Oh well, if it doesn’t arrive today (and Yodel’s website suggests it’s back at their depot) I’ll call Amazon and re-order.

I’m always amazed by people who order online with no thought as to how they are going to receive delivery.

I thought they might deliver my order in a reasonable time, and at a reasonable time. Yodel have an unreasonable 14 hour delivery window – 7am to 9pm (which they missed) – I don’t think it’s asking too much to expect Amazon to highlight that at the time I placed the order.

when they put the rear fogs on the fool behind them didn’t get the message and continued to drive far too close for the wet road conditions.

Fog lights aren’t there to give messages, they’re there to make sure you’re seen. If visibility is 50m, we’re doing 30mph and I’m a nice safe 30m behind you, you don’t need fog lights on and I’m not driving too close.

Those rules are actually a bit vaguer than I thought.
Trouble is, most people seem to put their fog lights on without thinking why they’re doing it. They put them on because it looks a bit murky, not because if they worry that if they didn’t people would run into the back of them or pull out in front of them. If people really did think about that, they’d switch them off when they are stationary in traffic jam six inches away from each other. Likewise if visibility is 50m, and three cars are travelling in line with 10m between them, the first needs to have its front fogs on, the last needs to have its rear fogs on and the middle one doesn’t need anything at all .

How do those markings appear behind object being photographed?

What toys said. The cross hairs disappear where they lie over white objects. There are images of the cross hairs over the US flag which disappear over the white bars but are present over the red bars. If the image was a fake, the whole flag would have been laid over the cross hairs (or the cross hairs over the flag).

agressive/antagonistic

I’m sorry. I just think the whole thing’s daft. Yes, there have been conspiracies and cover-ups, but in this case I find it impossible to understand why anyone thinks it was a hoax. Have you read either of the website I linked to earlier? A lot of the so-called ‘hoax evidence’ contradicts itself. It’s all very easily explained. The programme was hopelessly one sided.
What the US achieved was amazing. Almost incredible. But in the way that 9/11 theories do those that died a dis-service, so this does for the tens of thousands of people involved.

there is also plenty of evidence to counter the truth

There isn’t. If you have a mountain of evidence on one hand, and a tiny amount of easily answered questions (being asked by people with no qualifications) on the other, why would you go against the evidence?

Oh, and

the truth

Ha!

Another quick question – do conspiracy nutters theorists not believe in any of the moon landings, or just the first one?

Something that unequivocally proves

Like what? Tell us what you need to hear/see/touch.

the best proof available

You don’t seriously think that is the best proof available, do you?
There were years of development, millions of dollars spent, 10s of thousands of people involved, multiple missions, thousands of photos, hours of film, samples of rocks, photos of stuff left behind…
I’d trust a tenth of all that over the opinions of a few people who have no understanding whatsoever of fairly basic science or even of photography saying ‘I don’t understand it so it couldn’t have happened’.

Does she have to pay anything back?

Thank God for E4+1.
I love the bit where Arnie says ‘Clear the area. No traces’ after they’ve just spent 10 minutes shooting the shit out of everything and generally bombing it back to the stone age.
Best. Film. Ever!

The price of mobile tariffs has gotten ridiculous in the past few years.

The price of mobile phones has got ridiculous in the past few years.

The price of mobile phones has become ridiculous in the past few years.

Wrong, I’m with T-Mobile and they put the price up earlier in the year.

errm, right, actually. They might have put your contract price up but Vodafone are the only ones who have ever increased the cost of my tariff.

Vodafone did the same to me, two weeks after I’d signed up for new contract. It does make a bit of a mockery of shopping round for the best deal, or getting a discount from your current provider to stay with them.
I moaned on the phone to customer support, got passed onto ‘management’, and they agreed to credit my account with more than the increase for the next 6 months. I got so caught up with my indignation at the injustice of it that I felt a bit embarrassed when I realised what a piffling amount it was (about 30p a month I think), but it’s the principle of the thing. What’s the point in having a high horse if you don’t take it out for a ride every now and then? 🙂
I’ve been with O2 and T Mobile but Vodafone are the only ones to put the price up mid-contract so far.

If siblings are fighting at least one of them must have lost control of their temper, in which case how can they be expected to remember ‘the rules’? And if they haven’t lost control, why are they fighting?
I come down hard on my kids if they fight with each other, and they rarely fight. The future-mrs-rogg takes the opposite approach (‘as long as no-one’s bleeding’) and her kids fight all the time.

http://www.clavius.org or http://www.braeunig.us/space/hoax.htm debunks just about everything on tonight’s show.
In fact my daughter (12) made a fair stab at debunking most of the stupider theories (she was bang on regarding the disappearing cross hairs and the flag that *gasp* continues to move with no air resistance to slow it).

The whole programme was so moronic, I didn’t know whether to be sad or cross.

