DizzyKipper

Lights are out folks! Just been watching a 'rainbow' with lights in the middle It's faded a bit now so I've come in... perfect night for it too!

Looking for a South Mainland chimney sweep... any ideas? Thanks

Yes!! Have never played Undead version btw Freelancer is an old game now, a space one by Microsoft, a mixture of missions and trading, rather like RDR you can do mission of different types to get more money until you move on with the next storyline element. There is a point of no return, where you are accused of something and everywhere you thought was safe is now hostile and you have to get out of that system fast, and you realise how vast everywhere else is... Different areas have different peoples in them and depending on whether they like you ot not, you take a risk crossing hostile, pirate infested space for expensive trade goods etc... Adrenaline rush or what! Great game, and still looks and sounds good too, despite being released in 2003. The clip doesn't do the sound justice, I had music off and the sound effects with decent bass were pretty good. Hmm might go play it again

Oh dear! When some friends come up I was going to take them to a pub/bar? I have been in none of them... but they all sound awful! Change of plan required!

The only thing that disappointed me about RDR was they missed an opportunity to make you 'wanted'. I mean, I played it through as a 'good guy', never wanted etc. When I saw the bad guy outfits, I though they would make you switch sides, whereby you were automatically wanted in Mexico for example, to make you use those outfits, make you skirt around the safe houses you used to use because they would then be dangerous, but make you still have missions or tasks there. If you ever played Freelancer for PC, they did it perfectly. Anyway you can float down the rivers using a stagecoach, have you tried? I also located 22 random chests... To be honest I just love riding around, riding up to a hill and watching the sun come up

Did you get 100% completion? There is the zombie expansion but I haven't got it.

Headwear: the burka / niqab, etc., as I understand it isn't compulsory. Only the head has to be covered, not the face, with a hijab, say. Clerics have said this is sufficient here. However, some conservative states (such as Saudi Arabia) insist that everything is covered in public. They have a stricter interpretation of the Qur'an. "And say that the believing women that they should lower their gaze and guard their modesty that they should not display their beauty and ornaments except what (must ordinarily) appear thereof; that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husbands, their fathers" etc. Part —Sura 24 (An-Nur), ayat 30-31, Qur'an You can read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13038095 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_and_clothing

Very nice! I know cameras pick up more, but what did you actually see with your naked eye?

Ouch! Plus a tripod. Nice as they are, can't justify a new camera just for taking pics of northern lights I will just have to look at yours instead!

More buttons that a giant's shirt! Does it have weights? I don't think it would do for me, I have small hands

Ah yes english fish and chips - cod and chips oh and the chicken, never battered Warning lot of bad language!! (given to me by a londoner when he heard a fish supper is haddock BTW, I like haddock

I'm sure it cost heaps but it looks really uncomfortable

I have infinity, 7m, 3m 1m 0.5m Center AF and Multi AF. I can't see anything about exposure

Last time I read about something like that I thought it was ANY necklace/jewellery, not just a cross. Maybe there was another reason, do you have the source? And for the record, I don't read any paper (except ST). P.S. I object to 'masses prejudices', if that was directed at me. I have friends of various genders and colours, no prejudice here. My comment that certain sectors have taken political correctness too far is hardly controversial.

I have an aging PC on which I play Cod4 online. I also have a xbox360 + games that I was given, I have to say Red Dead Redemption is a great game Finished the game so I don't play the xbox much now.

Nice pics frances, what did you see with your naked eye just out of interest? Looking at the list of things to set your camera to, I saw about the lens focus... this I didn't change on mine! It was set for MultiAF, but I've just noticed I have an infinity setting! Metering mode... any ideas what is it? Found that too

I can honestly say, I think if you had said the word gollywog, in a public place where I lived before, someone would have called the police. Another point, not an urban myth I might add as I know the child, is the very word black. He pointed out that another child was black. That was all. He was disciplined at school. It's ridiculous, there was no abuse. What can you say, when said child turns to you and says, well he IS black? Yes, but you can't say that, because, ermm, errrmm... Common sense has disappeared (except in Shetland). 'Racism' has been hijacked by the politically correct. I reckon the majority of people don't like it, and know it's ridiculous but are too scared to say so, in case they are labelled racist too. When there is no prejudice or discrimination how can it be racist? If you go up to someone 'of colour' and ask them about their race/colour, I'm sure they would have no hesitation in saying, 'I'm black'; but call him a black man in front of a group of white people and there would be much foot shuffling, and sideways glances and someone is sure to say you're being racist or something!

I took some pics, after I found out how to remove all the writing and info off the screen, at ISO 800 and 1000 and 400. I had it on a timer and jammed my elbows against the window frame. They all came out black, except for a house light I can't control shutter speed so I guess I will give up... unless it's something amazingly bright.

My sky looked nothing like that at 12. Just checked again now and there is a pale glow behind cloud that isn't moving

A Malteser tree.

hahahaha I like the strong mid brown bags. Sometimes they have a stripe of thicker stuff running through them. You can get strong brown wrapping paper like it as well. Paper bags with paper handles from posh shops are not very good - they break! The Merrycans carry groceries in brown paper bags don't they, or it that just in films? What happens when it rains?

These seem like those crazy urban legends people mention that have no basis in truth - can you name the school's in question or provide any evidence? I don't mean to insult but I just really struggle to believe these things genuinely happen. (I'm aware there was an attempt to introduce a baa baa rainbow sheep song, but that had nothing to do with racism and was just a naive attempt to introduce kids to a wider vocabulary.) Quite true I'm afraid, and worse! And all things in question were experienced by my extended family. For the assignment, pink sheep or rainbow sheep were deemed suitable alternatives to black sheep. Go figure

I agree it is interesting. I do think the intent is the most important part. You have to be careful or you lose perfectly good words so as not to be seen to be offensive. I know there are schools where you are no longer allowed to order a black coffee. I know of a case where a girl was doing a childcare assignment and was threatened with a fail if she included comments about baa baa black sheep. Were those examples of racist intent? Not at all. Casual racism? The school board thought they were, and banned the use, which is ridiculous.

I never used it as such an example, I merely said I was given the book. I was never told that golliwogs are about racism and all that. I read the book simply as a story and did not know the meaning of the song referenced in it. I had black dolls and white dolls, colour made no difference to me.

On my 6th birthday I was given a book called the Three Little Golliwogs, by Enid Blyton, by the children next door. I still have it somewhere I think. I was knitted golliwog mittens. I never thought anything of it. Gollys... While they may have dubious origins and we shouldn't forget that, I don't think demonising them helps either. Should a child ask about it, tell them the origins, by all means, but tell them also that it's a doll and the doll itself isn't to blame. If you don't make it balanced then, as others have said, baa baa black sheep (now baa baa rainbow sheep) , black coffee (coffee without milk) and everything else that can be misrepresented, will be. -- Brings to mind a story a friend told me, he was friends with two middle aged ladies, one white and one black. They were the best of friends, and regularly argued using very strong racist language, especially places like supermarket checkouts where everyone one was watching. Then they used to leave arm in arm. Would love to see the reactions of the bystanders