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Hee hee: Tony

Good man!Chancellor Alistair Darling has imposed a 50 per cent tax on all banker bonuses over £25,000.The Chancellor said it was only fair to impose this tax on banks who pay out more than £25,000 in individual bonuses because all UK banks...

I logged onto my Facebook page and was greeted with a message informing me of changes to my account. I checked my privacy settings and found that the new default settings were changed (lowered) from what I last set. If you use Facebook, have a look...

afternoon everybody! a wry chuckle to myself after reading that someone has hacked into Hadley CRU (climate research unit) and released over 1000 emails & documents that confirm deliberate fraud & misleading info to the public from many scientific sites! in the telegraph the other day i think but just google "hadley CRU" this i believe to be the first of many such leaks to expose the carbon con. CO2 is want plants breathe after all & not a toxic gas as your government would lead you to...

I was looking at some really old record players the other day, and I was struck by the 16 rpm setting. I'm sure that when I was a child, my parents' Decca Dansette had such a speed, but I think I only ever used it to make Freddie and the Dreamers...

With the impending arrival of the iPhone on Orange and Vodaphone(?), has anyone spotted any downward trends on prices?Gavin

Obviously the USA has never made tools of "terrorism"What a plonker. Tony

I wonder some of you clever folks might be able to help with a little problemette I've just encountered with my iTunes library? The library resides on a Qnap NAS which is accessed mostly from my iMac & thence to a Lavry etc. SWMBO's PC is similarly networked via ethernet and she can access and play the music from her study upstairs but for some reason she can't create her own playlists, neither can she copy stuff onto her iPod from the NAS. I think I've set up all the permissions I can find...

By Frank KellyDay OneDear Nuala,Thank you very much for your lovely present of a partridge in a pear-tree. We’re getting the hang of feeding the partridge now, although it was difficult at first to win its confidence. It bit the mother rather...

Hi there, if there are any naimies from New York, I'd appreciate your help: a (French) student of mine is looking for an appartment (2 rooms) from january til july, he is doing an internship there. Apparently not far from Central Station or Chelsea...

Do people in Britain seriously think that Jonathan Ross is funny ?He has great guests and completely fails to ask them anything interesting. He then makes gags at their expense, mildly patronizes them.Graham Norton on the other hand has us in stitches ...

HiThinking about buying my father a dye-sub printer for Christmas to go with his recently purchased Panny compact.Does anyone have any experience of these, things to look for and possibly make some recommendations?Thanks, Julian

I was recently inspecting the mains setup in my new place. Always extra careful with children.I have a Volex box with a 63amp RCD main switch and the rest of the circuits are MCB's.Does this mean I have the best of both worlds?

Well it keeps the subject free from the Premiership, etc...

At the risk of more ridicule, I couldn't not post this.A hero and a great movie star, this is what celebrity should be about. A life of achievements and heart breaks.BBC obit

My wife was driving up the M40 when her Tom Tom Sat Nav did the usual with the regular suction holder failing and the sat nav falling to the floor whilst driving.I want to try and solve this regular occurring issue and get a better holder for her,...

Has anyone used this programme to restore music and photos from an iTouch to a PC that crashed and has had to be reformatted?The reinstalled iTunes doesn't want to know and keeps warning that it will wipe any data from the Itouch if I proceed. I have...

Does anyone know where on-line I can order English bitter in bottles? At the moment I am trying out beers with an alcohol content of approximately 3 to 4%? I find at this level I don't fall asleep after two, as I do with stronger ones. I enjoyed a...

Popped out to Asda this evening for a few essentials. Beer and whisky. Drove past Asda, found myself drawn to Lidl.Came out with 8 cans of Grafenwalder Pils and a bottle of cherry schnapps.WHAT'S GOING ON

Prompted by some comments on the DA thread.There seems to be a difference in how the mac deals with an inserted CD, sometimes it is quiet sometimes it sounds like a hairdryer.Also after a CD is inserted and before importing, the tracks are not in...

…of “kick the stuffing out of this just to confirm”? I am curious you see. I ordered a Laphroaig Triple wood for my birthday. It arrived on the day, but when opened the bottle was found to be smashed and the whisky had leaked...

In a recent post Dr Peter mentioned the huge National Debt the UK has.Well Canada has a multi billion dollar debt, the Us has a multi trillion dollar debt and likely most countries ....So who has done all this lending ? Does China and Japan lend the...

We are off to the Brook in Portswood, Southhampton.As the weather is not looking to good and we probably won't be walking about, we will be looking for some where to eat, on the way down.Any recommendations for a good eatery English/Italian preferred,...

There's always a moron waiting round the corner to make you feel competent again: PlonkerTony