*Bob*

Three tracks? That's a lot. One at the start maybe for the filing-in. I don't really go with the 'mid-service' track. It's often a bit awkward afterwards - the 'celebrant' never quite knows how to manage the post-music link. I'm not sure it works that well. I think you want one big hitter that ties everything up with no talking afterwards - then straight down the pub.

Anyone have any thoughts on this? One friend wants universal sobbing and lamentation - so is going for 'the saddest song he can think of'. Another promises to go the chipper comedy route. Personally I think 'Life On Mars' would work really well as the coffin makes its way into the oven - with the specification that the closing of the crematorium curtains are synchronised perfectly with the final orchestral flourish.

My top tip is to avoid the temptation (borne out of understandable frustration) to spunk a load of cash on various practitioners who promise to improve your condition within a certain number of s?ssions. In most cases (unless particularly serious - obvs you don't say exactly where yours is at) it just gets better when its ready to get better, so wait it out and try not to get too demoralised during the wait. One week you'll be unable to get off the floor - some other week you'll have forgotten it was there. When it does get better, try to remember what it was like when it was bad - instead of just carring on like you did before - and do some exercise to strengthen the bits of the body that can lessen the chances of a future relapse.

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- How do ITV > justify re-commissioning this tosh year in year > out? > > Louisa. When people stop watching it, they'll stop making it.

But I wasn't rubbishing them! Merely suggesting that they could have been humanely destroyed.. Anyhow, their unfortunate move to 'Watch' amounted to something similar.

Could they not have both been humanely destroyed in 1991 - thus alleviating another ten years of suffering for ITV daytime viewers?

It's Friday night!

For gods sake man open some wine or something!

Arctic roll?

uncleglen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > He was a cheat-his quick paintings already had the > outlines faintly on the paper- I was appalled when > I first noticed this and I'm not surprised at > these revelations Indeed. The link between art techniques and sex crimes is well documented.

Certainly there are grotty and grubby shenanigans involved but I think that goes for nearly every industry somewhere down the line, should you only care to look hard enough. A somewhat overly serious hardline misery-guts attitude to something which adds genuine interest and colour to life.

I'm finding the run-up to the vote genuinely something of a buzz. How often is so black and white a decision which could result in real historical change left to a popular vote? And the turnout will surely be near-universal.

On the upside, that's a 62p/year saving on Christmas card postage costs for Richard & Judy.

Did you ever play snooker with Max?

Marking tightly, balls, shrugging off, beating, scoring. Rings. It's all just too darned easy.

Just re-reading the bit where you shrugged Max off easily. Typo?

Were you then asked to perform oral sex in return for a role in a fictitious movie?

Well there are subsidence claims.. and then there are subsidence claims and admittedly ours wasn't a major claim. But even so - armed with technical reports, sign-off certificates.. all the ammo available, there would be other options out there. There's always somebody willing to undercut someone else to get your money. Insurers don't give you money off because you're a nice person and what the hell, they're in a good mood. They give you money off because they know there's a better offer somewhere else - and that if you were prepared to go all out and look for it - it would lead to then losing your business. They bank on you either not being bothered looking for it - or just not finding it for one reason or another. Moreover, if you've been with the same insurer for years, they've probably crept your premiums up on the sly over time. Familiarity - after all - breeds contempt. You called them on it and lo and behold they 'suddenly discovered' a discount which was available. It's like buying a car and the salesman going through the charade of 'talking to his boss to see what he can do'.

I'll take that ???? - anything - I'm still trying to dislodge the mental image of Pibe knocking one out to the Blue Peter theme music.

There's a recurrent look at work here, Pibe. I think we can trace the lineage back to your early 'bedroom thoughts' of Yvette Fielding.

El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Sadly the prequels managed to kill off that > childhood part of me that worshiped those films I'd add to that: the stupid CGI tinkering and re-releasing of the originals - and withdrawl of the original cinematic release versions from general sale and tv outings (thanks, George - you know best). Then there's the ceaseless, unending merchandising and marketing, beginning innocently enough with my Star Wars pencil case in 1978 and culminating in Yoda featuring in a recent Vodaphone commercial. Enough already! They're kids films anyway. I'll watch them again one day, just like I'll eat a 'refresher' every now and again - for the same sort of hit. With you both on the Trekkie reboot though. Just goes to show.. it can be done..

We had a subs claim just a few years back with the same insurer..

Just reminded me ours is up for renewal. Cue the standard 'I'm leaving' call, followed by the standard 'let me talk to my boss', followed by the standard 2 minutes on hold - followed by the magical ?150 discount. These places are just like everywhere else. If you don't ask, you don't get.

LadyDeliah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- I get my suits from > second hand shops (along with almost all of my > other clothes) You're bang on-trend for '14

Being unfashionable is of course - quite fashionable - these days. So many people love to shout about how they don't follow fashion - and yet most people's current crop of clothes still follow certain trends. Maybe not seasonal 'magazine' trends, but general trends. That's what most shops stock.. general trends. Personally when I see someone - anyone - of any age - wearing something that generates some sort of response in people that see them in it, I generally think "good on 'em". They make the world more interesting, one way or another.