless. So the presence of coal is associated with the presence of heavy industry. My understanding of the phrase "central belt" is that it refers to the coal mining and heavy industry regions of central scotland, so the presence of quantities of coal would meet that definition and mean that the place is in the central belt. Other people clearly have different views of what the phrase means. Thanks for trying to explain to the less able though, it was a good effort and you tried really hard.

Methil area is definitely on there. Like i said, as you zoom in the markers drift down. I was surprised how far east they went in Fife but haven't looked into the data in any detail- there's probably surface outcrops that were mined way back that might be included. Also some of the ones around the edges are really short lived- maybe just prospecting? https://www.nmrs.org.uk/mines-map/coal-mining-in-the-british-isles/collieries-of-the-british-isles/coal-mines-scotland/

Don't just talk about it, do it. Can you please add in a layer for where the highlands are, where people say chippy instead of chipper and where they fry pizza. Thanks.

Coalmines- Those dots drift a bit south as you zoom in on the map. But that's what i always thpught the central belt was based on. Apologies to any people from Ayr (is it Ayryans?) for not knowing you had mines.

I can't find a reliable source for where the phrase "central belt" came from but my understanding was always that it referred to the main coal and steel areas across the Forth and Clyde valleys with the associated industrial and population centres. Therefore South of Fife in, Ayr out. Indifferent to the fate of Stirling here tbh.

Mind if i don't?

It was all on All4 at one point, might still be. I tried a few episodes from different points in the run. Largely mediocre. A couple of actual laughs, which is better than most sitcoms. It's quite cynical and mean in a way that i can't think of many US sitcoms being before then; i think it's reputation is more from being novel and influential than funny. That jaunty slap bass incidental music makes me want to kill. I wouldn't recommend it.

Boy George had a band called Jesus Loves You but he was a Hare Krishna. All take and no give.

Hipsters=people who don't drink buckfast

This isn't the highland boundaries thread...