I've never understood why it isn't standard practice to decapitate any and all 'killed' enemies - especially vampires, werewolves and zombies. Only that liquid-metal terminator comes back from losing their heads.
Or at least a bullet through the brain for humans. That would stop those tedious last-minute-baddie-staggers-out-from-the-mist-forcing-our-hero-to-one-final-stand. Yawn.
There is nothing wrong with offending someone - spending one's life never being offended is not a human right. Granted there is a difference between funny-offensive and cruel-offensive and everyone's line between the two is in a slightly different place.
Not funny (IMO) : Al Murray, Jack Dee, Bernard Manning, Chubby something, any more like that, Michael Mackintire is ok in small doses.
Funny (IMO) : Reginald D Hunter, Lee Evans (although I get bored eventually)
Actually I find situations funny more than 'comedians' - I fell about laughing during both Calendar Girls "We'll be able to get that sofa in the leather then" and Kinky Boots "Sex isn't supposed to be comfy!!" - and filled up in both too. I enjoy a lot of British films for their comedic/pathos content.
The off the cuff interplay on programmes like QI and League of their Own can be hilarious, but impossible to recreate on the phone to Mum.
Pay Day loans etc are awful and targeted at the most vulnerable people.
If your money often doesn't make it to pay day, taking a loan out to bridge the gap will only make things worse - and possibly drive you into a spiral or more and more debt, losing your home (and possibly family), losing your job (often a side effect of losing your home/car), bankruptcy.
If your money normally makes it to the end of the month but your car needs work so you are short this month. Talking one of these loans out will be like having work done to your car (albeit a smaller amount) every single month, and if you can't make the payments - they increase with no upper limit until you get into the spiral or more and more debt, losing your home (and possibly family), losing your job (often a side effect of losing your home/car), bankruptcy.
If you can get money ANY OTHER WAY, even throwing yourself on the mercy of your mother-in-law, it is better than these corrosive deals.
Another warning, a friend's son took out a Wonga loan (he was working at that point) then lost his job and couldn't make the payment. His Mum made a single payment on her debit card - she did NOT formally take over the loan - but the next month's payment came out of HER account. In the microscopic print it says that if you make a payment you take over the loan - this is the small print for the original borrower, no wonder my friend knew nothing of it. If you want to help a person out to make a payment, transfer money into an account for them to pay from - don't ever use your own details. In the advert is those bonkers old folks say "we give you all the information you need - - - " no they flaming don't!
I wish there was a system of micro-loans in this country like there is in India.
Anyone fretting about the risk of dying in an air crash might want to read this.
Yes every time, to the first. People like that should be scraped off the roads and made to walk everywhere. Not doing it is the same as not reporting an old lady being mugged - leaving it to the police cos 'it's their job' is abdicating our responsibility as people. It is a crime and even if it doesn't result in a crash on that trip, it will eventually.
And a resounding NO to the second. The minute you pay for something you will get more of it - but a fair percentage of it will be made up.
I think the in-car camera you are referring to only retains a short section of recording before and after an impact. I don't think it records on demand or everything.
In what way a con?
That CO2 levels aren't rising?
That humans are not contributing to a rise in CO2?
That the rise in CO2 doesn't have detrimental effects on the planet's ecology?
"It's a con" is a bit of a broad brush statement that is as hard to disprove as it is hard to prove.
The phrase 'tipping point' doesn't mean there will be a sudden and obvious change - that simply isn't the meaning of the term. It can mean that we will not be able to stop the continuing rise of CO2 once it has got to this level. So today wouldn't look much different from last week. But 10 years from now could look a lot different from what it would have looked like if we had controlled the increase to below that level.
Me belief is that there has always been a variation in CO2 levels through volcanic action and a wide range of natural causes. I also believe that humans produce a significant amount of CO2 that pushes the environmental effects of CO2 increase further and faster. The fact that we can't change what happens naturally is no excuse for just sitting back and allowing humans to make matters worse. I DO believe that increasing levels of CO2 are dangerous and I feel I understand the scientific arguments as to what the effects will be pretty clearly.
I tend to avoid Starbucks, I like a quick Costa when I'm being lazy (their choc twist things are lovely) but I will make the effort to leave the local Westfield and make my way to the Corn Market cos they do lovely tea and tea cakes or a great salad. And if you ask, they will give you a second tea pot full of hot water to stretch your tea bag further.
I remember you ALWAYS got a separate pot of hot water in the 'good old days' of proper tea shops and cafes.
If there isn't a person/party you positively WANT to be in power who do you vote for? I won't vote for 'best of a bad lot' since any choice then is still 'bad'. As it happens I would have voted, as I know one guy who is standing, but I wasn't able to get round to it.
Knitting needles. Think about it. That way the most impoverished person in the thirdest world country can take thread and create clothing.
Lazy speak. And jargon. But the one that gets me, will always get me and causes me to drop my opinion of the speaker to about 1% is:
Leverage. As in "We need to leverage the situation". It is grammatically nonsense and the people saying it just want to sound clever and managementish. It's as bad as saying "We need to temperature the room." when they want the heating turned up.
I used to work at a large company with multiple buildings in one area. I worked in one of the newest (and nicest). Our manager went to a meeting where each part of the company would be discussing what their contingency plans were. With most of them, if their building became un-useable, the contingency they had decided on was to move into our building.
Our manager had to point out that we could cope with up to 100 extra people (about 5% of the possible inrush) and only for a short period. In some cases over 1000 people could have tried to descend on us. They hadn't thought it necessary to tell us either.
At our local contingency meeting we were asked "What is your action if the building is burned out and all the computers are destroyed?" My answer was - I go home and wait for you to sort out a new place/system for me to get on with my job. They were not pleased - but my job didn't include restoring major IT systems or shifting furniture.
Nope just dumped them on my desktop. I've run antivirus and it seems ok but I've had to reset the default search etc etc etc. I think it's sorted. But I think the process of uninstalling the games got rid of the msg reader too. Ah well, I'll get an Outlook user to open them for me.
It's my fault. I shouldn't have thought it would be ok to download anything for free. LOL
Great thanks - the link loaded a load of software that I now can't get rid of - loads of 'free games'. Serves me right for asking for help!!!!!!!
I don't have outlook or outlook express.
I have a load of .msg files. They are what I emailed to myself from another account. I was supposed to be emailing the attachments, scans of documents - which I hope are under there somewhere. How do I open the .msgs to find the attachments?
