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I think I have one, comes with an internal 14.4 modem, 5 1/4" floppy and Windows 3.1 I'm a true techno dunce so I'm only half sure that you are taking the piss out of me It just means I have a very old laptop that's weighs about the same as a breeze block and has the same thickness. I bought a Dell All-in-one that has 8gb memory, 1TB hard drive. CD/DVD writer, but mine cost me $600. Looking at the prices online, you can get a decent one for about the same price, although I would go to a shop other than John Lewis, one that has a higher turnover of stock and will charge a bit less. This should do it http://www.johnlewis.com/toshiba-satellite-c55d-laptop-amd-a8-8gb-ram-1tb-15-6-/p2521641?colour=WhiteYou get a 2 year guarantee with them and they don't ask too many questions if things pack in. As long as it doesn't look like it was run over by a truck. Yes, I was just going to link that one. Pretty similar to mine, have had no problems with it. As well as the 2 year guarantee, John Lewis has their price promise whereby if you can find a cheaper one on sale within a certain radius, they will refund you the difference.

I've got a Toshiba that's got 1 TB and a number pad. Had it about 3 years now, it was about £350 from John Lewis.

Americans buy breadcrumbs! So do the English, but yes you can buy breadcrumbs in the shops. It's a convenience item. Much in the same way as GRATED cheese. This way you don't have to dry out a loaf of bread, and crumble it up before you can use it. FTFY. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HELP ME, I just went on Netmums by mistake and saw this in a baby name thread 'I'm hovering around Claudia Odessa for a girl and Hugo Rupert for a boy' I'm off to kill myself. On Netmums? You sure? Those are Mumsnet names. True story, I once read a Mumsnet post on baby names that was so incredibly pretentious that I sent it in to Private Eye. They printed it in Pseud's Corner and sent me a cheque for a tenner.

Wouldn't that have been the case if you just had push buttons for the channel? I remember we had a TV with a dial setting when Channel 4 came out, we would use Tipp-ex to mark the spot on the dial when we could get the signal. There was something about lines .... the old TVs had (I think) 405 lines and later models were 625 lines. I know we could only get BBC when most other people were watching ITV, and then when BBC2 came out we couldn't get that either. Although that may have been a reception thing, it might have needed a different aerial. Some people constantly upgrade their equipment, and others put up with what they've got till it falls apart. Must admit I tend towards the latter myself. I must have saved thousands in recent times from not buying things that were almost immediately obsolete I vaguely remember that sort of stuff. We would rent our TVs from Granada, so every other year we'd get it exchanged and have a newer model. I remember my mum telling me to scrape off the tipp-ex we had used to mark the channels because we were returning it soon. I think that was when we got our very first remote control TV, which had the 4 channel buttons. Yes, I forgot that a lot of people rented TVs back then. My parents were firmly against renting things, on the basis that you "constantly paid out money and had nothing to show for it at the end". They of course had stuff that wore out and didn't work instead.

Wouldn't that have been the case if you just had push buttons for the channel? I remember we had a TV with a dial setting when Channel 4 came out, we would use Tipp-ex to mark the spot on the dial when we could get the signal. There was something about lines .... the old TVs had (I think) 405 lines and later models were 625 lines. I know we could only get BBC when most other people were watching ITV, and then when BBC2 came out we couldn't get that either. Although that may have been a reception thing, it might have needed a different aerial. Some people constantly upgrade their equipment, and others put up with what they've got till it falls apart. Must admit I tend towards the latter myself. I must have saved thousands in recent times from not buying things that were almost immediately obsolete

When I was a kid, we always seemed to be a channel short because my parents only bought a new TV when the old one was terminally broken, and they were built to last for years back then. So the first TV I remember was so old it couldn't even get ITV.

You might want to rephrase that.

Zorders can be quite phunny when he's phuming.

Unless your boss is on here or you just want to avoid someone, I can't see any reason to invisible. You never know

I always take the "invisible" option on forums. Sometimes, you know, you should be doing something else well, mostly really

What did happen to Taters? Someone , lfn??, said 'fuck off' in the yearly 'we need new mods' moan, and he said 'aye'. He'll be back. Not thin skinned I wager. As will RC who's meltdown at Toast was unbelievable. Moments afore she said she was back 'dating' so the smart money is on her ditching us do as not to appear a weirdo to her new beau. She'll be back when that goes to shit. Hell, we need an agony aunt thread to stop all the resignations. What a pity the last one was modularily deleted What amused me about that was she immediately changed her account to "Private". Now you don't do that if you're serious about leaving without a backward glance. She did that so that she could keep looking in to see what was being said about her, but we wouldn't be able to see that she probably still comes here every day.

Cannot stand the repulsive little squirt.

Clearly somebody didn't Stop, Look, Listen.

Almost incomprehensible translation job from Google. Deathlist picked the wrong Chirac. Deathlist doesn't usually go in for the "Fringes of Fame/Family of the Famous" type of candidate. Besides, as the article says, she was not well-known even in France, where many people didn't even know she existed. Very sad. Dude -- OCD much? It's called a sense of humour, look into it.SC There was a joke there? Anyway, CDO. It's like OCD except the letters are in alphabetical order, as they should be. ©time Come to think of it, it may well be called CDO in French.

Not so much a cunt but a w***er. (Well in the film Human Traffic anyway.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi0FheMXfZo OMG that is spooky! I'd just posted this before I read this post and watched the clip .....

Ted Cruz was a bit of a w***er according to his college room-mate https://twitter.com/clmazin/status/720259227067920385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw I'd have thought this was a binary issue. How do you have a bit a of wank (answers on a tissue please)? When your mum comes into your room unexpectedly? Zorders could probably confirm.

Anyway I meant to say that I like the elegance of Phil's obit: "We are sorry to announce that this service terminates here."

I just think it is useful to have an inclusive thread that pulls together all the deaths in the year. I'm sure that was the original purpose of that thread. It's fine to have discussion threads for categories such as soap actors, politicians, poets etc. They are not just for recording deaths, but for news and speculation. There is no rule that says a death may not be mentioned in more than one thread. I think it makes sense to record them in all appropriate threads, since people don't necessarily read every topic on the forum. Actors, for example, might well get a mention in multiple threads. That's not even counting the ones that may qualify for non-vocational categories such as Ironic Death, or 100 Club.

Okay I'll add the caveat, at least not until admins get round to making the new forum. Most of the existing deadpools are variations of each other, the Windy City Deadpool for example is a poor-mans HPDP. Yes, I made that comparison myself

Why not? You're not obliged to take part in them all.

I'll say yet again, I think all deaths should be recorded in the "Dead Of [year]" thread, as well as in any other specific thread that may be appropriate.

We do not start threads for people who are (1) not famous and (2) already dead. If in doubt, post a death in "The Dead of 2016" thread. There is also a thread for Voice Actors where Phil Sayer could arguably be recorded since "He and his wife Elinor Hamilton later set up a company as voice-over artists".

Maybe Laurence is the French version of Leslie? No. Laurence is the feminine form of Laurent. The English versions are the other way round. Lauren and Laurence. Laurence is to my ears the more feminine sounding - compare Florence. Note that Chirac's other daughter is named Claude - a unisex name in France.