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Tiso

at least I hope Leith doesn't count as the town.

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Had a cold call from a kitchen firm the other week. Sunday so got their 'professional kitchen designer' (ie salesman) round for the afternoon. 4 hours of sales patter and I missed the first 15 minutes of that night's American Footbal (damn) but at least got a half decent kitchen design that I can no...

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Porty wrote:
Novastar wrote: Mr Epykat
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You forgot Bob from the football!!! How very dare you. You also forgot Mr and Son of Epykat.

Sorry Bob

Had met Mr Epykat in the pub once before Football so included him in list. Wasn't aware Son of Epykat posted. Haven't met Epykat yet.

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IMHO has to have a power supply, a telly, a sofa and scarves/shirts/helmets/hockey sticks/whatever from your favourite sports team.

If you have the space some woodworking tools wouldn't go amiss

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From what I can remember (appologies if you aren't included) Zargonian (obviously) Mr Epykat Porty Robin Rathbone Anyone else who went to the football. Keen on meeting anyone else on here to put name to face. Unfortunatly can't make the Xmas get to gether but hoping to come along to an event at some...

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D - Gospelly church on Bonnington Road opposite Foxes Bar what about it? This programme is getting like one of those charismatic/evangelical/hands-down-if-you-want-coffee churches where everyone tries to outfroth everyone else with their gibbering. Sorry - should have added a bit more to that post ...

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Have to say I really liked the Accappella singing from Ben. D - Gospelly church on Bonnington Road opposite Foxes Bar C - I agree about 'don't knock it until you tried it'. Problem is I have tried it, can do it and and can happily knock half the acts which appear on these type of programs - some of ...

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I had the same problem just under 2 years ago. Came back from work on a Monday night to find a soaked carpet and water coming through my bedroom ceiling. Was a washing machine in the flat above - he had to get his whole kitchen replaced because of the water. Luckily got it all repaired and a new car...

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Not at all. I totalyy agree with everything you say. The question that I was trying to ask related to the specific scotmid store in leith walk. I'm doiing this from memory but does that store have a Tesco Metro and some others in the immediate vicinity, therefore competition is close by and there a...

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Errrr Not with you there Porty. Surely Scotmid are no more pressured then any other supermarket. Tesco's is pressured by Sainsburys who're pressured by Waitrose who're pressured by Morrison's who're pressured by Tesco's. Maybe Scotmid a little because they are smaller, but tough, it's there job to f...

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Tesco Metro is generally pretty good. The small one near me is a 2 minutes walking distance and houses most things I need for a quick meal or at 8am on a Sunday morning. Much more likely to find what I want then in the huge Scotmid across the road which forever seems to have 30000 tins of baked bean...

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A lot of the bus lanes seem totally unnecessery. OK on Queen Street/York Place and maybe towards West End/Haymarket there might be a point but the one that seems silly to me (and appologies this is moving it further afield) is Ferry Road. There are about 3 routes along here (21, 7 and 14) 1 bus ever...

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I think I remember Paul McCatney doing one that was quite good.

Rick Mayal doing George's Marvelous medicine was brilliant - see it on some of these 100 greatest countdown shows now and again and still as funny as I remember it.

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Surely Dadist is a choice. Will mean he can't have arguments with the mods about the school, or forum, or comments he's made, or comments he hasn't made or ....

(unless he has a split personality we're not aware of and can start argueing with himself

)

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Think I may have missed I possible spladoosh the other day. I was at a meeting at Edinburgh City Council's Sports department on Wednesday and the guy next to me was the secretary of the golf club. I know this because the gold club/school debat was brought up. Does the guilty part reside on this forum?

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My handle's because when I was at high school I used to stare at the screen for several minutes before starting to type away furiously. Someone said it looked like a star exploding. Hence novastar. Also known as Beaker because of a resemblance but prefer Nova. Same name I use on games, forums and wh...

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It may not by IE - BT have been fiddling with peoples line's recently ("ADSL maxing" them). Increases bandwidth and good for web pages/youtube etc but reliability has taken a hit. May be that IE is taking a while as it needs to keep reconnecting. We've had loads of problems with our customers at wor...

