I think I need to start. I'm not going to diet, but I need to get back into some sort of fitness regime. I weight 187lbs (that's 13st 5lbs or 85kg) and I'm 5'9". I'm certainly not in the region of being obese, but it's too much weight. Mostly I stopped exercising over 6 months ago because of a ...

Ziggy Stardust - David Bowie

The thing around here that really disgusts me is people who chew tobacco who open their car doors and spit out this disgusting mess either onto the road or sometimes onto the side of other people's cars. While the south of the US supposedly has "southern hospitality" and people being polit...

Peter, I can testify that all of those things are true in the US that you listed for the UK, at least here where I live. I think while I lived in NH it wasn't quite so bad, but in NC and SC all of those things above are equally true here.

I suppose it could have been very different. I didn't go to college as soon as I left high school (I went in my late 20s), so that would have mapped out an entirely different path. I considered Chemical Engineering and Biochemistry, so who knows what that would have done to my life path. Instead I t...

OK, I made a start, but can't keep this up for too long! :lol: ********* The crimson sky flashed with frightful phosphorescence that reminded the wizard of when he was learning to harness the horses of the sky when he was at wizard school. It seemed like a long time ago now, but his thoughts were in...

So is the character's name Ten Fingered Tommy or should there be a character name chosen that reflects the lack of zero fingers?

The upper half of the US is probably going to meet temperature requirements, but it will be less humid the further you head west. The southeast tends to be hot and humid through summer and beyond. As for Native American culture, you can find it all over the US in one form or another, but I think the...

wayfriend wrote:SUPPLIES

I only ever saw the movie once when a friend put it on while we were doing acid. Very entertaining at the time.

Not me. I can do without TV at the best of times, let alone something that will probably decrease my IQ permanently. I feel dirty just for watching the advertising all the way through...

sgt.null wrote:are those crickets I hear?

Must be because the World Cup is on right now

once the power went out at our house. i get the power company on the phone and he tells me the electricity is on. I ask him where he is, he says Seattle. I have to convince the power is out here in this part of Texas. We once had a credit card blocked when we were on vacation in Hawaii. Not that bi...

dst and the partial school year for children are hangovers of our agrarian roots and should be abolished. I think it's a fallacy that it has agrarian roots though. I thought it started in Germany during WWI (with other countries following) with the intent of preserving coal for the war industry as ...

[though I've never had much problem with digressions in books - Hugo's in Les Mis were actually the bits I liked best] I have a copy of Les Miserables that has two such chapters placed in an appendix at the back of the book as the editor thought that they didn't need to be read to enjoy the book. I...

and of course this classic Italian ditty Interestingly that stopped one of the biggest selling singles of that year in the UK from getting to number one. Vienna by Ultravox sat at the number 2 position for weeks while it was hopped over by some John Lennon songs after he was murdered, then by this....

My wife watches the channel that has all those "Real Housewives of..." crap on, and I often have to put up with it being on while I'm in the room (I usually put headphones on and sit there with the laptop playing around with music software). A couple of times in a row I have seen advertisi...