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Listed below are comments made by legendaryABailey between Monday, 23rd June 2008 and Thursday, 11th June 2009.

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Changes to international pages 2:48pm on 11 Jun 2009 I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels cheated by the removal of choice.

First I work for a company who has access points to the Internet only in the UK (serving Europe) and the USA (serving North America)... European users will be forced to use the UK version unless we have a failure in the UK links in which case we'll all get the International version!

Then I'm also one of the many who are often abroad... and am already frustrated that I often can't access UK content from wherever I am. I guess that's all part of the fun of a "global" network with no borders though!
New BBC weather site launched 09:10am on 06 Feb 2009 I don't see much difference... although I don't really use it that often. One comment I would make though, the BBC insists on giving German temperature measurements (Fahrenheit) to those who want them but what about giving us a choice to have wind speeds in m/s rather than mph (like the rest of the world except the USA use)?
Milking it 4:14pm on 04 Aug 2008 No doubt this comment will start a flame war... but Britain is the only country in the world that still sells milk in pints (I refer to UK pints, not the US ones which are different) which means that there are production plants out there making containers (whether glass, plastic, or whatever) which are unusable anywhere else in the world. Surely switching to metric, hence being able to rationalise production, would go some way to reducing both production costs as well as the related environmental impact of this production?

Also, since many British companies DO sell milk in metric quantities using single standardised product might also help save space during transportation!
You've Been Framed 4:39pm on 23 Jun 2008 I've also been "questioned" when taking photographs... last year while taking photographs of a new shopping centre under construction in Corby - sat on a bicycle on a public right of way - I was asked by somebody in a hard hat what I was doing and why.

I also know somebody who had a similar experience in Hull a couple of years ago while taking photos in the city centre, the same day we were both attending an Ice Hockey game at the local rink and we were told that photography was not allowed due to "concerns about child abuse"... funny thing is that this was an adult game!

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