Sylvester

I hate it when they type the III in with 111 (just seeing one hundred and eleven, makes me want to throw a Churcher at them).

I wish i was in London for the fair too!

I agree with you, i much rather have it in book form, i can then make notes in it in pencil.

Was it Mihai, Chris that tried to fiddle coinpeople members? (was coinman27 over there) Just be on the look out.

Happy birthday Scott! (sorry about the delay)

I still don't think UNC in hammered is possible, the reason is who knows what a UNC hammered coin looks like? Because each coin can differ so much in strike and centering, what could be UNC on one very well struck specimen, could be only seen as VF on another. Now if one knew the history of the coins, the one grading VF might have never been used but just have a less than perfect strike etc, so it's technically UNC, whilst the UNC one may have been around a little, so it's not UNC. Impossible to tell. The reason why i say UNC is impossible is because you would need to find the best one in existence and compare all others to it, and even then a better one will no doubt show up because there's always a better one!

Wait till GD digs out the gold proof 1911 stuff, now that was more up my street than the toned silver! I like gold, i like gold alot!

That's obvious! MS-62, I maybe old fashioned but as far as i'm concerned no hammered coin qualifies for UNC.

I thought for a minute it'd be British so i wasn't going to enter. But i'm always glad of some US Silver... (I had a jarful somewhere). Enter me please.

Well my mother never really liked eggs or milk either. And i make up some of the stuff by eating lots of brocolli and... cabbage (i hate cabbage), much rather have spinach. Loads of veg, and vitamin tablets... Plus drinking bottled water does help a bit with the calcium, and i do have powedered milk with breakfast cereal although i'm not keen on that either. Much rather have croissants and a cup of black tea for breakfast. We don't actually have real milk anymore, my parents now have gone healthy (hence all the vitamin pills, i just pinch the ones i need), they have rice milk (milk made surprisingly from rice), and i cope with powdered cos rice milk is rancid.

I don't like eggs, milk, cheese (except Cheshire on a good day), cream etc... Milk used to make me sick as a child, i just avoid the stuff now.

Her mother was Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfield, and from what i hear Victoria was very glad when she became Queen because she got away from her overbearing and dominant mother. (Vicky's father the Duke of Kent, Geo IV and W4's brother had died many years earlier when she was but 8 months old).

ah it's alright then because i always use s to put pictures up.

im alergic to eggs and tuna; even though they are totaly different (an unhached bird and a dead fish), i get she same alergic reaction; i loose my voice for about 1 - 2 hours Allergic to eggs! You are so lucky, i've been trying to avoid egg all my life, even the smell makes me turn a funny shade of green...

Chris do the pictures i link to from Omnicoin use your bandwith or not?

I take it you don't like George IV! Infact we could come to the same conclusion about William IV, He kept Vicky's mother out of power by living long enough until Victoria could inherit in her own right. He was very worried about what her scheming mother might have done if he didn't make it... (or so i read!) So hats off to William IV!

Authoritarian is where you want a strong government, a government that keeps control and stability. (I like the discipline aspect of this). Libertarian is where you dislike the idea of a strong powerful government, you don't trust them and you think they are liars. (i'm inclined to agree with this). Right is the conservative/Aristocratic/Capitalistic/Republican in the US sense side. Left the opposite. I think this test is engineered from a more New Right perspective, i'm a great believer in 'if it ain't broke don't fix it', ideologies cannot fit onto society so why bother trying, you can't put a blueprint idea like Thatcherism, Socialism or Communism on society, it won't work. And Charity is not the best method of helping the unfortunate poor because people like me refuse to donate anything to charity ever. So the state should do something. (In case i ever fall in that kind of position). I think i'm either at the liberal end of the old right, or i'm a classic liberal. With regards to Ireland, we should give it back to the South and wash our hands of it, it'll be less hastle in the long run. We should never have got involved, Edward I should have turned a blind eye to Ireland and forgot it. What has Ireland ever actually done for us? Admittedly it did build us the Titanic... India was more productive we should have kept that instead.

Perhaps why Oli and I often have the odd tiff every now and again, is because we are from two totally different backgrounds and we see the same things from two very different perpectives. Oli being the middle class one from Lancashire (it was Lancashire wasn't it?), who goes to a grammar school, and fox hunting, probably with prospects of being a business man of some kind... Versus. Sylvester, from a working class background (very working class!), brought up in a city once famous for industry but now moreso for its crumble into decay... having gone to a bog standard comprehensive, and gone to a college in an even more renound place, Barnsley. (Ah sunny Barnsley) It's the typical Yorkshire versus Lancashire, Middle versus Working... argument. Politically you'd think Oli and I would be opposed but we are surprisingly on the same side, because we is both snobs and with regards to the political spectrum, oli is just a bit further to the right and more conservative than me. Admittely politically my opinions are often a contradiction in terms, this is what happens when you are ingrained as a child with ideals and doctrines but then rebel against them and form your own opinions against much of your further education. You pick up a bit of this, a bit of that and before you know it if you're as open minded as me you can be on both sides of an argument at once and agree with neither. That's the joy of looking at everything from a philosophical removed from context point of view!

Wars have been fought over less!

I asked this over at Coinpeople and got a response i pretty much expected. What about here, do you prefer tea or coffee? (or other...)

I've seen that second one before many times! I do belive my sixpence defeated it in the Popular idol contest! Nice to see some ducats though, it's just not a coin forum without ducats!

i'd reintroduce predecimal too, and gold and silver.

be prepared for the arguments between the Wyons and Benedetto.

I'm not too keen on things that fly either, whether it be a bird or a ball that comes whistling towards you off of the end of a cricket bat... I never was keen on pigeons flying over my head, the flapping wings bother me, but not half as much as the fact that it's aiming for me.

For some bizarre reason 5 things really make me feel nervous or uncomfortable. One scares the hell out of me. 5) Dogs (they make me feel uncomfortable, but i can usually control my urge to run away) 4) Bees and Wasps (obvious really) 3) A very slight fear of Heights (also flying probably as it involves heights) 2) Agoraphobia (Which is a fear of Markets and open spaces... it may sound odd but the fear is because you are in a position where you are trapped in by people or in a place where you cannot escape or hide should you have to for any strange reason, like if there was a fire). I do go in markets but i walk around them at 10 miles an hour and i get very nervous when i get surrounded by lots of people, i just want to get away as fast as possible, to the point where i get footpath rage and barge straight through people if they annoy me too much by stopping in front of you when there's a whole load of people all away around me... arrrghhhh! Get me out. Small spaces don't bother me though as long as i know there is a way out. Lifts bother me. 1) Slugs, oh god they really put the fear of god in me, i hate em i hate em, dunno why but i've had nightmares about the damn things... I can't go near one without feeling nausiated. *shudder* Despite all this i really don't like it when people salt them... it must be agony for the poor things, melting like that.