Windsor

Can I add HBOS for a second time? Due to an error, a BACS payment due into my account didn't arrive, leaving it just over £1 short to pay a direct debit, HBOS have bounced the DD and inform me there is no way to override the cancellation even though I spoke to them first thing this morning just as the computer rejected it, plus they will be charging me £35 for this. I could understand if it was something that happened regularly, but I'm never overdrawn and I've never not had enough money in my account to cover outgoing payments. Now I have the pleasure of trying to recover the bank charges from the company who 'forgot' to pay me in the first place, I could scream with frustration . Aren't you allowed to change banks in Scotland, then? You are not allowed to change from HBOS now. Alex Salmond says. If you change away from HBOS, that could be deemed unpatriotic and you would be declared a traitor to Scotland.

Bou, I'll be down to sort out those neds as soon as the dog arrives. You only have to pay for his first class ticket from Texas to Gatwick. Then a connection flight from there to Aberdeen. Then perhaps rail from Aberdeen down to where you live. There we are - sorted!

Executions should still not be allowed . The famous for being ill rule should still apply. At the very least, the Josie Groves should be barred. There also seem sto be a trend in people suing the NHS for cancer drugs. When they die, they are guaranteed a BBC obit if their story has been followed. I don't care how much times you call them a campaigner - they are only really famous because they are ill and dying. Thus they should not count. If I were you, I'd also consider a ban on those who are only famous because of their advanced age. In this category I would include war veterans and the worlds oldest. If they are remotely famous (say VC winners) perhaps that constitutes fame? Famous for being old is, in my opinion, basically the same as being famous for being ill. I think even Allingham should be banned. His celebrity only comes from the fact that he has lived so long. Then again, you all might disagree.

I don't think this dog would be much use: She'd run away and hide before coming back to my bloodied corpse.

Windsor was complaining about this sort of thing in the cradle. Haha - I hate gobby little bastards. As a matter of fact, I too confronted a couple of silly kids tonight. I was walking the dog as usual. There were two girls, one of whom was acting up at the other side of the road. She then decided to walk across the road and intentionally walked pretty slowly into the way of a Jeep. On Friday a 12 year old local boy was hit by a car as he got of the school bus, and I was enraged that this girl was being so flippant about road safety. So I started walking faster as a means to catch up to give her a telling off. As I was catching up she was mucking about on the pavement and her friend was basically preventing her from going on the road. Cars were slowing down as they past the two. When I caught up she turned as I was right behind her and she screamed in my face. She then got a shock when I stopped in front of her and said "Haven't you done road safety in school?" As you can imagine the smile quickly vanished from her face. She then asked what I was speaking about and I told her that I saw her walk right infront of a Jeep. She denied it but her friend - who was embarrased by her friend's behaviour - said that she did. I then informed her that a 12 year old boy had just been killed due to a road traffic accident and asked her how her family would feel if she found herself in a traffic accident. I then ended the conversation saying, "Watch what you are doing on the roads because if you carry on like this you're going to end up dead". With that I walked away. That was Windsor vs 12 year old girl. I'm probably due a punching from her parents now for telling their kid off.

I agree with Windsor here, we are far too tolerant in this country of bad drivers. False indicators should be pulled out of their cars and beheaded at the side of the road, that would teach them not to do it again. Beheading? Pah! That's no use, they'd only clamber back into their Morris Minors and carry on blithely with their false-indicating shenanigans. The only way is to hang, draw and quarter them and feed their entrails to the wolves. Beheading is not supposed to to be used to punish something frivolous like false indicating! You have to save it for the worst offenses. Like driving an SUV. Or using a certain font. I have to agree with our foundling father 'Arry on this one , just draw and quarter them. Alternatively, we could just find out where they live and let down their tyres, or scratch their car or something...

OK, if no one else is going to do it I will. What the hell does that have to do with anything? Well...er....the fact that it was a woman driver really surprised me...because they are usually the better driver of the sexes... Are you buying that?

People who outbit you on ebay in the final seconds of the auction. It is worse than poaching in Football. Also, people who indicate for a corner and then change their mind as they come to the turn off. Someone did that today making me look like an idiot waiting to cross the road with no cars coming. It was a woman driver. Finally, lazy barstard posties. They didn't come until 3pm today.

I have another one to add after another ordeal today. I was down the road buying somethings for uni. On the way home, I decided to go into a sweet shop to buy some juice. Anyway, as I entered, there were two chavettes in their mid thirties with a little girl in a buggie outside. They were looking in the shop window. There was a light drizzle of rain yet the child was left uncovered in the rain whilst these two peered in the window. Anyway, I got my stuff and walked out of the shop. As I left, they were still standing there looking in the window with the little girl still in the rain. I noticed that the girl had dropped her blanket on the ground and was trying to reach it. At this point I was thinking should I pick it up for her or not? Anyway, against my better judgement I picked up the blanket and put it on the side of the pram. At that moment, the mother of the child turned round and gave me a look as if to say 'get away from my kid you paedo'. Anyway, I just continued walking on my way home so as to avoid any further confrontation. What should go into room 101? The fact that you can no longer even look in the direction of a child without being a suspected paedophile. Next time I find myself in such a position, I'm just going to leave the object on the ground and get on with what I'm doing.

