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Just to throw another name into the hat, they don't do custom setups but I've used Novatech (www.novatech.co.uk) for all my techie stuff since moving back to the UK and they haven't let me down yet.

Taser?

And one of the last ones was about frottage avec moi.

The Loud Family - Ballad Of How You Can All Shut Up

I have such an inappropriate braincrush on Charlie Brooker right now.

Going off on a tangent here, and I realise this is going to sound like a completely retarded question, but having never owned a car or lived anywhere that didn't have good public transport, roughly how much does it actually cost to run an average car per month (say)? Nothing flashy, just a small urban runaround like a Focus or a Clio or whatever. I'm thinking tax/insurance/MOT but not petrol and maintenance. I think I'm starting to feel like a failure, Thatcher-style, for having a driving licence but only using buses and trains.

For fuck's sake, get some perspective already. Can you not save this shit for a thread that isn't about baby death?

I'm willing to believe that was just one of the many proposals they considered. Unfortunately, that says as much about them as an actual plan to hike VAT would. I thought they might bump it right up for a few years then "lower" it again to 18-19% permanently. They've been wanting to raise it for years (just that VAT is a very hard one to justify raising), and now they have the chance. A very short term cut followed by a rise that people will be paying for as long as they live, politically astute so long as the public don't get wind of it (or rather no one explains the maths of it to them at least). There was a woman on the telly the other day saying that the cut to 15% will save people "£2.50 in £100 - people don't know about percentages but I work in a bank". If that's the standard of the average bank clerk, I fear for the mathematical nous of the mere plebs.

I'm willing to believe that was just one of the many proposals they considered. Unfortunately, that says as much about them as an actual plan to hike VAT would.

This Sunday's the day. Swedish ginger biscuits in the oven and gaudy stuff on the fireplace.

As it happens, third date technique is a bottle of wine, a Desperate Housewives DVD and a quick fiddle on the sofa. How did you know?

I'm that good I don't need more than 30 seconds.

I save that sort of thing for after the second date.

Aye, I meant our own self-appointed UN representative. Although I have no problem with inadvertently insulting our Mancy.

Another masterclass from Boutros Boutros Quite Contrary.

Thought it was going to be about this: http://www.variety.com/VR1117995653.html

Christian Kjellvander. Various stuff. This is particularly lovely:

And not once has he showed any interest in meeting up with the exiled Geordie forumites down here. Traitor, I say, traitor!

Welcome back kidda. Now give us an annotated list of what you've been up to in the meantime.

Still think tax on beer is ridiculous. Tax on tax is the real genius. Katanga! Failed to ans earlier Fop. Should Parky Inc © be buying water or gold?? Long-lived canned goods and a shotgun. Mrs P loves it in the bunker. That's no way to refer to her St. Georg. Or your Lange Reihe, for that matter. Oh the endless hilarity.

Still think tax on beer is ridiculous. Tax on tax is the real genius. Katanga! Failed to ans earlier Fop. Should Parky Inc © be buying water or gold?? Long-lived canned goods and a shotgun. Mrs P loves it in the bunker. That's no way to refer to her St. Georg.

17 seasons into Survivor (the American one) and I'm still hooked. I need help.

Bring on the Autobahns and the "Happy Camps"

Still think tax on beer is ridiculous. Tax on tax is the real genius. Katanga! Failed to ans earlier Fop. Should Parky Inc © be buying water or gold?? Long-lived canned goods and a shotgun.

It reminded me of a 1-1 draw we had with Ipswich, the year Man Utd beat them 9-0. They had 11 men behind the ball for 88 minutes, we did everything but score, then we did Andy Cole. Then one minute later they equalised the only time they crossed the half way line. I hope the Chelsea fans felt as frustrated as we did that day. Same Andy Cole in both matches, no less.