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by Big Al
Tue Dec 13, 2011 6:47 pm
Forum: Looks like we made it
Topic: Please motivate me to finish this!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 11169

Re: Please motivate me to finish this!!!

nearly 59% of it done and only 41 % to go. Each piece added is another 8% ish towards completion.
by Big Al
Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:35 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Worst Xmas product
Replies: 20
Views: 3940

Re: Worst Xmas product

Flo wrote:I thought all specifically designed xmas products were pointless, tacky or expensive :dontknow:

Prudhoe perhaps ??
by Big Al
Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:33 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Worst Xmas product
Replies: 20
Views: 3940

Re: Worst Xmas product

Not quite as pointless as scented toilet paper, but certainly you'd have to wonder how many times it would be used if you gave one as a christmas gift is this run away alarm clock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KqkSSgo5ds Oh man that is absolutly fantastic !!!!! I often act like a kid and no more ...
by Big Al
Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:28 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Worst Xmas product
Replies: 20
Views: 3940

Re: Worst Xmas product

.... on first inspection give the distinct impression that one of the loves has had a hammorage! It's rather scary, not in a good way! could well be the reason they were scary rolls in the first place. You can just imaging someone who hates kids, hates people who have kids etc designing the rolls a...
by Big Al
Tue Dec 13, 2011 1:25 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Worst Xmas product
Replies: 20
Views: 3940

Re: Worst Xmas product

baldybloke wrote:Tacky is not a good attribute in a toilet tissue!!
Certainly if you suffer from Captain kirks problems.......


...... Klingons......
by Big Al
Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:10 pm
Forum: Looks like we made it
Topic: Please motivate me to finish this!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 11169

Re: Please motivate me to finish this!!!

Susie, If you think of it as every stitch is one closer to finishing the lovely blanket you have put so much love and effort into for your brother then it will soon pass by. Also think of it as a thing of bueaty, something YOU have created YOURSELF for a loved one and not some hypermarket crap that ...
by Big Al
Mon Dec 12, 2011 12:06 pm
Forum: Looks like we made it
Topic: Please motivate me to finish this!!!
Replies: 27
Views: 11169

Re: Please motivate me to finish this!!!

Susie, get your arse into gear and get the blanket finished !!
by Big Al
Sun Dec 11, 2011 10:21 pm
Forum: What's in the pot? Recipes and anything about Cooking
Topic: canning/jarring whole meals
Replies: 8
Views: 2142

Re: canning/jarring whole meals

The cost of importing one from the USA is stopping mefrom this route of preserving. As mentioned please, please make sure of your practice as illness and even death is a very real possibility if not done properly. For those who know maybe you can answer this related question. When I do jar preservin...
by Big Al
Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:50 pm
Forum: I read the news today, oh boy.
Topic: Iran
Replies: 25
Views: 10867

Iran

Now being a person who does not read the rules and regs of anything :salute: There is probably a no politics clause on this site but I'm quite worried at all the posturings and sabre rattling over Iran and their nukes, Isreal going on a bombing mission which will bring in Syria, N Korea, China and R...
by Big Al
Fri Dec 09, 2011 11:44 pm
Forum: What's Going On?
Topic: Stimulating the Economy
Replies: 34
Views: 17972

Re: Stimulating the Economy

[ we have a purchase tax and call it VAT or value added tax and it is at 20% although I doubt anyone would say it added value to anything. I'm sure you have a similar purchase tax to us and to stimulate the economy over here the government could reduce the VAT by 5% and that would stimulate the eco...
by Big Al
Thu Dec 08, 2011 9:45 pm
Forum: What's Going On?
Topic: Stimulating the Economy
Replies: 34
Views: 17972

Re: Stimulating the Economy

The thing is Durgan, and it is difficult for me to type things because I am a facetous, sarcastic, cantankerous, politically incorrect person at the best of times but when you are paying the likes of $1.25 US a litre for petrol and we are paying the equivilent of $2.63 US or $2.70 canadian a litre t...
by Big Al
Thu Dec 08, 2011 6:23 pm
Forum: What's Going On?
Topic: Stimulating the Economy
Replies: 34
Views: 17972

Re: Stimulating the Economy

My figures might be out but I think Durgan is paying 62 pence per gallon for regular petrol in Brantford, Ontario, Canada. Even if it's 62 pence PER LITRE he is on a winner... gawd help him if he was over here.
by Big Al
Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:09 pm
Forum: The ish Local - (Chat)
Topic: Winter weather
Replies: 0
Views: 1142

Winter weather

For those who had a laugh at the stupid woman on the BBC this morning who said she wouldn't plan to get stuck in snow here are a few tips of what to carry when you venture out http://www.bselfsufficient.co.uk/ P.S. this is not a blatent luois vertont handbag push on my website but it saved my poor h...
by Big Al
Tue Dec 06, 2011 12:32 pm
Forum: Alternative Energy
Topic: solar bottle lights
Replies: 11
Views: 6811

Re: solar bottle lights

sorry to disagree. It's a crap idea if you ask me and yes I know you didn't but why go to all the hassle of making these to fix in the roofs of shanti town dwellings when it would be better to scavange a piece of glass/ plastic/ see through material to replace part of the roof. As Keith BC says it's...