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  1. There are three main routes but they are all slow. Skegness is just a long way from Sheffield. Can't be helped. A57 - don't attempt to drive through Lincoln though it's a nightmare, use the bypass. Don't risk your life trying to overtake caravans though, there will be another 100 yards ahead. This is by far the busiest road. M180 - I live at the start of it and it's perfect for Cleethorpes, but the route from the end of it to Skegness takes forever. You could call off in Louth though, that's a nice place. A631 - from Bawtry through Gainsborough and Market Rasen. Very long way on fairly quiet A-roads.
  2. "History has known many great liars...Copernicus...Goebbels...St.Ralph The Liar...." Think on.
  3. Yes it was, but it was always playing catch-up. In his autobiography Alan Sugar tells a fascinating nuts-and-bolts story of how it came into being.
  4. Pacino being hunted down by the hit squad in Scarface. Or, even better, Clint walking into Greeley's saloon at the end of Unforgiven. You just know everyone is going down...
  5. I've never been too affected by violence in war films/gangster films etc. But I tried watching the Sky series "Strike Back - Project Dawn" earlier in the year on recommendation from workmates. I stopped watching it after three episodes as I found the violence just too much to put with. There seemed to be about four graphic executions by gun-to-the-head in every episode. Too much.
  6. I think that vinyl sounded great until albums began to clock in at over 50mins or so. Narrow grooves produce terrible sound quality with poor bass. First LP I bought which sounded so bad that I bought it again on CD was U2's Achtung Baby, which has very deep bass which just vanished on the original LP. One question though. There is a trend for LPs to get remastered these days on heavy "virgin" vinyl. (ie not recycled and thicker) Anyone tried these? How much do they improve the originals?
  7. Morrisons are the supermarket who see fit to put their sandwiches at the wrong side of the security gates. So how about this. Fill your trolley with Famous Grouse, JDs, Wilkinson Sword razor blades and a medium sized LCD TV. Then put your hood up, your head down, and charge the wrong way out of the security gates towards the door. Soon as this guy rugby tackles/bludgeons/pulls a Glock 7 on you, swerve towards the sandwiches and smile at him sweetly with a BLT in hand. That should finish him off.
  8. Rangers should be in the 3rd, same as it was for Airdrie and Livingston before them. However, dark forces could be getting to work in the SFA. I don't doubt ESPN and Sky are having their say. I will not believe anything is set in stone until Rangers kick their first ball in the third division. I bet not many fans are booking their trip to Peterhead in first week in August yet. The TV companies are missing a trick. The sight of Rangers battling their way through the Scottish lower leagues for three years will be the most exciting thing Scottish domestic football has offered for years. Airdrie fans are particularly happy. They have just been promoted back to division one as a result of today's vote. The demise of Airdrieonians in the first place was hugely down to Rangers's chairman at the time demanding that smaller clubs be allowed to fold if they couldn't pay their bills.
  9. Used to work for Comet in the 90s when their head office was in Hull. A colleague had to go for a meeting and was directed to the M62. He phoned up to say he was lost. Hadn't seen a sign for Hull for ages. "I've just gone past somewhere called Warrington..."
  10. There are lots of bottle-gas heaters for tents. Does anyone have any recommendations for the best ones? Or are there other heaters on the market that are good? We never have electric hook up, and have just camped using a stove to take the 10pm chill off the tent.
  11. RIP to your friend also. And your words, if I may say, are a fine tribute.
  12. I've never seen them live but for a fan, this tour has to be a must. If anyone gets the chance, watch the Ronnie Wood Show on Sky Arts. The Paul McCartney special is brilliant. There's something appealing about two old rockers sharing anecdotes and drooling over old records.
  13. Blimey. Look at the price! I'll stick to my £150 Go Outdoors job.
  14. So did mine. It was a case for Mulder and Scully...
  15. Was he in "All Quiet On The Western Front?"
  16. You could always tell the posh kids from the ordinary kids. The posh kids always had fruit in their boxes that the ordinary kids had never heard of.
  17. He was on The Professionals this morning on ITV4! All the AufPet guys regard Timothy Spall as being by far the best actor amongst them.
  18. The B-road that runs out of Eckington towards Whittington is a death trap. There is a sign which says "hidden dip - 40 max" and cars seem to speed up for it! There's a row of houses actually in the dip, and driving away from one of them is like playing russian roulette. You pull out, and suddenly a car flies into the dip at 70mph up your behind.
  19. I'd be surprised if any major retailer had this as a policy. I'd imaging that an Asda in Carlisle or Berwick-on-Tweed would be quite used to seeing Scottish currency. I would also imagine that if it's his first visit to England he would be quite insulted at having his money refused. Not being funny, but were the store staff concerned more about his money, or about the way he reacted?
  20. It'll be in the canal by now, about to rip the propeller off someones pride and joy...
  21. I was a Vampire Motorcycle? Is that the one with Neil Morrissey? I've only seen one scene - it had that Paula Ann Bland (Claire Scott in 80s Grange Hill) being pinned to a wall and then sawn in half by the bike. I bet Neil Morrissey is so proud of it.
  22. Most people's point is that he should be picked as a player, not a person. There are only 18 players in the squad, that's basically the first team plus subs. There's no room for anything other than real players. I have nothing whatsoever against David Beckham, he is a gentleman. I have a lot of respect for his decision to play in the USA. Yes, he is being paid a fortune. But he could have done what most others would have done, and spent his twilight years round the benches and treatment rooms of West Ham or QPR for £100000 a week doing nothing as a player. I wish Michael Owen had got half of Beckham's ambition rather that fleecing Man Utd and Newcastle for a fortune for years, just to blow at the bookies.
  23. I used to listen to my dad's Emerson Lake and Palmer's "Pictures at an Exhibition" relentlessly when I was about 6 years old (i'm not joking). Is this prog rock? I don't know much about the other stuff that has been listed.
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