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I wonder if it is no coincidence that a sheep is being used to publicise barcodes.
William
LOL, William! (I have to confess that it took me half a minute to decipher the reference.)
[the] as the goose flies distance
Until now I’d only ever heard of “as the crow flies”!
Thank you.
Perhaps you didn’t notice that the link in my original post takes you to that page.
I wonder where a model of Alpha Centauri, the nearest star to Earth apart from the Sun, would be located.
Well, it’s 4.34 light years away from Earth, or 4.106x10^13 km away, so at a scale of 1:20 million it would be 2.053 million kilometres away.
At 950 km across, the Sweden Solar System is the world's largest permanent scale model of the Solar System (scale 1:20 million).
the point I was making is that one receives real time information on the drivers location and ETA
Yes, that’s a huge improvement on the old days (and although you can get that via a landline at home, you obviously couldn’t get it without your mobile phone at the theatre).
You obviously couldn’t do the Bluetooth thing with an ordinary phone, but tone dialling will get you through the menus on an automated system, and the technology that allows recognition of simple voice commands (e.g. ‘Yes’ to confirm your booking details) has been around since the 1970s.
I do wish though that passport photos didn't always have to look so grim.
Oh, I dunno, Karen. I’ve seen worse! 
there are thumbnail images at (inter alia): ...
The HQ images are somewhere between the two extremes:
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/hq1.jpg
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/maxres1.jpgThe still image in your post makes it look far more obvious than it is in the video.
For a video at
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uMx69Y9O3Ithere are thumbnail images at (inter alia):
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/hq1.jpghttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/hq2.jpghttps://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/hq3.jpgand
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/5uMx69Y9O3I/hqdefault.jpgWell, yes, I was just about to post that BBC Breakfast appears on screen for a very short period at the very start of the video.
The still image in your post makes it look far more obvious than it is in the video.
William
The mugs and laptop lids are clearly visible for half a minute from about eight seconds after the start of the video.
Ah, it is apparently BBC Breakfast. Full screen shows BBC on the red mug.
The word Breakfast is on the computers and there is a mark that may well be BBC but I cannot make it out.
William
You posted while I was composing my previous reply. Anyway, the mark above the word ‘Breakfast’ is indeed the BBC logo.
I don't know which [channel] it was on.
Ooh, tricky one! 
William wrote:I don't know which chanel it was on.
No. 5, perhaps?
My wife's favourite.
I am obviously referring to …
I beg to differ, Albert! It’s not at all obvious from your topic title. 
That minor quibble aside, what the article describes is a curious phenomenon. Thanks for the link. 
Very interesting, Jack. No wonder you’re pleased!
I suspect that they may be deliberately practising some kind of reverse psychology. I recently became aware that the application processing dates posted on the Government website by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Centre (DVLA) in Swansea are at odds with reality, with applicants having already received the driving licence or vehicle registration document that they applied for after the ‘currently processing’ date, and from your anecdote it sounds as though the Passport Office is doing much the same thing.
OO scale widely used for model railways
Only in the UK. It seems to be virtually unknown in other parts of the world.
You're very kind Mr Punster.
¡De nada!
I just feel that forum users need to be given a warning regarding the content of some videos posted on this, oh so genteel forum. William, for example, may not be able to handle Gordon's video.
I was very grateful that I did not have a heart condition.
Thanks for the update, Jack. For what little it’s worth, I think I would have made the same decision.
That was a bit scary Gordon, especially that last frame!
Welcome, young lurker!
I tried that but could not get exactly the same result.
Can you explain what you did please?
I went to Google Translate, set it to ‘Detect Language’ and to translate into English, typed or pasted shinrin-yoku and got this.
I am thinking of trying to produce a prtrait format picture with the characters in the upper-left corner, as there ar some fonts that might contain the characters bundled with Windows 10.
The Meiryo (sans-serif) and MS Mincho (serif) font families have been supplied with Windows ‘forever’.
Welcome to the madhouse, Gordon! Thanks for joining us here.
It may be genuine or it may not. I think the answer is: proceed with caution!
The linked article explains:
Forest bathing, or shinrin-yoku, is a wellness trend for relaxing and reconnecting with nature.
Google Translate tells me that shinrin-yoku is a transliteration of 森林ーよく, which is translated as “forest-well”.
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