Who let Mark Pougatch into the TMS studio? His over-excited intonation is really harshening my test match buzz.

Who the hell thought it was a good idea to make backspace a keyboard shortcut for back in web browsers?

mrs_leroy_brown asked me to explain seven of my interests. Comment below if you'd like me to ask you about seven of yours.

experimental horse music
This is an ancient ILX meme. Somebody mistyped 'experimental house music' and it got taken up as an all-purpose obscure faux genre.

jellybaby?The fourth Doctor liked to offer aggressive enemies jellybabies. They ( Read more... )

You do not need a polling card to vote in any UK election.All the polling card does is tell you when and where to vote and helpfully list your details as they appear on the electoral register. So, if you've got one, it can make the process a little quicker but that's it. If you haven't, don't worry - if you are on the electoral register, you can ( Read more... )

You are over 500 ahead in your second innings of the deciding test of a series. Your highest scoring batsman has just got out. There are two days left, but the scoring rate has been no more than 3.5 an over on average. You know that no one has ever made more than 418 to win in the final innings of a test. What do you do ( Read more... )

Noes! I can't wait a couple of months for a haircut! My sideboards are already worryingly out of control!

"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone." - Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++

Note to self: in future, if cake mixture looks too runny to be put into loose bottomed tin, go with first instinct and line tin first. Do not blithely pour mixture into tin, place into oven and then panic five mins later when smell of semi-burnt cake alerts you to leaking cake hitting oven bottom ( Read more... )

I can't decide if these are incredibly cool or incredibly geeky. Whichever, I totally want one.

One would think that Apple might have checked that their new, extra smug (but undeniably funny) ads don't crash their own software before putting them up on the web, but apparently not...


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