chrisp65

ugghhh, then the majority of 'traffic' will return to 'wrestling' and in depth dissection of batman movies. I get enough of that on my accounts where I pretend to be 14.

anyway, she appears to already be dating a Mountie

ah, you beautifully naive person

Can you get me one and say knock off £150 for the bus trip and drinks although to be fair, probably worth going the extra hour down the motorway and meeting up in Belgium and enjoying the trip

There's a whole thread there on its own - crime statistics! If ever stats could be used to say absolutely whatever you want them to, it would be the multiple variations on crime statistics. From whether people still bother to report their car being scratched, whether the police even show up at some burglaries, to the number of people in prison and how long they stay there and whether they re offend on release. My limited knowledge tells me to ignore any and every crime stat.. Why? I reported a burglary in progress and the police did nothing (not strictly true, they phoned me over an hour later and asked if they were still there! Then wouldn't come out to visit the shop owner next day). Then more recently, police came to my door and asked if there had been any car crime, I mentioned the badge on my car had been nicked, they told me off for not reporting it, and a week later I had a letter from victim support offering counselling (it was a nice badge, but I'm pretty much over it now to be honest). So I tend to ignore any claim from any side on crime.

Hell is....not for me.

see, I took the 'scumbags' reference as just being a sort of ironic joke type ending to a post

If there is another election relatively soon. Which party would have the biggest budget available? I imagine most have just spent 5 years of savings, donations, good will and overdraft. Another campaign in the summer could see a welcome return for the home made election leaflet with a punky gestetner copier vibe about them.

we've gone from pledge cards to a stone monolith I can't wait to see how we scale up from that at the next election in July

Why tell him before you have something else in writing? As nice as I'm sure he is, that's not really helping either of you, is it? He can't plan for you possibly leaving sometime in the next few months if something else comes along. I'd wait until you get a positive result from an interview.

If you have had 3 pints, then tripped over and still think you're sober - that's a good indicator that you're pissed. Too pissed to behave whilst watching a game of football? I trip on curbs all the time, no matter how much pop I've had! no, that's not what said To put this in to context, there are some clubs where the fan base has a higher than average number of scrotes that don't need drink to be objectionable. Equally, I have personally attended a game where I'd had sooo much too much to drink, that I found an unoccupied row of seats, laid down and fell asleep missing the entire second half. Luckily the guys had to wake me up rather than go home without me, I was the only one that could drive a coach*. But other than wasting my own money, nobody suffered. As mentioned elsewhere, it could just be that extra little tool for the stewards to be able to filter out idiots. Don't draw undue attention to yourself and you'll be fine. *I made that very last bit up.

If you have had 3 pints, then tripped over and still think you're sober - that's a good indicator that you're pissed.

people should just watch football on pay per view tv with some sort of simple test to make sure their tv isn't over 5 years old and that they've bought a recent replica shirt atmosphere could be created by pressing the red button with a graphic on the screen showing how many people have recently pressed the red button you can pay a little extra to upgrade to team coloured hand sets that register more clicks, more quickly at the end of the season, the two teams with the most registered button presses go in to a final, in Dubai

Just as I'd managed to save the deposit and get the promotion that meant I could afford the £26,500 house in town the prices started going up by about £500 a week - every week. At £30,000 I thought my chance of having a house had gone. But luckily, the building society explained to me that the silly old fashioned 3+1 times your salaries and 10% deposit didn't really matter any more and they were happy to lend us 'whatever' in the brave new world of early 90's finance. In fact, they could give us 'whatever' plus some more for furnishing the place. And here we are.

USA you say? I call your bluff sir, I call your bluff.

Really, you see the tories getting 40 plus seats more than every polling organisation including Ashcroft predicts? That's either a late swing of 15% or everyone constantly wrong by 15%. Well that would be an exciting election night, and most things are possible, but how do you get there?

I am sooo tired. Had a 4 day weekend, I'm back in work and I'm knackered, properly useless. Three black coffees before 9:30am hasn't worked and has left me with nowhere to go to get myself lifted to read a report then go on a conference call to discuss it in all its boring glory. I foresee technical problems causing me to, regretfully, postpone the meeting.

Yes, I can understand people saving 'old' pre digital pictures. They reinforce our good memories and family stories. But needing to save laptops and discs? Surely if there was something important or of sentimental value on a modern device there should also be a backup somewhere else so you only lose hardware in a blue screen crash / fire / theft / incident with coffee? edit - beaten to it! I invested in a small decent safe a few years ago, if that got stolen they'd be easily spotted jogging down the road with half my concrete floor.

I've been getting the Guardian recently as it's free in Waitrose, but it was nice to switch back yesterday, I like the way it reads.

To the Independent's credit, they were the only Sunday that didn't have baby pictures all over the front.

well for what it's worth, I just don't see Sunderland getting 2 points more than us in their remaining games after that, I can't be too bothered which combination of teams get relegated

With CDs, couldn't you do a slow pan down the spines with something that records video? Probably, had I thought of it. or if I'd been having less fun arranging them all over the dining table in some semblance of categorise (mostly white covers, 60's compilations, crap I still wont get rid of).

I checked with the insurance on my records and CD's. I wanted clarification that I'd said I had no single item worth a decent amount of money, but did my music collection count as lots of £6.99 items or one big item. They assured me it wasn't worth much! They were very nice, they said it's individual items but take lots of photos showing each individual one and framed so the picture is clearly taken in your house. So that was a great day, playing with CD's for legit administrative porpoises.

Yeah it's not my usual I'll admit. I think it's that sort of late 60's vibe that was a little bit more blues rock than heavy metal. I've got a few bits of Yardbirds as well! I think I'm starting to get into stoner rock too. I think I'm getting old.

The Evening Post real!