sassermaet

When you are typing out an essay on your laptop in Microsoft Word and your sleeve brushes up against your touchpad and changes the location of your cursor mid-word.

That happens to me too! That's why I ended up disabling my touchpad and just using a mouse instead, it was driving me mad DX Especially when it deleted whole paragraphs. Grr fest. ¬_¬

I'm equally horrified at the Scrabble news. Grrr

Anyway - after that, two WTFs I found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8606120.stm

And

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8604663.stm

Another 'health' advert though that does not do anything for me is the ones where they ask you to give blood. You know the ones with pleepsy wigwams begging you to go give blood to help their family member! Those actually turn me away from going and giving blood ... especially that weegie git!! The adverts are sooo false and disenfranchise me from the whole concept .. ! They've driven me to now not go and give blood anymore .... that's just plain wrong!

There used to be a blood donation ad with a blood bag running low, and a voice saying 'need more, need more, need more, need more...' over and over again like an ambulance siren, if that makes sense...creepy and irritating

Of course, I wasn't prompted to start donating because of the ads...more because I became unemployed (bar uni) at New Year last year so decided to do something worthwhile for society.

Sorry...I'm dragging this thread off topic.

You guys may enjoy this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Euh9zWmASN4

I loved it too

I loved Wuthering Heights - it is really bleak though

A Stranger Came Ashore by Mollie Hunter....

 

After all these years

I've still never read it...or at least finished it

It's been twartree year since I last ate at the Lerwick Hotel but I mind it being great Glad to hear it still is.

It probably comes as no surprise to those that know me that the first single I ever bought was Steve Harley and Sarah Brightman's rendition of 'Phantom of the Opera', so my opinion has been a little biased for the last couple of decades.

oh gawd I can't figure out which I dread more P of O or Rocky Horror. You thespian types tortured me. Walking in to have you guys singing along full blast. That and that blooming Annie lennox song.

Never was cut out to be an actor, just cannot stand show tunes.

I love Rocky Horror So much fun.

It probably comes as no surprise to those that know me that the first single I ever bought was Steve Harley and Sarah Brightman's rendition of 'Phantom of the Opera', so my opinion has been a little biased for the last couple of decades.

That version makes me p*** myself laughing

does anyone else perhaps think that this wakefieldcateringservices sounds like a spoiled child? in the nicest possible way of course

I have to say, I agree there. His behaviour is more or less trolling.

And it's reminding me why I so rarely log in these days

^^^While we're at it, mate, any chance you could turn off your caps lock? Shouting over the internet will certainly not endear you to anyone

I'm still trying to get through 'The Book of Dave' - it's hard going.

Just finished Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials" trilogy. Quite enjoyed that and I felt a little pang of sadness when it was all finished. Was hoping that the first book in Val McDermid's Tony Hill series would have arrived in today's post, but alas, it hasn't. Stephen King's It and E. Annie Proulx's The Shipping News are in the book queue, to be read after McDermid's, so for reading tonight I've been forced to raid the eldest's bookshelf in a bid to cross off some more titles from the BBC Big Read Top 200. Why on earth Roald Dahl is on that list is beyond me. I just finished George's Marvellous Medicine (an 8 year old tries to poison his granny) and am about to begin Fantastic Mr. Fox - this will be my third Roald Dahl book and I'm not looking forward to it. I think perhaps I should have read them when I was a child.

I can't believe you're not a Roald Dahl fan, Khit! I loved his books as a child, and sometimes I still like to dig them out for a read. I think I've read Charlie and the Chocolate Factory about four times in my whole life now.

And I couldn't get into the His Dark Materials books - too dense and dry.

"Norwegian Wood" by Haruki Murakami. I begged my mother to buy it for me in my teens purely on the grounds that it was named after a Beatles song but I've only just gotten to reading it now

And for uni:

'The Madman of Freedom Square' by Hassan Blasim

The Diary of Anne Frank

Pixies - Doolittle

I'm surprised no one else put this in earlier - ah well, it got the titular reaction from me:

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2010/02/17/fight-to-keep-music-tuition-free-in-shetland-fails-as-councillors-get-tough-on-budget

I think it's a terrible idea - musical education should be free!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100202/tod-man-loses-teeth-after-cigarette-expl-870a197.html

ID for quiche?!

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100203/tod-a-slice-of-quiche-i-ll-need-to-see-s-6058bda.html

Whit?!

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/7103613/India-to-turn-Rudyard-Kipling-house-into-museum-but-ignores-author.html

I like this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuaeHXq8Wm8

Yeah, I got what appeared to be a spam message as well - it was promptly deleted.

And America fails again *facepalm*

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/25/oral-sex-dictionary-ban-us-schools

I missed them when they came north, but I saw them supporting RHCP in 2007 at Hampden, they really were incredible.

I love 'Puzzle', but I'd love to get hold of their older stuff. I have loads of friends in Glasgow who liked them before they got big