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Aber, I wouldn't expect you to be one of the decent Cardiff members on this board to understand. You have issues mate, get some pussy, it'll help. <cheers>
 
I wish some of your fellow posters would just take a step and actually think about what happened. Some rival comes here, complains to mod about a post, says the poster never debates and should be banned, mod goes to see post... it is his post. Some, not all, of your fellow fans appear to think that there was no jest... if they were to look on the flipside they'll be laughing at Taff if he blindly followed through with action and removed the post or banned himself by accident because he didn't look into the complaint properly and went gung-ho. <laugh>

Saw it for what is was and fair play VRD joined inwith the hangman game, although it did end the game prematurely.
 
Saw it for what is was and fair play VRD joined inwith the hangman game, although it did end the game prematurely.

<laugh>... the suspense in that game was riveting. I think most here knew after the first letter was revealed. Whoever it was that came up with a hangman game to know who it was has got a kudos from me.
 
Gypo is a racist slur, something used against us.

If you want racists, look no further than this board.

I ask again, were the Ting tongs not a comedy duo on little Britain?
 
Deary me, do you have no sense of humour? Last night your mod was on our board... he got the impression I was taking the piss, simply because of his reply to me about this thread. Why does everything have to be so sensitive and personal with some of you?

Mostly because I don't like you, it has to be personal when it's that way, thats just you mind, not all jacks are like you though.
 
Mostly because I don't like you, it has to be personal when it's that way, thats just you mind, not all jacks are like you though.

<laugh>

Sorry dude, but I can't actually remember you being a part of these forums. But there are far more important things in life than taking the words of a forum user to heart. Would it help if I stayed away?
 
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Sorry dude, but I can't actually remember you being a part of these forums. But there are far more important things in life than taking the words of a forum user to heart. Would it help if I stayed away?

Thats ok, I don't remember you from the old 606, but here you are.
It would help enormously if you stayed away from the Cardiff board, but we both know you're not going to do that don't we.
I take nothing you say to heart, I just don't like you, it's that simple.
 
ProjectVRD, just a few pointers about your signature:

Swansea Bay is a technological powerhouse in world history and it's people invented some of the most important discoveries in our species entire history including:

The Modern Blast Furnace Process, The Passenger Train, The Hydrogen Fuel Cell, The Battery, Radar, Linux, The Electro-Magnetic Pulse, The Large Hadron Collider, discovered X-Rays, the Vaccum Tube, the = (equals sign) in Maths, and now the Tidal Lagoon Power Station???

No Swansea Bay, no modern way of life and no Swansea City FC.

The blast furnace was invented by the Chinese in the 1st century BC. The modern coke blast furnace was invented by Abraham Darby who installed it in Coalbrookdale Shropshire.
The application of raw anthracite coal to the blast furnace, first tried successfully by George Crane at Ynyscedwyn (Ystradgynlais) ironworks in South Wales in 1837.

I'll give you the first paying passenger train as being the Mumbles railway.

The Hydrogen fuel cell: German Physicist Christian Friedrich Schönbein invented the first crude fuel cell. A year later Welsh Physicist William Grove developed his first crude fuel cells in 1839.

The battery: The first electrochemical cell was developed by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1792, and in 1800 he invented the first battery. (Hence the unit of elecrical potential being the Volt)

Radar: In 1886, German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects. The German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer was the first to use radio waves to detect the presence of distant metallic objects In 1904.

Linux: The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released 5 October 1991 by Linus Torvalds, who is Fnnish American.

The electromagnetic pulse was first predicted by Enrico Fermi and proved during the first United States nuclear test in 1945.

The Large Hadron Collider is a collaboration between about 8000 scientists from around the world.

X rays: German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays in 1895. X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays. Crookes Tubes were invented by William Crookes born in London 1832.

The Vaccum Tube: the first Vacuum tubes were known as the Geissler (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler (Born May 26, 1814 in Igelshieb, now Germany) and Crookes (see above) tubes. Famous scientists who experimented with such tubes included Thomas Edison, Eugen Goldstein, Nikola Tesla, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. The English physicist John Ambrose Fleming later worked on what he called the "oscillation valve" (because it passes current in only one direction).

The Equals sign: The "=" symbol that is now universally accepted by mathematics for equality was first recorded by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde (Born Tenby 1512).

The Tidal Lagoon power station is anather callaboration by at least nine companies from countries such as: Van Oord a Dutch company, Costain, Atkins Global and Titan Environmental Surveys based in Bridgend.

So that leaves you with the first paying passenger train and the first steam locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick a Cornishman.
 
ProjectVRD, just a few pointers about your signature:

Swansea Bay is a technological powerhouse in world history and it's people invented some of the most important discoveries in our species entire history including:

The Modern Blast Furnace Process, The Passenger Train, The Hydrogen Fuel Cell, The Battery, Radar, Linux, The Electro-Magnetic Pulse, The Large Hadron Collider, discovered X-Rays, the Vaccum Tube, the = (equals sign) in Maths, and now the Tidal Lagoon Power Station???

