Tiscali going tits up!

[BolshieBastard]

Looks like Tiscali may be going tits up if BSkyB or someone else steps in to buy the company.

Anyone recommend a good broadban provider? My area isnt supported by cable so no need to suggest Virgin!

[moorfield]

Looks like Tiscali may be going tits up if BSkyB or someone else steps in to buy the company.

Anyone recommend a good broadban provider? My area isnt supported by cable so no need to suggest Virgin!

tits down

tits up is a good thing, if you think about it

[Liability]

be surprised if a buyer isnt found or they arent bought up at the last minute for a few hundred million.

[NickFitz]

Virgin also offer that copper-wire ADSL broadband thing in areas that aren't able to cope with the speed of light.

Dunno how good it is though - I've got one of their fibre optic cables running into my Edwardian flat. The ex-BT-copper-wire-thingy for the phone line hasn't worked in more than two years now, but it isn't of any use anyway. It's not as if I'm sending faxes.

[NickFitz]

tits down

tits up is a good thing, if you think about it

Nope, the phrase "tits up" refers to the way dead fish float - it's synonymous with "belly up", just a cruder (by the standards of the 1940s) phrasing.

During the Second World War, when the middle classes were thrown into close contact with the vernacular of the working classes (whether by working in munitions factories as former housewives or commanding minesweepers as members of the RNVR) a number of "polite" versions of common phrases came into use, one of which was "belly up" instead of "tits up".

It's mildly interesting that, in later decades, the middle classes often reverted to the more decadent forms of such phrases.

The upper classes, of course, have always sworn like troopers. After all, nobody was going to tell them off for it

[pmeswani]

Virgin also offer that copper-wire ADSL broadband thing in areas that aren't able to cope with the speed of light.

Dunno how good it is though - I've got one of their fibre optic cables running into my Edwardian flat. The ex-BT-copper-wire-thingy for the phone line hasn't worked in more than two years now, but it isn't of any use anyway. It's not as if I'm sending faxes.

The service from Virign Media's fibre optic service is pretty reliable. Had it for a few months now and had little or no problems with it. Am on the 20mbits service, and hope to upgrade to the 50mbits service at some point. The only downside is that from time to time the download speed suffers, but that's a temporary glitch more than anything else. I can't comment on their ADSL service.