Padded Cell

I have just received a rather strange e-mail claiming to be confimation of my subscription to a Wilmslow Audio mailing list. I'm sure I haven't signed up for such a thing.Has anyone else received anything similar? I've blanked out the info in...

Not too sure if the year end bonus will stretch this far but come in no. 873000 your time is up

I've just read this story about the removal of traffic regulation in an attempt to "humanize" the whole traffic-pedestrian interface.Unsafe is safeI sort of agree with the main arguments raised with some reservations in busier areas and I'm curious to...

I use Outlook 2003. When it downloads an email I get the usual message about images being blocked and Right click etc. When I right click the layout of the email changes but I am left with a load of boxes with a red X in the corner. I can't view the...

Following the glowing reports I am comtemplating replacing my Canon EOS 300d with the Nikon D80 SLR and Nikon 18-135 zoom lens (£760 for the 2)However I am concerned over reports that there is only a basic RAW converter included with the Nikon...

It wasn't good, though. And, unfortunately, maybe Robinson will keep his job. Mark

I have just seen the new Borat film - I can't make up my mind if the scene where he goes to a born again evangelist church service is totatally hilarious or deeply disturbing. I have not laughed so much since Monty Python's Meaning of Life. High Five!

Chaps! This is a subject that has fascinated me for some years now and I think in essence highlights one of the finer traits in human nature. I believe it originated in Bangladesh, having progressed now to many other Asian & African regions bringing real hope, dignity, & self -respect to millions of people on the ground (NOW). Bill Clinton to Sir Bob have mentioned it on occassion (noticably not Brown etc though). Don't confuse this with the Muslim Banking methods which do not allow interest...

Hello Fellow Groupies,I have just a brief question. Asked a seller on Ebay a question about a part for my turntable, and he offered to end the auction early, offering me a reasonable price.My question is, doesn't this go against the Ebay rules, and if...

CIA analysis finds no Iranian nuclear weapons drive: report No surprises here.

I am wondering what the general opinion of the sound quality from the Thomson Sky HD box is.I find it has become my main source of listening and the sound quality is superb.Some of the best recordings I have on disc include the Crossroads guitar...

One of the greatest footballers in history has died. Ferenc Puskas scored 83 goals in 84 international appearences as part of the great Hungarian side of the 50s. He remains the only player to have scored four goals in a European Cup Final.Pushkas...

So Andy Robinson has achieved his aim of setting the record for consecutive defeats for the England rugby union team after they were played off the park by South Africa today.Mark

I may be asking the question in the wrong place. The Forum tends not to be packed to the gunnel's with X Factor wannabes, but maybe I'm wrong. I quite fancy a Karaoke machine to fulfil my dreams of stardom. Club singer versions of Nick Drake, Led...

I just changed the stereo in my car for the Becker Grand Prix, and I must say what a fab gadget it is.It has built in bluetooth connectivity to the mobile phone, and it comes with a microphone, which after half an hour was neatly installed on the...

Drugs and human rightsNot only a potential legal precedent but surely a precedent for every prisoner to be allowed what they had outside..?

A bit of history first....Working off-shore we are subject to a 3 yearly on-shore medical, for the under 45's, I think - I'm not quite there yet but I believe it's annual after that.It consists of the usual stuff, weight/height/body mass index/eye and...

Am I at last a senior member? I hope so - it has taken 4 and a half years!!!!

The Sumiko BPS Evo3 was sounding so good tonight I thought you all ought to see it.This cartridge sounds so good for the money and its construction makes you feel that you are a real hifi afficionado....

I’m always curious about how people end up making their career choices. For example, with me I went to university to do a degree in history because I had no clue what I wanted to do and there weren’t really any jobs available at the time. When I...

Dear Friends,Yesterday I posted a thread, which I hardly felt up to the task of writing.I don't want to bring it back to the top, and so am writing this reply here. This is just to say thanks to those who replied and and answered, and also to those...

world last chanceDoes anyone know of a more barking mad website than this one?

Any recomendations or ones to avoid?We've got NTL at the moment but having had the usual shite service from them we're moving away from them as I object paying them a fortune in return for the hassle - TV first, phone and broadband to follow unless...

Dear Friends, On the Second of November I visited this horrible place as a sort pilgrimage during my stay in Poland with Frank F, to make clear in my mind not the nature of the evil, but the scale of it, which can happen when a nation, a culture, a...

Dowie gets the chop.Charlton have some good payers Darren Ambrose, Darren Bent, Marcus Bent, Matt Holland and Herman Hreidarsson - wonder where they nicked all them from?