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Night-owl Oct 2018 4:08pm, 27 Oct 2018 31,582 posts	0 Night-owl Is it taking in account of royal wedding's that will bump the average up
Dvorak Oct 2018 4:31pm, 27 Oct 2018 16,878 posts	0 Dvorak Good point, Owlie. And probably a few other extravagant weddings dragging the mean up. (This is being perhaps generous and assuming it has any basis in reality.)
ChrisHB Oct 2018 6:13pm, 27 Oct 2018 17,363 posts	0 ChrisHB I remember a colleague telling me that the average cost of an engagement ring was something that the word 'horrendous' doesn't cover (maybe 2-3 annual salary?). Then he told me the "research" had been done by a well-known diamond merchant. He saw no connection.
beebop Oct 2018 7:31pm, 27 Oct 2018 1,238 posts	0 beebop I think the original American advertising strapline was ‘How to make a year’s salary last a lifetime’. A de Beers (?) advert trying to normalise massive overspend.
Markymarkmark Oct 2018 7:47pm, 27 Oct 2018 7,611 posts	0 Markymarkmark I mustn't tell my daughter she's planning a wedding that is below average in any way!
beebop Oct 2018 9:04pm, 27 Oct 2018 1,240 posts	0 beebop Above average in not wasting money?
GlennR Oct 2018 9:22pm, 27 Oct 2018 38,808 posts	0 GlennR The video for Vienna was shot in a car park in Rickmansworth.
NDWDave Oct 2018 9:33pm, 27 Oct 2018 7,980 posts	0 NDWDave The names of Shropshire’s gritters bbc.co.uk
Carpathius Oct 2018 12:45am, 28 Oct 2018 15,615 posts	0 Carpathius Awesome My personal favourite is Gritsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Anti-Slip Machine from Doncaster
Fragile Do Not Bend Oct 2018 7:16am, 28 Oct 2018 3,565 posts	0 Fragile Do Not Bend I knew my bedside clock radio automatically adjusted for winter time. What I didn’t know was, setting the alarm the night before would mean the alarm would go off as if the clocks hadn’t changed - so my 6am alarm went off at 5am. 🙄