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Diogenes Sep 2021 8:32pm, 11 Sep 2021 62,745 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes I prefer to go through a traditional checkout and have an interaction with someone, but I’m happy to use the self-scan if there is a wait, and there are some checkout staff I actively avoid.
Diogenes Sep 2021 8:35pm, 11 Sep 2021 62,746 posts	Quote Pin Diogenes [the above should’ve been in brackets, I knew it yesterday]
Ocelot Spleens Sep 2021 9:20pm, 11 Sep 2021 31,843 posts	Quote Pin Ocelot Spleens Boulby Potash mine and Dark Matter laboratory en.wikipedia.org
Night-owl Sep 2021 12:40am, 12 Sep 2021 37,800 posts	Quote Pin Night-owl That there's a word for ... ellipsis
Cerrertonia Sep 2021 10:51am, 12 Sep 2021 14,722 posts	Quote Pin Cerrertonia Robert McFarlane's "Underworld" has a piece where he visits the potash mine and the lab.
Dvorak Sep 2021 3:18pm, 12 Sep 2021 23,384 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak As well as ordinary pipistrelle bats, there are soprano pipistrelles: and in order to detect them, a bat detector must be tuned to a much higher frequency.
McGoohan Sep 2021 3:28pm, 12 Sep 2021 50,224 posts	Quote Pin McGoohan [Robin, pass me the Bat-detector ]
Badger Sep 2021 9:13pm, 12 Sep 2021 14,164 posts	Quote Pin Badger [surely the Bat-bat-detector?]
Dvorak Sep 2021 9:20pm, 12 Sep 2021 23,385 posts	Quote Pin Dvorak
DeeGee Sep 2021 11:48am, 13 Sep 2021 21,211 posts	Quote Pin DeeGee If you phone 911 on a British phone, it'll put you through to 999 anyway. (Secretly I'd hoped that they'd tell you to stop being an idiot, and ask you to phone 0118 999 88199 9119 725 3)