As most of you know, the rest of the team I work with are based in London: I work in Colchester. There are a few of us 'orphans' in the office, and...
Hey, be fair, I don't do that many parody threads... ;)
So, regular problems with IE7 drove me finally to download Firefox. And it's working pretty well, with one exception: I cannot get Flash to work. Any...
So, a colleague of mine (mid 30s, divorced) went out on a date at the weekend. They'd met online, been chatting for a few weeks... So how did it go?...
I kiss the feet of this bloke. :techman:
Every time I click on a spoiler tag, I get the quick reply box. :unsure: Now, my computer has been playing up, so it might be a problem at this end,...
Live long and prosper The fictional home of Star Trek's Mr. Spock may really exist. A powerful telescope has spotted rocky worlds around the star...
So, this morning while working out, I was surrounded by members of the Colchester United Football Club first team... there's something about hunky...
Disclaimer: I have no personal experience of step-parents. But that's because my father, who did have experience, swore after my mother died that...
Anyone else getting really fed up with products that have absolutely nothing to do with a film trying to piggyback on them? If I see the Quantum of...
Meet Barney. Seven and a half weeks old, mum a border collie, dad a mystery... He is going to be huge!, he's twice the size of some of his siblings,...
...From a vicar's wife of 1894. here my favourite bit... A SELFISH and sensual husband can easily take advantage of his wife. One cardinal rule of...
This is a couple of days old, but with stock markets plunging and unemployment rising, I reckon we can all use a laugh. The pic is crying out to be...
:bang: Oh, it has not been a good day chez Linda... Other Brits may have seen a news item today about a Deloitte employee getting a laptop nicked...
:wub: Dirt cheap compared with champagne, and a much better wine into the bargain...
A few weeks ago, I said elsewhere that OH had lost 98 lbs since the start of the year. Well, the weight loss has now topped the 100 lbs level, and as...
Has to be this bloke. A car thief who had his name and date of birth tattooed on his neck was caught after CCTV images of him were used to track...
:D If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have...
OH is asthmatic, so he automatically gets called for a flu jab every year. I won't get called by the NHS till I'm 60 or 65, can't remember which......
Playing Monopoly with daughter this afternoon (see BR thread for the horrendous details ;) ) it occurred to me: I can't remember ever playing a game...
http://www.wordforge.net/showthread.php?t=64130&page=2 Post 60 (I've never figured out that quoting one particular post yet) Nobody else seems...
A colleague of mine has to go to Florida the week after next. Today she finally got an email confirming her travel details. Our company has a policy...
Linky Anglo-American finance ministers and central bankers, like little Dutch boys, try desperately to plug leaks in the bursting dyke that is the...
Halle-bloody-lujah! Gurkhas win right to stay in UK A group of retired Gurkhas fighting for the right to settle in Britain have won their...
I work for a company that deals in a highly specialised niche market. We have two, maybe three competitors on the entire planet. We're global, and...
As I said elsewhere, I'm watching the debate ATM. Shrub's 'noocyular' irritates me enough, but both candidates saying 'nooclear' makes me want to...
Don't know if the Yanks or Aussies know of this tradition, but the Europeans have got to be familiar with it... The music you regularly hear on...
Turkey the country is fantastic. Turkish keyboards, with their habit of randomly inserting backslashes when one hits the full point, making calling...
There are quite a few posters here that have children of various ages. There are quite a few posters not yet at a place in their lives where children...
When I was younger, I used to try to max out the weights all the time. Even if I only managed three reps, if the weight was higher, I felt I'd...
Linky A hotel has apologised after a soldier was refused a room while he was on leave visiting an injured colleague. Corporal Tomos Stringer,...
Daughter went out tonight. As you can see, I'm up late tonight (it's nearly 3 am here), so I told her to save the cost of a cab and phone me for a...
Finally saw this today... Oh, dearie, dearie me... :lol: Don't get me wrong, I quite enjoyed it, but has there ever been a bigger load of...
What it says in the title... When I first joined my gym, you couldn't get in the car park on a Sunday morning. Didn't matter to me, as I only live a...
One of those strange thoughts that crosses one's mind when watching a Thunderbirds repeat and drinking... Obviously, Gerry Anderson never considered...
Thread inspired by a conversation with daughter, she was talking about one of her friends... 'He's been with his girlfriend for six years, they've...
'Fess up, what do you do that you know is really stupid? (Deliberately posted in Green to keep things light-hearted, btw..) I always tell the cat...
Will they just stop with the fucking remakes, already? :bang: :bang: :bang: Rocky remake leaves O'Brien cold A remake of cult 1975 film The...
I was back sharing a room with my sister in our old house. She'd ripped half the wallpaper off the wall and then left it unfinished. I was more...
I consider him a friend, but his negging of Dan is getting ridiculous. It's happening even in birthday threads. Dan hasn't complained, but does El...
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