TommyT

Please feel free to point out the sarcasm I used in my original post - I was unaware I had used any, hence my surprise at the insult by return post.

That makes three of us, then. At least. Never said you were. many people spent a lot of money last time; a number of them did not have the luxury of doing so at a venue that was close to, and cheaply accessible from, their homes. That doesn't preclude you from having an opinion, of course, but it doesn't make yours particularly valid either. But is this the thread in which to protest about that? Destination Star Trek London was described as "an official Star Trek event, licensed by CBS" - there was never any suggestion it would be an annual event, and certainly not in one place. The very word "Destination" in the title suggests travel, like a moving event. The fact that the (first) event was called Destination Star Trek London but the Facebook page was Destination Star Trek suggested that "London" was impermanent, a suspicion echoed by the fact that the Twitter hashtag for the last event was #DSTL, yet since earlier this year they've been using #DST. Once you've accepted that London wasn't permanent, why would one assume it would be elsewhere in the UK? The most populous country in the EU, with a proven ST fanbase, and arguably a far more central location for all of Europe would seem a logical destination.If anywhere you could find something that said that one of the aims of DST was to provide a regular ST event aimed primarily at UK fans, then I could see your point. As it is, it's a bit like saying that we're a nation that's passionate about sporting competition and we don't have regular world-class competitions in major sports here, and so it's really disappointing that we're not hosting the next four or five Olympics. Saying that since the UK doesn't have a regular ST event, so it should have the next DST also doesn't hold much water; I suspect a number of other European countries could claim they too don't have a regular ST event so should have the next DST too. For all we know, CBS may have made it a requirement that the event moves around Europe a bit; if they are going to licence an event in Europe they may wish to move it around to give all the European fans a chance of cheaper travel costs sooner or later. I understand your disappointment, I just don't think the UK has any great claim to host DST events in perpetuity. Thank you for your rude and baseless ad hominem attack; it makes me think all the more highly of the points you've put forward...

the Frankfurt Messe is a heck of a lot easier to find than any of the London venuesAlthough probably not from Howie's profile location of "N.London". I will confess to being somewhat embarrassed by the overdeveloped sense of entitlement that some of my fellow Brits seem to be expressing. People travel from all over Britain, Europe and the world to get to events in London, usually with little fuss. A little travel ourselves shouldn't be that much to ask occasionally. It's only Frankfurt, not Jupiter. Explore the options carefully and you can probably get there from the UK for about the same as somebody from Scotland or Newcastle pays to get to London. I would also suggest that travel most definitely broadens the mind, and there's some here that would definitely benefit from that

Unless there have been some radical changes I haven't heard about, surely it's Le Shatner? Allowed? I'm sure he might be requested not to, but I think he can sign anything he wants to. It's all very well sating "I know the chances are I would happy with what ever it might be", but what if the thing it turns out to be is cancelled? Will you still be happy then? I'm assuming that when they started the thread, they thought they were about 90% of the way there, and either that remaining 10% has proved way trickier than expected or some other issue or more has arisen (or maybe a combo of the two). Whilst I'm no great fan of SM's mystery hype announcements, they generally only make people wait a few days, so I asume that this one has hit some majorly unexpected issues.

I'm English. I'm very English. My sister-in-law did quite a bit of genealogy, and apart from a French great great gransdmother, I have a terrifically unexotic family tree of English forebears. And worse than that I'm south-eastern English. I was born and have lived my entire life (save a six month spell in South America) within fifty miles of London; 11 of those years I actually lived in London. So I guess I must be the epitome of these English people who apparently don't know how to travel...In the last 12 months, I have in my own leisure time travelled to Glasgow for a specific event. And to Edinburgh. And to the scenic loveliness of Kinross. In the same period I've also been to the West Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire. And San Francisco. In the next few months I'll be going to Glasgow again, and Manchester, and Birmingham, and Skegness and Norwich and northern California. In the last decade I've travelled in my own time and at my own expense to events in Leeds, Liverpool, Sheffield, Newcastle, Cardiff, Swansea, New York, Boston, Chicago, the West Coast, a variety of other places around the Great Lakes and in New England. To France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Norway, Australia. Many of them more than once. I've gone by plane, train, bus, hire car, my car, taxi. I've aaranged my own transport every time, and my own hotels or other accommodation. I've travelled alone and in conjuction with various friends (all English, bar one Scot "in exile" down here :-)) - as many as 20 of us on some of the UK trips, and often with anything between 1 and 5 friends on the foreign trips. Believe me, we English do travel; I didn't come to Glasgow to see Robert Englund this past weekend not because I'd already met him or because I expect he'll be turning up on my doorstep any time soon, but because, super bloke that he apparently is, I have no interest in his work. And I have nothing against the Scots either; on the contrary, every time I've been to Scotland I've had nothing but good times and a friendly, welcoming reception. It's just I had something else on this weekend elsewhere I'd committed to. (That I travelled to. By public transport.)

