Off-Topic Discussion

Teenage boys seem to go through a really clumsy stage - ours sits down at the table like dropping a bag of spuds and finds it impossible to gently close a door, I don't know how our car door hasn't been wrenched off the speed he slams it shut.

shiney that is very very nice of you to offer to do this for me, but they said that I would be contacted in the next 48 hours and no-body has phoned me so I am hoping that they thought better of it!! I won't know of course until I get the next gas bill so I shall just have to wait and see, but...

The chemist (or dispenser at the surgery if you have one) is supposed to tell you if it is cheaper to buy it than using the prescription price.

Hello my lovely . In can understand your point of veiw but the problem is that there r many, many machines that do the work that all those people on the dole used to do and with the best will in the world , there r simply not the jobs there for the whole population and as clueless says , if u r...

As Pete says. why aren`t we wiping out Mugabe. He is doing the same as Gaddafi. Unless, of course, the yanks are after the Lockerbie bomber. As if.lol

Last fall I had my home remodeled for thermal reasons – it was just too hot on summer and freezing cold during winter. We had the entire house thermo isolated, changed the frames on all windows and replaced the old venetian blinds with some heavy curtains – so we successfully eliminated all...

oh, and this is what a mature triop looks like...Dont look much like a plant though

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I always thought the best tea tree, Ziggy, was a loose leaf tea, but yours appears to be a conifer:DI think if you want to get into an argument on this Forum then talk about Gardeners World, the presenters what it should be, and how long it should be:DOH:

fiiiuuuu...thank God!

Hmmm was ok til the hole got blocked, I'd suck so hard to try and clear it then it would unblock and send sherbert up the back of my throat where it burnt like Vim, making my eyes run and me cough like mad.I prefered wham bars (with more E numbers than a Yorkshire maths lesson) then later...

This is really funny as well!!! Val

Aah, just got away with the word fags on another thread so it would seem Americans are offended by the derogatory term for gay people if there is only one of them, but are happy enough to insult them if there are a group of them. InterestingI had such fun working with the guys from NY...

I find the issue re: annual leave interesting.In hospital work, all staff got the same annual leave entitlement which for my grade was 4 weeks plus 9 bank holidays. If a full timer took a week off, it was 'worth' 37½ hours and if they took a single day, it was 'worth' 7½ hrs. It became...

I think it's going to be in horseguards parade, the bit where they do the Trooping of the Colours. Somehow it won't be the same, it's bound to be downpours and freezing cold.Good for you, I wish we could get rid of ours. We just have a tiny portable since our big telly packed in a year...