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The word "butterfly" in various languages... English: "oooh, a butterfly"... gentle, floating word French: "ah, mon ami, un papillon!"... again, a word that glides out of the mouth. Italian: "mama-mia! Una farfalla!!" it rolls off the tongue more than it glides, but it is rather poetic...

Have you ever watched a music channel called "U"? It is an urban music channel... a few years ago, a week after I first ever got Sky, I was sitting there one Friday evening, chatting with my then-partner when all of a sudden I realised there were naked women dancing around on TV :lol: She...

I dunno, I know a man who is scared of spiders... The big girl. :lol: Of course, phobias are "irrational fears", so if you were attacked by a tarantula once, maybe it isn't a phobia?

Interesting choice of words, oooh-err!!! :shock: :lol:

We hired one for a few days, I wouldn't be at all surprised if you really did hit 63mpg. IIRC we averaged 50-odd, with 5 blokes in a Scenic driving round such places as Yorkshire, the Highlands, the Lake District and Wales... none of these well known for their flatness. I still don't quite...

Why don't they just put more rubber on the tyres to start with? That way we could get just as many miles out of our tyres and have 3mm as the legal minimum?

Obviously you raise it up for when you are on the move :lol: The idea is to give you a similar effect to a hydraulic low-rider set-up, but without turning the car into a lollopping barge when you just want to drive.

Yes, come to think of it there is one flavour that totally sucks balls. IIRC, it is lime. When I was at school, no-one would ever want a lime fruit pastille if you offered it, nor would they give you a blackcurrent flavour one :lol:

Well, the WW2 U-boat slang term for a periscope is "spargel", which is the German word for asparagus. So, perhaps this is where the Nazi sub/asparagus connection comes from? :idea:

No doubt if there had been a survey on "who do you think has the worst teeth?" we would have won that... all because of Austin Powers. Mike Myers has a lot to answer for!!!

Jellybeans are indeed delicious. I like those melon-flavoured ones. I love chocolate... I'm not addicted, I don't crave it particularly, but once I start eating it I can't stop until I can't eat anymore! :lol: Cop TV shows. I think I might be addicted to them... probably says a lot about...

Just so long as the live shower cable is only single phase... three phase would just be perverted. :shock: I'll try to get hold of some of those muesli bars. Oddly enough, we tried the asparagus again on Friday, but detected no odour. Lame. :lol:

When building my kitchen I had wondered about this, but I now have anecdotal proof that it is not a big issue. I am 6'2" and my girlfriend is 5'1", so we are probably at the ends of the 95th percentile of height. She appears perfectly comfortable chopping ingredients at the same worktop level...

I think the manufacturers have (at last) started to realise 6" gaps between wheel and arch isn't that great to look at! :lol: Did you upgrade your wheels at the same time? Lowering your tyre profile will also make the ride feel more "solid" over bumps as the tyres flex less and absorb less...

The one I linked to in the "Gary M's satellite dish reception" thread... hence my sudden annoyance of the principle of doing this! I've always hated it, but it's always been a silent hatred of this practice of blocking the right click. As it's NotB I should mention that I've noticed a lot...

But as I explained before, The Adam Collective is 7 in number. If I turn off the light then Adam's 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 and 7 won't be able to see. :P Adam can't do that to Adam. God I'm bored. Night all! :lol:

Last year, a generously-equipped female friend appeared with a bandage across her chest... turned out that on Shrove Tuesday she flippped a pancake and managed to catch it, at full oil-frying temperature, in her cleavage. :shock: Ouch! That reminds me, I haven't ribbed her about it in weeks...

First off, I am not a web-designer. I have done relatively basic HTML and Java when producing some intranet sites in a former role, but I wouldn't know where to start if you asked me to make a gobsmackingly-brilliant website. However, I am a pretty efficient surfer I think, and like many of you...

Just found out where Moray is! You are up near Elgin, right? I've read here that you need a "zone 2 minidish" in parts of Scotland. Seems that you could be in a threshold area, and would benefit from a larger dish. :? Would be nice to know it will sort the problem before you invest...

I ended up buying a Panasonic cyclone-type cleaner, part on recommendation from a friend, part by recommendation on here. Seems to have been an excellent choice, although I've only had it 4 months or so.