BT is the UK version of Bell Telephone, it's "The phone company"

Unlike Bell it was not split up but required to let anyone use it's network, on the same terms. So I could start an ISP tomorrow and be able to cover the whole UK and compete with BT, AOL etc. Hence I have about thirty ISPs to chose from.

They are rolling out FTTC, fibre to the cabinet, where the cabinet is the box maybe a hundred yards away that serves a few hundred houses and the last hundred yards is copper. This gives 40mb speeds and should be able to go as fast as 100mb in a couple of years.

It is in selling these services that BT is doing well, so while their ordinary telephone services are not growing their high speed fibre broadband, both their own brand and the services they sell to other ISPs, is doing very well.

Hence "Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit"

The headline is pointing out that bran-eating football players make money for the phone company.

FTA: Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit
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FloydA: It's perfectly ordinary banter, Squiffy. Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father; hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers and caught his can in the Bertie.


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rkiller1: FTA: Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit
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Wow, Kathy Ireland. The fine fine Kathy Ireland.... *drools*

Hey, there's Scott Bakula too! I remember that movie, they were a crappy football team and needed a punter. Then they saw this lass kicking a soccer ball the equivalent of like 70 yards and hired her.

I think that guy just called you a fiber-gobbler.

it's easy really;. The British Toilet company known as BT, reaps records profits due to over use from football punters stuffing themselves with firbe

I didn't know BitTorrent made so much money!

That language is incomprehensible.

Scantly Clad Hot Chick Thread!

Hector Remarkable:

I think that guy just called you a fiber-gobbler.

Yeah? Well, he can bite my OC-192.

Let me try something here... "Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit", rearranged, becomes: "BT profit punters gobbling fibre deposit solid- help"?

Came for 'Yahoo Serious Festival', leaving satisfied.

I tried to do that thing where I take a post and rearrange it into something entirely different, but honestly this isn't even English.

Flint Ironstag: BT is the UK version of Bell Telephone, it's "The phone company"

Unlike Bell it was not split up...

Hence "Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit"

Thanks for the explanation, but you left out the definition for "punter". Punter?

Gonzee: Flint Ironstag: BT is the UK version of Bell Telephone, it's "The phone company"

Unlike Bell it was not split up...

Hence "Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit"

Thanks for the explanation, but you left out the definition for "punter". Punter?

Punters is UK slang for customers. No idea why, and frankly it sounds derogatory.

Can't we just make this into a taco thread?

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Gonzee:

Thanks for the explanation, but you left out the definition for "punter". Punter?

It's an anagram, much like most of English banter. If you rearrange the letters in "Fibre-gobbling punters," you get "Blubbering Inept Frogs," which is a not-so-subtle dig at the French.

Punters are people who use one- and two- syllable words. Boffins use 3+ syllable words.

That article's headline is definitely a sexual euphemism. Definitely.

nytmare: Gonzee: Flint Ironstag: BT is the UK version of Bell Telephone, it's "The phone company"

Unlike Bell it was not split up...

Hence "Fibre-gobbling punters help BT deposit solid profit"

Thanks for the explanation, but you left out the definition for "punter". Punter?

Punters is UK slang for customers. No idea why, and frankly it sounds derogatory.

It also seems to specific to customers of prostitutes in some situations.

Bob's yer uncle!

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American Football is Gay

I don't think that's anywhere near as homoerotic as MMA though. Two sweaty guys groping each other and the full guard position where the guy on bottom wraps his legs around the guy on top while he's thrusting to get out of guard. All it really needs is some 70's funk music and you got soft core gay sadomasochism porn.

GWSuperfan: natazha: Punters are people who use one- and two- syllable words. Boffins use 3+ syllable words.

I thought that those who use one- and two-syllable words were "chavs".

Those who are only capable of using a one or two syllable world are "chavs". Your average English person has a PhD in both creative swearing and swearing like a one eyed carpenter.

What's the difference between a chav and a yob?

I love headlines in The Register. Someone definitely has too much fun coming up with them. They're the linguistic equivalent of a double espresso followed by a brisk drive in London traffic.

nytmare: What's the difference between a chav and a yob?

Yobs are loud and possibly violent when drunk.
Chavs are loud and violent.

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sarah_t_s: nytmare: What's the difference between a chav and a yob?

Yobs are loud and possibly violent when drunk.
Chavs are loud and violent.

and a berk?

Fano: sarah_t_s: nytmare: What's the difference between a chav and a yob?

Yobs are loud and possibly violent when drunk.
Chavs are loud and violent.

and a berk?

Muppet. A person who is performing or acting like a muppet. See idiot, moran, etc.

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You god damn son of a biatch, I haven't laughed that hard in a good while.

Punters. That word grinds on me. I hate reading UK news articles for that very reason. Punterspunterspunterspunterspunterspunterspunterspunterspunterspunters punterspunters

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Bah. 10 points from Gryffindor.

hutchkc: GeneralJim: [90on95.files.wordpress.com image 640x426]
American Football is Gay

I don't think that's anywhere near as homoerotic as MMA though. Two sweaty guys groping each other and the full guard position where the guy on bottom wraps his legs around the guy on top while he's thrusting to get out of guard. All it really needs is some 70's funk music and you got soft core gay sadomasochism porn.

Whatever does it for you...

GeneralJim: hutchkc: GeneralJim: [90on95.files.wordpress.com image 640x426]
American Football is Gay

I don't think that's anywhere near as homoerotic as MMA though. Two sweaty guys groping each other and the full guard position where the guy on bottom wraps his legs around the guy on top while he's thrusting to get out of guard. All it really needs is some 70's funk music and you got soft core gay sadomasochism porn.
Whatever does it for you...