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I think I have one, comes with an internal 14.4 modem, 5 1/4" floppy and Windows 3.1

Is that to prove that he's insane? Only a sane person would go on a hunger strike.

I just wonder when everyone became so quick to be offended by everything. Earliest I can think of was late 80s with a girl in my class at college where any comment made by the lecturers she'd deem racist, sexist, ageist or fuck-knows-whatist.

How much would it be for the same brand? Laptops here are so expensive that I just opted for an all-in-one system. It's not as portable but since I only use it at home it'll be fine and then if the kids want to use it, it's got a nice big screen that they can play games on. Only drawback is it had Windows 10 so half the software I had with the previous pc no longer works.

There's a kid (well she's about 20 ) at the college where my wife works called "Baby"

Our first remove control was done on sound, so you'd have these high pitched sounds each time you wanted to change the channel or change the volume. After a while it would give you a headache and we'll just get up off the sofa to change the channel etc.

Are you looking for one that has Windows 10 or an earlier version?

We didn't get our colour telly until 1980. I remember watching Wizard of Oz in colour for the first time.

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. I've been living here for too long, that I have to keep switching back and forth. What is it with that other post that's getting under your skin? is it the "hovering around" bit or the choice of names?

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 shredded cheese. This way you don't have to dry out a loaf of bread, and crumble it up before you can use it. Calling breadcrumbs a convenience item and following it with that sentence, well hell, I'll call BREAD a convenience item then. You don't have to get the flour and yeast together, the drudgery of making a loaf and popping in the oven whilst cleaning up the kitchen, letting it cool a bit and buttering the damned thing before you can use it.... SC BTW us Yanks are keen on bottled water, with little proof it isn't anything beyond what we get from our tap at home. SC, you could go a step further and call sliced bread a convenience item too. One of the most ridiculous convenience items I've seen has been pancake mix in which you still had to add milk and eggs to it. So about 15 years ago, I was watching people buy the 400g of pancake mix for £2 in Sainsbury's and then go and buy their milk and eggs, yet right next to it on the shelves you could get a 10lb bag of plain flour for 99p. But for some reason people were drawn more to the mix rather than just buying a bag of flour.

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. We had a couple of TVs that broke when I was still living with my parents. You paid a bit more, but at least you didn't have to drag it to the repair shop or get rid of it. You could just call the rental place, they'll fix it for you or if they couldn't fix it, they'll replace it. When I moved out of home, I rented a TV from Granada which lasted me about 14 years. I paid the first couple of years, and with all the moving around it took a while for any letters to catch up with me even though I kept going in, paying a month's rental, giving them my new address etc. In the end I walked in to one shop and they told me that they had written the TV off as damaged beyond repair and said I might as well just keep it if I still had it. So overall I probably paid almost as much as I would have done for a TV. I gave it to my ex when I moved to the U.S.

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.

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 shredded cheese. This way you don't have to dry out a loaf of bread, and crumble it up before you can use it.

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.

I'm stealing that one.

When I was that age, we didn't have the Information Super Highway or the Internets. You kids don't know how lucky you are. When I was 15 it was Pocket Playbirds and a box of Kleenex. Kids today really don't understand what it was like to have just three TV channels. Not just the 3 channels, If a film was shown on TV, it could be a couple of years before they showed it again. And even with the 3 channels, there was still some downtime in which the test card would be shown, because there just weren't enough programs to fill the time. I always used to look forward to the BBC2 horror double-bill on a Saturday night.

Not sure why some Americans are offended by this http://www.dose.com/food/27945/A-British-Supermarket-s-American-Food-Section-Is-Both-Hilarious-And-Enraging? If I remember correctly, there's a shop in Kent that sells brands that you don't usually find in other countries that have been imported from the U.S. which a lot of the same stuff. Especially when it comes to chocolate. There's a lot of difference between the taste of Nestle, Cadbury's (UK) and Cadburys (made at the Hershey's factory), and just regular Hershey's. Hershey's milk chocolate tastes more like dark chocolate.

If you ban Zorders, you'll also need to ban KilliersElf as they're one and the same. Not sure what compelled him to do this, but since he's blocked by me, it seems so pointless. KilliersElf added you as a friend Today, 12:56 AM

When I was that age, we didn't have the Information Super Highway or the Internets. You kids don't know how lucky you are.

Unless your boss is on here or you just want to avoid someone, I can't see any reason to invisible.

What did happen to Taters?

She may have been "up front " at the traffic lights, and the other driver was distracted seeing that it was Miss Ross in the limo, and was just "swept away" in the moment. It's a "brand new day" and she's most likely feeling some "tenderness ".

Despite some obvious failures, I still believe Care in the Community within Milton Keynes is doing some good

Would be handy if Newcastle could win, such a shame that they have more or less given up

Unless MH is a 22 year old woman from New Jersey, I think he's in the clear