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Easily, I remember it as a kid there: my dad thought it was a cracking good idea. Especially as being an unshaven north-easterner he would get suspicious looks when trying to use a gold card. :shock: I am pretty certain that with all this new technology we have, the banks could stop charging...

I have a plan forming in my head... a picnic would be nice but the weather's too cold right now. Eating out would be good as would a trip to a restaurant. Perhaps I will cook at home, although I do that already so would it seem special? Christ, I think I've turned into a woman. :shock...

Wow, you would LOVE Italy!!! I used to do a lot of work there, just after the latest Iraq war had started (before Italy had joined). There was one hotel I stayed in a lot, and I was friendly with a couple of the chaps who worked the night shift. One of them was proudly a Marxist, the other...

Oooooh, this all sounds a bit familiar... that's not the Emsie I know is it? :lol: Hope the lino goes well :wink:

A real one?

Yes, but that's your personal transport AND your office though! :D One of my mates tried the Civic hybrid, she reckons it drives very nicely and cost about £2000 more, which she would have got back easily with her 30k miles per year. The reason she didn't get it was she hates saloons, and...

The tree story reminded me of a near miss involving my dad. A large developer had built some posh flats near my parents place, in a town called Chertsey. As a big household-name developer they had a big flagpole at the front with the name of the company. One day my dad was driving up the...

That's the only problem I have with it. I am glad we have police cars capable of 160mph, I might one day be at the other end of a motorway to the nearest police station when I need the police! But, whilst training to the full envelope of the vehicle is required, that's no excuse to take the law...

My dad saw a lady lose a leg under a tram at blackpool, nasty. A potentially bad accident, but a testimony to modern design was an accident I saw just after Christmas. I was on the M25 and was overtaken by a berk doing 90ish in a big white Merc Sprinter. Got round the next corner (up near the...

So, chip and pin. I like it. But I thought the whole idea was the card never leaves your control. So when I go into the supermarket, why do I have to hand the checkout staff my card instead of slotting it into the top of the chip'n'pin terminal? :? I try to do it and they pull it out and...

Heya! Oh, I love London but I just don't see the point in naming somewhere "The city of <insert arbitrary noun>". Liverpool is UK city of culture, but will it really do anything for the inhabitants? Will Liverpudlians all take up acting and write novels? Probably not. It is possible that a...

Sorry to have caught this thread so late! My advice would be to avoid that restaurant in future simply out of principle. You've worked to earn your money, why should you spend it at a place that serves you tepid hairy food and then calls you a liar? :shock: You wouldn't return to a garage...

:lol: :lol: :lol: Moz, your post on Liverpool did inspire this thread: y'see I first encountered the phenomena of city-love and city-envy aged 18, a first year at university. I had a girlfriend attending Aston Uni in Birmingham. After a few months there she had fallen in love with the...

I spent the odd evening in a rifle club. The members were quite diverse, from all classes and walks of life, but there were some people we could only describe as red necks. They were dressed very much like those "trailer park folk" from the My Name Is Earl photo, drove Lada Sumaras (a cheap...

OK, here are are a few: 1) in the US if you "go to college" that means you go to a university or other institution of higher education. But, in the UK, many people use "go to college" to mean they go to an institution of further education (age 16-18). 2) And a "school" in the UK seldom...

Let's just say the computer is situated too far from the bedroom to be on the internet every day :wink: Cocktail went down a treat, thanks :lol:

I'm 25 years old, and I have spent 11 of those years living in Greater London, and 3 living in the West End. The remaining 11 years have been split between Essex, Bedfordshire and Hertfordshire. I've never lived so far from London I couldn't just pop in and out when I want. So, London is the...

I think they should get a sense of humour! Islamic law doesn't apply to non-muslims... in fact it doesn't really apply to muslims: when was the last time a muslim thief had his hands chopped off in the UK or any other western country? :? (nearly said civilised country, but didn't want to cause...

So, in West Mercia, all I have to do is keep my speed above 120mph and they won't catch me? Sweet! :lol: (I know that is just in training but it is written in a rather ambiguous fashion... the standard of BBC English is falling!) If I am driving a company car and get caught speeding, I...

I took delivery of my car on the 30th of November... went to tax it on the 1st of December thinking "Hehe, I'll not have to pay a whole month's tax for ONE DAY of road useage!". Was I wrong... Had to pay a full month's road tax (1/12 of £150, but it's the principle!) for using the car from...