Padded Cell
Love cats. Spent the entire afternoon on Saturday at a Cat Show with my friend who bred our little stud Devon Rex.This is him as a newborn: His stud name is Loriendale Edward Kelly de Bray. We call him Diesel.Unfortunately his mother licked his ears...
I'd like to nominate The Official Formula One Website as possibly the largest, bloated, slowest to load websites on the WAN. I have had connection speeds up to 4500 kbps and that page still takes donkeys to load. I was on the helpline with my ISP a...
I have been doing a little online research into issues to do with bioequivalence in generic drugs. There is a technical word (beginning, I think, with the letter "p") that describes the substances used in the manufacture of presentations of the drug...
Interesting development by Brighton & Hove Council yesterday - against the background sound of the chanting masses - decision by casting vote to allocate school places by lottery (or ballot, perhaps) in cases of over-subscription. Where there is not over-subscription, there will be new catchment areas - resulting, potentially, in some children being allocated by catchment to their 7th-closest school... Either a radical move towards better equality in education, or the very opposite? How does...
Hi, I wonder if anyone knows anything about this.I am about to commence some building work that may fall under the act. I am excavating within a 3m distance to a neighbour's garage and because I do not know the depth of foundations of this garage I...
The wife and i will be going to Canada (somewhere around Niagra Falls)in June '08, will we be able to visit anywhere where we will be able to ski at that time of year, within easy driving?And i would like to go Salmon fishing as well, has anyone got...
I looked up the last one with the search function but it has been locked - along with all the threads in the archive I presume.Anyway, this was seen by me last night on a woman with a large bosom. The text was quite small and one had to peer a little...
Lot of new names around here.
Here's a linear progression for the sake of argument:A crime is committed. The (alleged) offender is arrested, tried before a jury of his or her peers, and the Judge, upon a guilty verdict being delivered by the jury, enters a conviction. The Judge...
Even a brief look through the HiFi Room and some Padded Cell threads leaves the strong impression that there's a millionaire or three regularly posting.So, any of you booked on Branson's Virgin Galactic yet?If I had the money I'd certainly have a go -...
Absolutely amazing story from Newcastle finds Viagra has other useful uses. Amazing resourcefulness from the Docs Baby brought back to lifeRegardsDiccus
She is absolutely wonderful and it is refreshing to see someone of her stature win.Good to see Scorsese win at long last too. Diccus
What is it with managers
Looks like fun judging from the testing. Those new Honda RC212V's look really weird too, with the back end looking like a drag bike.Anyone want to make some predictions?I think Dani Pedrosa will go well.
Went to the Baltic Gallery in Gateshead yesterday. I must admit I usually find many of the exhibitions dire, though I did enjoy Anthony Gormley's metal people one and the bloke who takes photos of nude people and then blows them up (amazing). However...
ChapsToday is a joyful one, a Labour governemt has recognised that Magaret Thatcher transformed our nation from the poor man of Europe into Great Britain.A bronze statue of her is now on display in Parliament.She confounded her enemies and has a...
Last week's episode was really dire; a more-or-less straight rip-off of the plot of Donna Tartt's The Secret History. Yesterday's episode wasn't quite so bad, but somewhat implausibly featured Gina McKee (born 1961) as an ex-schoolfriend ('she was in...
What's going on?
Sarah Kennedy was on about this proposed car tax scheme on the radio, apparently there is only a few days left to register your objection to the 'Pay as you go' road tax.The petition is on the 10 Downing St website but they didn't tell anybody about...
What's the big deal? The Royal Family has no real power. Most of them are dog ugly. One of them has a criminal conviction even. Why is it world news when Prince Charles has an opinion?
There were two big improvements in my audio system. 1. The first idea came from Naim Audio, they suggested 10mm2 cable for dedicated path. The real improvement came when I got some BASEC type T&E, it had better material and much better inner structure than the ones available in Hungary. I built a multiple path (one for each of the CD, Pre, and Power) but I’ve never been really convinced it‘s better than a single path with some Hydra etc. The dedicated path begins at my door, at...
Maybe you Brits think this is "yankee style". So be it. I admit I love to eat steaks. We BBQ at home through the whole year but here I wanna talk about great steak restaurants. O.K. you can get a steak in nearly every restaurant in the world serving...
Blair Pulls 1600 Troops out of Iraq, in a blaze of publicity, showing that the situation is under control, despite our armed forces being overstretched.......and sends 1000, no wait for it, ok 1400 of them, straight off to Afganistan.Who does he think...
fark me it's my older brother Wedding this september and i have been appointed best man. As he's quite a private person ie his wife to be doesn't know what a lad he used to be!! and he wants it to stay that way - i'm struggling with some material. ...
I'm going to pick up my aunt's ashes from London. Trouble is, those that are left of us are undecided what to do with them. We were considering sprinkling them over the wall into the garden where she grew up (they needn't know), or in the park where...