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Legal requirements; shmegal requirements. In practice 'the fuzz' are not going to stop you for having the wrong light setting (or prob. even no lights, unfortunately). It is more of a question of alerting your presence to the motorists and other road users, inc. pedestrians. Also, a lower-mounted light (eg. on your bike) is more visible to a car than one one your bag or worse on your helmet. These are serving almost no useful purpose to the misguided rider (sorry Loz!).

Today through no fault of my own had to listen to a kid's iPod thru speakers containing mainly Now That's What I Call Music 379 (Girls Aloud, etc). Utterly appalling - had to turn it off. The (low) quality of so much of today's pop really makes me angry!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nice one, seanmlow.

Dammit, Bob. I just came back from work to find mine on the mat and decided it was so appalling that I was gonna stick it the forum too. Ah well, great minds and all that.

I think i just heard one on R4 about deporting siskins to Scandinavia. Any others?

Apparently hawthorn is the 2nd most environmentally beneficial plant after english oak, due to the amount of creatures, etc it supports.

Like many others, Tap has become part of my daily repertoire. I have gone through two VHSs and am now on the dvd (should last a while!). In my varied rock incarnations pride was taken in quoting the more obscure and appropriate lines for any given Tap-like on-the-road situations. BTW, Nige doesn't actually say 'Don't touch it' in the guitar scene. Sorry to be greedy, but for starters: 'Watch his mouth.' 'Too MUCH f*cking perspective!' 'Civilisation! Where'd I put this?' 'I'm joking, of course.'

I'm about ten days into mine.. this time it seems to be quite grey around the chin, which is a new development. About 60% of the area of mine is below the chin line.

'Have you been to a Harvester before?'

Can I just say that not until about 5 posts ago did we have any more of a description than 'young' and 'black', goodness, that covers a whole range of shapes and sizes doesn't it? Now we have a littlemore to go on, i.e. slim and 6' we can perhaps narrow it down. Saying that, when I was doming home on the bus this afternoon @4.15pm, at the bus stop half way down DK Hill there were 6 police persons taking to a tall, slim, black man. Wonder if it's him?

cheeky bugger, state of the art that is! and so's the phone.

Sorry *Bob*, but Asset's DOES look better. Can we organise a tasting method?

Got the Tinariwen album, and it does indeed sound like music of people who spend a long time journeying slowly in a minimalist environment. Good, tho'. If you like yours kinda mind-melting and jazzy in a late-60s psychedelic way, try this The studio album NOW by Stark Reality won't leave your mind easily. My other half hates it. But then again, she doesn't like challenging music.

I missed you in the analogue world, Tillie, so happy belated b-day from me too. XXX I always find Aquarians turn up in bunches - I'm one too!

Louisa, you sound more drug-addled than some of the irregulars in The Drum! I had some great - if lost - nights in there and always met some 'interesting' people. It is a shame but not a surprise and I hope Dave gets his next venture more together.

No - I think you are wrong Nero, although I can't remember which post box details I saw. Poss Nine Elms and I am sure elsewhere.....

It was me who mentioned Staffordshire Bull Terriers in the Drum thread (ahem!). I refer you to p133 in the Collins Gem book of Dogs: 'Requires a responsible owner, committed to careful training'. I am afraid I find the bark of these animals repugnant and, if I am not mistaken, when these little bleeders bite, their jaws lock and can't be opened. Ayway, I agree that the owners are usually to blame. Then again, that's what happens with centuries of inbreeding (I mean the dogs... or do I?). We have cats.

He's a fat Staffordshire bull terrier.

You don't know how right you are, Cassius.

What would you know about it, Louisa?

To all of you esp. Rolo, thanks for your help. I will probably pilfer some of your lines! SteveT - good point about the yanks being slick. Then again, we can play the Hugh Grant dithering Brit.... possibly. I am very grateful. The funny thing is he is my half-brother and I don't know him that well, nor have I never met any of the family except his fiancee a couple of times. I can foresee cold sweats in the middle of the night.....

I mentioned it once, but I think I got away with it.

Thanks for all your suggestions - I have witnessed a very drunk best man being slow-clapped and booed by a rather rock n roll crowd because he was pissed and slow and boring, so I am definitely going to keep it short and snappy!

I am to be best man for the first time at a wedding in NYC this summer. I have always dreaded this request coming from someone and now it has happened. The 'strippers in Prague' gags, etc. will not go down well with 200 sincere catholic Albanians (my new relatives - I am best man to my half-brother. Don't ask), although short, snappy and humourous is probably fine. Any suggestions out there? Thanks.

Wouldn't normally use one, but :)-D