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At any point this afternoon did you fall asleep with your face on the keyboard?

Michael Palaeologus Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Gutted. Sick as a parrot. > > You can all watch it on Sky. The boy Palaeologus done good, but will he be watching it in the pub or at home.

Plenty of speed checking sites on the net like http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/

Standing in front of a door and waiting for it to open automatically, only to have some luddite push past and open it using their hand no less. Though not much of a gamer these days I did play Half Life 2 and that left me eyeing CCTV with violent intent for sometime afterwards.

Do you mean something like this?

Ok I'm being a bit pedantic here, as I do agree with ???? point, but it was the Three Mile Island accident in that famously decrepit socialist state of the USA that started the end of the expansion of the nuclear industry. Just to add to Huguenot's earlier point there is bound to be significant changes coming from directions not immediately obvious. For example, Google's driverless car project can potentially make enormous savings in energy, destroying any economic case for private ownership of cars and allowing far more fuel efficient driving.

Fetishising happiness like this just shows how culturally and emotionally retarded we are as a nation. Embrace your misery.

Tony Blair reached a particular low point in my estimation when, in an interview with Paxman, he refused to condemn the teaching of creationism in a school in the North East. All he kept saying in response was that the school was doing very well in the league tables. So that's all right then. Difficult to imagine Gove being any more enlightened. Faith schools under Labour, MacSchools staffed by squaddies and bankers under the Tories, difficult to decide which is worse.

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Viewing on me mobile (samsung wave through opera) > looks really strange now, ads in the middle going > down centrally and the thread lists are all > squashed up instead of nicely stretched. Used to > have to zoom in and out to navigate around the > forum but not now... dunno if it's anything that > can be changed or I shall have to stick with > complaining about stupid smartphone apps... Using > Bolt lite looks ok though *shrugs* I use a Samsung Wave too, but with the preinstalled browser and the layout is fine, however the ads only appear as empty boxes. Is that a default setting on all phones? Just curious from a future advertising point of view. Incidentally I use Opera on my PC and everything has been ok all along.

As someone who lives on Melbourne Grove and drives everyday I would just like to add my vote to the naysayers. I agree with Penguin68, it will be the thin end of the wedge. No matter how careful you think you are, or how careful you think your visitors will be, you will get ticketed (legally or otherwise) and then will come the threads on here complaining of the injustice of it all. Wino puts it well enough in his final paragraph, whatever the current level of inconvenience it's better than the alternative.

Depends on your altitide. At sea level 4 1/2 mins in boiling water.

Apparently they can be quite bad for driving (cars) at night. Oncoming headlights hit the lower half and the light is dispersed across your eyes, so I've seen it recommended you keep a pair of monofocals in the car, particularly as you get older and your nightvision gets worse anyway.

Just a passing thought but would it be worth adding a brief description of how to resize pictures to the rules posts in the various classified sections as it still seems to stump some. I know various solutions have been posted in here, but not many visit this section, particularly (ok I'm guessing here) new or occasional users.

Is there actually much evidence for this though? Most other countries pay and I haven't read about their citizens being targeted as a result. I suspect people become victims because they are in the wrong place at the wrong time, nationality has nothing to do with it.

Pickle were these amongst your All Blacks merchandise. They were quite popular a few years back.

This is all rather reminiscent of a policy from the dying days of the Major government. Imaginatively entitled "Project Work", an experiment was conducted in the Medway Towns and Hull, into getting the long term unemployed (more than 2 years) back into work. Intensive one to one help was given for 13 weeks, followed by a period of compulsory work experience. It was considered to have been a success by the government and was due to be rolled out across the country, then they lost the election.

So that when Skynet goes live they cut us some slack Jeremy

I've been clamped and simultaneously issued with a PCN before. I paid up to get the clamp removed, but then appealed successfully. The clamping fee and fine were repaid to the card I had used to pay with. The advantage I had was that I was clamped by the council not by a firm of bailiffs, who did you pay your clamping fee to? I've also had bailiffs turning up for the same reasons as you, PCNs were sent to the wrong address in the same street, they just got the number wrong. I told the bailiffs to do one (fortunately they hadn't clamped the vehicle yet) and then filed a stat dec. The two Notice to Owners were reissued and I successfully appealed them. It's quite possible you could get your money back and at this stage what have you got to lose in trying?

Sensible attitude Loz, but the truth is out there you just need to know where to look. For instance, it's all become crystal clear to me now that Admin only recruits mods for the EDF after reading THE TRUTH.

I thought a disgruntled member of Al Qaeda handed himself into Yemeni authorities.

Viking style I hope MM

Exactly what I've been thinking. The management have acted like inadequate failures in using the threat to sack their entire staff and have lost the trust and confidence of the workforce. I know it won't happen, but I think they should be sacked and a new team brought in to rebuild that trust and return to negotiations.

I'd recommend Austria. Less expensive than Switzerland and better facilities than France. For a first timer, Kitzbuhel would be my choice. In some small resorts there is really very little to do but ski or drink and if you are not enjoying the skiing, for any reason, you will get bored witless. Kitzbuhel on the other hand is a lovely medieval town with plenty to do. As for lessons, you'll find 1-1 tuition very expensive and I would definitely give ski school a go first, particularly if you're on your own. You don't have to do the full week after all.

All an urban myth RosieH, but I'm sure you new that. According to his chef, very fond of a bavarian sausage.

I'm sure I was taught that if a word ended in an s, which was preceded by a vowel, then there was no second s. Then I came to London and saw St James's everywhere. Strictly speaking they can both be correct though can't they? The apostrophe is either replacing the e of the possessive es of old english or both the e and the s.