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I thought I was the only one who liked the British show.

Thanks for all the advice. My guess is it's a shock absorber that has worn out. Booked in the garage tomorrow. Fingers crossed.

International (non-EU) students pay about £14k per year in tuition fees. As a civil servant pal of mine said a few years ago - they pay for the free tuition of Scottish students. The utterly stupid, crazy thing is that we should be doing more to get these folk here. But they changed all the immigration and language criteria a few years back (thanks to Home Secretary Theresa May) and the numbers fell drastically.

My car has developed a nice little clunking sound when it goes over bumps, especially sleeping policemen. Fairly sure it's coming from the left front wheel, but can't see anything wrong, broken or out of place. It's murder on slow roads but not a peep on the motorway. It drives fine. Just the noise...

A bit on Jim Duffy's time at Falkirk in the Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/17/which-is-the-least-successful-english-footballing-city

Nice reveal in the last episode. Kicking myself as to why I hadn't thought of it last week.

"I thought I was half Polish, half Caribbean. Here's the moment I found out I was actually a Viking" 1. What's so funny? 2. You're not a Viking.

Just catching up with this, and it brought back some memories for me. My step daughter is 21 now, and I have raised her since the age of 5. She's always known I wasn't her biological dad, so this issue was dodged somewhat. A few years ago though the dad's sister was on facebook (which is, in my view, the very worst thing to happen to the 21st century) and found my wife. Cue a long rant about how my wife ruined her brother's life, how he was a good boy and is now a good man, husband and father, and all no thanks to my wife, etc. etc. Some years old bad blood came bubbling up. My step daughter got on to the conversation (not sure how all this is done on facebook). Anyway, she said she was now 17 or 18, whatever the age was, and her biological dad had shown no interest in her whatsoever. never tried to make contact, never sent a card, nothing at all. In fact, he had been on facebook celebrating his "eldest" kid's birthday, ignoring the fact that he had fathered my step daughter. However, if that side of the family wanted to know her, she'd happily meet any of them for a coffee - including her biological father. Radio silence ensued. After a few more attempts to get in touch with her biological father, my step daughter ended up just shrugging her shoulders at the whole lot of them. They're not interested in her, never will be. She has her own family now - a 1 year old son - and is perfectly happy with the family she has.

I was in part pleased and in part disappointed with the new one. Disappointed because it's the mirror universe again. DS9 did it to death (though, Sisko pumped mirror Dax first chance he got) for laughs. Pleased because they made it a scary place again.

3 weeks in Spain every summer - the working folk in the street can't afford that

My evil neighbours packed up and left about 6 weeks ago now. Yet their gardens are still piled high with rubbish, and their old untaxed car is still parked up the street. At new year, one of our (good) neighbours gets a facebook message from the evil ones, asking who had grassed them up to the council. The big question being: grassed them up about what? Turns out all the stuff they were telling is - like having 28 days to hand in the keys to the council - was all lies. They just abandoned the property. My guess - a benefits scam. The guy is probably listed as living at the old address and the woman listed at the new one, and I'd bet good money they're raking in benefits as two single-parent households. At least this would explain their foreign holidays and new car (while on benefits).

Just one word on this. I watched it with my son and daughter (who is 7). She was not aware of the impending regeneration and was thrilled when the Doctor turned in to a woman. For about 3 days afterwards she was talking about it. Confirms my earlier feeling that this is a Good Thing.

The People's Postcode Lottery one. "Someone's knocking on your door, somebody's ringing the bell" On non-stop over Christmas, with that creepy X factor reject ending with "I could be knocking on your door". Try it, pal.

That was the bollocks. Tom Hardy was the best thing in that episode. "Make sure your boys are all circumcised. The Peakys'll check, you see."

In the books, he escaped the siege by swimming under the portcullis.

Last Monday night, I went to put out some rubbish and found my blue bins were gone. Nicked, disappeared. Come Tuesday morning I saw one of them lying on the field next to my house. I retrieved it, but could see tracks from the other one. Looked like someone had run them round and round. What I couldn't figure out was that these bins were full - due for their fortnightly emptying on Wednesday. Yet they hadn't been tipped out anywhere. Tuesday, the bin was there all day. At about seven it vanished. Cheesed off now, I got my torch and went out to the field. I heard voices and found a wee path, where two teenagers were in the process of setting fire to my last bin. I put the torch on and shone it full in their faces, shouting a few expletives as I did so. The wee yannies ran off quick. Twenty years ago I might have caught them, but not now. Got a new bin from the council, and so far it is still there.

Into the knockouts. I'm rooting for wee Louisa.

Thoroughly enjoying this. The guy last night who couldn't cut up a peach was pretty funny

They are going! After 4 years of listening to them scream at their kids (while posting on facebook that their kids are wee angels), of their gardens (front and back) piled high with bin bags, of their dogs dumping in my garden, of their feigned illnesses and disabilities...next week they're finally moving away. I said to the wife "whoever we get can't be much worse". Then I remembered this thread and so came back for a look.

Last episode was good. The wee montage of the guy finding out Larry's history brought back many happy memories. Plus, Lauren Graham.

More Jax Teller for me - trying to lead his gang and keep them safe despite working with shady characters,

The "Wash Me" episode was top notch

Come on! "Just one more jump and we're home. Everyone is safe. Nothing can go wrong from this point on, eh?" My 7 year old saw that coming

I watched Austin Powers I with the boy a few days ago. Jeezo - Hurley is utterly amazing

Watched this with the wife - really enjoyed it.