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Anyone bought something supposedly-genuine on ebay that turned out to be a knock-off? A knock-off so bad that you wondered "Did they honestly think I wouldn't notice?!" :? I have a dirty little secret. It's an incredibly embarassing, heinous, dastardly secret... I enjoy... I enjoy watching...

Even if you prefer to watch TV on a 14" black-and-white set and tut at these new-fangled colour TVs and foam rabidly at these austentatious widescreen TVs, you have to admire this chap's attention to detail: Awesome home cinema Good job convincing SWMBO that this is what you need for your...

So we're all going to end up with water meters eventually... I confess that no-one round here seems bothered enough that it has even been a water-cooler conversation, but listening to the radio they had some "man in the street" interviews. The only issue the interviewees raised was "Now...

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...

Has anyone here bought a house through "informal tender" before? As I understand it, this is where all interested parties make an offer by a given deadline, and then the seller chooses the bid they wish to accept. Like the way they do things in Scotland I think. Anyway, tomorrow I'm...

This occurred to me today: does it hurt when the umbilical cord is cut between mother and baby, and if so, who gets the hurt? All I've been able to determine from the internet is that your basic umbilical cord has 3 blood vessels, some jelly, and a sheath. Nothing on nerves or anything...

I passed my test in 1997, and since then I have noticed a lot of 60mph country lanes had signs put up to lower the limit to 30 through the various villages, and on some particularly snooty villages near my parents' way the speed limit dropped to 20mph. This whole time I've been blaming it on...

Would it be a bad thing if I used a heatgun to try and dry woodstain faster? Would it crack and craze, would it oxidise, would it run everywhere and look rubbish afterwards? :? I had to fit a new weather bar to my door frame, and whilst the door was out of the frame I thought I would give it...

Earlier we had a discussion on the reopening of the case against the moustachioed speeding police driver doing 159mph and being let off. Now, I've done some reading in to the kind of driving standards the police are trained to. According to one source I read, even panda-car drivers are taught...

I was using a shredder the other day. I noticed on the LCD readout it had some writing, tiny writing. So, I moved my face closer to read it... Had to be about a foot away when I could read the dim, unlit LCD... Luckily I'm a scruffy get so wasn't wearing a tie, but I still want to slap...

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...

Every time I hear of one of the unwashed US states passing some law to make schools teach Creationism or Intelligent Design as a valid scientific theory, I shake my head, smile smugly and think "That would NEVER happen over here!". Oh boy... (the blue text is mine) Apparently 44% of those...

I've been watching The Prisoner recently, great isn't it? What a wonderful concept! Probably wouldn't work in these post-Cold War days, but was certainly relevant (if I compare it to the Connery-era Bond films!) Any other 1960s TV programmes I should be watching?

With the wealth of expertise and experience on this forum, someone should surely be able to answer this: who grits the sliproads? Tonight it is below freezing round here. As I drove out earlier on, I saw the gritters out in force. Driving back just now, it struck me: the motorway gritter...

I know Pip'll like this article! Wonder if that was in a ballistic trajectory or if it could maintain such an altitude? :shock: Ah, that would be the MiG-25 that was basically a huge pair of engines with a pilot strapped to the top... overpowered and dangerous, highly unreliable but it...

My opinion of diesels is well known on this forum, but this is incredible! :lol: http://www.enjoythedrive.com/content/?id=30183

I was in my local electronics emporium yesterday. Whilst there I saw a big sign saying "XBOX 360 is here!", so I wandered over to check it out. But there was no XBOX 360 here, there or anywhere else in the shop. :? Seems a bit daft to have such a big sign for something you've never actually...

Not something that has come up recently, but I have just realised a double-standard. How many of you have said "I'm going to grow a beard" to your significant other and had the response "No you're not!"? OK, so they don't like the abrasion injuries, you can kinda understand it! Women will...

A hypothetical question: "What do you think would happen if Microsoft went bust?" I was thinking about this the other day. It would be an unprecedented situation, because in any other product I can think of you can just switch to a different supplier. If Ford went bust, you could buy a...

I have noticed in "real life" that many people don't realise just how many strange and wonderful traditions we have in this country. I think if people stepped back and just thought about some of these things they might be more in favour of a "multi-ethnic, single-culture" society than the "let's...