Padded Cell

Deane FPosted: 31 March 2007Last Updated: 01 April 2007
This topic was inspired by a post of Rasher's and deserves a thread of it's own, I reckon.quote:Originally posted by Rasher:The real problem is that the media is blowing this up into a serious international incident way beyond its actual importance,...
Derek WrightPosted: 30 March 2007Last Updated: 01 April 2007
See Standup scanner thread I have now had a spinal fusion using 4 titanium screws and two rods and a cage to replace disc to prevent the vertebrae trapping the nerves.Do you want to hear about this - probably not - but perhaps some one somewhere will...
RasherPosted: 22 March 2007Last Updated: 01 April 2007
Don't be shy boys, talk to Aunt Rasher about your worries and your concerns. You know with my sympathetic manner I can give you advice and ecouragement through the dark times, and sometimes a problem shared is a problem...err....shared.
Don AtkinsonPosted: 27 March 2007Last Updated: 31 March 2007
McAfee v Norton AntiVirusI need to buy and install internet security and antivirus software on my wife's laptop and my daughter's laptop. Both are IBM Thinkpads running under Windows XP Professional.I would rather buy a well-known brand and have used...
acad tsunamiPosted: 29 March 2007Last Updated: 31 March 2007
ID cards - jolly good idea (if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear)or yet another step towards complete Governmental control of your lives?
Chris KellyPosted: 27 March 2007Last Updated: 30 March 2007
For a company famous for PR&T, you'd think our hosts could get the T right!
AL4NPosted: 27 March 2007Last Updated: 29 March 2007
i am wondering if it's worth the cost as opposed to the cost of putting things right myself.To fix this problem would be about £220, not alot i know, but the thought that the person will get away with it makes my teeth itch.
JamieWednesdayPosted: 29 March 2007Last Updated: 29 March 2007
Following on from Joe's Q&A, how about the Ronnie Barker variation whereby the answer posted is to the penultimate question not the last one. So answer the penultimate question then ask another (clearly this may be slanted to provide further humorous moments...) Geddit? Might be funny... For instance: Q1. Which town lies on the A103 between Chester and Oswestry? Q2. What does a vasectomy actually do to a man?
Diode100Posted: 26 March 2007Last Updated: 29 March 2007
For all those interested, Elena Filatova, Ukrainian motorcycist extraordinaire, has today added a new chapter to her Chernobyl Diary :-Chernobyl Spring 2007
Deane FPosted: 26 March 2007Last Updated: 29 March 2007
A few years ago I read "On Equilibrium", by John Ralston Saul. One of his propositions was that the choice to act rightly - once you have decided for yourself what right behaviour was in the circumstance - does not always lead to a "good" outcome for...
gonePosted: 28 March 2007Last Updated: 28 March 2007
...Ryanair takes the biscuit with this one. I suppose this year's smoking ban will improve punctualityCheersJohn
BigH47Posted: 28 March 2007Last Updated: 28 March 2007
OK dirty minds this is serious.My sister passed this to me and asked if I would spread the word:- A favour to ask, it only takes a minute..The Breast Cancer site is having trouble getting enough people to click on their site daily to meet their quota...
CyrenePosted: 27 March 2007Last Updated: 27 March 2007
How do I superimpose a portion of one image (photo) over another image/background ( again photo)?I'm titting around now and it's all guesswork which isn't working out at all........Hope you can help.TIA
RasherPosted: 14 March 2007Last Updated: 27 March 2007
Blimey!I just can't imagine why this sort of expense on nuclear weapons can be justified when so many better things can be done with the money, except of course that the government don't seem to be able to improve things no matter how much they have...
FisbeyPosted: 26 March 2007Last Updated: 27 March 2007
A bit sensitive this, I am, at present one of two attorneys on behalf of my mother. She lives with my sister who is the other attorney. Her condition is such that my sister is now applying for enduring power of attorney, but is naming only herslf as...
SeanfPosted: 24 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
Any ideas how I can revert this annoying text (Arcor...) to 'Microsoft Internet Explorer'. It happened when I temporarily installed a driver for a modem. I later uninstalled it but this thing will not go. It appears on every site I visit. Its not...
Deane FPosted: 25 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
Why balloons at partys?For instance:"The child will be two years old!""OK. Let's have a party. We'll get some brightly coloured latex bladders and fill them with stale breath. That's festive."...later that century:"The child will be twenty one years...
rupert bearPosted: 19 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6457741.stm
BigH47Posted: 25 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
Any one using and can recommend a PC calender /daily diary. I have a programme called Mini reminder but it only activates on start up, and I tend to leave the machine on for several days at a time this programme does not work so good.I do not need...
Deane FPosted: 22 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
The Jamaica Observer story
JWMPosted: 25 March 2007Last Updated: 26 March 2007
25th March 2007 marks the 200th Anniversary of the “Abolition of the Slave Trade Act” 1807.This is a just landmark rightly worth of commemoration and celebration – but we must never forget that this didn’t mark the end of...
MandPosted: 20 March 2007Last Updated: 25 March 2007
Whenever it is raining/snowing/windy - just like today, my wireless internet connection seems to play up. By that I mean it keeps loosing connectivity. Soon as the sun pops out it works again. Can't see why that would happen.Anyone else have this...
Ian FPosted: 23 March 2007Last Updated: 24 March 2007
Another hard week at work is over so I thought I'd post some of the things that have, or will, make Friday night so enjoyable!Keep groovin'Ian
BoshPosted: 21 March 2007Last Updated: 23 March 2007
Love our house but as usual with a modern house the gardens a bit small. The strip of land between ours and the neighbour’s house giving the builders access to their compound (7.5M x 20M) was conveyed to them as their house was finished last....
JWMPosted: 23 March 2007Last Updated: 23 March 2007