No Swansea Bay, no modern way of life and no Swansea City FC.

The blast furnace was invented by the Chinese in the 1st century BC. The modern coke blast furnace was invented by Abraham Darby who installed it in Coalbrookdale Shropshire.
The application of raw anthracite coal to the blast furnace, first tried successfully by George Crane at Ynyscedwyn (Ystradgynlais) ironworks in South Wales in 1837.

Research David Thomas and learn to read. Modern Blast Furnace Process. I didn't say Blast Furnace. And Crane was Thomas' employer, his company built the first of Thomas' design.

I'll give you the first paying passenger train as being the Mumbles railway.

The Hydrogen fuel cell: German Physicist Christian Friedrich Schönbein invented the first crude fuel cell. A year later Welsh Physicist William Grove developed his first crude fuel cells in 1839.

Schonbein drew a design in 1838... not 1839, Grove actually managed to go further and actually build a working model in 1839. He beat the German to a the invention in same way the Wright Brothers beat Da Vinci to inventing Airplanes, albeit with just a year seperating the Fuel Cell example.

The battery: The first electrochemical cell was developed by the Italian physicist Alessandro Volta in 1792, and in 1800 he invented the first battery. (Hence the unit of elecrical potential being the Volt)

Grove invented the battery that we know of and use everyday in 1844, Volta's used moist cloth exposed to air... and tended to shock people for obvious reasons when other later managed to produce sparks. It was Grove whose designs were unlinked to those of Volta's where zinc and acid formed the technology with metalically concealed casing, you can call Volta's design the first battery... but it is not the Battery we use today, that belongs to Grove and Grove alone.

Radar: In 1886, German physicist Heinrich Hertz showed that radio waves could be reflected from solid objects. The German inventor Christian Hülsmeyer was the first to use radio waves to detect the presence of distant metallic objects In 1904.

Edward George Bowen actually did the first use of Radar, which is detection AND locating the object on screen, in 1935. Radar is a 1935 invention, you seem to include a lot of theory instead of the actual devices in your reasoning here. Many theories look good on paper but devices never work, such as cold fusion, so is the theorist for cold fusion power station the inventor? No, the person who actually makes the cold fusion power station that produces net energy that can supply energy for use is the inventor. Nobody has managed this yet even though it's theory is concluded thus the theoretical designs are not inventions.

Linux: The defining component of Linux is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released 5 October 1991 by Linus Torvalds, who is Fnnish American.

Alan Cox fixed an inherent problem that would have been the end of Linux, it was because of his fix that Linux was not abandoned forever in favour of new operating systems being developed by IBM.

The electromagnetic pulse was first predicted by Enrico Fermi and proved during the first United States nuclear test in 1945.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8262548.stm That my friend, is the first instance of electromagnetic pulses and it was transmitted along ultra-violet rays, albeit very weak.

The Large Hadron Collider is a collaboration between about 8000 scientist from around the world.

And it's principle designer studied and earned his name in science at Swansea University and was the only person on a list to run the facility after construction was completed, Evans 'The Atom' and he is known in the science world.

X rays: German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen is usually credited as the discoverer of X-rays in 1895. X-rays were found emanating from Crookes tubes, experimental discharge tubes invented around 1875, by scientists investigating the cathode rays. Crookes Tubes were invented by William Crookes born in London 1832.

Check out William Morgan

The Vaccum Tube: the first Vacuum tubes were known as the Geissler (Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Geissler (Born May 26, 1814 in Igelshieb, now germany) and Crookes (see above) tubes. Famous scientists who experimented with such tubes included Thomas Edison, Eugen Goldstein, Nikola Tesla, and Johann Wilhelm Hittorf. The English physicist John Ambrose Fleming later worked on what he called the "oscillation valve" (because it passes current in only one direction).

Again, check out William Morgan

The Equals sign: The "=" symbol that is now universally accepted by mathematics for equality was first recorded by Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde (Born Tenby 1512).

Tenby is now part of the Swansea Bay region, I was indicating the Swansea Bay region... not Swansea.

The Tidal Lagoon power station is anather callaboration by at least nine companies from countries such as: Van Oord a Dutch company, Costain, Atkins Global and Titan Environmental Surveys based in Bridgend.

And the first power station in the world is currently being planned in..... the Swansea Bay region.

So that leaves you with the first paying passenger train and the first steam locomotive was invented by Richard Trevithick a Cornishman.

Hardly.

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I was going to post about the Linux part of VRD's signature a while ago, but I thought I'd let him have it. Alan Cox definitely made (and still makes) huge improvements to the Linux kernel, but he didn't invent it. I know nothing about the others!
 
Apologies PVRD, you were clearly spending much time composing such a comprehensive response. <ok>

It's all too complicated for me to even think about on a Friday afternoon. I wouldn't understand on a Monday morning either.