Could you enlighten us aliens? Please :pray:

I'm perfectly aware that dress conventions are different, then I sometimes work for a hotel where we have british guests, so I might consider a different knot if some of them might have a "problem"...

Now I wonder why that is.
Epecially since my employer advises us to use a double windsor.

Since "Celsius" is a name they would share that word :hide:

By the way probably the only one I do understand :wink:

Banks (at least swiss banks do) use two different exchange rates:
One for hard cash (coins and notes); the other for virtual money (credit-cards...)

When I pay with my credit-card I always ask to...

So it didn't come in a red tube with a fuse then :twisted: :hide:

Total decimation is when you're down to 9 survivors :twisted:

What I wonder is, why people misuse "fatal". Newspaper headlines are full with "fatal accidents with some injured people".

There is a language barrier here, but shouldn't it be:
I count e-four-tlessly.

I doubt it will eat itself trough your shirt, the lining, under apron and outer apron. But that's just a guess.

What you might get is an IgNobel price. I don't think it's grant worthy.

I know you should never trust the first link on google, still:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC137346/

At...

Makes total sense to me, as long as the 8 lies flat and not at an angle.
One for the geeks :clap:

Isn't that now double the amount of yellow per sett?

I think the idea was, that the Scottish Wildcat Tartan (endangered) should be woven by a Scottish Tartan Weaving Mill (endangered).

I'm a librarian, imagine how much I would like to codify this, but sometimes we just have to accept that the world around us is not 100% codifiable and that there are some blurred lines.
Where we...

What do you expect, do you really think that anyone here has anything else to say than:
WOW that is BRILLIANT

I think you're on the right path there.
Now we need some advise from our kiltmakers about the pleatability (obviously to the black stripe:wink:).

In this discussion I have arrived at a point where I'm not sure if my limited english is good enough to express my thoughts accurately.

I think that we are only discussing about the definition of...

I don't drink alcoholic stuff (can't stand the taste), but I'm known to safe other people some bucks.

Don't buy an aerator, it is just another ridiculous gizmo noone needs. There are...

Have you ever thought about skype/other internet based voice communication?

My method last year was, to expect the maximum waiting time or longer and then I was extremely surprised when it was in the post.

I can only send you Jonathan to the wiki-page.



I heard some rumours that, back in the day, slaves used/had to use their owners name.
I'm already expecting the QI-Klaxon.

It's a german word and we write it Büstenhalter. I guess that by now all Xmarkers know the english translation. :ciao:

I think they haven't been mentioned and I'm not even sure if I would sort them under "rock".

Glen of Guinness
You can even listen to all their songs on their page www.glenofguinness.ch.

Is there a wrong direction? Not that I would notice :wink:

What Father Bill said.
The only little problem (can be corrected easily) that I see, is the mistakes with the colours in the mantling.

I've been called a nitpicker before, I can't see why...