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A mate once said "I don't need a pint so just get me 10 fags". I honestly didn't know whether that was acceptable or not. I was offering to spend money on him for drink so why not for his fags (that was in the days when the prices were equivalent) but it just wasn't in the spirit of things. I honestly can't remember if I got them but the shock of the request has stuck with me. Was he justified in asking for them? Surely not?

5, which is above average they say but I only really knew 3. 2 out of 7 guesses is fair I suppose.

I think a body search is in order here. There's something hidden up the jumper right enough.

On the flag question, when people make up these questions they generally make each distractor (wrong answer) different in one part so three have red in the first position and one doesn't, three have yellow in the second, three have white in the third. The correct answer would be b) which has the common factor in each. It's amazing how often I've guessed the right answer in multi-choice questions using this technique. I once attended a seminar on exam writing and was given a test paper of ten questions about nonsensical scenarios i.e. using terminology which was made-up. I got all ten right and was supposed to as the whole point of the exercise was to show that you can lead someone who knows nothing about a scenario to get the right answer if you write the question badly enough.

7/10 and I only truly knew one answer. There is an art to guessing but I did get lucky as well. As regards the art of guessing, if there was a question on the colours of the stripes in an obscure country's flag and the options were a) red, yellow, black b) red, yellow, white c) black, yellow, white d) red, black, white who can tell me what the correct answer is?

http://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=112225 Irreverent discussion about Rolf Harris in 2006. It's a thread called Is Rolf Harris a Nice Man?

Stonewall is complaining about the use of the word "gay", saying that it's not being used in its original sense. There's a certain amount of irony in this. http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/24984781

Probably a bit late for you but Parkopedia is a great site which gives the times and rates at car parks and if you click on the blue areas the times and rates for streets. It works for most cities.

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"Jesus Christ is my nigga."

Make up your mind, George. Are you a Muslim or a Cafflik? You can't be both. Or can you?

Give it to John Lambie. An urban myth has it that he wrung a pigeon's neck while he was giving a "motivational" talk at Firhill. It was a loser, it seems, and that's what happens to losers.

Mozzamozza kills threads. Page 2 of General Nonsense shows that no-one can top his contributions so the threads just finish there and then.

More brownish?

Similar thing happened to me. A package was tracked as delivered but signed for by someone unknown to me who didn't bother passing it on to me since Friday. It seems it was a neighbour but I don't know all their names apart from the nearest ones and it wasn't one of them. The driver went back to the neighbour's door today, got it back and delivered it to me. It wasn't valuable but the driver wasn't to know that when he handed it to someone at least four doors along the street.

You'll have to explain yourself. Is that actually a drink or are you on the wrong thread (or even forum)?

Compared with all internet users, the site's users are disproportionately male, and they are disproportionately users browsing from school who have incomes between $30,000 and $60,000 and have more children. It's the headmasters! Interesting site.

The old-fashioned tungsten bulbs and the new halogen bulbs can be used with dimmer switches but the compact fluorescent ones can't. I know from my own experience but don't just listen to me, read this andclick A basic guide to bulbs.

You'll need to make more than one appointment to get all those seen to.

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Some photos to back up my earlier post. The wall across Suilven's back. The countryside on the way in. The mountain itself. The view across to Suilven from Stac Polaidh.

Climbed Suilven last week, and I don't care that it's not a Munro, it was the best hillwalk I've done. It's a mountain in the middle of a twelve-mile hike as there are no roads nearby. My daughter and I decided to mountain bike in on the stalker's path but we spent more time pushing them up slopes and kept on hitting rocks on the downward sections. It was marginal whether we gained anything but it added interest. The bikes have to be abandoned after about four miles for a slog over rising boggy ground before the real climb starts. It's steep getting up to the bealach (ridge) but it's the mother of all views when you hoist yourself up onto it and look over towards Stac Polaidh (which we did the next day for the reciprocal view). Of course there's the usual false summits before the top but what a vista. Then it's a six-mile return trip. The only thing which spoiled it was seeing a guy running up to the summit then along to the other end. It seems he had run up Canisp before Suilven. Nutter! Made me feel pathetic. The countryside was simply stunning and Suilven itself changes shape as you approach it as it isn't a direct line to the ascent. Camping at Achmelvich beach and eating/drinking at the Caberfeidh in Lochinver topped it all off. Can anyone tell me why there is a wall across the back of Suilven? It serves no purpose.

Need to is different from want to. Is it for disguise, to cover up disfigurement or a job as a trainee Santa? Don't shave for a few days then start the topiary in whatever shape you fancy. Start with only removing a little at a time. You can't put it back on as easily.

I saw a guy recently with a tattoo that said "Only God can Gudge me". There had obviously been an attempt to convert the g to a j but it still wasn't convincing.

He didn't impress me much at Partick and his stats show 1 goal per 8 matches or so, which isn't great for a striker, but I remember him scoring a great breakaway goal for Stenny in one of the most amazing matches I've ever seen. Partick totally dominated and Scott McLean hit the woodwork four times yet we lost 4-0 to pretty-much four breakaway goals. It stayed in my memory as the most skewed result based on balance of play that I have ever seen.