Bassingbourne55

From my original post, my own experience is linked to a possible case of unwitting avoidance of a bad situation. I’ve read that there’s a study involving fatal rail accidents in which train passengers are killed (rather than people being hit by trains). Apparently the statistics show consistently that trains involved in fatal crashes tend to be…[Read more]

I’m in favour of speed cameras and the average speed cameras look like a good way enforcing speed limits on motorways. But saying they’re there to help cut CO2 emissions is just part of the current ‘carbonphobia’ hysteria.

Too many people drive too fast on the roads and excessive speed is a major cause of accidents. The faster you go, the…[Read more]

I think it’s just a sign of people getting lazier and lazier and standards slipping. It’s not the fact they’re wearing pyjamas and slippers as such, it’s the fact they couldn’t be bothered to get into their day clothes.

Another symptom of mindless Britain is people who can’t even be bothered to return their supermarket trolley to the nearest…[Read more]

I did hear on the radio that RBS, now largely owned by British taxpayers, lent US company Kraft money to mount the successful bid to take over Cadburys. Shocking!

I wonder what would have happened if it had been a man dressed as a bull! I doubt if he’d have been sent to prison.

`?….whether Iran becomes non-`fundamentalist` or not, the Islamic struggle will continue regardless..

…people said that about communism, how it would be unstoppable and irreversible ….. but it wasn’t. Same goes for islamic fundamentalism – when young people lose interest in it and it becomes an old mans’ cause, like in Iran, it will run…[Read more]

She’s just a spoilt brat. Hopefully someone will heckle her next performance.

Season’s Greetings from me too.

Because I’m a born worrier I don’t take many things for granted. I suppose one thing I do take for granted is gravity.

it put me in mind of Colin Parry, the father of Tim Parry who had died in an IRA bombing a few years ago, it was this part of Colin’s speech at Tim’s funeral that I will always remember ………

‘If my son becomes a symbol of peace and gives everyone a new sense of hope after such a tragedy, then that will be Tim’s unique achievement”.

If I…[Read more]

A better solution would have a pretty, scantily clad young female deputy for the Fat Controller who’s also a lot cleverer than he is. That would be a modern feminist.

Just when you think idiots can’t get any stupider, something happens that demonstrates that they can!

UFO, or ‘unidentified flying object’ means just that. It means any flying object that is not identified – it doesn’t necessarily mean an alien spaceship, it could be a weather balloon or even an unusual type of aircraft.

If a woman appears attractive, then I’d want her to bare 100% of her body. Not that I see that sort of thing very often these days, being over 50!

The man appears to be a total nutcase. His only saving grace is that he’s open about his evil intentions.

Thanks – I’ll let my son read this as knows more about computers than I do and it’s his computer anyway! Mine is still on Windows XP – promised myself a new one but maybe I’ll wait and see how 7 pans out!

Thanks. My son took out the graphics card (which came with the computer) and tried in in a friend’s computer and it produced the same graphics problem. He suspects it’s driver problem, but since the friend has the same graphics driver on his comp, he couldn’t tell. But I’ve been looking up Windows 7 problems on the net and it seems other people…[Read more]

Thanks for the tips. It’s actually my son’s computer and he says he’s installed the latest drivers. He did uninstall Vista before installing 7 and it worked perfectly for a few days, then it went odd, with all these squares. It just happened when he turned the computer on one time and he hadn’t altered anything from his previous session.

I think that the problem of stupid answers in serious discussion is general all over the net.

Like if you ask anything about Microsoft problems there’s always someone who’ll come on and say “get a Mac”. That’s like telling someone whose Ford Focus has broken down to buy a Honda Civic !

Another problem when people make serious queries is…[Read more]

His health began to deteriorate rapidly when well-intentioned but overbearing regulations were set in place.

…you mean “His/her health began to deteriorate……”, surely! :lol:

ALL those in charge of other people’s children are specifically warned NOT to transport them in their own cars at all …. at any time ….. ever!

The biggest risk to…[Read more]