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  1. Posted

    He's taking five then?
    Octogenerian American ivory tickling jazzer, Dave Brubeck is in hospital and has cancelled several weeks worth of upcoming preformances after he was laid low with "a virus".

     

    Dave Brubeck has had a pacemaker fitted after experiencing "dizzyness and fatigue" on Monday night. Brubeck, 89, will be back on the road in November. I've found him a tasteful new piano that he might like to take on tour.

     

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    A nice take on tickling the ivories. Does it have skeleton keys?

  2. Posted

    So, reading between the lines, she's fading. Nobody says she's actually getting better, they do indicate she'll get over the 'flu' but the indications are that everyone involved in the obit business is readying themselves for the highest profile political expiration since Churchill. I'd wager that the flurry of activity in this direction over the last few days is largely down to Thatcher's obit being such a biggie that the small details matter a great deal.

     

    A rough guess would be that her constitution will weaken gradually, medication to avoid further strokes may well slow down her system to the point she becomes more vulnerable to infection and it'll probably be pneumonia or some similar lingering condition that eventually does for her. A big stroke may get there first but I reckon she'll carry a bigger selection of the popular vote into 2011 dead pools than she ever did in an election. And she may well deliver once elected!

     

    It's the way she'd want it, or summat.

    I think we could be looking at the January transfer window.

  4. Posted

    Penny Marshall?

    Spot on Bert. This is the thread. Now ask yourself very carefully, debating all the pros and cons, does Ms Marshall really deserve a thread of her own or could such a thread be yet another tumbleweed alley on a forum with a few too many already? I wouldn't presume to know the answer.

     

    Sorry, only realised after I posted the thread...I am new, a bit of slack?

     

    Is there anyway to get rid of the thread?

    Bert you've had eight pain free posts, even a herogram for Malcom Allison. That's amazing slack for the Deathlist. There are ways to do all kinds of things on here but you'd need to appeal to a higher being than this one. It's in the lap of the mods now. Your thread might disappear just like that or it might float on like the Mary Celeste. Unless of course Penny Marshall is going to stimulate a fascinating debate in which case it would stay on merit and deservedly so. You look a pretty solid poster to me Bert,

  5. Posted

    Penny Marshall?

    Spot on Bert. This is the thread. Now ask yourself very carefully, debating all the pros and cons, does Ms Marshall really deserve a thread of her own or could such a thread be yet another tumbleweed alley on a forum with a few too many already? I wouldn't presume to know the answer.

  7. Posted

    Car parks. Well not any car park, but the one near my train station. I parked the car yesterday but didn't have any change as my arsehole offspring kids had emptied the change box kept in the car solely for car parks. The council had helpfully taped over the slot for a credit card but said there was a service allowing you to phone in your payment. Shit, it was only for £2.20 for two hours. It was 5pm, nobody was going to come round from the council. It was 99 per cent safe to leave the car without paying. But that little 1 per cent niggled me ("this will be the time," it said) so I called the number to comply with the system. It wanted the number plate, make of car and colour of car all recorded on a voice recognition system, then it wanted the designated number of the car park, my credit card number, expiry date and the little number on the back all to be keyed in. By this time I had lost the will to live and missed umpteen trains. Then to cap it all it said that on top of the £2.20 I would be charged a 40p "convenience fee".

     

    So I called in the shop over the road. I wish!

  8. Posted

    I'm pissed off. My gmail account says I have reached my quota limit and won't let me send emails. I got rid of 10,000 old emails yesterday yet it still sends an error message saying it's full when I try to send an email. Contacting Google is impossible. I'd like to go around and smash the place up but there's nowhere obvious to smash up. You don't get Google shops. I'm not surprised. If you did, I'd be in there smashing the place up.

     

    When I signed up to gmail eons ago within the wording of the Faustian pact it said: don't worry about deleting your emails, there is so much memory and more is being added every day. So I didn't worry and now it says I can purchase more memory.

     

    Can anyone:

    1. tell me how I can get over this error message?
    2. tell me where I can find a Google office to smash the place up?
    3. tell me how you can stand face to face with anyone in Google and speak to them (before kicking them in the googlies)?

     

     

    Edit: I didn't put that fucking emoticon there. It put itself there when I wrote the letter "b". The arrogance of software. It pisses me off. :(

     

    I went into my Gmail account and went into the Help Forum. A question was posed about the error message. After you clear off the 10,000 emails you have to click on the Trash link and select Empty Trash.

     

    Edit: I couldn't even find the f*cking trash button at first :lol: . It's on the left hand side of the screen under 'Compose Mail'. Did you do it? Did it work?

     

    I distinctly remember when I opened my account, that there was supposed to be unlimited space and that you would never need to delete anything. Liars.

