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......I get excited about going to see The Cult in Glasgow (this Saturday) and people at work say 'Who'?'

A friend of mine must take about 6 months off every year due to depression. He has a very understanding employer who send him off to various retreats for treatment. The doctors still haven't given him a definitive diagnosis so he is on a cocktail of drugs. I think I know what the real problem is - h...

old tree man wrote:does an afternoon nap count

Definitely. My FIL is 84 and has one every day.

One of my colleagues recently fell asleep in a team meeting and started snoring which was hilarious. Pleased to say it wasn't me speaking at the time.

We had a similar problem with our solar power in November/december. So little sun that we had to ration the lights and used our old oil lamp and candles instead. And the DVD player was a no hoper. We are seriously thinking about trying a water turbine in the small stream in our land. Have to be fre...

I felt quite old last night when I walked past a nightclub at about 7pm and it had a sign saying 'open from 11pm til 3am' I thought, 'what on a Sunday' then remembered that 20 years ago I would have probably arrived just after kicking out time from the pubs - about midnight.

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Estate Agents speak. 'Viewing Essential' You don't say! And here I was going to buy it without viewing it

Also, competitions on chocolate wrappers. 'No purchase necessary - see inside for details'

Holy schmoly, a hop skip and jump and you would be at the north pole Brrrrrr

or we need to look at obtaining resources from off planet. :shock: Like....erm.....Mars?? It is a truth that most people are complete and utter cocks, if being sustainable we could 100% remove ourselves from these idiots I for one would be first in the queue. But that is not going to happen because...

I thought this thread was going to be about burst pipes!

I think if you had emailed them to complain then they probably would have sent you a £20 voucher and apologised profusely. I understand why they wouldn't want to publish your comments for all to see. It is their website after all. Posted on an independent website would have been fine - like this one...

okra wrote:What does the fact that the Green Party only got 530 votes or 1.5% of the vote and the BNP got 1560 or 4.5% about environmental politics in the UK?

It tells me that there are more uneducated racists than educated environmentalists.

OMG she really is so insular. Reminds me of when we were in Quebec, Canada and I got chatting to a Canadian guy on a campsite and he asked me where I lived. Thinking he wouldn't have any idea where Perth was I said I lived about 40 miles from Edinburgh, his blank look prompted me to say about 60 mil...

or a diesel generator run on used vegetable oil?

The Brundtland Commission set up by the UN in the 1980's defined sustainability as "Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs" This is widely accepted as the most accurate defini...