But do you associate an emotion with a particular colour?
For example, Is guilt always one colour or does anxiety often take on a certain shade or hue?

Thats a synesthesia thing, not all that common but people can be synesthetic to varying degrees and in different ways. However though, as some artists, poets, authors etc have been synesthetic themselves they've maybe also helped create a cultural canon of synesthetic metaphors.

Derrick Jarman wrote a very good book about colour (I think it was called Chroma) as he was going blind, incidentally.

reminds me of the other technique used – deliberately uncomfortable chairs.

Aye the odd thing in Macdonalds now is they've made the places look softer, even though they are as hard and wipe clean as before – surfaces with a laminate surface that looks like unpainted MDF for instance.

Aside from synesthesia, where people genuinely do make involuntary links between different senses and sensations – sounds might be perceived with colours, words might have textures, days of the week might have personalities, colour probably does effect people but not in a way they are necessarily aware of.

Theatres have "Green Rooms" where the cast relax, hospitals are quite green too. It used to be the case that the interiors of fast food chains were predominantly red, because they want a high customer turn over the red encourages customers to leave once they've eaten, rather than hang about reading a book and ordering another coffee. The clever thing was looking into a Macdonalds from the street they looked quite warm and brown and wood coloured and cosy, to invite you in, they only looked predominantly red once you were inside However it seems like Macdonalds has shifted its emphasis, its toned down its interiors and some of them are quite lounge-like, at least in part and it seems they do want people to linger longer.

But that doesn't mean if you ask people they would know it was happening, nobody sitting in a cafe thinks to themselves "No I won't order another cup of tea, I'll go now because the table's red and that means I'm not wanted"

If you've already got an dish up then just buy the box and plug it in, theres nothing to pay or do other than buy the box. Its not quite the same mix of channels as freeview – you get all the BBC channels (3 and 4 News 24) and the Channel 4 ones (E4, Film 4, More 4) plus the usual jumble of shopping channels, rolling news channels (Al Jazera is really good, surprisingly) and channels of corny US repeats. You also get all the BBC digital radio channels and all the regional variations of BBC1.

What you don't get over freeview is any of the extra Channel 5 channels (Fiver) or any of the BBC owned commercial channels – all the ones that used to be called UKTV and are now called 'Dave', 'Yesterday' etc.

If you do decide to go down the route of buying a recorder, which I recommend actually they change your TV habits for the better, then the other thing you need to be aware of is that the recorders require two leads to run from the dish to the box, so if you have an existing dish you might need to have a second cable run from it and I'm not sure all dishes are designed to allow that. Unlike Sky Plus its also free to use (with a Sky+ box even once you've bought it you need to pay a subscription to use the record function, regardless of what channels you do or don't pay for).

Just a little way out of Moffat – Craigieburn Gardens, lovely wee gardens tended by a Nepalese sherpa, has little cafe for tea and cake. Check what days/times they're open though, the website gives the opening times for the gardens but doesn't mention the cafe, so maybe call and check

Tebay services are less gut wrenchingly awful than any other services, and its heartening to see somewhere being run with a bit of thought and chutzpah, but its still a just motorway services, the foods a bit better and theres a nice shop attached, but its nothing to get moist about.

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So how did he get a gun?
Gun laws just don't work.'
He didn't get it legally did he? …
Gun laws can work, they just can't cover all situations. Derrick Bird had a legally held weapon…

Exactly.
Criminals can get guns any time they want.

Nut cases with legal guns aren't deterred by the law.

Ergo, gun laws do not work.

Thats called a 'perfect solution fallacy'

It took six cops in full PPE to "subdue" him which involved all standing on his limbs and taking it in turns to hit him about the head with their asps.

Have I missed something? Since when did cops start carrying poisonous snakes? 🙂

I love going riding with my GF, infact she's the only person I'll ride with, I either ride with her or ride alone, beyond that 'other people' whether they are friends or strangers are the ruination of a bike ride.

Whats funny about riding with your partners is when your advice comes back to bite you. My GF had a pretty spectacular fall on a steep rubbly descent, nothing broken but a huge array of bruises. Nearly two years later I went to pick up her car for her from the garage and the mechanic just looked at me incredulously tutted and said "I can't believe you told her to feather the brakes".

