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BigH47Posted: 14 August 2012Last Updated: 15 August 2012
As well as being bad losers (see Thank you for the Olympics thread) Their road system is crap too! Just had 3 days trying to workaround theirs and Belgiums signage system.We seem to manage by calling our roads ONE number/letter, not the French a...
GraemeHPosted: 11 August 2012Last Updated: 14 August 2012
Just awesome.....well done Mo Farah!
warwickPosted: 12 August 2012Last Updated: 14 August 2012
I live in a flatshare in London. Two of my flatmates are from elsewhere in the EU. They only watch American television programmes, e.g. sitcoms. One of them usually uses greetings such as 'hey buddy'. Now surely it would seem odd if Spanish...
Kevin-WPosted: 12 August 2012Last Updated: 13 August 2012
Sid Waddell, "the Voice of Darts", has gone to that great Lakeside Centre, Frimley Green in the sky aged just 72: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19231497 An erudite chap and a great commentator, he was responsible (in 1984, IIRC) for the...
winkyincanadaPosted: 26 July 2012Last Updated: 12 August 2012
Because it feels good to skewer the twin evils of corporate thuggery and repulsive nationalism (borderline racism and bigotry) that pretty much is the olympics, I offer this thread... To kick off (get it?), here is a photo of the crowd at one of...
mista hPosted: 02 August 2012Last Updated: 12 August 2012
Winkyincanada managed to put a few peoples noses out of joint with his Olympics thread,so i thought i would try and do the same !!! MY VIEW is overall they are an expensive waste of space and if i had my way i would get rid of PDQ. Even my other half does not agree with my views,but do i care !! This is my breakdown(an these are MY views) Queenie......about the only one in my opinion that has done a good job for 60 years.Move her into a small apartment and open up the whole of Buck Pal to...
Tony2011Posted: 09 August 2012Last Updated: 11 August 2012
Everytime I visit/sign in, I'm automatically transferred to a Vimeo page with a view of the ISS at night. Anyone else had an alien visit?
Kevin-WPosted: 09 August 2012Last Updated: 10 August 2012
Just wondering what everyone thinks of the Olympics coverage. I think the BBC is doing a fantastic job - showing every single event! Amazing! And Auntie also seems to have really embraced digital, with all those streams, allowing punters to watch what...
winkyincanadaPosted: 06 August 2012Last Updated: 09 August 2012
After an unbelievable journey and landing, Curiosity is safely on the surface of Mars. http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ One of the first images....   And if you haven't seen the NASA video describing the descent, watch it here... (ad at the...
PedroPosted: 04 August 2012Last Updated: 09 August 2012
I've been a Naim owner for nearly 25 years. Until very recently I would never have imagined being without my Naim based system, having started with a 62/90 many years ago and moved slowly up the Naim ladder. However, two heart attacks can change...
Calum FPosted: 06 August 2012Last Updated: 09 August 2012
I think I have a decent lower-mid range set-up (CD5XS/DAC/200/202/NAPSC/PL into HC (DR's to come) and started thinking about 282 due to a recent thread. But then, last week I went in to my local bike shop by chance and picked up a stunning...
TomKPosted: 08 August 2012Last Updated: 08 August 2012
Sorry if this has been posted already but I found it beautiful and quite amazing. 
Tony2011Posted: 04 August 2012Last Updated: 08 August 2012
I have  been a member  for just over a year. There's been some fantastic advice from moderators(you know who you are!) and members alike. I have made, I hope,  some new friends and met some fantastic characters along the way....
Tony LockhartPosted: 03 August 2012Last Updated: 07 August 2012
All was going well, waiting outside with the groom etc. then I thought it'd be a good idea to get my fill-in flash set up correctly before the bride's arrival. First shot, great, nicely balanced with the orange filter over the flash doing its job...
HookPosted: 05 August 2012Last Updated: 07 August 2012
Ok, a bit of an exaggeration, but... Am up in the north woods of Wisconsin, far from town, and very close to the south shore of Lake Superior.  It is truly one of the most remote and beautiful places I know...woods, water, fresh air...and...
Calum FPosted: 05 August 2012Last Updated: 06 August 2012
I have just bought a two grand racing bike and wonder if anyone can recommend a good speciality cycle insurer ?        Thanks.
garyiPosted: 06 August 2012Last Updated: 06 August 2012
Could just be something very odd my end but the avatars have all gone screwy. I am currently winston churchill, and lots of flashing crap going on.Anyone else seeing this?
mista hPosted: 23 January 2012Last Updated: 06 August 2012
Would love to hear from as many people as pos on this one,including supporters of Non League sides. Lets have any interesting stories from over the  years,the ups and downs,the good bad and the ugly.I will start the ball rolling and get ready for...
totemphilePosted: 05 August 2012Last Updated: 05 August 2012
+ 1 Pearcey should have picked him, would have scored them penalties...
mista hPosted: 22 July 2012Last Updated: 04 August 2012
If so i feel for you. Just had a look on their website. When you click on 1st Team profiles its almost like looking at a blank...
JBBYPosted: 03 August 2012Last Updated: 03 August 2012
Polite request. Perhaps a little more notice would be useful to customers.
ospreyPosted: 29 July 2012Last Updated: 02 August 2012
Online Now Current Visitors: 3 048        (Members: 0, Guests: 3 048) Where are all the members?
James LPosted: 01 August 2012Last Updated: 01 August 2012
Great move of Snoops to become Rastafari. Means he has a legit excuse to smoke weed.
Kevin-WPosted: 31 July 2012Last Updated: 01 August 2012
How to get that little bit Closer (geddit?) Unknown Pleasures, indeed. I wonder what the boys think? I wonder what Ian and Rob would think? I rather suspect that Tony, bless his brilliant, beautiful heart, would have rather liked it.
MangoMonkeyPosted: 13 July 2012Last Updated: 31 July 2012
Yesterday, I had a yellow watermelon.A very uncanny experience.Eyes closed: couldn't tell it apart from a red watermelon.Eyes opened: It didn't feel like I was eating a watermelon. What does that tell me about level matched blind hearing tests?...