Padded Cell
i,m just about to recieve 80 thousand pounds redundancy money and am not sure what to do with it. my main thought is to pay off 80% of my mortgage giving me a stress free life. i,m only 33 years old and have a good technical employment background and...
Been flying with quite a lot of photographic gear recently, but haven't sussed the best way to transport the gear.Options;I put it all in the hold in a big sturdy waterproof "Pelicase" with foam padding and pressure release valve. Everything arrives...
Drove back from Northampton today.The traffic on the M1/M25 was heavy but moving. Why is it when you try and leave a decent space between you and the car in front some numpty will without fail move into that gap?The general standard of driving seems...
Try this:http://www.pistonheads.com/speed/default.asp?storyId=11715Tony
What a fantastic character he is. How many kids has he turned on to astronomy? I'd love if the BBC turned The Sky at Night into a weekly, peak time show but that's maybe just me.Where does he get his suits? Every time I see him his waistband is...
Any Kiwis care to make a prediction on the outcome of the general election next week?I'm picking that Labour will increase their current majority, that the Greens will lose all or most of their seats, that the Maori Party will win at least two of the...
No electricity for 26 minutes. 'This is our Tsunami.'By Joshua Gates. Actor, Photographer. Victim.LOS ANGELES, CA, September 12, 2005 - Horror and disbelief swept through the greater Hollywood area this afternoon as a minor power-outage turned the...
I can view my profile, but don't seem able to "edit" it. Got an equipment change to make soon Jeff A
Am I the only person out there who is not flying with BA until they get some normality back to their service?Could you imagine NAIM running into supply problems with some components and then saying "We are substituting an inferior capacitor in these...
Learned Friends,I need to get my house rewired, completely. It's got an old style radial system where spurs fan out from the fuse box, much like spokes of a bicycle from the hub. Some of these have been extended (naughty, naughty) by the previous...
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=70195&d=17&m=9&y=2005 What a wuss. Tony
The death of the 'Hi-fi World' writerLJK Setrigt was announced in yesterday's Independent.http://motoring.independent.co.uk/features/article313713.ecehttp://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article313520.ece
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I'm doing a play at the moment in my local theatre. We are struggling to find a good web resource for some sound effects, in particular various bit of birdsong, flapping wings, helicopter blades and firework explosions!Has anyone got any ideas where i...
So what happens when the most powerful man in the world needs a piss..?Bathroom?
But some things just make me smile:http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4258814.stmTony
Congratulations Michael Campbell.I wonder if the critics will be calling this one a fluke as well?
Following on from my last post.We rather like the idea of underfloor heating for four rooms (approx 600ft2) - the floorboards of which are suspended on rafters over a void (quasi cellar). Our architect is not terribly in favour nor was the first...
(A Message from John Cleese To the citizens of the United States of America): In light of your failure to elect a competent President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective...
Now you can see why the fuel protests amounted to nothing and why the supermarkets have been forced into dropping prices:http://petroldirect.com/
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This must be the scariest video I've seen in ages:http://www.intemos.com/video.aspI've cleaned mine just the once now, and I'm sure I didn't apply as much pressure as this guy does.Tony
We have got our planning permission although we may be varying that now. We have started obtaining quotes from builders recommended to us by friends & neighbours. It's now that I realise there is more to this than meets the eye. There could be a few questions coming this way...
Can anyone give me a clue what's going on here? I don't think this is specifically ipod or i-tunes related, (although i could be wrong.)When transferring songs from cd into i-tunes and playing back the same files before transfer to the ipod, the sound...
Yes I do hope they don't drive too slowly or nobody will get to work on time, innit P.S. In reality this is the 'True Truths 4' thread; it's just that it's got a completely different name, and the old one is history Bye Bye 'True Truths 3':