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Printer or copier paper is not exactly Basildon Bond though is it...

My neighbour got a black eye for adultery...

Maybe you just haven't noticed before but my last three cars have had those tactile reminders so I don't think they are that new.

The original Maid Marion was Bernadette O'Farrell, Patricia Driscoll was her replacement after she left.

Didn't Richard Greene play Robin Hood on TV back in the 50's.... he wore tights... not sure if they were Lycra though.....

Ooo cruel.... and quite possibly true...

Of course there are calories in booze but if you shed more than you consume you will lose weight. The source of the calories makes no difference. My waistline looks like I'm smuggling cushions and still gaining but I don't drink...

Losing weight is as Margie says simple physics. When calories going in are less than the calories going out you will lose weight, simples! Some foods are have more calories so you have to eat less, some have fewer so you can eat more but the basic formula holds true. There are some medical conditions of course that produce weight gain but they are quite rare. Some. I'm one. suffer from chronic can'tbebothereditis and so weight gains are to be expected.

It was certainly true not so long ago but the latest autos have closed the gap. I seriously doubt they are more economical but the best, which usually means expensive, are as good. My car weighs the thick end of 2 tonne with a 3ltr engine, cruising at 70 gives me 53.2 mpg - it's an automatic. Regarding F1 cars I think they are semi auto sequential. There is no clutch as we know it and the driver uses the paddles to change gear. The only auto F1 car I know of (Williams) used a version of the DAF variable transmission, it was banned before it ever raced.

Strangely enough when I first started wearing glasses I had to take them off to hear what people were saying

The 'P' (park) position is for parking on an automatic and locks the transmission.

Lets face it a car is basically a box with a wheel on each corner. They can make them vary slightly in shape and colour but basically they're all much of a muchness. So what can the manufacturers do to persuade you buy their cars rather than a competitors? Gadgets. More and more gadgets to differentiate the models, gadgets that are very rarely used but 'must haves'. My seats do all sorts of things but once adjusted they stay that way and I'm then just hauling around the dead weight of motors and compressors etc. The gadgets they fit are usually electronic and the cheapest part of the con

My thoughts are not just about pet shops and regarding convenience, do we really want to traipse round a dozen different shops down the High St gradually becoming more and more burdened as we lug our shopping in and out of different stores? There is usually a fair walk to a car park or you can stand in the cold and wait for a bus with our fingers going numb from the shopping bags. As I said it's a nice pipe dream that in reality never was, especially for men, (traditionally we don't do the shopping) and at the end of the day a tin of beans is still a tin of beans. Modern supply chain me

Money talks and we all go for the bargain. We can get all misty eyed about the 'personal touch' and 'friendly service' but when the chips are down we all pretty much prefer shopping all under one roof, out of the weather, where we can park the car and prices are reasonable.

Take a tip from the horse brigade and make yourself a mounting step, swap it for a 'step through' or so as I do with gadgets, put 'em in the garage and pretend not to notice they're there..

It's called Distronic Lizzie and yes, like stop/go, it can be turned off. The lane guidance is more disconcerting first time it happens. Let the car drift over the white line and the steering pulls you back unless you indicate you are changing lanes.

Last year I was walking in Amsterdam with some Dutch friends who damn near had heart attacks when I started to cross an empty road before the pedestrian lights went green.

My car has a separate battery for things like the stop/start feature. If I do mainly short journeys the battery doesn't fully charge and auxiliaries like the stop/start won't come out to play. Maybe the car needs a good run?

Suh was wrong wi it.. sahns reight enuf ter me.. yer got cloth ears or wot?

I don't think growing up we even had a doglead for our dog. My friends and I would roam all day through Clifton, Ruddington and the surrounding areas. The dogs just went with us and we wouldn't even consider going out without taking him with us. Like RR said if we didn't want to go out we simply opened the door and off he went. happy as Larry, sometimes gone all day and came back when he got hungry. The difference then and now is the the amount of open space we could access and virtually do as we pleased.

I've not renewed with the same company for house insurance for years - bugger'em

What about letting the contract run out for a week or so and then start again as a 'new'customer..

If you think Virgin are bad try TalkTalk, before you do though I strongly recommend a course in Gujarati and gobbledegook. All the providers are much of a muchness. I had problems with Virgin and eventually they sent a 'technician' who stunned my by admitting he's only been trained to tighten the connections and had no idea about routers or networks. He also carried a Mobile phone that displayed a WiFi download speed of almost 300Mbs. Challenged to get the same on my phone produced a wobbly 60Mbs. When Virgin works I'm a happy bunny (Talktalk and Plusnet are both much slower - 7/8Mbs

Yeah but the locals still only put the lights on so they can find the matches for the candles...

Same as Ozta here too