*Bob*

I remember Pacific when it aired, whenever that was. It was really disappointing and just didn't seem to work for some reason so I dropped it quite quickly. That said, I missed the opener of BOB the first time - and I'm glad I did. It's a duffer - probably would have put me off tuning in for the rest. The Wire is to me as BB is to you I think.. maybe I'll give it another go one day. But with 50 hours of Battlestar to get through that time might take a while to come..

Ditched before completion: The Bridge (original version) Orange Is The New Black - Neither up to scratch, got bored. Completed: Breaking Bad (of course) Finally got around to: Battlestar Galactica - great so far. Revisiting: Band of Brothers Awaiting - Game of Thrones, season 1 (come on, Cinema Paradiso, hurry uuuuuup)

Steady on, Jeremy - I'm not a monster. Though I think you'd need planning for your rotting heads on the railings idea though. One for James Barber, perhaps?

We could rip out his still-beating heart, show it to him and then hang it on the ornamental palm on Goose Green roundabout - as a warning to others? Or present it to his mother in a jam jar? (NOT THAT SHE WILL CARE)

I would certainly have mown this perp down, then reversed over the corpse - just to be sure. We can always plant a knife afterwards on the mangled, torn body, should there not be one. If it means one more safe iPhone then I think - on balance - it's worth it.

I fort they dun alrite

Sorry, Jack. No tits in this one.

Only on account of it reminding me of Longmans audio visual French, I should say. I'm going to have to shorten in to 'Bruno' for this reason.

I find the name slightly risible.. but I'm sure I'll get over it.

It's just arrived. Probably straying into territory of 'the unquestionable' here .. but what would it take for The Sun to be forgiven Merseyside way?

Why not? Some of them in Brix and Vaux used to open early 'for tea, coffee and soft drinks' to plug the gap - if there were a couple of hours to kill before they were permitted to start selling booze.

The worst round to fall for was always the post-club pub round. Surfing at the crest of the crowd with your new bezzies, jollied along by feelings of chemically-induced elation, you empty your wallet on drinks for a dozen strangers. You get one back but then everyone gets a bit tired and buggers off.

I don't want to labour the point, Otta, but the point of a round is that it more or less all works out (apart from the tightarse - there's always one). But even so. One week maybe you get hit by a big round, but the next week not. But if everyone's average spend on booze is genuinely ?200 in one night - ten years ago - then they're all drinking 80 pints or 40 cocktails or whatever else. Taxis, clubs, food, extras.. yeah, but ?200 just on booze? Each? Come on..

Sorry, I don't follow Jah. Are you saying if I wasn't spending ?200 on booze in one night, I must be tight? How many alcoholics were in your round?

Are you saying 'not' drinking (or being capable of drinking) 70+ units of alcohol in one night means 'you don't get out much'?

?56 is a long way from ?200. Assuming everyone buys one, that's six or seven strong cocktails each. So, following your logic of the ?200 bar bill: either you drink 24 high strength cocktails in a single evening - or you've been done. I'm not sure which is preferable..

Jesus holy mother of god - ?200 on alcohol in one night? How much did that buy ten years ago? 80 pints? Unless you were a rabid alcoholic or buying Champagne - I think you got the stiff end on that round.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In my mid 20s I'd do about ?120 on a Friday night. Can you provide a breakdown? Isn't this about 30 drinks? Or 29 drinks and a kebab? That's a lot of drinks. Or are you also factoring-in sundry items?

Seriously though, what do YOU think happened? Was she abducted? Call 0901 1111111 for 'yes' Call 0901 1111111 for 'no, Call 0901 1111111 for 'don't know' Calls are charged at premium rate. In the event of a tiebreak please complete the following caption using no more than ten works "I have become deeply suspicious about two people I have never met, my only contact with whom has been as viewed through a warped media lens because .................................................". Judges decision is final. First prize: two weeks self catering at Praia De Luz and a metal detector.

What if.. What if the McCanns are in fact the 'topside' agents of a subterranean lizard-worshipping cult placed on earth by giant bees during prehistoric times? What if? Just think though. Think about it. Once you'll eliminated the boringly plausible, what must remains MUST be - something else - and you can just make it up.

So what you're saying is that you had an acquaintance once with no medical qualifications who gave their kid benzos? And somehow this gives you some sort of angle on the McCann case? Deranged.

Sue must be absolutely itching to release her cadaver dogs on this one.

So you're saying that medical professionals accidentally administered too much of a drug which was capable of causing death - to their own child - so they could have a meal out? Jesus wept!

SCSB79 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2649404/I- > left-son-car-five-minutes-dragged-courts-two-years > .html Are there other crackpot legal one-off stories like this The Mail has dredged-up from several thousand miles away? Or is more likely that the actual real world is filled with everyday occasional circumstances where parents eg leave their kids in a car for few minutes with nothing baaaaad happening and no-one being prosecuted?

I think if most parents were totally honest with themselves they'd remember a number of occasions with their own kids where it would have been possible (perhaps to a lesser degree than in this case but still possible nonetheless) for such a thing to happen. I know I can. I'm afraid I haven't googled an aerial view of the resort and approximated the distance from where they were eating to the apartment - factoring in the travel of soundwaves in air adjusted for ambient temperature etc etc because I'm not ghoulishly obsessed with a tragic event.