    That was probably my message. In the UK it says "bin" rather than "trash" just to be British but you have to activate it in settings. I hadn't read that far down, still smarting that Google got £3.63 out of me. Sorry for foul mouthed tirade incidentally but I was pissed off, but not as much as I was with the car park. That's for Room 101.

  11. Posted

    So, if Mrs MPFC and I are searching for a new telly/recorder combination is there anything on sale that will also allow me to make digital recordings of my favourite radio shows, put them onto my iPod and play them in the car with as much ease as I once used to follow the same pattern with cassette tapes?

    I have a PC-TV tuner, which records TV and radio in MP4/MP3 format (Itunes-compliant). They're not that expensive.

     

    Maplins sell one for £29.99 - link here.

    Fuck me, he posted that in May. What about my effing query? Have just spent $5 (five bloody dollars - that's £3.63 in real money) on 20 mb more storage and the emails still won't go out. Meanwhile I have a neighbour pissing me off in emails, somebody else wanting to confirm a meeting and a zillion other(well one) emails to deal with. While I'm sympathetic to the telly watching needs of Mr and Mrs MPFC this email thing is serious. It's like missing a (virtual) limb. :unsure:

     

    I'd expect a reply around March then...

    The Lovely Six sent me a PM and now everything's lovely. I hadn't realised there was a bin thing that holds the emails even when you've deleted them, now cleared. But it won't bring back my £3.63 paid to the faceless wonders at google. Hostilities with neighbour and the rest resumed. Still it just shows that asking a deathlister works. Windsor I did set up another account and it's there now in reserve, thanks.

  12. Posted

    So, if Mrs MPFC and I are searching for a new telly/recorder combination is there anything on sale that will also allow me to make digital recordings of my favourite radio shows, put them onto my iPod and play them in the car with as much ease as I once used to follow the same pattern with cassette tapes?

    I have a PC-TV tuner, which records TV and radio in MP4/MP3 format (Itunes-compliant). They're not that expensive.

     

    Maplins sell one for £29.99 - link here.

    Fuck me, he posted that in May. What about my effing query? Have just spent $5 (five bloody dollars - that's £3.63 in real money) on 20 mb more storage and the emails still won't go out. Meanwhile I have a neighbour pissing me off in emails, somebody else wanting to confirm a meeting and a zillion other(well one) emails to deal with. While I'm sympathetic to the telly watching needs of Mr and Mrs MPFC this email thing is serious. It's like missing a (virtual) limb. :unsure:

  13. Posted · Edited by Magere Hein
    List fixed

    I'm pissed off. My gmail account says I have reached my quota limit and won't let me send emails. I got rid of 10,000 old emails yesterday yet it still sends an error message saying it's full when I try to send an email. Contacting Google is impossible. I'd like to go around and smash the place up but there's nowhere obvious to smash up. You don't get Google shops. I'm not surprised. If you did, I'd be in there smashing the place up.

     

    When I signed up to gmail eons ago within the wording of the Faustian pact it said: don't worry about deleting your emails, there is so much memory and more is being added every day. So I didn't worry and now it says I can purchase more memory.

     

    Can anyone:

    1. tell me how I can get over this error message?
    2. tell me where I can find a Google office to smash the place up?
    3. tell me how you can stand face to face with anyone in Google and speak to them (before kicking them in the googlies)?

     

     

    Edit: I didn't put that fucking emoticon there. It put itself there when I wrote the letter "b". The arrogance of software. It pisses me off. :unsure:

  14. Posted

    Can some of our Dutch friends explain what's happening with the Netherlands Antilles?
    Don't have to be Dutch. It's all about making your Antilles nestegg a little bit safer. If you want to launder your drug money through St Maarten now you don't have to worry about big brother in Curacao, not that you ever did. It shouldn't worry the Isle of Man. The Norman Wisdom's of this world are never going to move to Aruba.
    Ok, but what does it mean for stamp collectors?

    Before 10-10-2010, the situation was (in theory):

    The Kingdom of the Netherlands was a confederation of three independent countries:

    • The Netherlands
    • Aruba
    • The Netherlands Antilles, consisting of five islands
      • Bonaire
      • Curaçao
      • Saba
      • Sint Eustatius
      • Sint Maarten (southern half, northern half is French Saint Martin)

    Each country had its own stamps.

     

    From 10-10-10 the situation is (in theory):

    The Kingdom of the Netherlands is a confederation1 of four independent countries:

    • The Netherlands
    • Aruba
    • Curaçao
    • Sint Maarten

    Bonaire, Saba and Sint Eustatius are overseas municipalities of the Netherlands, which are not part of a province.

     

    From Persbureau Curaçao I understand that Curaçao and Sint Maarten will issue their own stamps, while there will be no more stamps issued by the Netherlands Antilles. Bonaire, Saba and Sint will be issuing stamps together as "Caribisch Nederland".

