The last time I visited a Morrisons they stocked a pretty decent selection of malts. No need to go to the highlands for that.....
Meindert
The last time I visited a Morrisons they stocked a pretty decent selection of malts. No need to go to the highlands for that.....
Meindert
Buying a malt at Morrisons vs tasting it at the distillery is rather like the difference between buying a fish at Morrisons and getting it at the dock off the boat.
Cheers
PeteS
Not long now until the most Northerly Scotch is ready for consumption - late this year for the three year old and late 2008 for the 5 year old. Check out
I grew up in Shetland so I must declare an interest in plugging the local booze. I can also recommend White Wife and Simmer Dim real ales
3 year old whiskey is going to be pretty rough - that's the minimum age it has to be before you can even legally call it whiskey. There are very few self-respecting malts that are less than 8 years old.
I know and it worried me somewhat, especially considering what they are charging. However, I think there must be some 8yo due for an appearance because I dimly remember them beginning to mature the whisky quite a while ago (and it's been easily three years since I was last on the island).
Still it's darn cold up there and a bit of rough whisky would be welcome to warm the cockles ;-)
When were you last there ?
You're required to register now if you want to download anything. Sheer idiocy if you ask me.
Graham
I just looked and downloaded a couple of ds without registration. Only Javascript, no flash also.
-- ciao Ban Apricale, Italy
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The reason is a good one, it might just need a better answer. If people are using automatic tools to trawl their database, maybe to set up their own as a way to trap business, the original source loses out twice, first in bandwidth costs, later in lost business. They probably want to make sure that if someone comes after their stuff it's a human wanting something specific, not some kind of virtual riever.
I don't like the new blocks and annoyances, but I can see why their being tried. Still, if these sites would dispense with the feature rich added value pumped up extra silliness they'd maybe save even more bandwidth and money, but such is life...
They must have changed it, thank goodness for that !
It's still horribly slow though. It wasn't that bad when it was Philips.
Graham
Hello Graham,
But it was almost as bad. Remember that nonsensical wait for "...stockquote.philips.com..."? Plus nobody seemed to have ever taught their web designers what a packet latency is. 180-200msec EU-US, usually. Oh, and nobody there seemed to have grasped the concept of mirror servers. They still don't.
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I was raised a little to the south of you (in Wick), and my great grandfather worked in the local distillery. After he retired, the workers would bring him a bottle of 'white whisky' once a week, and a bottle of the good stuff (marked as failing to meet standard, but that was just a ruse) every fortnight.
It's cold there too - went there last week to catch up with family.
Cheers
PeteS
It took around 12 hours for me.
Graham
Well I am currently at about 28 hours (or more).
As they expect everybody to use their webforms if the web forms are not working nothing gets through.
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I wonder how many companies have opened sales offices in Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria.... because of those stupid forms!
-- John Devereux
Hello John,
Nope, they are going to places like Malaysia and Singapore...
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I pity the poor sap who's phone number is:
0123456789 (that UK format. It's in the town of Bedford if it actually used)tim
It seems like snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com has a hard life also.
VLV
Hmm, good point, would not want any collateral damage to innocent parties.
Do you think I am safe to use
just_give_me_the snipped-for-privacy@you.useless.cretins ?
-- John Devereux
That sounds perfect to me. It sends a message with no collateral damage.
I occasionally use a contact address at the company with the form. The possible downside is they will decide the problem is that the e-mail address's are available not that they are blocking access to gather address's themselves.
Robert
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