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I hope they're able to read the instructions. There's bound to be a screw missing.

They had their first hot meal today. Meatballs and rice. I bet it was the nicest they have ever had.

Now that an increasing number of products are no longer tested on animals it makes sense to keep several household pets in order that you can carry out your own tests, as and when required.

For the benefit of Expat Don't risk drowning next time you travel by boat. Simply wear a pair of bicycle clips and fill your trousers with ping pong balls.

Avoid parking tickets by leaving your windscreen wipers turned on to 'fast wipe' whenever you have parked your car illegally.

Fellas. Whenever you visit a pub (or a hotel) with a male friend, wear a passport-sized photograph of your wife, cut into the shape of a heart, on your lapel in order to dispel any rumours that you might be homosexual.

A good Top Tip for anyone going to Nigeria. Always stroke tigers and lions in the direction in which their fur lies. Never stroke against the nap of the fur, as it can make them extremely angry.

Heavy smokers: Don't throw away those filters from the end of your cigarettes. Save them up and withing a few years you'll have enough to insulate your loft.

Make your neighbours think you have French visitors staying by leaving frog's bodies with the legs removed and snail shells outside your back door along with your rubbish.

Edited because it was an inappropriate Top Tip about burglary prevention and may have caused offence, though none was intended. I'm sorry to hear of your bad luck James.

Though I doubt anyone could put up with my incessant Top Tips if they were stuck down a mine with me. Though this one may be useful for them: Wear a Miner's helmet in bed. Not only does it provide emergency lighting in the event of a power failure, but it also protects against unexpected falls of plaster from the ceiling.

Could you imagine being trapped in a place like that with a bunch of people from this forum? All that hand wringing about hospital letters, parking issues, streetlamp problems, bouncers in pubs etc etc. They'd have to send down the men with the white coats when they finished the tunnel because I think I'd go completely insane.

It was touching when they all sang the national anthem. I don't know if it was sheer patriotism or simply a show of courage and stoicism? Or maybe it was both. God bless them. I pray they all come out of there alive.

I heard on the radio that beds were being sent down because these poor men were having to sleep on a concrete floor. Perhaps the 'beds' they describe are just roll matts or something similar?

My heart goes out to these poor men and their families. They seem so brave and resolute. One question I have is that if they can get all the stuff like TVs and even beds down the hole to them why can't they pull the miners out the same way? Are there any mining engineers on the forum who might be able to answer that?

Maybe you should pose your question about life to your dinner party guests so that they could then get your full attention

Are you really hosting a dinner party and abandoning your guests at regular intervals to post messages here ladymuck!?

Yes lol I suppose you could say that

I think that one day insects wuill inherit the earth. I have just been watching a David Attenborough documentary about African ants. These ants are farmers. They take grass back to their mounds and a special fungus is grown on it. It's the only place in the world that this fungus grows and these ants eat it. However, it produces dangerous carbon monoxide so the ants have built their mounds to have air conditioning so that harmful fumes are got rid of. It's amazing. Individually the ants have no intelligence, but collectively they are like cells in a massive brain.

Also, none of those animals had either the ability nor the inclination to post about their observations at 3 in the morning. :)

Yes, you're right really huggers. In fact, I've been wrong on this and unduly harsh. Of course this kind and considerate lady has every right to show concern for these dogs. There is another thread at the moment about being human. The OP has demonstrated this with her compassion. I'm sorry if I caused any offence to animal lovers.

Well I also think it's worth pointing out that people can be prone to exagerration.....especially on internet forums. The owner of the dog informed the OP that the vet had said it was ok.

*Smokers. Save ???s every year on matches and expensive cigarette lighters by simply lighting your cigarette with the butt of your previous one. *Done this one already in Top Tips. But what the hell....it makes me laugh if nobody else.

Save money on expensive nicotine gum by simply chewing ordinary gum and smoking a cigarette at the same time.

I think it's worth pointing out that the pictures attached I don't think are the actual pictures of these dogs. They are pictures that the OP has trawled the internet for to use to demonstrate what she saw.