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Good idea song - Enter Sandman by Metallica Just reminds me of growing up, playing guitar and having a good time.Could listen to it all day. album - Green Day - Dookie. Again reminds me of school and it's a great album to put on if you've had a bad day and want to feel better. movie - The Cider Hous...

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I remember a cartoon where the prize was "a million bucks" but turned out to be a million boxes - and in a final twist it turned out that each box had a $1 bill inside. (You had to be there at the time though - I was 4 - and you have to say it in US English - ("a million baux") for the joke to be f...

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1 selection of thrash metal/nu metal/tech-metal/old school metal coming up

1 hour's MP3's on CD OK?

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1 - Hollywood 2 - he owns a frog legs restaurant and wants Kermit as a mascot 3 - James Coburn 4 - the script 6 - read the script 7 b - he's a plumber 8 - only big thing I can remember is Animal but he's not really a bird. Was it Camilla the chicken and I've forgotten? 9 - Orsen Wells but can't reme...

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You live in Scotland - get used to it and bring a raincoat

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My mates got bi-polar. He's on medication half the time so you can't tell really. Just has times when he's really happy and times when he's really hacked off - but that sounds like most of us I think. I think EST is still used for severe bi polar and refractory depression but very rare as drugs used...

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My uncle taught Penny Mallory how to rally drive. First woman in the world to get licensed.

Also my dad's mate's brother went to school with Roy Wood from Wizard.

are they sufficently random.

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I think until I get broadband at home, long term commitments to web development for something like this might be tricky (I'm still on dial up or ADSL access at work and parents home). Am rapidly running out of time in the week... Will have a think about what can be done and see what I can do. Am I r...

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Since posting on POL I find myself wandering the streets to see if people look like the avatars. Is someone doing the same to me or is this paranoia? Are you trying to tell me people don't look like their avatars? You're not green with 4 legs :o I'm sure I've seen Dadist on Lothian Road on a Saturd...

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My 8 year old had his old fashioned wordrope collapse on top of him, it was a major event. I had to do my Superman bit and lift it up while Mrs PoP pulled him free. I must confess to it being big time trauma and I could feel my heart pumping away in genuine panic. Why do I mention it on this thread...

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Dadaist - as I read this you have 2 problems.... 1 - your machine is being used for hosting. 2 - it takes too much of your time to prep shows ready for streaming. 1 - how about moving to a dedicated server. Loads of people offer really cheap web space with high bandwidth. My web sites on a low bandw...

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I didn't realise the BBC 2 Thursday comedy block continued onto BBC1. Did anyone checkout Clive Anderson's glare when Tommy was ranting about North Korea - a strange combination of 'you are so wrong' and 'I want to punch him'.

Very funny

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wangi wrote:
bearcub wrote:Italy won the World Cup by beating France, then France beat them making them the best team in the world, and then....................
You're therefore forgetting that come wednesday Ukraine will be the champions of the world

you had to tempt fate didn't you

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Bellybabe wrote:open sessions for kids aged five and up.

Does that include kids of 26? If not does anyone know where they do adult sessions?? Have always fancied doing a bit of capoeira - seems to be a good combination of rhythem, martial arts and fitness.

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Watched the last half. Have to say I'm amazed a team that last I checked were something like 208th in the rankings, have just beaten (convincingly) a team who were in the last world cup final. They were amazing (particularly Cauldwell). Hate to pre-empt but Scotland might be in the euro finals (plea...

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Stowells Colmbard Chardonnay

won it on a pub quiz on Monday night.

Very nice

Have just drunk a bottle

my head hurts

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Muse - Origin of Symmetry

The one with New Born and Plug in Baby on it.

New Born's brillant - nice and quiet and suddenly this fuzzy bass comes in, slowly builds and then explodes in volume. Remember the video has everything shaking when it comes in.

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Explorer's is a fairly new section of Scouts so I would guess these are some of the first Explorers to get the award in Porty. Quite an acheivement. Remember when I was in Venture Scouts (the predecessor to Explorers) and we went for it there was a lot to do and some of it was very difficult. They a...

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