Well there's a few listed here. Back in the day, before Punch Taverns/Bass completely screwed the concept, what is now the Beaconsfield was the Friagte & Firkin and a jolly fine boozer with decent food; it seems it may no longer be quite so good. The Hand & Flower has always been dependable, if unspectacular, even in its days as Harvey Floorbangers, and the Crown & Sceptre is usually fairly acceptable if a little prciey. I've had decent fare at the Havelock too, although I haven't been there for several years.

On the flipside, particularly if you had something expensive where tickets might need to be £5, you run the risk of people saying "there will be loads of people buying, I'll have no chance - buying a ticket is a waste of money", and you only sell a few and don't the money back. Alternatively, if you sell tickets at a pouind, you then have to make a serious effort to sell hundreds of them.

If you mean Wembley Conference Centre, then no, that was demolished seven years ago.

I know it is a huge disapppointment for folks, but I also can understand his viewpoint.It certainly wouldn't have been known at the time he signed up that Andy Murray would be in the final. Think of the occasion - it's 77 years since a Briton won the Wimbledon mens singles, 117 years since a Scot did. That's a less than once-in-a-lifetime experience. I heard a news story on the radio on Sunday morning that somebody had just paid £71,000 for a ticket to watch the final. I'm not Scottish and I'm not the world's greatest tennis fan, but if somebody had offered me a ticket for Centre Court on Sunday, I'd have been off like a shot. Doesn't take away from the disappointment oif the fans and the expense they incurred, and it wouldn't be my idea of an object lesson in good manners, but the temptation of such an utterly historic situation? I can completely understand bunking off.

"There are 158miles of wire in the roof to power the four lightbars and rotating beacons on top."Really? I'd suggest that the power losses in 158 miles of wiring would mean it would need a thumping great generatort to power it. Not to mention that 158 miles of 1mm diameter copper wire would be about 1.79 tonnes - plus probably a couple of hundred kilos for the plastic insulation around the copper. So the car has two tonnes of wiring in the roof? Not to mention that buying that amount oif cable would probably account fir the whole £50k he says he spent on doing the car up. So fancy that - a story in The Sun being factually dubious...

Dream on. If any of the people on those estates own their dwellings, it's almost certain that they own the leasehold rather than the freehold (which at best complicates things). In any case, with something this big, I've no doubt that you can expect to see the Compulsory Purchase Orders wheeled out if necessary...

You'll need to do that just to be allowed into the queue to buy a ticket - actually buying a ticket requires you to pass a further half hour exam.

I refer you to post 28 in this thread, made from the SM account...

There's no guarantee there will be any announcement tomorrow. Jason said it's dependent on being signed off by people in the US and that may be Monday And realistically, if it's going to depend on somebody in the US making a decision and giving the OK, then if their office is in New York, you're not likely to get anything announced before early afternoon UK time, and if their office is in L.A. then it's more likely that late afternoon/early evening UK time is the earliest for an announcement. So I reckon everybody's F5 keys can have at least the morning and some of the afternoon being unmolested

Because they don't want to reduce signing time? Because whatever it is might be disruptive to other stuff that happens during normal hours (or could itself be disrupted by the other stuff that's going on) - maybe they need some floorspace which would otherwise be occupied with guest ques or with photoshoots. Maybe they're going to shoot some stuff for a UK interview/documentary feature. Could be any number of reasons other than a videolink...

