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echomikeromeo Posted Sep 25, 2005
<<"I agree with you teachers completely. My son attends an over subscibed and selective catholic primary school (best state primary in the area) and all his class mates have traditional, mainly biblical names e.g Thomas, Matthew, Christopher etc and these are never shortened, however my sister sends her children to a primary school in a less affluent area and her children's class mates names include a 
Jordan, a Sherry, a Charlene, and a Tyler. can you guess which school did better in the Ofsted reports? Coincidence?">>
Hardly. As a rule, less affluent schools often do poorly in whatever measures of excellence the school district and country choose to employ. It has nothing to do with the kids' names.
Ottox - that UK DVD wouldn't work on US DVD players, would it?
A fine way to spend an afternoon.
Researcher 198131 Posted Oct 1, 2005
Jodan, that's so cool that deep thought's a mac!
I'll have to get the DVD now and watch it on my iMac, just to get the full experience.
A fine way to spend an afternoon.
Ottox Posted Oct 1, 2005
The UK DVD wouldn't work on region 1 only players, no. Sorry. 
Might be worth buying a new codeless player though. 
It's one of the best and funniest making-of's I've seen! 
A fine way to spend an afternoon.
Demon Drawer Posted Oct 2, 2005
Having got the DVD for my birthday I have finally got a round to watching it and all the extras. UK style. It is great.
A fine way to spend an afternoon.
echomikeromeo Posted Oct 2, 2005
Well I actually did get a new DVD player yesterday, but I don't think it's codeless. My mother was getting stressed out enough with the concept of purchasing an item of technology that I wasn't about to go into a big long thing about regions and whatnot.
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Hypatia Posted Oct 2, 2005
I have a small, simple to operate dvd player. It is definitely not codeless. Until this conversation I didn't know there were codeless ones. 
But I do make a helluva pan of brownies.
A fine way to spend an afternoon.
echomikeromeo Posted Oct 2, 2005
I did a brief google search. It appears that there are plenty of codeless players out there (though the one we just got isn't one of them, of course). They are a bit more expensive than the normal kind, and it appears you still need some sort of box that connects to it through your tv to convert the signal. It's unclear whether you need a multi-region tv as well.
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