Info and forum posts by 'Zippy123'

RE: Is this legal?

Odd but tips belong to the employer.

Floats I know nothing about but it sure does not sound right. Seek advice from Citizens Advice

RE: Any car experts here?

go to www.honestjohn.co.uk and go to the backroom (forums)

RE: What would you do with £125,000,000??

Well I know that if I won £125m....

I would go somewhere warm and sunny

I would still love my wife.......











But I would miss her!

RE: Bank Refund Charges

This could be the end of free banking!

RE: Anyone `helped themselves` to airport mains ??

You may be ok in an Airlines own lounge. But I would ask first as using electricity without permission is theft.

RE: The Doctor is back at last!

WOW! :)

I am going to miss Rose :x


There needs to be a TV film....The Time Wars?

RE: The Doctor is back at last!

It was like one of those budget Startrek TNG episodes. Where the same footage of the Enterprise is seen going in to the rift time after time. They must have saved a fortune not having the Dr and Rose in it for more than 3 minutes!

Quite enjoyable all the same but my young ones thought it the worst yet.

RE: POLL: Best Bond themes - Connery <> Poll part 1

I`ll go with From Russia too!

RE: Game of

Just got home and as its well in to the evening....Rayners Lane

RE: Game of

Been away for a few days and will be again so I am going to throw in one move....

Its inspired by the Brooke-Taylor gambit.

I`ll play Cutty Sark.

This item was edited on Tuesday, 23rd May 2006, 19:37

RE: Game of "Mornington Cresent" Anyone ??

I`m sorry....

Its just got to be,,,,

Tottenham Court Road

;)

RE: Free Broadband for life!

Hopefully things will change here - though no mention of speed.

http://www.btplc.com/Innovation/News/first.htm

DVD to flashtrax

I have a flashtrax multimedia player and need some free software (freeware) to convert dvds to mpegs that are reasonably quick.

Any ideas folks.

RE: Top Laptop

Sorry -

My ACER got sick and now does not work. They would not sell me a replacement power supply or fix the (for money) the power adapter connector inside the laptop.

They never replied to any emails or letters and they never answered their spare line which is subcontracted out to another company.

I would say steer clear.

RE: DVD Reviewer goes direct to Disney

No, but it seems to be fixed now!

Was it a re-direct instead of an intended pop up?

DVD Reviewer goes direct to Disney

When opening up DVD reviewers main page - the one after the welcome splash - I get redirected to Disney - not a pop up but a complete hijack - anyone else got this?

RE: personalised numberplates to cover up age of car - help!

Remember you need to be honest about the car`s age when you insure it and when you sell it. You will still need an mot too.

RE: House viewers

Send them an invoice for your lost time.

RE: RE:

There must be an enquiry. Even if it is to prove that the police who shot this guy had no other interest in him - for example, what if they had a grudge against him and wanted him out of the way under the pretext of him being a terrorist.

If it is found that there was no other interest in the man then we should put this down as a terrible accident -with some very hard lessons to be learnt.

If it is shown otherwise then the police officer who shot him must be tried for murder.

RE: Anyone bought sofas from DFS?

Folks got a brown leather sofa from them. It keeps fading to orange in places. They came around to fix it once but it happened again. Now they wont do it again `cause they said it was fixed!

The sofa hardly gets used either.

Folks have no option but to take it up with the finance company.

RE: Roy meadows struck off.

So is the consensus that he lied under oath in being an expert on something he was not? There must be a public interest in prosecuting him for this as these women could have spent thier lives in gaol because of his wrong comments?

This item was edited on Friday, 15th July 2005, 23:09

RE: Urban Legend? DONT TRY THESE AT HOME

This is on www.darwinawards.com
I cannot link to the story so here is a lightbulb story.....

This story is probably an urban legend, and even if it is not I am fairly sure that it is quite impossible to get any references proving it. Also none of the participants have died or otherwise removed themselves from the gene pool, so I will leave it to the Darwin to file or reject this story as seen fit. This is just an account of a terminal case of human stupidity leading to a number of accidents. Here it goes.
The place is a small regional center town in Soviet Union. The time is early 1980s. A local conference of college teachers is in progress. A few dozens of teachers came into town for the event and a few of them were situated in the local hotel. The hotel is very poor, but so are the teachers and 3 of them take a single room. Since there is not much to do in a small town at night, certain amount of alchoholic beverages is obtained from a local store and consumed.

During the conversation among the newly found friends one of the teachers (lets call him Dmitriy Petrovich) mentiones that it is a medical fact, that it is impossible to take a light bulb out of ones mouth once it was inserted there. This meets active disbelief of his two opponents who start questioning him as to what kind of light bulb he means and how come you cannot take it out, if you can put it in. Dmitriy Petrovich replies, that he is talking about a standard 100 Watt light balbs such as the one lighting their room, but lacking medical education he doesn`t know the reason for not being able to remove it. Discussion heats up, and at some point one of his opponents desides that an experiment is necessary.

