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It seems the Guitar hero of my youth could have been a proffesional footballer and what is more important with the mighty Nottingham Forest FC , This revelation ( to me anyway ) features in a book called the glory of Forest extract below, The former Smiths guitarist is better known for his dexterous fingers than his fancy footwork, but the indie legend had trials with both Forest and his hometown club, Man City. He claims he could have gone all the way with his footballing career but ‘they...

Jon H of this parish re- tweeted this article, re: "Is the Royal British Legion it's self disrespecting the poppy?"  http://alt.adrianshort.co.uk/b...mbering-remembrance/ Following on from the usual display from muslim half wits re...

Included a back to top button, and thread identification and end of posts, and about time too.Needless to say it doesn't quite go fully back to the top. What's with the strange folder icons though?

Any advice on selling timeshares? My neighbour has asked me if I can advertise it on "the internet" for him but I have not a clue where to start! He seems realistic about value. Cheers, Julian ps - I have deliberately not given any details...

OK, so the Beeb gets pilloried for not running a story which may have outed the circumstances around a suspected abuser. It then gets the same for running a story about other potential abusers, without naming anyone. And gets done for that! Is it...

I was updating my profile, and - sort of for the first time - noticed the number after the #.I then saw the words Community Rank; so I read more, and discovered this: Your community rank reflects your overall contributions to, and influence...

How much less Parisian the city will seem without the chance to see 2CV, Déesse, or a Citroen 11. Telegraph Story I suppose it's the future, but the last line is rather telling "Users of old cars are only thought to account for three per cent of the 4.5 million or so vehicles in the Paris region." And you have to wonder just how gas guzzling a two horse-power car actually is, for a start. ..

Thought I might use this thread to ask all Naimee's what there particularly story is, about how they enjoy their HiFi. I am not looking for comments on choices of albums, or their hardware! Simply, I enjoy coming home from work each evening...

I assume this must have been raised previously but what is the reasoning behind the ban on mentioning the sale or loan of anything audio related? Surely the best place for selling secondhand naim kit is on the naim forum. I know I would prefer to...

We do not have a TV licence as in general my wife and I have no interest in watching TV. However there are a few interesting documentaries from time to time so to watch those we decided to use BBC iPlayer (and ITV player) via our netbook using...

Hi all - got a big electrical engineering interview next Monday. I'm currently 8 days into Movember and currently just look very unkempt. As a prospective employer would you suggest I clean up or would you understand 'doing the bit for...

I'm considering buying an iPad as a present for my wife who seems rather taken with the iPhone. However part of me thinks they are just expensive toys and I'd be interested in the opinion of people who have purchased them as to their general...

I doubt that many of you guys follow Coronation Street but I wanted to lead the tributes to Bill Tarmey aka Jack Duckworth on the place he would have least expected it, the NAIM forum, rest in peace lad.

A simple question/observation, does it matter to anyone who the new AoC is unless you are a churchgoer, in the clergy or live in Canterbury ? The BBC on-line were leading on who the new guy may be but with everything else...

iPhone 5, repeatedly crashes when trying to read a thread, iphone rebooted, app deleted, app reinstalled, still bloody crashes. Is anyone else having this? Tony

Any good? I'm sure there is watch related expertise here in this place aplenty. I have searched, but the hoopless system seems to let me search for Eberhard (brings up musician(s)) or watches, which brings up loads of irrelevant stuff. In essence, I a m tempted by an Eberhard Traversetolo Chrono. Brand new, for sale at €1350, instead - they claim - of €3360. Anyone have any advice/knowledge of Eberhard? Will have to purchase on the basis of photographs (all guaranteed though), and quickly. I...

The extract below is from the New Scientist article "The US presidential election is no contest". The PredictWise site puts Obama's likelihood of victory at 71.8 % and Romney's at 28 %, while over at FiveThirtyEight, it's even more in Obama's...

God, that is a big casualty if they disappear, with 6000 jobs on the line. They are one of the companies you (at least I) thought would always be around unlike some of the others which have fallen in the recession.

Sad news that Richard Hay has died.  There is an obituary on the What Hifi Website. Richard was the man behind Nytech and Ion Systems, often referred to as the "poor mans Naim".  My first real Hifi was based around Nytech...

Is this feature enabled? I see a setting in the profile with a checkbox you can use to disable new dialogs...

The other day my wife came to join me to listen to some music and immediately asked me to turn the volume down as it was too loud. The volume wasn't as high as I usually have it, on my system it was at 8 o'clock and is often at 9 -10...

As we have no interest in watching broadcast TV we do not have a TV licence and our TV set is used purely as a monitor for viewing DVD's. I also do not listen to the radio routinely, and in an effort to minimise expenses we no longer buy a daily...

Being relatively new to this forum and Naim, i was just wondering why there isnt a section for people to advertise the Naim Kit they have up for sale. I can understand not wanting to turn the site into an auction ebay clone, but maybe an area to say...

David (speak first, think later) Cameron, wants the big six energy companies to supply energy to all of us atheir lowest tarrif.(I presume he was referring to gas and electrricity) For simplicity, lets assume there are currently only three...

Vulcan XH 558 less than 100ft above my house. A camo-painted, delta-shaped wonder of engineering. Absolutely tremendous to see it fly over our roof. B*gg*r was I had no time to get the camera! steve