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Possibly the best or the absolute worst movie ever made!
MikeJD replied to AggieDave's topic in The Bonfire
Expect lots of in-jokes about how past it everybody is. I'm thinking Space Cowboys. Which is not a good thing. -
End of the decade Dec 31, 2009 or Dec 31, 2010?
MikeJD replied to skittles_of_SDC's topic in The Bonfire
Skittles, congratulations for getting 6 pages of posts (already!) out of a completely pointless debate. All of the actually useful measures of time are already agreed upon. It doesn't matter a jot when the 'new' decade begins. -
Sounds like she's lucky 'Toby' hadn't done that already.
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It does work. It just doesn't, um, do very much.
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End of the decade Dec 31, 2009 or Dec 31, 2010?
MikeJD replied to skittles_of_SDC's topic in The Bonfire
If it weren't for our strange and pointless obsession with 'significant' dates (and ages!), we wouldn't be having this debate anyway. It's like the way we categorise decades by their fashion and music - the eighties, the nineties, the noughties - as if everything changes at the end of ten years instead of on a rolling basis. Odd, innit? -
If your mice are evading your spring traps, then they're smarter than mine were - it was a full time job emptying the couple that I set up when I had a similar problem. The only issue was that these were pretty big mice (I don't think they were rats!) and the traps didn't always kill them outright - so I still had some messy finishing off to do.
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No it's not it was 02/01/10 Damned foriegners; who can't get the date format correct Blah blah blah. And that's not a palindrome either. Don't worry - I'll start a similar thread on 1st February, and then all the Merkans can come and get their own back.
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At some DZs it's mandatory no AAD no Jumpy for ANYONE regardless of skill level or time in sport Yep. Damn safety Nazis. They'll be saying next you're not allowed to just pad out your reserve tray with wadded up newspaper.
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This thread needs a little pedantry...
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That in itself proves nothing. Still, I didn't mean to reopen the debate - I'm only joking of course, and I suspect that he probably didn't make it.
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Those guys who turn up to your boogie, who nobody knows and who don't really fit in - the ones with the earpieces? They're hoping the real DB will show.
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I remember a lot of late Beatles stuff on the radio, but whether or not that was contemporary I couldn't really say. Quite possible since I'm a child of the 60s. Also, my mum's limited record collection means that these always take me straight back: California Dreamin' The Last Thing On My Mind The Times They Are a-Changin' Turn! Turn! Turn! Unfortunately she was a fan of The Seekers, and I had no idea as a young kid that these were other people's songs. When I finally got exposed to The Mamas and the Papas, and Tom Paxton, and Dylan, and The Byrds, I thought their versions were ok but not a patch on the 'originals'!
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How about a NSFW warning? Gecko porn!
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Yep, but on the other hand it's good to know that he was happy and lively until the last few days. Awful to see a pet (or of course a person) suffering through a long decline. Sorry to hear your news, Shell. His picture made me smile.
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Yeah, but just imagine if we could harness people's enthusiasm for creating an X Factor winner, or preventing one from reaching number one in the charts, and actually put it to some good. Wouldn't that be something?
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I don't have a Blackberry, but a couple of friends who do seem to be the only ones who frequently fail to get SMS messages from me. They just seem to disappear into the ether.
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I'm not a fan of technical virtuosity for its own sake. Some of the greatest riffs and recordings in history - the ones that really get under your skin - have been the simplest. It's like the Mariah Carey effect. I'm vaguely impressed that she has a five-octave range, but I don't particularly want to hear her demonstrate it. All that show-off warbling. Just sing the damn tune, woman!
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Whatever it is, I doubt the manufacturer is offering the options you might be hoping for. Like the cutaway cable that doubles as a garotting wire, or the reserve tray-mounted rocket launcher.
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+1 and another. Why? Just why? Agreed. A pointless waste IMHO. As is jumping from aeroplanes, in many people's humble opinion. I'm not into light shows, or any of the gaudiness that accompanies Christmas, but why are we picking on this expenditure as somehow immoral? We all of us 'waste' money that charities could use.
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Big suvern girlie I'll have you know, Mr Shropshire, that I was born in Liverpool. That's right, two counties north of yours. But ok, it's a fair cop. Having lived in London for so long I'm approximately 500% more nesh than I used to be.
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Coldest place in the world is the back of our Caravan, at altitude, with the door open, in December. Brrrrrrrrr.
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I know another Oriental favourite that'll make you two jump tickets. You want to try my turtle soup? Um. I'm gonna go with a NO.
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I know another Oriental favourite that'll make you two jump tickets.
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Top of the list of comments on that page. Do you think this is a friend of ours? Sure looks like him.
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If that's as convincing as it looks in the photo, I for one would be taking the stairs!