I cannot call a chalkboard a blackboard any more in case it offends

Who says you can't, theres no derogatory inflection, inference or intent in describing a blackboard as a blackboard, it has no historical, cultural or literal relationship with black people. There's no rule about it anywhere, and no desire from anybody for there to be one.

but I can call a wipeboard a whiteboard.

Now thats bang out of order, how dare you make such a slur on my peelywally northern european heritage by using the word 'white' to describe a bit of formica that you scribble on with a pen.

It a case of political correctness made up

H.H Holmes is a pretty interesting story, his incredible murder-machine hotel in particular should be a staple of every architect's studies, but he was also an unusual model of a serial killer – he was money motivated, at least to begin with, he would sell dodgy life insurance policies, make himself the beneficiary then bump the victim off, but he was pocketing the premium and the payout, his victims were paying him rent, and then he'd sell the bodies for medical research too.

The interesting thing is that his killing drove him mad, so later he became the kind of cruel, sadistic power-game killer that most serial killers start out as.

As in Hooters, Honkers, Bells and Whistles – the motorcycle accessory show

Hooters?

Gators disappeared around the time lots of fancy coatings and materials start being used for the stantions. If you are going to gold nitride something theres no point in hiding it.

You have to see the money

can you guess where i'm working?

Spearmint Rhino?

yes the date is to do with the stated ABV on the can,after a while its stronger, so the info on the can is then incorrect.

"Best Before" really just means "Nicest Before", but on things like tinned goods its just there for stock control purposes. "Use by" dates are the ones that really need your attention.

Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond?

Why should we pay? The keep Esselgruntlfuttock in a job 🙂

Do you think mass murderers would be deterred by a death sentence?

27 Years

So Ton, if you read that muddy and confusing Mail article carefully, 3 murders by released, convicted murders over a period of 6 years

Quite a few indeed.

they are predominantly a charitable organisation

not just any old charity organisation. They are the biggest donor to charities after the national lottery I learned last week, and all the money is collected from within their membership, not donations from the public.

155%
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If it helps so that you don't hire something bigger (or smaller)than you need….

Transit/Sprinters internal load spaces are:
8ft long (SWB)
10ft long(MWB)
@12-13 feet long (LWB)

Confusingly hire co.s may consider a Medium wheel base to be 'Long' and a Long Wheelbase to be 'Extra Long' so try and get clarification. They'll all be about 4ft between the wheel arches and five wide everywhere else. At medium or long wheelbase the body will be 5 – 6ft tall too.

Some places might fob you off with a Traffic, which class for class is smaller than a transit

The biggest volume you can get on a regular license is with a Luton, with which you'll gain an extra 2ft of width a couple of feet of hight. The bodies are custom built so the length depends on the vendor – I use ones that are 14ft long but they can be as little as 10ft.

The weight of the body and tail lift is so much though that some Lutons can only carry around 750kg, half what you could carry in MWB panel van

You can drive a 7.5 tonner on your license, but not in any capacity that can be linked to work. So moving house is OK, but you can get caught out otherwise (like your pal paying you £50 to help him move house – that gets you both busted!).

Just make sure they do the correct time in prison
Noe early out.

If you can't grasp early release, and why it might be an important thing, than you haven't really grasped why people are sent to prison in the first place.

Crime, conviction and sentencing are in media daily. All our lives, every day. It shouldn't be difficult for anybody to understand.

(200 – toot toot)

OMGA!

(oh my giddy aunt!)

Its a likeness. Depends on what purpose its serves, its recognisably Mr Hawkins, but as a portrait I doesn't really seem to say much about him.

Thanks andy

SWALWOMA

This'll do you for not big bucks.

http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=4063

Cool, I'm on it!

GEFAFWISP

Its an exercise in Socratic Irony

Look for something witty and appropriate that someone has already written on the card, circle it and add "thats not what he says behind your back, but I actually think you're OK"

"CAUTION! HOT WATER!".

Those signs are such an expression of failing to grasp risk assessments. If the hot water in the hot water tap is sufficiently hot to cause an injury the answer isn't to slap a sticker on it, the answer is to adjust the heater so that the water is hot enough, not too hot. You need to stick your own sticker asking "When is this going to be fixed?"

I work in lots of disused buildings as film locations and we once used a old university engineering department building where they used to test massive sci-fi lasers and the like. It was the most boggling assembly of high risk architecture and fit out I've ever seen. Aside from the main engineering space with its enourmous assembly of unshielded high power electrical installation, there was a warren of gerry-built labs and offices, with no natural light and with the light switch somewhere you had to hunt for. In one room we couldn't find the light switch so had a look around in the gloom. The was a small cupboard door in the corner that looked like the door to the 12 1/2th floor in Being John Markovich. I crouched down to have a look inside, pulled the door, didn't open. Leaned against the door as got back up and it opened outwards, the daylight illuminated a little pencil-drawn skull and cross bones on a postit note on the door and I nearly took a header off a 15 foot drop.

