Recent content by alihaig

Why didn't they do him on the basis that he actually physically stole a load of stuff that clearly belonged to someone else rather than an impossible to prove lost income suit :hmm:

It would be nice if we could agree on foreign policy but basically we are all programmed to disagree entirely with whatever the rest of the continent says no matter what the cost. As soon as you mention that the French like an idea it instantly becomes a non starter.

i quite like the look of the xda but it is just such an unknown. I don't want to find i can't solve some problem because noone has seen it before. Any idea how i can work out approx what value of phone i might be offered by t-mobile as an upgrade? I don't want to sign up for something now only...

I am getting towards the end of my mobile contract so looking for something new. I don't really use that many minutes or texts but want to get internet/email access and keep to contract to keep control of my monthly outgoings. The options I have come up with so far are: Nokia 5800: ?22.34pcm...

Not sure about the MRSA thing, I guess it was something else as MRSA isn't really a soldier thing. If it was MRSA then it's a drug resistant superbug most commonly caught in hospitals. Unless they mean some other MRSA but I can't think what that would be without watching the clip. Wayne, Lee...

I've only ever heard them called kettle leads if anything at all. Never Euro-leads. Mostly because I don't see what's euro about them?

We have them down by the floor with the switches on. It just makes it easier with chargers and stuff to switch them off but leave them plugged in. Most stuff I just leave on though. Also possible benefit when small children get their paperclips out? Also putting a separate switch is just a...

So we clearly win that one with ~230-240V :D

At least they have some beliefs/principles, even if they are a bit suspect. Here they just try do do things that they think will either a) give them money b) give them power or c)make them popular - except they are so incompetent they have ended up with no money, zero popularity and shortly no job.

That will come in handy next time I have an exam to not revise for!

I was thinking along the lines of tripping over a cable or stepping on it by mistake.

Do you not find with 2 pin EU/US stuff that it is much easier for the plug to be pulled out of the socket?

Round pins are still used in the UK for 15amp sockets - like on lighting rigs in theatres and such.

Being drunk is great - it's the morning after and the memories of what you did (or lack of them) that are a problem...