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New York To Spend $27.5 Million Uncapitalizing Street Signs 322

250,000 street signs in New York City feature street names in capital letters only, which is not the national standard. Having no other issues on the table, The New York City Department of Transportation has decided to fix the problem and put up proper signs featuring both capital and lower-case letters at a cost of $27.5 million. The Transportation Department hopes to have the job completed by 2018 with 11,000 of the most important improperly capitaled signs fixed by the end of the year. Catastrophe averted.

Comment Re:Look for the upside (Score 1) 460

Yeah but he is not a troll, he is just telling the truth. In the US you have kids with leukemia with parents unable to afford the best treatment, but hey you it's OK because you can go to the moon! In the UK we have our kids looked after and getting the treatment they need but no moon..

guess what I would rather have.

Comment Re:Christ! Really? It's come to this? (Score 3, Informative) 260

Quite. I was walking past Pizza Hut the other day and they were trying to send their bluetooth shite to my phone. Not being happy with their crap spamming my phone and noticing the little bluetooth ad box plugged in by the window, I popped in and turned it off.

NO I DONT WANT A BLOODY PIZZA HUT SPECIAL OFFER.

Comment Re:Sick of the whining. (Score 1) 248

Well atually, part of the appeal is that when you have an apple, you know that all the people with scuzzy £400 craptops that will have plastic bits flapping off within a few months will look on with envy.

If apple kit was cheap then loads more people would have it and it would loose most of its appeal.

Its kind of like buying a Porsche, yeah they are overpriced, but that keeps the peasents from having them which is good.

Comment Re:History (Score 1) 132

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That is a hilariously good start to a Thursday morning on the UK election day. Wish I could mod it funny.

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Comment This explains a lot actually.. (Score 2, Funny) 141

My mother-in-law is from Trinidad, this explains everything. I always thought there was something a little odd about the way she spent so much time filling up the petrol in the car. I thought that odd sulphurous smell was the cream she used for a skin condition.

And all along, she was just a hydrocarbon sucking pitch lake alien!

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