MF – A flashing indicator only proves the bulb is working!

or that there's an intermittent fault 🙂

Friend did his with a kit off ebay. He fixed the screen but gubbed the earpeice in the process. On balance I reckon the difference between the cost of a kit and the cost of apple supplying you with a refurb phone doesn't offset the fiddle, stress and the risk of making it worse.

Get a grip of yourselves, 60 miles is hardly epic. I used to clock up 600 miles a day and a comfortable seat to sit on and a cup holder is all you need. If you are worried you can't happily sit in a car for an hour or so for gods sake don't ever try riding a bike :-). Unless you are especially tall or a funny shape there isn't a car on the market that you couldn't comfortably and happily drive all day.

Small cars are fine for long journeys. I'm 6'6" and use a lot of hire vehicles. I usually choose small cars over mid-sized ones as medium size cars try too hard to create space in the rear and cheat it from the front seats to achieve it. Sit in a few cars, if you find one that fits you nice, thats the one.

'Small' cars are massive these days anyway. Polos are certainly worth a look, the ones I've had seem biased to longer journeys and are quite relaxed to drive, rather than being buzzy, urgent city run-arounds.

I wonder if their timescales are a little more distant, I suspect they don't have to worry about relatives being upset. Or if they do it's probably whole towns full of relatives by now

They've done a plane on timeteam I think

Theres one near me I want to go and check out soon. Quite a lot of it is still in evidence which is surprising after all this time.

Its only a grave site if the crew were in it when it crashed, they might have been able to bail.

Apparatus for the facilitating the birth of a child by centrifugal force.

Comes with a set of monogrammed wicket-keepers gloves

You're thinking of storage containers rather than shipping containers mr removed. Shipping containers are pretty tough but they don't have the protected locks you're talking about. With either though 'just' peeling one open is quite a tall order unless you are pretty well tooled up and have a pretty massive window of opportunity.

Oh you'll get a car in fine, but with only 8" or so to spare either side you'll have fun getting out it yourself out of the car. Fine if you've got a sunroof though. 😐

my uncles getting one to use as a garage after the council rejected his previous submission

he must drive a very narrow car

Soap on a very tiny rope

Rheumatics I know crook the neck in the V between index and thumb, and lift the arse of the bottle up with fingers.

but now they'll be able to pour with one hand while texting with the other……. oh hang on.

You might find 10ft containers more pricy than you'd imagine. Shipping containers are made in 20ft and 40ft flavours. 40ft are the best value used at around £950 plus delivery, 20ft ones, despite being half the size are almost the same price @ £850. The reason is simply that 40 footers are much more expensive to transport and crane so the demand for 20ft cans in higher.

Something to keep in mind is the cost of getting one delivered has to be covered again if you ever want to get shot of it

You'll commonly find 30ft and 10ft versions of containers but these are cut and shut from larger containers, so although there is less of them physically you are paying an extra premium for the labour / added value and the relatively short supply of them.

However the thing to consider with price is that no matter what they have an intrinsic value as scrap, around @£170 per ton (and a 10 footer will weight around a ton). Some suppliers of used containers will also offer a buy back deal – giving a fixed price to buy back the container if you want shot of it in future.

aye – but what can I buy in B&Q that has Butoxyethanol in it?

The Outlier

out of stock though

I think in major disasters like that the difference between tragic death and miraculous survival is so slight seemingly arbitrary that if you are in that circumstance its not an easy thing to rationalise.

I didn't watch the programme last night, but I saw an earlier one. Wasn't there an old guy who was practically standing right next to one of the bombs who was pretty much unscathed while all around him people were killed to peices. Its maybe not superstition as such, other than by turn of phrase, but its pretty hard not to be philosophical in those circumstances. Every milestone you'll reach in life thereafter is always going to be accompanied by the thought of how different things could have been.

Well go with the doorbell then – have the MOT done 'while U wait' and sit in the scabby waiting room flicking though 2003 copies of top gear magazine. When they get to the horn test section they'll press the button, the doorbell will ring and while they go to see who's at the door, nip in and tick the box of the test report.

can you salvage something from an ice cream van?

Or maybe just fit a door bell, the cordless type, the bell push just as a AAA battery inside – ziptie that the stalk, then the bell bingbonger runs off HP4s, gaffer that to the front bumper. Bosh.

