Trav Le Bleu

I think I may have found your problem. You're using drugs designed for humans on inanimate objects. It just won't work. HAve you hit it with a hammer yet? I once had a nail that wouldn't work and I hit it with a hammer. Result!

Nice photos Natho, you obviously have a good eye for them (much more important than having an expensive camera and a fancy editting suite)

I pulled up to a t-junction today (fortunately a quiet one), driving carefully too, only about 10 mph, broke and slid out into road almost hitting the opposite kerb!

Is it as good as Cop on Christmas Vacation Goes to Collect Wife from Party but Runs into Terrorist Plot and Thwarts Them Single-handedly?

No snow, but very very wet and cold. Thank you global warming! Best thing to do when it snows is this - drive-by snowballing. You drive slowly past a bunch of kids on their way home from school, scoop a handful of snow off your roof, lob it, then floor it - hopefully spinning up tons of slush in the process before grip kicks in and you make your speedy escape! Mwahahahahahahahaha!!!!

That wasn't his point TPH. Besides, you're hung over. Go and get a McDonalds or something.

My brother (Mrs John Murphy on this forum) is unable to get his PC working. When he starts up it asks for the emergency boot disk. I think I'm right in saying that the Emergency boot disk that everyone should have is particular to your own PC and wouldn't work on a different PC with different specs and that my creating a boot disk on my PC and giving it to him would probably not work. Can anyone clear this up for me pls?

"Push" doors with "pull" handles on them. I always miss the sign and pull the handle.

Biscuit de digestive avec un café au lait

So your gripe is with nice people?

People on the tv show "Move to the Country" and state that what they are looking for is a nice remote quiet little country cottage. When the researchers/presenters find them that they then moan "It's a little small and there not many amenities nearby." NO! COS IT'S a nice REMOTE quiet LITTLE country cottage! My blood boils it really does! This goes for all people who don't know what they actually want!

Well that's a crap dictionary then... quote me the OED! Which will have your listed meaning (erm, as far as I can make sense of it ) as the secondary meaning. I'm all for language evolving, but not from DJ's calling things something that they are not and then that meaning been accepted unquestioningly by Joe "Bloody Stupid" Public!

The incorrect use of the word "ballad" A ballad is a song that tells a story, ie the Ballad of Reading Gaol It is NOT any particularly soppy, overly sentimental love song. NOTE: it's always the especially awful love songs that get called ballads. I have no idea why.

And that new Absolutely radio station that's being advertised on tv. Playing Kaiser Chiefs, Pulp and The Killers does NOT make you a cutting edge, in your face, radio station. It makes you a typical common or garden commercial radio station. Oh, and it's on AM. HAs anyone tried listening to music on AM... seriously?

So, if things that are interesting enough to get noticed are deleted and I've never had anything deleted, then I... HEY! WAIT A MINUTE!

Actually, I don't think I've ever had a post deleted... what do I have to do?

Mods falling asleep when I've made a very interesting and perfectly valid point!

Taking this further, adverts for insurance that say things like - "and if it's not your fault, then the accident will be paid by the OTHER PERSON'S INSURANCE!" (Caps there cos at that point the voice over gets all orgasmic). And they make out that this is some kind of "special feature" of being insured by them - when of course that is what will happen regardless of whom you take your insurance with.

Just watched "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford." Not bad, up there with "Keyser Soze Strings Along the Cop With a Shaggy Dog Story" or "Maximus Decimus Meridius Kills Emporer Commodus in the Colluseum". However, I still prefer "Oooooh, It's the Name of his Toboggan!" and "Don't Look At the Ark Marian."

Scientists with no imagination. The next step up from the Large Hadron Collider will be called the Super Large Hadron Collider when something like Destructo-ring 5000 would be much catchier!

Assuming you mean "eating" crisps , surely these activities, simultaneously, is a bad idea? Unless "Idle" was a typo too, and you actually have a little Ganesha or crucifix you're performing sacriligious acts on?

How very disCERNing of you. I'll leave now...

Scientists building super particle colliders that have a very small chance of destroying the planet Earth BEFORE discovering interstellar travel!

An aggresive gay? I thought that was a myth!

Oppresive political regimes spending billions on fancy pyrotechnics, laser shows, intricate wirework and gargantuan stadia. That and the fact that London 2012's opening ceremony will be crap by comparison.