If I had one pack every other day I’d feel guilty.
I think I was born too late – the austerity of the late ’40s would have suited me down to the damp grey ground.

After dropping my daughter at school this evening, I will have a 20 minute wait before the start of the school play. There is no mobile phone signal or WiFi in the school hall, and what passes for mulled wine served in the temporary bar in the school canteen can barely be deemed drinkable. The headmaster and parent-governors seem unwilling to address my concerns – to whom can I turn for solace?

Everyone needs a hobby.

Other than the display quality and the mini-HDMI out, the KidiGi and the Ainol (snigger) devices look pretty much the same. If I was buying for myself, I’d go for a better display; for the kids I’d save £30 and get the KiDiGi.

Depends what you mean by decent – I bought rogg jr one of these

Fine for Kindle, iPlayer, movies, music, email, access to the Google Play app store etc. The display quality isn’t the best (it has a kind of grainy quality) and battery life isn’t brilliant, but for less than £60, I wasn’t expecting retina display standards for 9 hours at a time.

If it says ‘collision’ I tend to infer that two vehicles (of some description) are involved. Although if a pedestrian walks into the side of your car, clearly they have collided with it. I’d think they are just struggling for a universally understood description of the incident. ‘An incident, involving a pedestrian and a car’ could mean anything.

Er, that throws up so many questions. The first being ‘why were you searching for…and on Amazon??!!’ 😯

There’s some belters on this thread folks.

There are indeed. I posted ages ago about getting upset with another driver and being *tempted* to stop and have a go at them, and people were suggesting then that I took anger management. This lot kind of puts that into proportion. 😀

Having said that the last time I got properly arsey with anyone face to face was with a parking warden who had just ticketed my car for ‘buying a ticket from the wrong machine’. He let slip that if I’d bought it from the right machine it would have been cheaper, so effectively he was fining me for paying too much. I may have called him a ****, several times. It’s injustice which makes me cross.

*paces out garden, Google’s ‘pellet traps’*

How much space do you need for a bit of plinking in the garden? Presumably a pistol needs less range than a rifle, what’s the point where a rifle becomes feasible? I’ve got fields on two sides of the garden, so no danger of hitting anything behind a target.

Orange juice in the morning, hot toddy at night, curry in between. The medicinal diet of champions.

I went on a stag do to Amsterdam with Neal Papworth.
If I’d sent the first text I’d be telling everyone with a phone, all day every day, but he never mentioned it.

Haven’t actually tried this myself, but in theory this link lets you enter your prescription and get the best match contact lens prescription:

best match calculator

btw, DrP – I need to thank you for a comment you made on a thread a while back – it worked to reassure my daughter who was very worried about going to our GP for an examination, so thanks!

When my sister was at school some girls in her class put a banana skin on the floor to find out if you really can slip on them. Turns out you can, and the girl who slipped broke her leg.

So not that funny, thinking about it now.

And if you need a bit of escapism after all that, try Game of Thrones.

Humax, I got a reconditioned 500 Gb HDR from their website and it’s great, way better than the Sagem the future Mrs rogg owns. Well made, quick and easy navigation, usb port to download recorded stuff to a pc, and a great picture.

Sorry, I’m so full of righteous indignation I’m finding it hard to keep up.

So it turns out the OP was speeding, pissed out of his mind, had no insurance, tax or mot, and was driving a written off car on a moped license. I have it on good authority he’s rumored to be a pediatrician to boot.
Martha, polish the pitchfork, light the flaming torches and gather the rest of the mob – once the noose is out of the tumble drier we’ve got some justice to administer.

Could just be a matter of getting used to it – I was the same way when I got a cat after not living in a house with one for a couple of years, took about a month or so to get over the allergy symptoms.
Now I don’t have a cat any more, every time I go to my parents house the symptoms start within an hour or so of arriving (constant sneezing, dry throat, leading to shortness of breath and chest pains).
Are you taking any asthma medication? Moving from ventolin (blue inhaler, taken when needed) to beclometasone dipropionate (brown inhaler, taken every day) has improved things considerably.
Taking antihistamines is a PITA, they all work like horse tranquillizers on me.

That ‘place bid’ button has never looked more tempting.

I’m sorry to say that this is why no women work for me.

So did you sack them all, or just refuse to even interview them?

Pointer suede chukka boot thingies.

Casual, yet smart. It’s dress-down Tuesday at my desk, all welcome.

edit: have just discovered Pointer’s slogan is ‘courting comfort while flirting with style’ – that’s me all over. 😀

This thread is the equivalent of giving me a paper cut and putting lemon juice on it.
I just forked out for extra thin, varivocal Nikon lenses – at four times the cost of the Ray Ban frames they’re going in.
Christmas is cancelled kids.

The Mean Machine.

Although purists would dock it a star or two due to Burt’s clean upper lip…