From BBC News:
I'm sure there's a word for that... begins with 'H'. It's on the tip of my tongue...
... Don't tell me...
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It would appear, after doing a bit of a web-search, that BBC2's Lab Rats sitcom is not being very well received - apparently it isn't funny. Well, in an attempt to even the balance a little, I'll just go on record to say that I find it extremely funny (i.e. laugh-so-much-that-tears-run-down-my-face funny). The last one (the subterranean lab) was rather a slow builder I must admit, but the punchline was superb :-)
I've just finished re-reading Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, a book that I haven't read since English Literature O-Level. Reading the book again, I was confronted by scribbled notes in margins, little insights which must have been pointed out by my English teacher (I can't imagine having generated these nuggets myself); and I was transported back to those far off days of my youth...
Today we went to see York Theatre Royal's production of The Railway Children at the National Railway Museum.
It was fantastic! The staging was particularly novel, being centred around a length of railway track (the production was presented in one of the 'sheds' usually filled with locomotives); seating being arranged either side ('Platform 1' or 'Platform 2').
Why does the 'Mac vs. PC' argument still rumble on? Actually, given Apple's change to x86 hardware, it's more of a 'OS X vs. Windows' argument these days.
... how many people who are currently bleating about their photographs being misappropriated from flickr are/were quite happy downloading music without paying for it?
Just asking.
Submitted by namcom on Sun, 20/07/2008 - 16:27.
As I was travelling home from my Grandad's funeral yesterday, I had to change trains at Stevenage. Now, being past 5 o'clock, the coffee-shop etc. was closed, so I had 15-20 minutes to kill on the platform.
42.
The number of days you can be incarcerated whilst 'the powers that be' can decide which terrorist activities you may have been guilty of.
Dear UK: You are guilty, try and prove you're innocent.
If David Cameron promises to remove the current Police-state-in-construction, he's got my vote (and I have always voted Labour).
Speechless.
Are photographers really a threat? from the Guardian (UK Newspaper)
Submitted by namcom on Thu, 05/06/2008 - 21:45.Jeremy Paxman on tonight's Newsnight: "Let's be blunt: without the supermarkets we wouldn't eat"
WHAT?! Without the supermarkets we'd have thriving communities with local bloody shops.
Knob end.
