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Ahh quinine. A fine excuse for a gin and tonic (as if one were needed).

I'd invest in a cure for whatever it is he's got. No profit in it. Si si.

I'd invest in a cure for whatever it is he's got.

I like the way this smiley points at the line that's just been written.

I hear they call crocs "jockstraps" over there too.

I also think the smiley should be replaced with a little photo of Joey Deacon.

G'wan then, I know I should wait until Sunday but Christmas Alf wants to come out and play.

I meant to say I'm a Linguistic Intercontextuality Paradigm Enhancer.

I'm a German-English translator, finance and business mostly. Also soon hoping to be Chez's bitch.

He's not normally this subtle, to be honest.

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.