According to wikipedia, Vernon Kay died in a yachting accident. It was a hoax. The annoying, toothy git is still alive.

Yobbish kids. Over the last two days I've noticed that kids these days are out of control. Yesterday when I was walking down the road, I past two sets of kids screaming at each other. Most of them were girls aged no more than 11 years old. They were cursing and swearing at each other from opposite sides of the street. One girl in particular was boasting at the fact that her father was in prison. Later on when it was dark, there were more kids setting fire to things. I couldn't see them but I could hear them and they weren't that old. Then today, I was walking the dog when I was approached by two boys aged about 14 or 15 years old (I'd imagine). They came over to me asking if I had any cigarettes to spare. Bloody arsehole kids...

That is assuming that the Obama effect doesn't last. At the start of the Democrat contest, he was supposed to be attracting young voters to his campaign. More importantly, they were not all die hard Dems - they were new voters. So if he can hold on to them in the key states, he might just pull it off. I am, however, skeptical. I've said from day one that the Dems did themselves no favours in putting forward either a black man or a woman for the presidency. There are some in America, and indeed many other countries, who would not vote for either of them due to their race and sex.

McCain has had skin cancer in the past. People are interested in Palin in the sense that she's an unknown - but the more time goes by the more of a fool she looks. Of course, the right wing still thinks her a darling, but since they are single issue voters that's not surprising. If she can't take on Charles Gibson she's going to get chewed up and spit out by Joe Biden. I'm going to sit on my independent ass and watch the whole circus with incredible glee. If everyone in America is a Republican it's news to my husband and my mother and my manager and my brother and my assistant and my neighbor... Good to hear. They have been featuring some campaign adds on the election coverage over here (you would think we had a vote with all the coverage we have). The adds seem pretty brutal compared to the usual British Election ads. I can see why people may become fed up of the who'll thing. They seem pretty patronising and really petty - like the pig in lipstick add. What was the point in that?

Thanks Windsor, I was in Hatton, although I think the postal address for that is Peterhead? May I just say that Aberdeenshire is beautiful, you're very lucky to stay there . Oh Hatton. I may be going there in a few weeks. Either there or Cruden Bay - I can't quite remember. I have standing engagements. I'd imagine you went to Cruden Bay? The castle there was said to have been Bram Stoker's inspiration for Dracula's castle. Aberdeenshire is nice when you are not in the big towns or city.

Happy belated Birthday, LG. Hope you had a great day. Sorry I'm so late. Hope you enjoyed your time in Peterhead.

We can only hope that Kerry Katona is the next Z-lister to be struck down with cervical cancer. But then to be fair, being struck down by a car would also be acceptable. I'm not fussy.

Just out of interest, is anyone actually interested in how the Universe began? I couldn't give two sh*ts, let alone £5bn or however much it was. I heard on the radio today that the things computer was almost hacked. That could have been interesting.

It is never a good idea to go by what wikipedia says without having a good news source to back it. They do call it right sometimes, but most of the time it is shite.

Very interesting. I can remember that there was a lot of talk about McCain and cancer during the early stages of the Republican Primaries. He is prone to cancer? Now - if Mr. McCain were to pop his clogs in mid-term, what the hell would the world do with his VP - the pitbull with lipstick? Given the concerns about his age and the increased possibility of his death in office, surely selecting Palin as his runningmate wasn't the best idea? I'm not sure how she is being recieved in the US, but over here we get the impression that everyone in America is now a Republican. I'm pretty sure that the Palin selection will backfire. She is bound to trip over her mouth at some point. As they said on the panel shows - she makes George W. Bush look like an enlightened progressive!

Indeed, but think of all the lives it may have saved. If you were feeling suicidal you may have put off killing yourself thinking, "I'm just going to wait until next Wednesday - when the world ends". This would be a good time to insert a Bridgend joke - but I can't be arsed.

Very interesting new look to the front page. For a second, I thought there was something wrong with my computer but then I remembered that you were back on the go. Very nice indeed.

Happy 50th Birthday HCW

Happy Birthday Josco - if you are still with us. Congratulations Phantom. However: How about Julian Windsor Jacob? Just a suggestion...

This morning I'd like to put 'some knob at work' in to Room 101. He is 20 years old and his mother had a late pregnancy earlier on in the year. Unfortunately she lost the baby a couple of weeks ago having a still birth. Anyway, yesterday the knob in question came in to work after some time off. We could deal with his constant whining but then he did something that sickened most of the staff. He went through his phone to a certain picture saying only 'look at this'. So the person would look at the picture. It was the chef who told me as he had been shown this picture. The chef then asked the knob what exactly he was looking at. The knob replied, 'my baby sister'. Yes, the knob was going about showing the staff a picture of his dead baby sister without warning them what he was about to show. It is probably worth mentioning that the chef has his own baby born at the end of last month. Sick f****r.

I voted for the Rev. Billy Graham.