spending nearly ten pounds on decent tights and having next doors dog jump up and ladder them as i was on my way out clubbing.

I see not one of the gentlemen has sympathised with you …..:D

The old boy in my Mum’s care home,who I talk to a lot because he just gets stuck in front of the TV all day,got so frustrated that he was swearing at the carers with some really bad words.Either he’s doing something I’d be tempted to do in his position,or else he’s getting dementia like the rest of them.Damn.

( TEN POUNDS for a pair of tights ? Haven’t you got a pound shop ? :diablo: )

You haven’t let me down baz,it seems that whatever question is asked,someone on the forum knows the answer.

Whilst I’m here

Why do flies and bumblebees bang their heads against a window that’s actually open ? Anyone know ?

Wouldn’t it be nice to have a thread where we can ask stupid questions,and not be told off for being idiotic ?

I recently had a streaming cold,which prompted me to ask,where on earth is all that stuff being made ?

And every time I go to Brighton I have to go through the South Downs,shouldn’t they really be the South Ups ?

This is what happens when old gits like myself and my exact contemporary,Mr. C,have too much time on their hands and access to a computer.

The cool,cool river by Paul Simon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LUyp34g3p8

In other words, a geek. :diablo:

That’s another thing,why are there more male geeks than female geeks ?
I’m sure I read an article recently saying that it’s a myth that men and women’s brains work differently,it’s just that males and females are brought up differently. Yet the word geek always seems to me more appropriate to a man.
Do people know female geeks ?
And what’s the difference between a geek and a nerd ?

This is actually a very thought-provoking topic.

OK,old git’s rant time ( skip if you’re under about forty ).

Thanks to technology,young people are growing up in a world that’s changed immensely since I was a kid.
In those days,if you wanted to see a film,you probably went to the cinema on a bus with your mates.You’d get all kinds of germs and smoke from other people in the process,which I think strengthened our immune systems.Today you can just watch a DVD in the privy of your own home,as Benny Hill would say,which cuts down on a certain amount of social interaction.
About the only technology we had was a transistor radio to listen to Radio Luxembourg under the bedclothes.If you wanted to play games,it was probably board games with the family ( yuk ! ) A computer was a huge machine,which lived in its own room.

It was unthinkable that an individual could ever own one of these things,but now they’re so commonplace even I’ve got one. Again,you tend to sit at the keyboard in your own little world,meaning even less real-life social interaction. The other side of the coin of course is that you’re now able to interact with infinitely more people than you can in your everyday life.
It’s still relatively early days in the internet era,but there is evidence that the use of IT for anything,including games,is actually changing the way our brains work.
Personally I couldn’t be bothered to play computer games,but Mr. Bee and baby Bee each have some kind of games thing that fascinates them for hours,and baby Bee has a female friend who’s an absolute World of Warcraft fanatic.
This article from the Independent is interesting,if you can get over the shock of seeing the use of the word ” gotten “.

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/is-technology-rewiring-our-brains-1051654.html

All you have to do is to use a custom title 😛 😛 😛

Is that how it works ?

Do you know,for almost two years I’ve genuinely believed that somewhere on the forum there was someone who kept an eye on peoples’ posts and awarded them a custom title for something particularly humorous or informative.

Damn, I feel so thick.

Speaking as a woman ( which I am,despite Mr. Bee’s scepticism ),I’m infinitely more offended by the mangling of my native language.