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Oh dear, I can picture some really angry faces from a few in the bottom left of the pic.

Les Reed when an offer comes in... "That is what I think of that"

It's standard on all US airlines

Let's bid $15M ($13.5M)

I keep running the online predictor and have us making 4th on goal difference. So that's that settled then.

Who got custody of Cringer?

TFCDAJFU

He might be enjoying a 16 inch stretch soon enough....

The Vine was fine, but packed inside. Convenient though for close by parking and then quick walk to the ground alongside the light railway line.

Jaap Stam?

I got tickets in the home section a couple of years ago (Rickie penalty in injury time). It was fine, we got sussed out, but no fisticuffs. Docile bunch.

Watch out for bedbugs....

They're back in Vegas in April...that was fast! Saw them here only a few months ago, same venue - swimming pool looking down on the Strip. Very cool. I see from setlist.com they're (understandably) incorporating more of El Pintor into the gig. Not totally won over by it, of course a few decent songs but not really anything as good as TOTBL or Antics. Last summer they played a lot more of their classic stuff (before the album was released) and it was amazing. Wishing they'd do Obstacle 1 a bit more....

I've seen cheap Refurb lenovos here. Am about to get myself a refurb dell Latitude. Managed to get my son's laptop running. It was the hd. Minecraft is alive and kicking.

Perfectly poised at Anfield for a 90 min Kane equaliser

ohhhh, Leicester please!

If you or the mrs like medieval stuff, Cluny museum on the left bank shouldn't be missed.

It would be very amusing and original if it happened. I hope someone does this.

What would Shane want his head for? Is it an Irish thing?

That's so obviously a photoshop fake. On FM he wears Medium.

Arry's been wheelin' 'n dealin' again innit.

I know they're cheap but I am not 100% yet that it is the HDD, I'll check it later on another machine. thanks

Thanks folks. I'm going to test the hard drive in another laptop and hopefully if it's compatible, should tell me if the drive is functioning. I understand that with such a cheap laptop, cheapest components are often used and it'll develop another fault sooner or later if I get it fixed. It's still mightily tempting to try to get it running again for $75 - it'd cost me three or four times that to replace the whole thing.

My son's cheap lappy died the other day, only about a year old. It cost me $170 new. I won't find another similar one for anything near that price at the moment. Indications are that the hard drive is about to give up. It's not making the dreaded clicking sound yet and sounds fine. The OS will not load up. BIOS readouts say the HD is critical and it can not boot windows. Silly me didn't burn recovery disks when it was working. My question is, how likely is it that it's just the HD dying and not anything else like a motherboard? I want to do it on the cheap and dont mind forking out $40 for new drive and $35 to HP for a set of sodding windows recovery disks. But I'm not spending any money for some geek to look at it for $75 before anything has been done to it. Shall I go ahead, buy the stuff and try the install? What would you do?

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