One thing to look out for with kids suncream…. they're not all clear, I grabbed some in a hurry on my way to filmshoot once, where I'd be out in the sun for 12 hours, wasn't til I opened it up on location that I realised that it was florescent green.

Personally I wear a hat (or a helmet on the bike) so that I don't have to have suncream above the eyes, even then you can still get a bit of irritation, carrying a wee pack of wetwipes on longer days and cleaning it all off and reapplying every now and then seems to help

You just need a big knife and some wet wipes. When you get benighted simply ambush a cow, hollow it out, climb inside for a nice womb-like nap. In the morning a quick lick and spit with the wetwipes to get the worst of the entrails off and on your way.

There was a wee local paper in Glasgow which during the Monica Lewinski debacle ran the headline "Clinton Accused of Shirtlifting" a story of a guy called Bill Clinton from Pollokshields who was standing trial for stealing two shirts and a jacket from a charity shop.

What is wok smuggling?

Its a euphemism for being hunch-backed 🙂

Assuming the dish is pointing the right way (in the same direction as it would for sky) then just buy a box and plug in. However if you decide to get one of the freesat recorders you'll need to have two cables running from the dish.

No
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Edit: Can I borrow that Labrador when you're finished with it

Yikes, he's cut the bottoms of his trouser legs off, that was a narrow escape!

Cheap parts last longer. Save the diminishing returns for high days and holidays.

People choose to be veggies for a variety of reasons, some for very personal reasons, some for more political reasons. A lot of people chose to become veggies in the past on animal welfare grounds, however you can't change the game by not playing, so the same people might now choose instead to buy well cared for meat.

most casual cyclists won't ride in the rain or cold so that leaves less then 10% of the days with cycling conditions, in scotland.

Blimey, which scotland do you live in. You should come and live in my scotland, your scotland sounds rubbish.

Sitting watching TV with a friends daughter. She lets out a massive, couch shaking BBBBBRRRRAAP of a fart. We sit silence for a moment and then I ask
"was that you?"
"No" she says "its one of the the bears on the TV"
"But there aren't any bears on the TV"
"They're on another channel" she replied with a withering look

Another friends daughter had one of her dolls borrowed to play the part of Jesus in a nativity scene, and so the doll went by the name of Jesus there after. The next year Jesus was borrowed again, so a new doll was bought as a replacement. The new doll, Jesus's deputy, goes by the name of John the Baptist.

Is there not another scart socket on the back of your digibox? Plug the DVD player into that and it should find its way through to your TV.

The Potting Shed cafe at Inshriach Nursery, near Aviemore, getting there, eating there and looking out the window is one of the loveliest, lulling, scottish experiences I've had in a long time.

You have to admit though WW2 was a big deal and the Germans where being proper dicks.

My Grandad is still mega pissed over it.

Reminds me of that Jack Dee joke "I've never forgiven the German army for what they did to my grandfather in the war. He was passed over for promotion time and again."

As I understand it when you purchase a DVD what you are actually purchasing is a license. If you purchase a home-viewing copy then you've got a license to view that film as often as you like within a domestic setting. Its a bit like buying a season ticket to a venue. You can visit the venue as may times as you like, what you can't use it for is for other people to visit on your ticket, and more expressly you can't sell visits using your ticket.

Its arguable once you've bought that DVD you have that license in perpetuity, so you could (although I don't know if anyone ever has) ask the rights holder for another disk is you break /scratch / loose the original, as you'd still have that license to view. Taking that principle further if you buy a film on one platform and it becomes redundant, say HD DVD, then there might be a position where you could demand a copy on another platform. However I'm sure most DVDs are sold as a package – the film, the navigation, the extra features – so they would probably argue that a film of one platform is a different 'product' to one on another.

There are licenses you can buy that allow you to show home-licensed DVDs in public settings on the basis that the audience themselves aren't paying to view, so you can screen shop-bought DVDs in a hotel foyer / pub / shop or wherever so long as screening is incidental to your business.

Whats odd to me is what happens if you then sell DVD on second hand. By handing the disk over to another owner you're seemingly transferring that license but there's no Droit de Suite for the copyright holder, however the new owner is paying a fee to view, but non of that fee is passed to the rights holder.