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I watched that yesterday. Couldn't believe people stand to live like that, even though I know a few people who come very close. I wonder if you can anonymously put somebody up for the show.....

I love my leggings! But I always wear a skirt with them. I think VERY few people (if any!) suit leggings on their own, regardless of size.

Have you spoken to him about this? Is he single/available? What is stopping you from getting together? Sorry, I know that seems really nosy but I'm asking if it's an infatuation where something could happen, or whether it's definitely a one way thing/no go area etc.

My advice is to stop looking at him and start looking at others. You'll soon see someone else who hits your buttons, then hey presto! you're cured

If only!

Vote me in as Prime Minister and I pledge the following;

 

1) Start off by abolishing all benefits.

In which case, employers would need to foot the bill entirely to provide a wage people can actually live off.

2) Anyone wishing to claim dole must work 8hr days doing jobs for community or charities, otherwise they dont get paid any dole.

But why would they be doing more for less? To work at a rate that would be the equivalent to the NMW, fair enough.

3) The savings this creates can be pumped into helping OAPs and those deserving of financial help eg those who are genuinely unable to work through disability etc. Money will also be spent on providing child care/nurserys so that single mothers can get a job also.

How about some of the fathers of these children are made accountable for their part in the child/ren's existence/es? It takes two to make a child.

4) Those folk who never intend to do a days work in their lives, get absolutely no financial handout at all. And starve. Therefore reducing the gene pool of lazy layabouts.

Fair enough.

5) As a thankyou to myself for introducing such a fabulous money saving system, I am given an enourmous salary and a big house:)

 

VOTE WARPIG

You know it makes sense!

And a moat, don't forget the moat.

A lot of people I've had the misfortune to meet judge me. But they're just jealous because I can walk upright.

Try this calculator for an idea of what (if any) benefits you would receive.

Seriously that is digusting! Admittedly yuckiness is less yucky from your own child but that is going too far! I doubt my son would even LET me do that if I was so inclined (which I am not).

I shower at least once a day. But I have to, I would hum to high heaven if I didn't wash frequently. Some people don't seem to need to. My father had a bath something like once a year**, but never smelled of BO. If I tried that, I'd be condemned as a health hazard.

**Yes, slight over exaggeration!

I think it has its place. My son is two and a half and watches TV. Some of the programmes he watches are educational and he has learned things I didn't even know. I think it's fine for children to watch some television, but it shouldn't be a replacement for doing things with them, taking them out, interacting with them, etc.

Exactly. Cant stand these high posters.

But you are their Queen!!!

I wear skirts when it's really hot because it's too hot to wear trousers. It is one of the perks of being female. But there's nothing to leer at as I always wear leggings with them.

I'd rather walk that catch a bus, I've never liked them. But I don't mind trams and trains. Obviously the tram routes are more limited than buses, but assuming you're going somewhere that has both, I'd say tram every time. If I couldn't get the tram, I'd walk, drive or take a taxi as I can't stand buses.

And I've never been asked in all the years the store has been open.

You got lucky. I have been screeched at by the harpie on the counter as I was making my way into the store.

I'm in the "if they won't let you take your bags in they should provide a secure alternative to stashing under a counter" group.

I'd go to the library on a Sunday, but I go every week anyway. It probably wouldn't be viable for many of them to open on Sundays as there wouldn't be many people going in.

Which library has a cafe? I've been to a few in Sheffield and none had cafes that I noticed...?

I bought some educational CD roms for my son when he was still a baby. He's not quite old enough to play with them even now, but I thought if nothing else, he might enjoy the games when he's a little bit older. I got three of them, which are supposed to help with learning letters/writing and numbers/maths. I'm happy for my son to follow his interests as far as learning is concerned, but do think that a basic understanding of reading/writing/numeracy is important.

I speak online to an ex of mine now and again. It didn't end fantastically (as he was cheating) but it was nearly 15 years ago, so I'm over it now! I'd say that I wouldn't want to be close friends with an ex, because it doesn't work. But that could just be me. Thankfully all but one of my ex's are reasonable enough people, and although I don't go out of my way to contact them/be best buddies, I would nod/speak if I bumped into them. The one exception is a total skank, and I look forward to dancing on the scum's grave.

It wouldn't bother me if I was with somebody who was on speaking terms with their ex, but I might wonder if they seemed unusually friendly.

It's horrible. I drove on it the other day and thought something had gone wrong with my car! It was like being in a clown car

I've met a few.

Ive met a few, they were all very nice

I also know what some people look like even though we've never met....

I dont like men with pierced ears or waxed chests. Load of nancy boys arent they ?

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Whether it appeals to my personal taste depends on the type of piercing. Somebody emo with silver piercings looks okay to me. Shaven headed with gold bling earrings = big turn off.

But each to their own.

There is somebody who apparently 'controls' their 'flock' or whatever. If you can find out where they hold their assembly meetings, you might be able to locate him/her (probably a him). I don't think they'd get thrown out of the JW though, deserters are not looked upon kindly.

What we'd quite like to know is;

1. Is it interactive, in that you can mess about with the exhibits rather than just look at them?

2. Can you wonder in and out of the cinemas to see bits of short films there, rather than have to sit through a whole 2 hour long movie?

3. What's an IMAX screen - is it just like a normal cinema screen?

4. Is it something that would appeal to adults, or like so many tourist attractions these days, is it primarily for kids?

