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Offline Miss Creant Commander of the picklement and baking BAb(Hons)

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I have jut heard
« on: August 18, 2009, 11:44:20 AM »
Radio 4 right now

'Where you have a threshold you will always have people above that threshold'.

Not quite right surely Snoops?

Snoops?


DS ?

Anyone?
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2009, 11:45:10 AM »
Don't you carry over the threshold  rubschin:
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2009, 11:51:36 AM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on August 18, 2009, 11:45:10 AM
Don't you carry over the threshold  rubschin:

Me personally?   No. noooo:
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #3 on: August 18, 2009, 11:58:30 AM »
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threshold 
1. A piece of wood or stone placed beneath a door; a doorsill.
2. An entrance or a doorway.
3.The place or point of beginning; the outset.
4. The point that must be exceeded to begin producing a given effect or result or to elicit a response: e.g. a low threshold of pain.

From the definitions is seems to me that a threshold is something not dissimilar to a baseline or starting point thus I feel happy that a threshold is something that must be able to be exceeded. The implication that there must be those below the threshold is something else. Perhaps the speaker on the Beeb could have chosen a better word. Average for instance
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #4 on: August 18, 2009, 12:00:25 PM »
Miss C was prolly getting confused with Threshers...  whistle:
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #5 on: August 18, 2009, 12:59:28 PM »
Wasssat?????
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #6 on: August 18, 2009, 01:04:11 PM »
Quote from: Miss Creant on August 18, 2009, 12:59:28 PM
Wasssat?????
The shop where your Pinot comes from dear...

I said the shop where your Pinot comes from...

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« Reply #7 on: August 18, 2009, 01:08:58 PM »
I really really lurve youyou're my bestest friend hic!
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Re: I have jut heard
« Reply #8 on: August 18, 2009, 01:11:58 PM »
Quote from: Miss Creant on August 18, 2009, 01:08:58 PM
I really really lurve youyou're my bestest friend hic!
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