*Bob*

Foxy, if you look - you know - using your "eyes" - you will "see" that not only did I not start the thread either, I also did not start the talking about Ants. Or Aliens. Somebody else did, hours earlier.

I realise you've got a boner for foxes, Foxy, but this is the lounge, not the 'rigidly stick to discussing foxes room'. If you want to discuss foxes and only foxes in a rigid 'foxes only' fashion with like-minded individuals, then I'm sure there are 'speciality websites' out there somewhere for you.

It was worth reading down just to see the contributor with the username 'racially ambiguous hottie'.

The big question ..

I'm buying everyone a Latvian slave droid this year. You can order them on Amazon.

I barely cracked a smile at re-runs of most of the TV series, but TLOB is a different matter. I can forgive everything else just for that.

It's like groundbreaking art. Shook the world (etc) at the time, but now.. it's just a big blank canvas with two lines on it.

There's nothing wrong with queueing as such, but if at all possible it's a condition best left to the young - like genital herpes.

You should definitely follow it up, Strafer. Somewhere a Nigerian prince desperately needs your help.

boom-tish

'Be nice for me to get noticed for my talent, not just my looks' he said modestly - some weeks back. I thought it showed great self-belief - for someone who can't sing, has heavily-concealed acne and a touch of dwarf.

Colonel Mustard, lead piping, billiard room.

Old fashioned answer: it isn't

Could it be possible that one of the lads had seen some stray urine on the floor of the toilet and - fearing a slip by another unwary EDT punter (leading to a possible no win/ no fee claim) - had resolved to guard the door until the manager could be fetched and a yellow warning sign placed? Then, coincidentally during this time, could not a sudden and unexpected earth tremor have dislodged an unflushed log and threw it out of the pan and onto the floor? Surely this is possible? We can't go round making accusations until all the possibilities have been explored.

We've all done it - little accidents will happen. Only last week I had 'one over the eight' and - totally accidentally - shat in the washing machine.

How far away from the intended target can a chod be - and still qualify as a 'near miss'? There's some leeway here but I'm sure 'a short walk' has to be too far.

Ohhh those keerrr-razzzy stag do's with their keerrr-razzy dares. Surely there's a unspoiled historic medieval city on an Easyjet route that caters for this sort of thing? If it's anything like half the stag do's I've been unfortunate enough to attend, the ones in the group who are basically ok spend the second part of the evening in a state of permanent cringe, apologising to strangers. Speaking generally, if course. I don't want to make any defecatory statements.

Beyers are the cheapest to maintain on the whole - that's why the studios love 'em. All the bits on most of the classic sets are replaceable for very reasonable amounts. Most of the other can manufacturers totally fleece you for replacement parts.

Actually Jeremy I saw a hipster wearing a set of DT's 'up east' a while back.

Motorheadphones. You might as well just get a penis tattooed on your forehead.

Did you get to try them out on a flight?

I don't think I can be trusted with miniature ?120 headphones for use outside of the house!

Which etymotic 'phones do you have, Pibe?

For personal listening I think it's more a case of what you like the sound of rather than what's 'best'. You can't return headphones bought online (for hygiene reasons, like jewellery and undercrackers) so if there's somewhere you can go and listen to a few pairs like RS then go for it. I have a pair of Senny HD650 and Senny HD25 but neither of these would be any good for your purposes, I don't think. As long as they're not some overpriced load of old shit with a 'Dr Dre' (etc etc) logo on side - these headphones are strictly for munters.

I use Soundcloud. You upload your crappy track. Then people add comments to it like "cool bass drum!" and "I'm feelin' it!!" at points of their choosing as the track plays. And they they become your soundcloud follower and then you become theirs and then you get to listen to their crappy track and add comments like "great hi-hat" and "this is gonna SMASH IT" and then nothing whatsoever happens because - let's face it - you're just a load of people playing each other your crappy tracks in the dream that someone, somewhere with a massive cigar will call you, offer a $1000000000000 recording contract and free blowjobs for life. Happily, I'm not the above, of course. All my tracks are private: Soundcloud is a useful and inexpensive means for me to collate and send work clients, for them to preview the work and then download the music to the edit. I think this is the point about all these types of thing. Most people will look at them and think "that's shit, why would anyone want to do that?" but there will always be a percentage who get real value put of it. To me, LinkedIn, for example - is utterly pointless ("John added overhead projectors to his list of skills") but to certain people - apparently - like people in certain types of recruitment - it's actually invaluable.