I wonder if it's the old story of a small minority spoiling it for everyone. Wouldn't be surprised if there were a certain number of people who were deliberately trying to make the first shot "just not quite good enough" so they ended up with two shots for the price of one....

They don't keep every actor in a film sat out on location or set for the entire period of shooting. Presumably at the time he signed up for the show, his shooting schedule didn't cover this particular period. Now it does. Shooting schedules change all the time. Sometimes it overruns, or moves quicker than expected, or gets shuffled around for any one of a number of reasons. These things happen.

Well, one can argue whether it was the "right" car, but at least the two of them have had the same car all season, and no obvious favouritism... 4 GB L Hamilton 240 5 GB J Button 214 which might suggest that Hamilton is about 12% better than Button. Having remembered this old thread, thought it might be interesting to compare stats over the whole 3 seasons that Hamilton and Button had the same car Driver Season Races Wins Poles F/Laps Podiums Points Position Lewis Hamilton 2010 19 3 1 5 9 240 4th Lewis Hamilton 2011 19 3 1 3 6 227 5th Lewis Hamilton 2012 20 4 6 1 7 190 4th Totals 10 8 9 22 657 Jenson Button 2010 19 2 0 1 7 214 5th Jenson Button 2011 19 3 0 3 12 270 2nd Jenson Button 2012 20 3 1 2 6 188 5th Totals 8 1 6 25 672 (Apologies, it's an absolute s*d to get the table to format correctly...) The figures would suggest that Hamilton is the fastest driver, but Button might be a better finisher - although Hamilton finished above Button in two of the three seasons. From memory of the seasons, I would say that Hamilton is probably a harder driver, and given a stronger/more relaible car, would have been well out in front of Button. On the flipside you could argue that Hamilton didn't learn to temper his driving to keep it within the limits of the car (although if he had, would he have scored so many pooints on those occasions when his car didn't break?)

When this event was announced (and it was only a little over six weeks ago - and we've had the holiday period in there), we were told that there would be a great guest line-up and "The first few updates will be coming after New Year". I assume that I'm not the only one that was waiting for those New Year updates to see if the event attracted me, but as far as I can see, the updates never came.

More to the point, whilst her re-appearance so soon may not have been predictable (one assumes that she found the experience far more pleasant/less dreadful than she imagined), it would be a bit of a kick in the teeth for everyone who spent out last year based on "This will be her first and only planed European signing, please do not expect to get another chance to meet Gillian in the near future and this will be a rare chance." if her price now was radically slashed. So based on being fair to those who supported her appearance last time, the fact that there are almost certainly people who didn't see her last time, or did but have other stuff to sign, meaning that there's still likely to be quite a demand, and assuming that she hasn't radically cut her fee, I would suspect that her price will indeed be pretty much around what itr was last time.

Probably because the thread title is "where do you want to see the next big signing show to be in the UK ?"...

I heard Sir Paul Nurse, the geneticist who won a Nobel Prize for medicine on Radio 4 this morning saying how Moore had inspired him to science as a young boy, and years later Nurse proposed him for an honorary fellowship of the Royal Society, and therefore hosted him at the presentation; just before he was due to go on stage to collect his fellowship, Nurse noticed that Moore was weeping and asked him what the problem was "I've just realised that I've been elected to the most famous scientific academy in the world, the Royal Scoety, and they've recognised me, just an amateur scientist, and it's completely overwhelmed me." Amateur scientist he may have been, but he was a professional communicator. As Nurse also put it, he "seemed to know the universe personally".Turned down a place at Cambridge when the war came, lied about his age and joined the RAF as a navigator; once had to fly a Lancaster back after the pilot and flight engineer were wounded. Quite a life.

Based upon and then I would say those are the prices to buy the digital files. (It also fits with previously suggeted file prices by SM.) Printing by SM will involve extra for the costs of print media etc. (As no doubt it will if you just take the digital files and get them printed yourself).

Say bon voyage and enjoy a weekend away of relaxation? I'm looking forward to you starting a thread entitled "Interesting things to do in Northampton on a late November weekend"