OT: They are busy today

[Jimk]

Christmas is coming....

[Davey]

It's only lunchtime, and so far, I have had two BT technicians on the 'phone, both offering to fix my non-existent internet problem, and now at the door, one Green Energy salesman, speaking so quietly I couldn't hear him properly, offering a five-minute appraisal of the house for energy assessment. Not fazed by the fact that I already have loft insulation, I am not going to change the thatched roof, and the walls cannot be filled, as they are only single thickness, then he tried to sell me an air-sourced heatpump. The photos show an arrangement hanging off the wall of the house that looks like a giant double beer cooler arrangement, absolutely out of keeping with any house in this old village.

The most disturbing thing was that the first BT guy sounded British, rather than Peninsular.

[Max Demian]

Is India a peninsula now?

[Chris Green]

It always was wasn't it?

[GB]

Spain and Portugal form the Iberian Peninsula, so why shouldn't a sub-continent be a peninsula, too? I suppose.

[DJC]

P&O, The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company, originated with contracts to carry mail to Portugal (Peninsular) and India (Orient)

[alan_m]

No real guide to where they are calling from. The BT UK cal centres are all staffed with low paid workers from the rest of the EU and those in the Indian call centres all have common English first names!

[Brian Gaff (Sofa)]

Have you had the Amazon Prime call yet? Brian

[Max Demian]

It's a bit big. I've never heard of India being described as a mere peninsula.

[harry]

The heat pump can be freestanding.

[Another Dave]

Peninsula is Latin for "almost an island". Does that apply to India?

Another Dave

[Max Demian]

Is Australia an island?

[Davey]

An island continent, with several peninsulars attached.

[Andrew]

Perhaps the Green Energy salesman hasn't realised that the Labour and the Green parties manifesto's haven't yet been tested by the voters ?.

[Andrew]

I thought it was an island adrift in the pacific until tectonic plate movements made it bump into Asia (creating the Himalayas in the process) ?.

[Marland]

The term Indian Peninsular was certainly bandied about at one time, it occurred on articles in a childrens illustrated Encyclopaedia that my Mother had when she was a child 80+ years ago that was still knocking about when I was small. Geographically I don?t think it was all the states of India.

This was one official use of the term.

GH