5. There is no question 5.

6. Years ago on a school trip, we went somewhere where they were showing projections on a huge curved screen from the point of view of someone going down a rollercoaster or looping the loop on a plane. It was so realistic you felt like you were there! I've never seen anything like that since and wondered if there was anything in this museum like that.

 

Any feedback from anyone who's been would be appreciated and their generosity reciprocated.

1) There is a big section where you can play around with camera equipment, pretend you're one of the camera men on a shoot (it's a Beauty and the Beast scene, iirc), there's one where you can be part of a movie on a flying carpet and change the background so you're flying over different areas. There's one where you can have a go at being a newsreader and read from an autocue in a little booth (word of warning, if you do this, a few minutes later they air your broadcast outside the booth and everybody gets a good laugh!). There are loads of other things you can experiment with, too. Some are behind glass and you operate them from controls on the walls (presumably to stop sticky fingered kids from damaging fragile equipment). On the top floor there's a bit where you can draw pictures that are projected onto a piece of paper from a lightbox thing (bad description but don't know what they're called!) I did one a few years ago. But of course, you don't have to draw, you can just spy on people if you'd rather

2) There are some educational films on show in different parts of the museum. In those you are free to wander in and out as you wish. There's also a film of a roller coaster, where it makes you look like you're on it and you can feel the same sensations (in your stomach and reactions etc) as though you were really there.

3) I haven't been in the IMAX part but I've seen something similar and the screen is bigger, I am told. A friend of mine went the other day to see Ice Age 3 and apparently it's like you're in the movie. But, as I say, not actually been to that one myself so I don't have personal experience of it.

4) I used to go quite a lot as a child with my friend. When she first suggested a museum, being a child, I thought "are you mad?" But I went along reluctantly and I'm glad I did. There are plenty of things to interest everybody, IMO, and I've still enjoyed going as an adult.

6) As above, there is a rollercoaster screen, but it's not curved. If you do let yourself feel it it does seem quite realistic though.

Note, I haven't been for quite a few years, so some things may have changed now. When I went as a kid it was mostly all free (apart from the cafe and IMAX) but as they've expanded, some things you have to pay for. But, as far as I'm aware, the interactive zone, top floor, educational films are still free to enter.

HTH

Jade Goody is dead

I don't believe it! No way

My two year old loves farms like Heeley City Farm and Graves Park. Graves Park is bigger and there's the park and woodlands next to it, so that might be worth considering if your little one isn't as mad on animals as mine.

Also there are quite a few soft play centres, such as Monkey Bizness at Centertainment, Jungle Mania, etc.

Depends what he is into, of course. My son likes the play centres, but also loves animals and walks in the woods/parklands.

One simple reason: Final value fees are charged only on sale price, not postage and packaging.

 

This is why postage and packaging charges were often set high (with decreased buy it now price) by sellers.

 

This move means more money for ebay.

I can understand that. But I still think capping the p&p to a realistic amount would have been much better. Especially for those sellers who didn't take the you know what (as I didn't) with their postage charges and are now being punished for something they didn't do. They did do a capped price a while ago I noticed, but not sure if this was in a different category or whether it has been lowered to 'free only'.

From a (mainly) buyers point of view this is great.

On the face of it, you would think that, yes. But when you take into account that sellers will have to bump up the overall costs to compensate for the enforced free P&P I'm not so sure it is that great even for the buyers. Because now, not only is the P&P factored in, but most sellers will also add for the percentage of p&p that eBay take in the final value fee, plus what PayPal take in their percentage as well (as most buyers do use PayPal and all sellers are now forced to accept this method of payment).

Very annoying for "smalltime" sellers such as myself. I always charged a very reasonable P&P cost for my auctions (mainly just DVDs and games) yet now find myself a quid out of pocket every time by having to pay the cost myself - not to mention the fact that sellers are forced to pay two lots of selling fees to Ebay and Paypal.

Exactly how I felt about it. It may well be a cost that business sellers can absorb, but that's not the case for people who sell only a few items.

Is the idea not just to included the P&P in the price? If it is a no reserve auction then as usual the ebay market will determine the final selling price. This should be higher than if P&P was included.

Possibly that's one reason, but P&P for some sellers was given at cost, and not charged a final value percentage by eBay. Now a seller has to add that to the starting price otherwise they'd be paying people to buy from them. So the overall price actually raises to factor in the percentage eBay will take, which didn't used to be necessary.

It should hopefully stop the buy it now items with 0.01 as the price and a really high P&P cost. We wanted to return something bought from one of those and they said fine but they wouldn't refund the P&P cost. So we would have only got a 1p refund!

I can understand how that's a pain in the ****, however, I think that to deal with this issue a capped amount of P&P could have been implemented instead of forcing free postage on sellers.

I also was under the impression that the detailed feedback ratings that came in not so long ago where started in order to stop people taking the you know what with the postage charges.

I'm not saying some sellers didn't abuse the system, just that the reaction was over the top. Just as the removal of neg feedback for sellers was over the top. It's all very well creating a buyer's market, but if it puts people off selling, then there's nothing for the buyers to bid on. I've noticed myself, as both a buyer and seller (and more a buyer) that there are less things listed these days that I would consider bidding on because of the implementation of more and more restrictions on sellers.