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What are you doing on the 12th then Brendan?

12th May - how 'bout you?

I'm going to Pavement too. I'd forgotten. Yeah - there IS something in my diary after all! Px

Bowie - Without You Haven't heard this for maybe 20 years and, guess what, I still love it http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYGhWjJACrI "There's no smoke without fire. Oh oh" I'm dancing round my kitchen

Absolutely 2Jimmy2. I like this Motown classic though - it's one of the songs I put on when I'm getting ready to go out for the evening - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zOU056X7YY

Brum I'm shocked at you - dogging in ED indeedy. My eye strayed to the top shelf in the newsagent this morning and I saw THREE - not ONE but THREE - porno magazines for those with a taste for naked tattooed ladies. Had there just been the one I would have shrugged it off - but THREE. I ask you. Where have I been? I must be leading a sheltered life.

david_carnell Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Jagger + Bowie + 1980s = Dancing In The Street > > *whimpers whilst rocking back and forth in the > corner of the room* > > "Make it stop.....please...." The video is even worse. Two giant egos clashing for equal face time. I think they are both hugely embarrassed by the whole debacle. Righly so.

The man has been air-brushed to within an inch of his life

As Bowie is being dissed/discussed on another thread right now I'm going to post Natalie Merchant again - Space Odity

No it's the album I mean - I wore the album out - I liked it. Well actually I would need to go away and remind myself what's on the album because I haven't played it in years but I did wear it out at the time.

I didn't mind Bowie in the 80s - I played Let's Dance until I wore it out

Today I'm mostly listening to: Paolo Nutini - he gets better all the time http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mC_3FvA5x58 Natalie Merchant - beautiful woman http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RLJwCT7BDA&feature=related

Thanks to everyone. PR - OMG that is a lot of money. Ouch PGC - I'm dotty enough darling, I don't need any accessories! I think I'm going to give the eye exercises a go. I shall probably look like I'm gurning but nevertheless. After 40 odd years of not needing glasses (and I know I should be grateful) I do sort of resent them. Going to try and exercise my eye muscles. I'll be walking into a lampost near you any moment now. Px

My God child adores me. I buy her lots of pretty dresses. I'm taking her to Cirque du Soleil next Sunday. I slid down a water flume with her about 17 times last Saturday (I was dizzy). What's not to adore?

She Bop - Cyndi Lauper

I was lucky enough to have 20:20 vision all my life. Until 40. After 40 well, let's just say that my arms aren't long enough to read a menu. I'm sure that some of the local eateries think I must actually be unable to read at all, as I insist that the menu is read to me, or just order ?the usual?. I do have reading glasses but it?s a slippery slope once you start to wear them they quickly become not strong enough. There?s a school of thought that says that the eye is just a muscle and there are exercises you can do to get your eyesight back up to par. Does anyone have any experience here? Any luck? I?ve bought myself some Traynor Pinhole glasses. They look weird. Has anyone tried them? They?ve just arrived and the instructions are in small print ? oh the irony!

Very very beautiful. He looks a tad surprised to be here perhaps?

Congratulations to Mr and Mrs Mockney for the Mocklett. Very well done. Get some sleep whilst you can.

WOW - CONGRATULATIONS 9lbs - that's a huge one - well done Mrs Mockney

Has the mocklet hatched?

You'll have to be ever so quick Brum - my diet kicks in from next Tuesday so from then on I'll be a social Pariah

So what would you say is an effective strategy for calling call centres?

Can I just share with you that there is absolutely shag all in my diary right now. Not a sausage. How boring is that? Is there anyone out there in ED with anything exciting lined up? Please share so that I can live vicariously through someone. I?m not even going to the BRITS (Robbie Williams and Coldplay ? not worth a new frock and taxi fare). I?m toying with Hole and Biffy Clyro but not decided. There?s a sniff of Soundgarden ? maybe. Anybody? Anything?

Calling a call centre is nobody's idea of a fun time so it doesn't bode well, in my opinion, if you don't even have the correct name of the person you're dealing with. If I ring a call centre I'm fastidious about writing down the name of the person I spoke with and what the outcome of the call was - just in case things go wrong and I need to call back again. The first thing I say on any customer services call is "hello, who am I speaking with". It's just good business practice.

Absolutely Brendan. A lot can be said about call centres. Non of it good. And another thing - when you've been put through to a call centre, obviously in another time-zone, and someone with a thick accent introduces themselves as "Geoff" or "Brian".