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ecuk268

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  1. Boy: Trevor Girl: Kylie Dog: Rover or Fido
  2. You obviously know more than the Office of National Statistics whose figure for 2010 was 7 per 1000. I make that 0.7%. It's been steadily falling since 1998. I don't think that a stroll around a city centre is a statistically valid method of measuring immigration numbers.
  3. Thirded. Very helpful and you won't be sold a load of stuff that you don't need.
  4. Has Barry Venison tried it?
  5. Form orderly queues
  6. Someone lent my son the full set of DVDs and we watched all 86 episodes over about 6 months. Terrific actor who did a fine job of portraying the somewhat complex character of Tony Soprano.
  7. Had 2 MGBs in my younger days. First a ragtop and later a GT. Paintwork was always a problem. Rust would spread underneath the paint and, when you went to repair what looked like a small blemish, it turned out to be a much bigger area. Even in their day they weren't the quickest of cars but great fun and the old 1800cc motor would pull a house down and was pretty reliable. The MG Owners Club was a great source of parts. They manufacture body panels and virtually everything else.
  8. Snip from the Grauniad about Joe Kinnear's appointment at Newcastle. I wonder who the other manager they're alluding to??? "Of course if Joe thought much of what was written about him five years ago was very disappointing, he'd be well advised to avoid the papers in the coming week, when a number of press-box elders who see nothing wrong with constantly brown-nosing one faintly preposterous cockney football dinosaur with a penchant for getting teams relegated sharpen their quills in order to ridicule Newcastle's appointment of another."
  9. Southampton lass who won a bronze at the 1980 Olympics and later got an OBE. One of Mike Smith's team along with Roger Black, Kris Akabusi etc.
  10. Just been watching "A Time Travellers Guide to Elizabethan England". The French Ambassador at the time commented on Elizabeth's very revealing dress which left no doubt that she was a woman.
  11. Heavy rain and thunderstorms this morning. Seems to be brightening up now.
  12. Is it possible to have a low enough opinion of Daily Mail readers? It could be worse, they could be Express readers.
  13. He did indeed run The Sun in Romsey. My dad worked for Strongs Brewery at the time and Dennis told him how Terry Paine was Ted Bate's blue-eyed boy. When they arrived for training John would get a curt "Morning, Hollowbread" from Ted whereas with Paine it would be "Good morning, Terry how are you today, son?" Apparently he could do no wrong in Ted's eyes.
  14. Mrs ecuk268 has a Fire HD. She's not particularly tech savvy so finds it good for e-mails, web browsing, books and BBC iPlayer. You can borrow e-books from our library and fairly easily convert them for the Kindle. There's also loads of free e-books on the web, some legal and others not so legal.
  15. Terrific player who benefited greatly from two excellent wingers (Paine and Sydenham) who supplied him with crosses.
  16. Our best midfielder and a worthy replacement for Steve Williams. Branfoots biggest mistake in letting him go.
  17. Courtesy of NewsThump: The future of the Mail Online has been thrown into doubt following calls to ban websites that promote hate and intolerance. The online version of the Daily Mail could be closed down following an incident in the Cotswolds in which a Guardian reader of ‘questionable gender’ was snared in a beartrap. Although no one group has admitted responsibility for the attack, anti-happiness organisation Christians Against Moral-Free Godless Sodomites have called for people to ‘take to the streets’ in the fight against things that don’t really affect them. Speaking of areas with a high density of Guardian readers, anti-hate campaign spokesperson Nigel Wells warned that the streets could soon be running with hummus and a drizzle of balsamic vinegar unless something is done. “There is a war coming,” he insisted. “This war won’t be fought in some far-flung country thousands of miles away. It will be fought on the streets of Britain. “On one side you’ll have people who are adamant that the cause of the current economic crisis is the fault of Thatcher and Reagan, Page 3 models, processed food and people with a slap-dash attitude to recycling. “On the other you’ll have people who insist that it’s down to immigration, homosexuals, homosexual immigrants, women in trousers, aggressive homosexuals, aggressive homosexual immigrants and aggressive transgender immigrants in EU trousers.” “Why can’t people just hate each other in peace?” I think, therefore I am (not a Daily Mail reader)
  18. No profits for the arms companies if they did that. Where would retiring ministers go for their cushy directorships?
  19. No, two Englishmen did it. Both born in the UK, educated in the UK and one from a strict Christian family.
  20. Our cordless house phone did a full cycle in the washing machine. Left it in a warm place for a week or so and it recovered although it wasn't as loud as before.
  21. True, but they don't use sirens after about 8.00pm and you don't really notice them after a while.
  22. http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-36695473.html?premiumA=true Just up the road from me. Good area near the Common the best butchers for miles.
  23. Died today aged 92. For the benefit of the youngsters, ITV used to show Wrestling on Saturday afternoons and Mick was a well-known villain. It was all fixed of course but drew large audiences especially female OAPs for some reason.
  24. Already happening....... http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2013/05/20/straight-man-attacked-by-gang-of-vicious-homosexuals/
  25. Why are we looking at last week's table?
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