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Haggis wrote:food of the devil, they should be banned anyway

Dad? Is that you?

I stifled a yawn when I read about it in the papers. It stinks of "Great! we got Brand and Ross off the air, now let's see who else we can whip up a media frenzy about!"

I'm not falling for it.

Having done some research, it sounds as if I have got muddled up. Funny how your memory can play tricks on you. I must have only been about 5 when the lights went out, yet I could have sworn I was a few years older. Strangely, I only remember power cuts at home, i.e. coming home from school to candl...

I beg your pardon ladies and gentlemen, I had my events mixed up. I meant that I was too young to remember the powercuts of 1973-4, but was old enough to remember the Winter of Discontent in 1978-9. I remember coming home from school to lots of candles, mum cooking on a camp stove in the kitchen, an...

EDF are about to start digging up half of my area to upgrade the electricity network in 5 days' time. As accidents will happen I have gone paranoia-overboard and we now have the following in case of blackout: 2 head torches 3 small torches and one big one 1 LED camping lamp 1 hurricane lamp with 5 l...

*suspicious look*

Who is this man, and what have they done with the realGordon Brown?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.j ... own108.xml

I don't believe for a minute that this is for "green" purposes...more of an oil-saving measure if you ask me...

Milk, no sugar please

My partner used to be the "tea, dear?" type until I showed her "CRude Awakening". She takes it a lot more seriously now.

Both mine and girlfriend's places have open fires. This winter, I have told her firmly, will be a winter of woolly jumpers, open fires and sleeping bags on the sofa. The thermostat, I have said, stays exactly where it is. Of course, when push comes to shove I shall probably just do as I'm told...

Couldn't agree more with Andy, it's nothing to do with gender. I'm a gay woman, I'm the "peaker" in our house, and my partner is somewhere between the top two as well. She said to me the other week, "I'm not quite as into it as you, but I'm getting there." And that's fine by me. ...

*licks the screen*

*grabs contadino and hustles him/her out of the room*

For god's sake, don't antagonise them!

Can't say I would greatly miss chocolate. I have a bit now and then, but these days when I'm going around the supermarket I have to firmly tell myself there is no money to waste on fripperies...I've got out of the habit now. (Now jelly babies are a different matter...)

RenewableCandy wrote:one of them even suggests canibalising obese politicians

Like I said, there's a use for everything

It's a good message, but it won't go down well. The ordinary pleb in the street is going to say "Who the hell does he think he is? He's repsonsible for this mess and now he's telling us to eat less and not buy that Wii I'm entitled to!" I'd hazard a guess that most Powerswitchers don't was...