     

    1Actually, there's no agreement on the constitutional nature of the Kingdom and the Charter for the Kingdom of the Netherlands does not use words like confederation. See Wikipedia for a discussion.

     

    regards,

    Hein

    Well you did ask.

  16. Posted

    Can some of our Dutch friends explain what's happening with the Netherlands Antilles?

    Don't have to be Dutch. It's all about making your Antilles nestegg a little bit safer. If you want to launder your drug money through St Maarten now you don't have to worry about big brother in Curacao, not that you ever did. It shouldn't worry the Isle of Man. The Norman Wisdom's of this world are never going to move to Aruba.

  17. Posted

    It also reflects the kind of attitude in some people that wants bank robbers to succeed. It must be quite strong in the population to explain the enduring success of the heist film. Or is the fascination all in how they pull it off?
    Can't say I much enjoy the sequel, you know the one where the bankers are robbing the people!

    As I understand it, the easiest way to rob a bank is to own it, take the money and run.

     

    regards,

    Hein

    Hence the enduring appeal of Robin Hood. But was/is Ronnie Biggs Robin Hood?

  19. Posted

    what a waste of a man who showed how to rob the mail train and wind up the cops by going on the run what a man he is hero

     

     

    what a waste of a poster who showed how to post like a twat and try and wind up the forum members by taking a phoney controversial view on a man involved in beating up an innocent man in the course of satisfying their greed - what a poster he is knob

     

    One post and a twat already. Congratulations Monster Mash, that must be a new record. Controversial remark, true, but was it phoney? It seems to reflect a minority opinion on Biggs. He was a minor celebrity in Rio a few years back. It also reflects the kind of attitude in some people that wants bank robbers to succeed. It must be quite strong in the population to explain the enduring success of the heist film. Or is the fascination all in how they pull it off?

     

    Literature is full of romanticised accounts of villains, from Dick Turpin to Jesse James to Bonny and Clyde. I'm sure that most of them were arseholes in reality but their villany is usually overlooked by people who want to account for it as an accident of birth and the unfortunate circumstances surrounding their upbringing - the villain as a victim of their environment.

     

    There is also the question of redemption. In singing on a recording of the Sex Pistols' Belsen Was a Gas, Biggs did not demonstrate any great urge to re-enter polite society. Perhaps he was trying to wind up the British public and Scotland Yard by taking a phoney controversial role as a bad taste pop singer. Either way the evidence suggests that Biggs was a knob. But can the same be said of our new poster? Perhaps he (surely not she) will expand on the remark and defend his argument with a well punctuated reply. And perhaps the Tamworth one will loop the loop over Godot towers.

  22. Posted

    For goodness sake lads!

    Was that green emoticon a clue? It's got me baffled. I've been running through colours of Smarties, M&Ms naval flags, Premiership football shirts, sauces, Mr Men, pool balls, birds' feathers. My guess is white. Its not anything to do with Anubis's ****** is it?

  25. Posted

    http://www.moviefone.co.uk/2010/10/06/tony...ith-his-iphone/

     

    Tony Curtis was buried with his iPhone! - just in case?

     

    Cut and Paste for the record:

     

    The late great Tony Curtis, who died last week aged 85, was buried with his favourite possessions on Monday, at a public service in Las Vegas.

     

    The items chosen included driving gloves, an Armani scarf and a Stetson hat (Curtis always was a bit of a dresser), as well as the novel 'Anthony Adverse' and, of course, his trusty iPhone. Over 400 people turned up to honour the Oscar-nominated actor's life.

     

    The service opened with a montage of Curtis's movies, including his most famous roles in Some Like It Hot and Spartacus, as well as an animated appearance in The Flintstones. His daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis, paid tribute to the actor, joking that "[a]ll of us got something from him. I, of course, got his desperate need for attention."

     

    Terminator and Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, also gave a speech, recalling how Curtis gave him help and encouragement early in his career. He also applauded Curtis's lack of fear and refusal to grow old gracefully. Referring to Curtis's naked Playboy shoot at the age of 80, Arnie said '[W]ho has the guts to take off their clothes at the age of 80?"

     

    Paying final tribute to the much-loved star, whose career spanned over sixty years, the Rabbi leading the service said: "He is one of those greats of our culture and our society who you always knew, regardless of what character he was playing, that he was Tony Curtis."

     

    Anthony Adverse? Odd book to take to your grave. I'd take The Ragged Trousered Philanthropist, which, coincidentally, was the book chosen by Johnny Vegas this morning to take to his desert island. Anyone else have any favourite possessions, books etc, they'd take with them?

     

    Also, just curious like: this Playboy spread: did he have his winkie on display? Or was it all very discreet? Can't imagine an 80-year-old winkie in Playboy would do much for circulation (even within the said winkie).

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