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Invictus (1875)W.E. Henley Out of the night that covers me Black as the pit from pole to pole I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance, I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance, My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this pla...
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My weird dreams
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Been having some pretty weird tennis-related dreams just lately and I wondered if anyone else had had any they'd be willing to share? Here are mine in chronological order - I kid you not about any of them - 1) Kyle Edmund dating an American girl named Stacy Smith (a few months ago) 2) Ivan Lendl and Wendy T...
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Scottish Referendum
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Edit - Moved to a new thread for Andy's 2015 schedule -- Edited by Madeline on Thursday 11th of September 2014 09:02:17 AM
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Lovely Musical Performance
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I know that many people are not too keen on this time of the year but I'd just like to share this musical performance. its quite a few years old. many of you may have already seen it but maybe would like to hear it again and others for the first time if you so wish. Enjoy ..... https://www.youtube.co...
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Happy Birthday Keith Richards
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Happy birthday Keith, born on 18 December 1943. 40 things about Keith Richards: http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/keith_richards
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Windows 10 - help needed!
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Anybody else upgraded to this yet? I did a couple of days ago, and I'm generally managing ok. BUT - how the heck do you access other drives? I used to be able to click on "computer" on the start menu and it listed them, then you could open any of them. I can't find them at all. I have an external har...
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Test you musical knowledge
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http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/this_day_in_music_quiz
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Changes to State pension age for women
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A new campaign group has recently formed in the UK called WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality Campaign) to "seek fair transitional arrangements for all women born on or after 6th April 1951 who have unfairly borne the burden of the increase to the State Pension Age (SPA). Hundreds of...
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Daily Mail
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A few days ago there was a discussion about the Daily Mail on one of the threads, but I can't remember which one and I can't find it now. Anyway, the discussion started when there was a comment about their claims of a large circulation jump. I now know why! Both this week and last week, at least, they were of...
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HAPPY NAVRATRI
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Celebrating the nine forms of the Goddess Durga the Mahashakti is due to begin Tuesday 13th October for nine nights. a most auspicious and unique time. Happy Navratri -- Edited by emma on Monday 12th of October 2015 09:06:40 PM
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It's about socializing...
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Registration for https://www.etennisleague.com/en/ Fall Season 2015 is closing in a few days. Register to play competitive tennis and play for cash prize and trophy. This league works as follows. In this league, you are c...
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Name That Tune
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Can you name all 24 intro's from these classic songs? http://www.thisdayinmusic.com/pages/name_the_intro
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kitchen (and other) spam
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After 3 days without the internet (I felt totally lost) or a land line, I came on this morning to read what I had missed, or as much as I could manage anyway. I was straight back in the groove with 7 kitchen spam threads to delete! I felt I had never been away. Reason for absence - since my husband's stroke, h...
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A Little Joke for everyone.
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A joke thats going around the Ukraine: Vladimir Putin, wanting to get on the good side of voters, goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids. He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wants the best for the people. At the end of the talk, there is a section for questi...
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Emoticons List
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does anyone know how to use the other emoticons on page 2 of More Emoticons - have seen other people use them. I don't seem to be able to transfer one onto something I'm writing. thanks
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The Dress !
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http://earthsky.org/human-world/what-color-is-this-dress?utm_source=EarthSky+News&utm_campaign=0013de1f19-EarthSky_News&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c643945d79-0013de1f19-394248833What colour do you see the dr...
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Happy, Happy Birthday
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to everyone born on the 29th February :)
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picture captions ?
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have just got back from watching a very funny film and was just thinking how good humoured this board is. there are lots of really funny posts. as I'm interested in finding out more about the funding issue as I know nothing about it, I'm going to have to trawl through all the threads to understan...
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Change of User Name
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I'd like to change my user name to emma - is this possible? when I first joined I didn't realise it was mostly men on here otherwise I would have used emma (only because there probably wouldn't have been someone with the same name). I've tried to do it myself but it doesn't seem possible. Do I have t...
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Good things about January
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I know January has almost finished but would anyone like to say what they like about January/look forward to? for me, just looked out of my window and saw a lamb skipping across the field - the first of the year - so lovely. also lots of crocus the other day appearing out of the earth. Love nature.
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Technical Issues
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Anyone else having the same problem as me ? A lot of my headings are coming up as blank with the heading removed. The links all work but I can't see what I am clicking on. Example below. British men discussion section (2 viewing)Chat about the other British male tennis players
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Bob's Charity Challenge 2014
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Those of you that follow me on Twitter (@expattennisfan) will already know that throughout 2014, I am trying to raise funds for MacMillan Cancer Support. It is a charity that our club here in Spain has supported for about 5 years now following the loss or two of our members - Peter Willis and Mike Pritch...
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Anyone know anything about computers? Website has been hacked
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Hi all. Some unfestive people decided that Christmas Day would be a nice time to carry out a malware hack on my wife's website. We got the notification from Google and a security warning appears on searches and when you go to the website. Weve contacted the sites host, dreamhost but its a bit tortuous a...
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Bah! Humbug!
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Wishing all board members, on this delightfully unfashionably civil and respectful corner of the internet, the loveliest of holidays, and a 2015 full of many cherished memories; both on, and off the court, for all. Yes, even Ratty.
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RSS feeds
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Hello, Does anyone else use the RSS feeds? If so have they gone screwy for you over the last ~36 hours? I had 104 items for the womens section pop up overnight! Tried a couple of different readers, and feeds to get them to work again today, but no joy. Had no trouble in the last year or so, so just wondering....
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