http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ Anorak Forums: Last 35 Posts en Tue, 13 May 2008 08:01:10 +0000 http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1330#post-14729 Tue, 13 May 2008 05:02:49 +0000 DuncanR 14729@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Now you understand what Mrs D sees in me.</p> <p>First time we met, she took one look at me - and swooned. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1331#post-14728 Tue, 13 May 2008 04:11:03 +0000 agw 14728@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p><strong>Britain's</strong> top security prisoners are to be allowed to keep games consoles in cells as a way of relieving boredom, says the Northern Echo today.<br /> Inmates at the High Security Frankland prison, Durham, will be able to keep Sony PlayStation 2 consoles from next month.</p> <p>The scheme is part of a national programme giving prisoners, including murderers and sex offenders, permission to use games consoles in their cells.</p> <p>David Thompson, the governor at Frankland, which is ranked as one of the UK's highest security jails, says the consoles will keep prisoners occupied in their cells for hours at a time, reducing the potential for tension.</p> <p>The users will have to have been on good behaviour to get access to consoles and they will have to buy them with money sent by friends or family. They can pay with money earned while working in prison.</p> <p>A National Victims' Association spokesperson said the plan was an insult to families struggling to deal emotionally and financially with inmates' crimes.</p> <p>See: <a href="http://www.thisisthenortheast.co.uk/display.var.2265998.0.fury_at_playstations_plan_for_prisoners.php" /> Fury at plan </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1330#post-14727 Mon, 12 May 2008 23:01:43 +0000 Torri 14727@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Poor Duncan, your nose is a tad swollen. I recommend an ice pack. (Not to be picky, but your eyebrows need shaving, unless you were going for one eyebrow...?) </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1330#post-14726 Mon, 12 May 2008 21:10:19 +0000 Mic 14726@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Now here's a face we recognise....</p> <p>It's Duncan, having just cracked his head on the cigarette machine.</p> <p><a href="http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV2mOnxJ"><img src="http://www.postimage.org/aV2mOnxJ.jpg" /></a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1330#post-14725 Mon, 12 May 2008 14:33:20 +0000 JuneJohnson 14725@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7395910.stm" rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7395910.stm</a></p> <p>How dedicated are you to looking young and line free? lots of face creams, and anything from surgery free face lifts to the whole shebang?</p> <p>Well, if you are Japanese and smoke, stop it at once!<br /> Enjoy the wrinkles, the crows feet, the age spots, otherwise carry your driving licence or other id </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1329#post-14724 Mon, 12 May 2008 10:57:10 +0000 Yampster 14724@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Another dedicated Elvis impersonator bites the Burger </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1329#post-14723 Mon, 12 May 2008 10:08:33 +0000 JuneJohnson 14723@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Ask and it shall be given??</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1946665/Family-lived-with-dead-body-on-toilet.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1946665/Family-lived-with-dead-body-on-toilet.html</a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=979&page=4#post-14721 Sun, 11 May 2008 18:13:55 +0000 chenier 14721@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>For June Johnson:</p> <p>"The only genius with an IQ of 60." </p> <p>- Gore Vidal talking about Andy Warhol </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=979&page=3#post-14720 Sun, 11 May 2008 15:19:07 +0000 bill 14720@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>When I was born, I was so ugly that the doctor slapped my mother..! </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=979&page=3#post-14719 Sun, 11 May 2008 14:13:15 +0000 chenier 14719@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Do humourous insults count? Because I like this one:</p> <p>"You got the nerve to call somebody ugly?</p> <p>You're so ugly the stork that brought you into the world ought to be arrested!" </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1328#post-14718 Sun, 11 May 2008 11:23:43 +0000 Patch 14718@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>What would follow?</p> <p>Over 60's penalised if they don't have flu jab? Tourists denied entry back to UK if they didn't have necessary innoculations? Compulsory AIDS testing?</p> <p>My former job involved a compulsory TB jab and I had a severe reaction which affected my immune system.</p> <p>I agree with June's views. