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No I hadn’t seen that thin. What a good idea, and how nice of them to do it.

One present an hour??!! :shock: That’s just bloody cruel. What about their mum, what does she say?
I couldn’t make my kids do that.

When I was a kid, we lived in this huge house, and we always had giant Christmas trees. It was so big it always used to chip the pain off of the ceiling.

One Christmas we were just sitting down to eat dinner and…[Read more]

It’s snowing here. Big old lumpy chunks of the white stuff. Good innit.

We had all this when Martin first changed over from ASCII to parachat. People moaned about being *thrown into the lobby* rather than the old forum list, and then being able to choose which room they wanted to go in.

The only real difference now is, that you can actually talk in the lobby. If you don’t want too then click on 40’s and go in there.…[Read more]

No. :( You are so lucky. All we’ve had are frosts and fog. I really really really want some snow. We should get some next week, hopefully. Then the schools can close and the kids can stay at home.

Starsky and Hutch and The Sweeney, with the late great John Thaw.

Bollocks

Astounded.

@kent f OBE wrote:

:roll:

read that 4 times before I finally got the gist :lol:

You did?? :shock: Could you enlighten me then please Kenty? Don’t matter how many times I read it, it still don’t make sense. No offence cosy. :lol:

@panda12 wrote:

Some ppl leave themselves open to it – esp when they say too much about their personal life then they wonder why ppl pick up on it and use it in bitc hing against them.

Exactly right Panda. The stupidity of some users is just staggering. This applies to ALL the forums btw. It’s mainly the female users I have to say. They happily…[Read more]

He’s not being grumpy, he’s just being PB. :lol:

And this technology is all very well and good, but what happens if the micro chip in your new expensive iPad has a meltdown? How are you supposed to read your book then? Oh, I know, you could always get a real one! Now there’s an idea. :wink:

@ForumHostPB wrote:

I find that popping down to my local library is even more effective.

They have a great visual display system (bookshelves) where you can browse books by category ‘at a glance’. You don’t have to browse books individually to select a title that interests you.

Browsing is in full colour AND in 3D

You can manually select books…

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Optomistic.

@SusieQ wrote:

A weak minded person will sink to the level of those that try to bring them down and reciprocate bad behavior; a stronger person can smile in their face.

That’s a good one Susie. I like that. Very true too. 8)

Hysterical. :lol:

Congrats on the new lappy Rose. I hope you and lappy will be very happy together. :lol:

I’m shocked to hear she’s been scrolling and capping with her new lappy LL? It is, as you say, because she’s obviously got overexcited. Forum 4 is the best place for her. :lol:

Ahhhhhh Forum 4, those were the days. I think we should have a petition to…[Read more]

Assumptions. :lol:

I’ll tell him how much you miss him BM. I’m sure he’ll be moved to tears. :lol: :lol:

It gets worse.