I'm supporting Germany, I'll win £37 in the office sweepstake if they win! Got a little German flag on my desk and everything.

Boil them for a couple of minutes, wrap them in parma ham, baste with olive oil and season with black pepper, pop in the oven for a bit. Om nom nom nom.

Ah, the nostalgia! Can't help you with what you're looking for, but I can link videos of…

CHAOS ENGINE!

PROJECT X

SUPERCARS 2!

SUPERFROG!

Oh, those were the days!

Bizarrely the quote for our car was £425 just for me… and £385 if I added Mr Toast as a named driver. Even though he hasn't started driving lessons yet. :/

I just don't expect to be hosing myself off before I can get back in the car in bloody June! And FYI, it was bloody sloppy mate, granted it was still fast but really muddy!

Yeah, it's bang out of order given the fantastic summers we've enjoyed for the last few years.

Oh, wait…

Flip-flops are bad, but we've got guys at work wearing these:

And even worse…:

*shudder*

:lol:

Sorry, mental image of someone peering into the pram to coo over baby and being confronted with a dead badger amuses me greatly!

i drink far too much coffee/tea both with 1 sugar {15 cups a day}

I'm a sweet tooth, used to have 3 sugars in my tea, and put sugar on Frosties and Crunchy Nut Cornflakes. Cut down to one sugar in the tea, and stopped putting sugar on pre-sweetened cereals (my Weetabix still look like the Alps though).

Try switching to a sweetner – easy calorie saving if you're happy to ignore the OMG IT CAUSES CANCER concerns. I use Splenda, as it pretty much tastes like sugar, I find the aspartame based stuff (Canderel, etc) tastes a bit too chemically and leaves a weird aftertaste.

Boney Hay, Burntwoods posh bit

Blimey, are you serious? I lived in Boney Hay – burnt out cars in the communal gardens, the guy upstairs used to lock the stairwell because he was sick of druggies sleeping in it, and the police were regular visitors to the flat opposite. I remember someone spraypainted the word "Slag" across the opposite flat, and somebody got jailed for stabbing someone who gatecrashed their party. Mind you, that was on the perilous Boney Hay/Chase Terrace border! :P

Geezer Butler, or John Myung (sp?)

My parents named my borther Ray, so it wouldn't be shortened

I had a friend whose dad was like that, he called their kids Jay, Kay and Roy. Jay kept on being called Jason or James, and Kay kept on being called Kaleigh. :/

And I had an ex whose middle name was Seaman, as was his brother's, his dad's and his grandfather's – family tradition, the great-grandfather had it as a first name. Not something you'd probably consider nowadays…

Cant get a decent pint or curry in Lichfield.

Went to Panache a couple of years ago and that was great on the curry front, has it gone downhill?

how small is the small, i used to ride a small trance and that was fine, i am only 5,5

anyone got the small or know what the minimum suggested height is?

Comparing the geometry on paper, it's fairly similar size-wise to a 2009 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR, which I can just about ride (I'm 5ft 2, the length of the Stumpy is fine but top tube clearance is a bit close!).

Another vote for Dimebag.

My hamster (Raziel, RIP, lived to just under 3) was a little git. I knew it from the moment I saw him – he was the last in the shop, this little bundle of ginger fluff. Shop assistant opened the cage, and he just started squeaking angrily (the hamster, not the assistant).

It was odd, because he was mooching around like your average hamster, seemed like your average hamster… apart from the noise. That was why he was the last in the shop – apparently he was unusually noisy. I decided that this slightly bonkers rodent and myself were destined to be together!

Truth be told, I never handled him much – I'd stroke him whilst he was in his cage, normally after bribing him with treats. I was happy just to watch him mooching, and was bedazzled at how massive he could make his face. Seriously, it's amazing.

Only ever had one escaping incident – I'd popped him in his ball while I was changing his cage, and after a minute looked around – the ball was empty, lid off. There then ensured a good hour or so of lifting up sofas. I'd lift up the one, Raziel would run under the other. I'd lift up the other, he'd run back to the first sofa. FOR OVER AN HOUR.

Remember that hamsters are very short sighted, so don't have multi-tier cages where they can fall any great height. For the same reason, be careful about putting them on tables. Remember to check the cage for security, as hammies are masters of escape.

And Syrian hamsters are almost generally pathologically antisocial, especially to their own kind – in the wild they only come together to mate (even that can result in a fight if Mrs Hamster isn't up for it), then swiftly go their seperate ways. When they have kids, they get booted out and ordered to find their own territory fairly swiftly. In my experience, they generally ignore their wheels until the hours of 1 – 3 in the morning.

Dwarf hamsters (Russian and Chinese) are more sociable and happier living in groups, but remember they will need special cages with narrower bars.

QFT!

I saw a unicycle on display at Eighteen in Hope…

Try Burntwood, home to Britain's smallest park.

Floods by Pantera

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6WhV5gWjJE

Sebastian Bach, the prettiest man in metal.

Cletus the Inbred.

Don't think that Muslims like it too much either…

To be fair, the Koran just says gays should be strung up and beaten until they stop being gay. The Bible says kill them. :/

They've just bought a brand new vectra this year

I doubt that, didn't Vauxhall stop making Vectras two years ago?

I've got them, they're great, very grippy.

I think you're not supposed to feed white bread to Canadian Geese as it can make their wings go funny.

RIP Bert, he looked like an awesome little dude.

The ducks around the Derwent Reservoir like cornish pasties. :|

They were surrounding us, pulling at our sleeves and shorts. I had actually bought a bag of duck feed, but we were trying to eat first before feeding the ducks. Bad idea…

If people tailgate me because I'm doing the speed limit, I drop to 5 mph below the speed limit. Childish, but it'll learn 'em!

"Dio can you hear me?
I am lost and so alone.
I'm askin' for your guidance.
Won't you come down from your throne?"

RIP Ronnie!

Zelda form terrhawks!!!!!!!!!!!!

She used to utterly terrify me!

I think "What's Up Doc?" had a few odd'uns, like Mr Spanky and Naughty Taughty. Snippety Snip!

"Sitar", used as a non-committal response in conversations – usually when you can't be bothered to actually listed to the other person, but just want to make vague noises of agreement. Squadged up version of "That's it, ar".

"Don't like the new government much!"

"Sitar".

Phoenix Wright: Ace Attourney – awesome series of games.

If they were really just heifers then they would never hurt an adult human

Don't cows kill more people than bulls? I know they're particularly edgy if they have calves, but I think any herd (including heifers) can end up stampeding if they get spooked.

I'd give any field with a variety of differently sized cows a warning – it either means cows and a bull, or worse, cows and their calves!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/8216869.stm

Do I win?

Back when I were a lass, I worked in a Tesco petrol station. We were always told that if the customer had put over 10 litres of the wrong fuel in their car that they should not, under any circumstances, start the engine. Not sure if that's based on any hard facts or figures, but we did have a few people that had to be towed by the RAC/AA.

Not quite as bad as when one of our colleagues (known by the ladies as 'Creepy Pete', dead ringer for Harold Shipman) failed to check the connectors when we had a fuel delivery. They'd finished the delivery when they realised the pipes were the wrong way round – we had to immediately shut the pumps off, get the tanks drained, decontaminated, then refilled. The whole incident (including loss of sales over 24 hours) cost about £26,000. Whoops!

Lib Dem, same as I've always voted so far. Curse my yellow streak!

Mr Toast ordered a cycle computer yesterday, arrived this morning. Wonder if it depends on what you've ordered?