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1328#post-14717 Sun, 11 May 2008 10:55:36 +0000 chenier 14717@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>June,</p> <p>There's a problem with the link; I think you have a full stop at the end of it.</p> <p>I agree that this is not a good idea, and I am particularly concerned at the apparent enduring belief that anyone who opposes, for any reason, the current string of vaccinations, is a morally defective idiot who must be coerced into acceptance 'for the good of the state'.</p> <p>Cardinal Richelieu was living in the 17th century, we are in the 21st. No doubt politicians would like to return to the absolute power wielded then, but I'm not...</p> <p>***********************<br /> Chenier, thanks for the heads up re the link, they have moved the topic to the second link (at the bottom) now and put opinions to it as well </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1326#post-14716 Sun, 11 May 2008 10:03:09 +0000 JuneJohnson 14716@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>here's todays view on it all;</p> <p><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/11/do1107.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/05/11/do1107.xml</a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1328#post-14715 Sun, 11 May 2008 09:35:57 +0000 JuneJohnson 14715@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7392510.stm." rel="nofollow">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7392510.stm.</a>(this link no longer takes you there, try the one at the end of the post)</p> <p>Given the furore in recent years about the MMR vaccinations, and the instability of the logic of educated opinion of not having them , and also the uneducated medical opinions of not having them either, isn't the possibility of an outbreak of disease, and the option of having the vaccinations seperately administered something to be considered.</p> <p>But this morning this Nanny state has now been advised to penalise children by refusing to educate them for parental options in not vaccinating them, and cutting Benefits also.<br /> Mary Creagh wants children to prove they have been immunised, and Sir Sandy Macara of the Fabian Society recommends the cuts in Benefits. The Dept of Health maintains that vaccination is voluntary</p> <p>So is it a matter of I want 3 volunteers: You , You and You?</p> <p>My personal view? They should be voluntary and available separately, andpeople encouraged in the uptake of the Measles jab, as it can be a dreadful disease and more damaging than the possible side effects of jabs.<br /> But grown up people need reasonable explanations, they don't disagree with these things lightly, and anything under duress is wrong, even for the common good.</p> <p><a href="http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4773&#38;edition=1&#38;ttl=20080511135102" rel="nofollow">http://newsforums.bbc.co.uk/nol/thread.jspa?forumID=4773&#38;edition=1&#38;ttl=20080511135102</a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1323#post-14714 Sat, 10 May 2008 09:34:00 +0000 JuneJohnson 14714@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Well I suppose they didn't have tv or pc, and tinkling the ivories and cross stitch are just past times, so I suppose they needed something....and photography is a good hobby... </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1323#post-14713 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:52:32 +0000 Carmen 14713@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>"All fond memories I have of my dear departed grandparents are GONE forever".</p> <p>*************************</p> <p>After my staid, conservative, and ultra respectable Aunt and Uncle died within a week of each other some years ago, I had the sad task of clearing the house and sorting through their belongings. </p> <p>Had one of them predeceased the other by a month or so, I'm sure they would have sorted through their personal things themselves, as it was, I had to dispose of both the exotic lingerie and the photographs.........I've never been able to think of them in the same light since!!!!!!! </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1325#post-14712 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:44:53 +0000 chenier 14712@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Alas, the offspring's favourite colour is red which might provoke any bulls she encounters. </p> <p>But the big question is whether it would fit under her white coat; that, in itself, is a bit strange because white coats have been phased out over here. Infection control teams found that they were excellent methods of transporting deeply nasty bacteria from one patient to all the others.</p> <p>Perhaps, as a wild and sweeping generalisation, US doctors are more worried about maintaining their status than the ones here in England? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1323#post-14711 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:43:58 +0000 Julie 14711@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>All fond memories I have of my dear departed grandparents are GONE forever. