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I've just read that Ben Collins is now to appear on Fifth Gear, both with and without helmet. And he's driving for Airwaves in the BTCC at Brands next weekend. That should be worth watching.

Very sorry to hear this news Kris. My thoughts are with you and your family. And thank you for taking the time to come on here to let us know.

Sorry Tom, but if you're cold calling you deserve all the abuse you get.

A caveat - NEVER use a credit card as a source of cash withdrawl from an ATM machine as the interest charge will stack up month after month even if you pay off the full amount on your statement each month. The reason for this is in the small print about the order in which they disburse the payments you make. If for some reason you do so, make sure before you pay that you check online exactly how much you owe, taking into account any outstanding transactions and ones made after the statement, then pay off the new full amount. Personal experience from a while ago...

Unfortunately it was a racing incident that Hamilton could have avoided if only he'd remembered that Webber is a very hard racer and unlikely to get out of anyones way. Even Vettel had to learn that one the hard way.

The more of these that get shifted the better. Any alternative to overpriced and overhyped Apple stuff is good by me.

I hope you at least split the details over a couple of emails?

Lin found the snacks were actually quite good but found that she could buy bags of the same stuff in the supermarkets for much less - she just hadn't bothered looking. It was a good way to find out what she did and didn't like though.

We signed up after the last thread. SWMBO lasted about 4 weeks before cancelling it...

We've got one a couple of doors away does that. Frightens the life out of our poor parrot!

Anyone else feel like buttered crumpet for supper?

That was Perry McCarthy.

Not so much a money spinner, more a pretty smart way to get 50 years out of the numbering system (01 - 99). With the last two systems they've only managed 20-odd years before having to change.

Well UNDER his weight you mean. Good on you Gerry.

Oh wow.

Ah, so it's true then.

Some old, some new... In a pub quiz the other day I lost by one point. The question was where do women mostly have curly hair? Apparently, it's Africa. One of the other questions was to name two things commonly found in cells. It appears that Scousers and Pikeys is not the correct answer. I've heard that Apple have scrapped their plans for the new childrens iPod after realising that iTouch Kids is not a good product name. George Clooney is to star in a new film about Gary Glitter, called "Oh, She's Eleven." My wife told me I was no longer romantic so I booked a table for the two of us on Valentine's Night. Problem was she's rubbish at snooker. There's a new Muslim clothing shop opened in Camberley but I've been banned from it after asking to look at some bomber jackets. You can say lots of bad things about paedophiles but at least they drive slowly past schools. A mate of mine has just told me he's shagging his girlfriend and her twin. I said "How can you tell them apart?" He said "Her brother's got a moustache!" A biker goes to the doctor with hearing problems. "Can you describe the symptoms to me?" asked the doctor. "Yes. Homer is a fat yellow lazy bastard and Marge is a skinny bird with big blue hair."

Looked on the Staples website for the price of their printer cartridges for my HP printer and seeing they were a fair bit cheaper than near competitors went to the store to buy some. When I found they were actually £8 more expensive I queried this with an assistant who initially told me that that price was only if I bought more than one. I argued that the web price was indeed only for one at which point he went off and checked. Sure enough, I was right and he gave instructions to the till-girl to charge me the web price. Result! £8 saved. Got home and checked the web again only to find that the price was only if ordered online - Oops. As an aside, while I was at the tills paying another gent told me about the supplier he uses, a web service called JustInkandPaper based in the Channel Isles, so I checked them out. Talk about cheap!!! So I'm getting all my stuff from there in the future.

I'd say the A3 too from experience.

Happy birthday old man.

That's what spare keys are for...

Ooh, what shall I have for my mid-afternoon snack?

You mug! No, seriously Gerry.

So the seller doesn't even have a picture of the goods...

No, that's pretty much what you're doing here. Most of the rest of us think it was a great film.