Mind you, that all of the teachers in the room are PhDs in various fields of exact science. Obviously not one of them is a medic. The light bulb is then removed and the most loud opponent (lets call him Vladimir) puts it into his mouth. In a few seconds it becomes clear that Dmitriy Petrovich was right, and it is quite impossible for Vladimir to remove the light balb due to peculiar clenching of jaw muscles.

After a short discussion the three friends decide to get Vladmir to a doctor. They get out of the hotel, and stop a cab. They drive to the hospital where they have to relate the story of the accident to the night nurse, who, after almost choking herself with giggles, calls the ER doctor. The doctor carefully examines Vladimir, and unexpectedly hits him with his fist in the back of the jaw. Vladimirs jaw falls open and the doctor returns the light bulb to Dmitriy Petrovich, explaining that Vladimir is not going to be able to use his mouth for a couple of hours due to the over stressed jaw muscles.

The three teachers get back into a cab and start driving home, when the third teacher starts complaining that the other two are playing him for a fool, that this is medicaly impossible for such phenomenon to exist and that he is about to prove it. He puts the light bulb into his mouth, the cab makes a U-turn and speeds back to the hospital. At the hospital, the nurse starts giggling when the three men enter the emergency room, and after hearing their new story falls of her chair laughing. After a little while she calls the surgeon, who chuckles, hits the 3rd teacher in the back of the jaw and removes the light balb.

The cab has left, so the three friends catch another one. Dmitriy Petrovich gets noto the front seat and puts his mute friends with their jaws hanging open in the back. Cab driver is mildly surprised by the unusual company of an obviously drunk giggling man and two others looking ilke village idiots, and asks about it. Dmitriy Petrovich asures teh driver that the other two are not idiots, but most educated people and the problem is their small argument about a light balb. After carefully listening to the whole story the driver asks what kind of light bulb is he talking about, and Dmitriy shows the hotel light bulb saying "this one". "Impossible" says the cab driver and in a few seconds the cab turns around and goes to the hospital.

When the nurse sees these guys the 3rd time inside 2 hours, she starts having rather serious breathing difficulties trying to laugh much harder then mother nature designed. After getting her in shape Dmitriy Petrovich makes her call the surgeon who, promptly hitting the cab driver in the jaw takes the light bulb and smashes it on the table saying that this should put an end to the story. The four men get back into the cab and drive to the hotel.

On the way they are stopped by the road patrol police unit. The policeman (militianer) is very surprized to find that the only person able to speak in a car full of people is a rather drunk man who tells him a wierd story about light balbs. "I will be right back" replies the policeman, goes back to the road side station, Dmitriy and companions whatch the ligh go off inside the station, and in a few seconds the policeman appears again. Using gestures he asks people on the back seat to move over. A metal end of a light bulb is sticking out of his mouth.

The cab goes back to the hospital. The nurse becomes hysterical with joy. After a few minutes of recuperation she goes to the cabinet of the surgeon to call him. She opens the door and falls to the floor unconscious. In the doorway appears the surgeon with his jaw hanging wide open.

Submitted on 05/19/2003


Submitted by: Mitiay
Reference:

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This item was edited on Thursday, 30th June 2005, 20:41

RE: I D Cards

Classic today, Charles Clark, said the cost will be capped to the individual. He did not state what the cap will be.

So who will pay the remainder then Charles - the fairy god mother or us as the tax payer. This kind of behaviour is beyond contempt.

RE: GPS Speed Camera Detector under £80 at Woolies

Quote:
Why don`t you just NOT SPEED!

Would be cheaper!!!!!!

Cause we sometimes make mistakes. This lets us correct them before too late.

RE: Sony 40gb MP3 at dixons £199 free delivery EDIT

No offence - but I just do not like white iPods and they seem to be the only ones with decent capacity. I think its a white car thing - it will show the rust - :/

RE: Live 8 - 5 Concerts, Five Countries, Amazing Artists - Tkts will be given away in competition.

Pink Floyd - who are they?


















Oh them - sorry I had a momentary lapse of reason ;)

RE: Amazon Summer Sale!

Thanks to the original poster. Got a few Xmas pressies for the kids sorted (XBOX and GBA games)

:D

Sony 40gb MP3 at dixons £199 free delivery

But is it any good?

http://www.dixons.co.uk:80/martprd/product/Sony/VGFAP1L/170365

This item was edited on Saturday, 28th May 2005, 17:17

RE: Clarification of Distance Selling Regulations...

I dont think distance selling regs dont apply to businesses buying goods.

It does not sound like its fit for the purpose and you should be able to return it for that.

RE: Nope, completely stuck.. well, was...

Here is the answer

SPOILER:
Blue = 0
Green = 1
Orange =2
Red = 3
Purple = 4
Grey = 5