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1325#post-14710 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:31:46 +0000 Julie 14710@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Doesn't appear so Duncan! But if you buy a good enough one, hopefully it won't turn into bright red when it's tested.</p> <p>You can choose from different designs though :</p> <p><a href="http://www.saundersonsecurity.co.za/acatalog/BulletProof_Vest.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.saundersonsecurity.co.za/acatalog/BulletProof_Vest.html</a></p> <p>For those who are fashion conscious I'd recommend the more expensive one - good enough for evening wear. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1327#post-14709 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:29:06 +0000 2pot 14709@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>nature at its best. survival of the fittest. a beautiful thing. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1325#post-14708 Sat, 10 May 2008 08:04:05 +0000 DuncanR 14708@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Do they come in a choice of colour? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1325#post-14707 Sat, 10 May 2008 07:54:05 +0000 Julie 14707@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Yes Chenier, there are certain points of motherhood that can never be written down.</p> <p>It's got to be the most heartwarming yet heartbreaking, joyful yet tearful, exciting yet scary, rewarding unpaid job under the sun. </p> <p>Nothing prepares you for those moments when your beloved offspring say and do the harshest and stupid things that tear your heart in two, yet you love them so much you will forgive them over and over for the same mistakes they make (yet at the same time you want to throttle them for not listening and bumping their heads over silly mistakes).</p> <p>Nothing can prepare you for those moments when you are just so embarrassed to say "That's my child" - there's been many a time when one of my boys has opened their mouths and said something where I just wish there was a hole that I could crawl into!</p> <p>I distinctly recall when my oldest (almost 22 now) was about 4. He had a terrible habit of kicking other kids, so I told him that if he kicked like that his legs would fall off (BIG MISTAKE!!) - we were walking through a shopping centre and there was this guy in a wheelchair who'd had both legs amputated. Well you can just picture this loud-mouthed 4 year old marching up to this guy, wagging his finger into his face and yelling "SEE, that's what happens when you kick kids!!". Now THAT was the day I would have been had up for child abandonment, because I was gone around the closest corner faster than the words came out of his mouth!</p> <p>Motherhood - wouldn't give it up for the world!</p> <p>Chenier, regarding the bullet-proof vest, I'm sure that I could get you one at an excellent price over here ... we mass-produce them! </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1326#post-14706 Sat, 10 May 2008 06:05:33 +0000 agw 14706@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Pure Dead Brilliant, a couple of Swing Out Sisters.<br /> Politicking while brothers giggle inanely. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1327#post-14705 Sat, 10 May 2008 05:35:49 +0000 DuncanR 14705@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p><strong>Dog Pack Attacks 'Gator In Florida</strong></p> <p>At times, Nature can be cruel, but there is also a 'raw' beauty - and, even a certain justice manifested within that cruelty.</p> <p>The alligator, </p> <p><img src="http://img.timeinc.net/time/daily/2006/0605/alligator0516.jpg" alt="" /></p> <p>one of the oldest and ultimate predators, normally considered the 'apex predator' can still fall victim to implemented 'team work' strategy, made possible due to the tight knit social structure and 'survival of the pack mentality' bred into the Canines.</p> <p>See the remarkable photograph below (courtesy of Nature Magazine)</p> <p>Note that the alpha dog has a muzzle hold on the 'gator, thus preventing it from breathing, while another dog has a hold on the tail to keep it from thrashing. The third dog attacks the soft underbelly of the 'gator.</p> <p><strong>WARNING </strong>- Not for the squeamish !!!</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p>&gt;</p> <p><a href="http://www.postimage.org/image.php?v=aV210ABr"><img src="http://www.postimage.org/aV210ABr.jpg" /></a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14704 Sat, 10 May 2008 05:16:23 +0000 DuncanR 14704@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p><em>'. . . more crackers than pretzels '</em></p> <p>Not something you'd want to eat in bed then - too 'flaky' </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1326#post-14703 Sat, 10 May 2008 04:29:24 +0000 DuncanR 14703@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>AGW has highlighted the growing rift between Gordon Brown and Wendy Alexander over an early referendum in Scotland on the issue of Independence.