Had my own experience of this this week (not a heart attack) – just had hernia surgery and as part of that they pump your gut cavity full of gas so that they can see what they are doing inside there. You come round with this big bloaty belly feeling. The gas/guts mix presses on you diaphram but you feel the pain around your collar bones.

PS I need to get a soldering iron derrek, any recommendations?

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Well given that tescos expansion is funded solely by their late payment to their suppliers – they make more money holding onto their supplier's money than they make on their markup – then how can they be surprised when someone owing them money drags their heels.

Apparently if money is paid to you in error – ie a million turns up in your account out of the blue, you are not in the wrong to keep it, but if you withdraw it, accrue interest on it or spend it then you break the law. So its useless and you might as well hand it back.

Its an odd situation for promoters – so they set a ticket price for Kay at £38, but the market, through the touts and the resellers says they'll pay up to £200. Whether the punter pays £38 or £200 the promoter still takes £38.

Given that the internetz has turned ticket sales into a flashmob scramble, its the practiced tout rather than the ticket buying punter who has the upperhand. (assuming that the ticket selling agencies and the ticket re-selling agencies aren't in some kind of circle jerk, oh but they couldn't be could they?)

Would it not be a universally more successful model to auction all the tickets in the first place, then nobody pays more than they want too and rewards for the promoter are linked wholly to demand?

Also, get the shop to quote to renew all those parts that are either damaged or replaced by the culprits, it'll quickly be apparent just what a financially dumb hobby we all have and that replacing the bike rather than the parts is by far the most economic option.

Yes, For Matt Allwright. But No for anybody else

H&S really is to be taken seriously, more people are killed in (or because of) the work place than on the battlefield. There are currently around 2 million people in the UK who are sick or injured because of their work, and aside from the 200 and odd who will die in the workplace and the 1500 who die on the roads each year as part of their work, 50,000 will die as a consequence of those work related illnesses.

But! Not one will have been as the result of a contaminated coffee spoon incident. And thats wholly due to the vigilance of your boss and people like them. Thank the lord.

Unless your kettle has been doctored to prevent the water getting above 70 odd degrees then the coffee granules and spoon will be pasturised by the heat. Historically it was the whole point of making hot drinks – making the water safe to drink.

The alternative, if you're boss prefers, is fermentation. Beer. No kettle, no spoons, no worries. Clyde ship workers used to get through 20 pints a day. And if theres one thing the working class glaswegian male population is renowned for its their longevity and good health.

Nothing wrong with them at all. People who buy 'Bike Vans' are reluctant van buyers, they don't want their van to be van-like so what they want are vans that aren't commonly seen being used as vans.

The premium you pay for a VW is partly deserved reputation, but mostly a consiquence of there being more potential non-van buyers wanting to buy second had vw's than there are van-buyers buying them new. (by a massive factor)

Transits are ergonomically very good – excellent relation between the volume they carry and the space they take up on the road. They're comfy, easy to drive. Great

They're not as hardy as a sprinter – my sprinter has 270,000 miles on the clock and still looks and feels new, but with a transit you sit a bit lower and feel a bit more car-like than in a sprinter. That car-like quality used to be the VW's selling point. But I like the truck-like position in the sprinter.

EDIT
I should add that my van is a van-van, not a bike-van. But I don't own a car so the bikes get chucked in the back sometimes. To be honest if I owned a car, for anything other than short trips I'd sooner throw the bikes in a car than the van

Front spots/fogs are optional extras, people switch them on because they paid for them, and if you've paid for them you'd be daft not use them wouldn't you?

If there was any other good reason to fit them they'd be compulsory, not optional.

They're just jewellery. 🙂

I would echo that – the advertised addresses will likely be non-person specific, so there shouldn't be a problem gathering and using them, but by the same measure it might be a fairly ineffective address to use, whoever is receiving mail to that address would be tasked with dealing with their own customer's enquiries, not approaches from other companies.

Think you have problems

Me too, I sometimes get a dull stabbing pain in my eye when I drink a cup of tea.

These 'workmen', did they drive black Vauxhall Omega estates?

skidartist – does the fact that Lagavulin 16 is my favourite whisky mean I am a right-wing fascist then?

It means we both are! But thats because I'm a facist, I had to learn to like Lagavulin to look the part.

…and no Bladnoch in the chart!

Bladnoch is so far off the chart! Its the sort of tipple usually enjoyed by the tyranical bad guys on science fictions. The Mekon likes Bladnoch. Just like Kim Jong Il buys most of the worlds Hennesey.

I am currently walking round the house naked is it so wrong been starkers for the past few hours

The house, not specifically your own house then? Its nearly teatime, they'll be home soon!

Ahhh, but he said "about 3Gk" so give or take half a Gk he's not strictly wrong