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No prob Jamie....all I'd need is a slighly larger spirit level and I'll be off !

It'd be good to see a bit of a shake-up . Seems ridiculous to me that there's still an appeal on about these diffusers that Brawn, Williams and Toyota have got. They all obviously came up with their designs independently and were themselves convinced they were within the rules. They all passed scrutineering and the FIA have thrown out the protest. The others are just cross they didn't come up with something similar, but you can be damn sure all their factories are working round the clock to copy them.

Reminds me of the genius Peter Cook & Dudley Moore sketch... I could have been a judge but I never had the Latin, never had the Latin for the judging. I just never had sufficient of it to get through the rigorous judging exams. They're noted for their rigour. People came staggering out saying 'My God, what a rigorous exam.' So I became a miner instead. A coal miner. I managed to get through the mining exams-they're not very rigorous. They only ask one question. They say 'Who are you?', and I got 75% for that. Being a miner, as soon as you are too old and tired and sick and stupid to do the job properly, you have to go. Well, the very opposite applies with the judges. So all in all I'd rather have been a judge than a miner.

Did you hear the science GCSE question Bill? What would you use to look at the stars? a. telescope b. microscope c. x-ray tube d. synthesiser wtf!?

Sounds like a '70's American cop show character...Officer Dirk Marcellis . ....or a porn star .

If 2/1 bets were certainties we'd all be very rich and the bookies would all be bankrupt. Those odds make them narrow favourites, nothing more .

Thanks Bill....it's south facing so I'm hopeful .

It was indeed....they wanted £699 to put it up (that doesn't include the base preparation, you have to do that yourself) . Seems to be the going rate....said to the lad who helped me put it up that we ought to go into business; took us about ten hours but obviously once you get the hang it'd be a lot quicker. Six hours tops, £350 each for half a days work!? Could live happily on building two a week .

I've heard that tip before Mac (very likely from yourself) and I can vouch for it!

OK....I know you're all really excited by this but afraid to ask, so here are some shed construction photo's . Not painted yet (although I have trimmed the felt) but the problem is the wife's started nesting. First it has to be painted Cedar :sick01: rather than blue and today we've spent more than £200 in Ikea buying blinds, a rug, little table and another of those classic comfy chairs (LINK) that they do to add to mine which is already there having been transfered from the old shed. I'm beginning to worry that I may have to share .

....because you're worth it .

My wife knows all about it because she watches Neighbours . It will teach you all you need to know :whistle: .

Straight in with a bit of controversy . http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/7965056.stm I'm a big Jenson fan and I hope the bookies are right but making him favourite for Sunday seems a bit far-fetched to me . Think he (and Barichello) may well have parts of the race where they're fast but I don't think they'll win.

The best bit of Oz rules (for me) is when the umpire makes that ridiculous gesture when a goal is scored. They look like my lad used to when he played at being a dalek . They're so serious about it, as if they're making some great revelation that no-one else knows about . The rest of it all seems a bit pointless, but that's what sport's all about I guess .

If you refer to the site rules I think you'll find that any age jokes are to be exclusively directed at Bill. Anyone ignoring this vital fact is subject to a suspension of not less than forty-seven years. Please be more careful in the future .

Quote from Mark Hughes... "There's a perception that there are issues between me and Robinho, and Robinho and his team-mates, and that everything is doom and gloom and the dressing room is fractured," "The truth is it's a lot closer to being a lot calmer than people would imagine." ...so it's close to being calmer than you think....which means in real English that it's not really very calm at all .

I wet shave but I use disposables. Funny but I get a better shave with a "ten for a pound" razor than I do with an expensive multi-blade titanium flexi grip job .

What is it with Americans when they come to name their children? Just taking a break for some toast and turned on a bit of sub-Jerry Springer nonsense to see the following.. Tiheria fears Preston may leave her and Akliah when he learns she is a flesh eating alien (OK so I made up the last bit but the names are real). Tiheria!? Akliah!? Some of the names they have are ludicrous; Deshawn was a memorable one I saw a while back. Do they just have a bag of scrabble letters in the delivery rooms and people go, "consonant, vowel, vowel, consonant" like on Countdown? It's bizzarre . Another family just on....Idivine, Janeisha and baby Dar'Tayvious .

That's the new fangled "short scale" trillion though Taxi. When I was at school and we used old fashioned "long scale" a trillion was a million times the size of that! Hardly worth getting out of bed for .

Dropped out/sent home... http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/i...als/7960392.stm

According FourTwoFour's rich list... 8. Lord Grantchester & The Moores Family (Everton) £1.2 billion Completely meaningless though, we've no access to it .

Actually in 1776 Percival Maynard Brunswick III opened a small clock shop in Nempnett Thrubwell in Somerset. He was funded in his enterprise by one Ebenezer Baker, a local landowner and philanthropist, on the condition that he called his shop "Bakers." Unsurprisingly this caused much confusion among the local farming community who were forever coming in asking for a loaf of bread, to which Brunswick famously replied, "Fuck of you bastard, I'm a horologist, I told you that yesterday you inbred son of a sheep!" Inevitably however, due to the simple rules of supply and demand (very few in Nempnett Thrubwell could tell the time), Percival gave up and in 1781 bought a second hand oven from a man in Bath and began a very successful career making bread. Jimmy is too narrow in his thinking .

Are we talking a specific pro snooker player or are you being all cryptc ?

He's appealling it, may get off....I certainly thought it was harsh .