</p> <p>Gordon Brown does not want an early referendum. Most commentators view Wendy's recent remarks on the subject to indicate that she is in favour of holding an early referendum. However, when challenged about this apparent difference of Opinion between himself and the leader of the labour party in Scotland, Gordon has denied any difference of opinion. It seems Gordon has not fully understood what Wendy has been saying. To enlighten him, the following is an extract from Wendy's diary submitted as a comment to an article in The Herald.</p> <p><em>Tuesday</p> <p>Nobody understands. I don’t know why.</p> <p>It’s perfectly simple. The Scottish Nationalists want independence, and we don’t. So, they want a referendum, and we don’t want a referendum. But, although we don’t want a referendum, we reckon that if there is one, we want it soon, so that people are more likely to want what we want them to want. Which is to say, not to want anything.</p> <p>So, in saying that we want one now, we want the SNP to say that they don’t want one now. And they will, because they want to get what they want. And that’s what we want. Because, if they have one when they want, they might get what they want. And who would want that?</p> <p>I don’t know why Gordon is confused. He must be some kind of idiot. </em></p> <p><a href="http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2261951.0.She_has_to_go_Labour_MPs_call_on_Alexander_to_resign.php">Full story</a> </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14702 Fri, 09 May 2008 23:42:15 +0000 Randie-By-Name 14702@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>I've heard about these cheritzl thingies and it sounds to me like its a product best avoided at all costs. </p> <p>Its the side effects that you've got to watch out for: apparently just one can cause baldness (dodgy ingredients can produce an urge for the user to tear his/her hair out) and can turn a person into a gibbering idiot swearing out loud and out of control, needing to lie down in a quiet room where there is no distraction from light or sound except for soft voices chanting "Ommmmm" in the background.</p> <p>Perhaps there should be a health warning on them at the very least? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1325#post-14701 Fri, 09 May 2008 22:05:31 +0000 chenier 14701@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Thank you, Julie. </p> <p>I was thinking about this earlier, since the offspring is off to New York to do an internship, and I am mildly worried that life in hospitals in the US might be rather more dangerous than it is here in England. </p> <p>The offspring is a Black Belt First Dan, so I would back her against any average, or even a better than average, thug.</p> <p>Guns, however, are a different matter. </p> <p>The books about how to be a good mother never mention worrying about whether I should buy her a bullet-proof vest... </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14700 Fri, 09 May 2008 21:11:52 +0000 Mic 14700@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>It was nothing serious.... just a mynah infection. </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1323#post-14699 Fri, 09 May 2008 20:05:06 +0000 DuncanR 14699@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Quote from Telegraph article . . . .</p> <p><em>'Another shows a man eating a meal off a tray and prodding the generous buttock of a woman with his fork.'</em></p> <p>Who says men can't multi-task ? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14698 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:45:22 +0000 DuncanR 14698@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Did it choke to death trying to digest a cheritzl ? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14697 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:44:09 +0000 DuncanR 14697@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Was it something it ate ? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14696 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:43:50 +0000 DuncanR 14696@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>And ..... ? </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14695 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:23:03 +0000 Carmen 14695@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>I used to have a bird called Arthur. Arthur Scargill, 'cos it were a mynah bird see. </p> <p>It got laryngitis. No really. Didn't get a lot of sympathy poor thing. The vet admitted she didn't know what to do, but she turned up day after day and gave it a jab of anti-biotics. Charged me £12 each time. </p> <p>One day as I was serving the guests breakfast, it just keeled over and fell off its perch with a thud. Bit embarrassing. </p> <p>I phoned the vet. 'Put it in the deep freeze', says she. 'I'm running a bloody restaurant here', says I, 'wot abaht the 'ealth and safety'? </p> <p>'Its only for a day or so, I want to do an autopsy, find out what were wrong wi'it', says she. </p> <p>I did. Next day she collected it. </p> <p>Two weeks later, she sent me a bill for £80 for carrying out the autopsy! </p> http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/topic.php?id=1324#post-14694 Fri, 09 May 2008 19:16:44 +0000 Carmen 14694@http://www.anorak.co.uk/forums/ <p>Duncan, They're more crackers than Pretzels, if you know what I mean. </p>