Peckris

Where have you been? Gates handed over to Ballmer (now it's someone else) around the Millennium!

Are they genuine? There are so many high class fakes, I wouldn't believe this one unless it came with a RM cert of authenticity. Even then, I'd probably think twice, musing "The Mint? What do THEY know!"

This coin, along with several others, I have received as an inheritance. I do not say I understand that, I do not know when and where it was made. For information, I use the internet. Since I do not know the real price, I pop this item at a 1 cent auction. Yeah, RIGHT.

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/display-my-computer-icon-on-the-desktop-in-windows-vista/ It's now called "This PC " apparently in W10 but that article explains how you can add the icon to your desktop.

It's called Chrome. It's a good browser if you don't mind Google spying on your every move. Firefox is not quite as good, but far less intrusive. There's also a very competent browser called Opera but probably not for the digitally challenged. Of course, you should stay away from Internet Explorer..

You don't have a regular backup like Apple's Time Machine, or automatically backup your stuff like browser settings to Dropbox or iCloud? The advantage with all those is you don't have to do anything yourself once set up, as any change or addition will be detected and backed up. If not, then hopefully one or other of the suggestions made above will help.

Not mine, though I'd love to own it!

The best one I've seen is Victoria on her potty!

Oy - there's a Champions League final before then! I'll either be happy or sad tomorrow night...

Though I have noticed some Americans using the "pissed off" form. One of the biggest laughs was when Phil Collins made a guest appearance in Miami Vice, and as a typical Brit one of his lines included calling someone a "wanker". "I can't say that!" protested our Phil, and explained to the producers what it meant. "That's ok" they replied. "Americans don't know the word so we'll leave it in." Phil decided not to remind them that the show was also syndicated for UK television...

Underpants are indecent? Who knew.

And there's another one! Subway is a seller of rather poor sandwiches in the UK, while the Tube is America's Metro.

Apparently everyone knew a certain element as "aluminum" until the mid-19th Century when Brits added the extra "i" to bring it line with magnesium etc.

Ok! You found one idiom where it survives! However that wasn't the usage above, I'll say no more. All counties have their own dialect (except possibly the Home Counties where they all speak Smuggish )

That's what I meant to say - "gotten" is old English, but still used 100% by Americans who never say "got", and not used by Brits which is a bit of a shame.

It was your use of "gotten" which is 100% an Americanism (one of the more acceptable ones IMO!)

When you say "coin book version 2", do you mean Collectors' Coins, Decimals, as pictured above? The answer would be "yes" if that's what you collect and are interested in. It should list the major varieties though - and I don't know the answer to this as I don't have a copy - it may not go into the excruciating level of detail as the Ron Stafford surveys of 10p and 5p coins he did in the 70s and early 80s. By all means photograph your coins, but apart from the odd one you want to know more about, e.g. is it a rare variety, don't post them here! Upload them to a host site e.g. OneDrive (try to avoid Photobucket) and post the link here so that interested members can have a look. Are you an American who's been living in the UK for years?

Either that or the Fancy Bears or other ill assorted Russian hackers.

Aww. Not a bell end?

Yes, along with 1754 copper the 1758 shillings continued to be struck into the reign of George III. Note that Northumberlands and the 1787 BoE specials apart, 1758 was the last regular date for shilling issues until 1816, which is an enormous stretch. One can only speculate that they were struck even after the Northumberlands of 1763.

The past couple of days, it seems very slow to load everything. I have fibre optic broadband so it's not my connection - anyway, other websites and general streaming e.g. iPlayer are not affected. Anyone else noticed this?

I think it's just a worn example. Who'd want to fake something that worn?