Trav Le Bleu

Yeah, I've considered that, but the car is on it's last legs anyway, done 140k miles, leaking oil from somewhere, one headlight not working, interior heater doesn't work (I changed the thermostat a while back, but it made no difference) so with all that I might as well scrap it - local breakers will take £120 for it and I have 4 months tax left which I can get back £60 on, so that's £180. With what it would cost me to get a scrap window and fit it (plus picking bits of glass out of everywhere!) I might as well invest that money and a little more for a car with a working heater. If anyone knows of anything going cheap (and no bird jokes please ) it would be most appreciated!

Oh, not so good for you either. I should issue a "don't panic" statement before this next sentence, so DON'T PANIC! My wife contracted Labyrinthitis as a baby and it wasn't diagnosed early enough. Left her profoundly (ie, completely) deaf. Only cos she had it as a baby though and it was untreated. I'm not scaremongering, just sharing your pain (I think) Internet hugs returned. Hope it clears up soon!

Crap crap crap. Last night some itinerent put a stone through my rear windscreen. Glass everywhere, but they didn't nick anything. Not covered on my insurance for it (3rd party fire and theft - which used to, but not anymore apparently ) and all the places I've rang charging £500+ to replace it ("cos it's heated window, ain't it guv") I bought the car for £600 2 years ago... so it's getting scrapped. By the time I was finished phoning insurance and the police (who naturally, weren't really bothered - and they should be cos it happened within 50 yards of a police station! ) and taping plastic bags over the windscreen to keep the rain, etc out - it was 1 am - and I couldn't sleep anyhow, was too wound up - and I had to be up at 5.30 am for work. Not to mention that I need my car for work, keep mail bags in them whilst out on delivery - so I rang in at 5.30 and told them I couldn't come in, swapped tomorrows day off with today. Unfortunately, tomorrow is the day all the car ads go in the Mockery - but I'll be working. Not that I can afford anything more than a few hundred quid anyway. Tonight I'll have to park my car in the same area (I help my wife with her cleaning job in Blaby, Northfields Surgery), which is a worry. The night before when we came out of work (usually finish about 11-11.30 pm) there were some kids in the carpark lobbing stones. They scarpered when we came out. Have to be 99% sure it was them, little sods. At the moment I am moodswinging between and

Rafa's just taken his headband off and he's got tanlines on his forehead!

From Masquerade, a Discworld novel by Terry Pratchett... Ahahahahaha! Ahahahaha! Aahahaha! BEWARE!!!!! Yrs sincerely The Opera Ghost "What sort of person," said Salzella patiently, "sits down and writes a maniacal laugh? And all those exclamation marks, you notice? Five? A sure sign of someone who wears his underpants on his head. Opera can do that to a man."

I saw a busker playing "Breakfast in America" the other day. I said, "Hey, that's Supertramp!" He replied, "Thank's, I like to think I'm not too bad."

They have bad caterring there?

NEWS! News should be new. It should be stuff we don't already know. That's the point of the word NEWS! Because it's NEW you see! If it was stuff we already knew, it would be called OLDS! Do you see, hmmmm?! So... Rising petrol costs is NOT news. Naomi Campbell randomly attacking people is NOT news. The death of Princess Diana is NOT news. Houses are expensive is NOT news. It's hot in summer is NOT news. and yet this is 95% of what you find in the average newspaper and even tv/radio

Did another delivery round in Braunstone, Galliards Hill area. Oh how I'll miss the colloquial cries of, "Tiffneh, gereer! Ya mam's bin laking evrywhere fer ya!", the delicate fragrance of Eau de Urine and the picturesque, burnt out/boarded up, council houses. How I love trying to get to letterboxes through 5 ft tall grass, navigating past the sofa, dodging the fridge and evading the rabid mutt. Today's been great!

In a previous "what annoys you" thread I rattled off a list which mostly started with, "people that..." You've hit the nail on the head Hairy!

Did an extra delivery. In Braunstone. Go figure

Are you Kevin Pietersen?

Manhunter Top film! Better than Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and 100 times better than Red Dragon (essentially the same film)

Got 3 pairs that I mix and match! (Red, green and black) Cons rule! And to get the thread on track again, I really hate balloons!

No what's REALLY annoying is women who wear short skirts and then are forever pulling them down, or split skirts and then are always pulling them together. Look, it's really simple, if you don't want to show off your legs, then don't wear them. Also women who wear t-shirts with writing on who then get offended when you stare at their boobs! WELL YOU STARTED IT!!

Single malt or the nasty stuff?

Mine stopped working a couple of weeks back when I was on hols. The house stank when we got home! Still haven't got a new one cos haven't got the money to spare and don't want to take on any more debt

As soon as I posted this I knew the answer... I'd like to add to my list "cocky gits!"

I might regret asking this but... so where are you bleeding from?

What really annoys me is when people start threads that are almost identical to ones that were doing the rounds a couple of months ago! Annoying Thread On the subject of car parking, one Christmas at Asda in Oadby I was parked in their car park in a section where the driveway goes around in a C. I came back to find myself (and other irate drivers (or, as the case was at the time, non-drivers)) blocked in by 4 cars who had decided to park in the driveway's in and out lanes. These 4 cars blocked in approximately 30 cars. There was wasn't much peace and goodwill for the first of the 4 idiots that returned! I find there are so many car related things that annoy me. Double parking in bays (usually by flash Beemers who don't wanna get their paint scratched). It should be permissable to key such cars! Motorway middle lane cruisers, or worse yet, people doing 65 in the outside lane of the motorway. Sports cars driven slowly on country lanes (just what is the point old man - finally, in your dotage, you can afford a Porsche, but you no longer have the desire or ability to use it as intended!) They dirve fast inbetween bends, when they have a straight line, but slow down to 40 or 30 for bends, forcing me in my bog standard Mondeo to slow down. Swap cars mate! Your driving experience would be remarkably similar, whilst mine is much improved! Lorries overtaking lorries on the motorway - have they nothing better to do for the next 10 miles!?! Oh, and here's a good personal one. On the A47 near Thorney Toll I had a car right up my backside whilst I was doing 70 (which, given, is illegal, but only exasperates me more - I mean, I'm already breaking the limit by 10 mph, how much faster do you want me to go!?) Finally he get a straight piece of road to overtake me on... only to turn right 150-200 metres down the road, forcing me to brake to a halt and wait for him. Tosser! I'm going to have a lie down PS, Daggers - Culturally Insensitive -

She gonna get her bongos out? My day was awful. Four hours overtime in the rain... in Fleckney. Muzzy didn't invite me in for a cuppa - though in fairness I wasn't delivering to his house (plus I doubt he's in the habit of inviting the postie in to comiserate.)

I had a bhuddist friend who always refused any gas or injections when he had any work done on his teeth. Instead he would get a monk to come in with him and constantly chant a mantra. He liked to transcend dental medication.

Remember, always look out for bikes! Though the "now you see him... NOW YOU SEE HIM... NOW YOU SEE HIM!!!" ad really grates since the guy checks, sees the bike behind him and so signals he is turning right. Why the hell is the bike trying to over-take him when he's signaling to turn right. Basically the ad is saying that bikers need not exercise caution when overtaking because it will always be the car driver's fault. Crap ad!

Nice And my favourite limerick of all time, by the late great Spike Milligan There was an old man of St Bees Who was stung on the arm by a wasp When asked, does it hurt? He replied, no it doesn't I'm just glad it wasn't a hornet