Jenjie

nah! can't beat a good episode of Lost or a good film through the stereo

because the stereo is hooked up to it. so if somebody decides there's going to be miserable radiohead playing, then somebody else doesn't get to watch sky/dvds :laugh3:

I could watch the first 15 mins before the coverage if the England rugby match starts!! Think i may have to consign this episode to catching it as i flick through channels looking for something to watch. there's generally random top gear episodes on living or some such channel during the day

yup but you then have to get to the main tv to watch it :D

I'm having a random re-read because i was feeling uninspired. So have picked up Witches Abroad by Terry Pratchett. My second favourite set of characters, featuring a fleeting appearnce by my favourite. no on can beat Death, he is cool.

its back but it clashes with the rugby. boooooo!! and they repeat it on wed and I'm out. sooooo not fair

what's going on??? i'm very puzzled at all these way out results

I hide because it means i can pop in quickly and not get stuck in conversations on some sites. on here is mainly coz you can hide from the spammers and lull them into a false sense of security. coz i work shifts you can never guarantee what time i will be here and i don't always post :D

call me cynical, but....... Oct 1st 2007 - petrol taxes rise. Oct 1st 2007 - smoking age raised from 16 to 18 hmmmmmm, coincidence anyone? the day they lose loads of tax by narrowing the smoking market, the motorist get a tax increase

oh my! :wink3:

an all southern hemisphere semis then?

Hollyoaks Omnibus

why lock it when you can bin it muhahahahahahahahahaha :smug:

The Friday Night Knitting Club. Heard about the film before I knew there was a book. Was a bit unsure, but loved the book, couldn't put it down.

more to the point though. streaky or back bacon?

definitely unsmoked

England scored more than one try!! And much as i hate to say it, Wilkinson has a good effect on that team. He may have had an off day in terms of his kicking, but the rest of the team seemed a lot more confidendt and calmer with him on the pitch.

they did that with Lost initially

i like the cheerleader. hiro is cool in a geeky, cute kind of a way. the blonde woman with the son is a little scary. don't like the plitician fella, and his brother is a little weird. the dr's son seems a bit too like sayid, but may grow on me more

ooooh no! I still love Lost more. Have been addicted to Lost all the way through and can't wait for Season 4.

Just discovered this. missed the fest few episodes hwen it was first shown, and I hate watching things in the middle. BBC2 aare having a heroes weekend and they showed a pile of episodes back to back yesterday and are showing more tonight. Saw some of episode 1, all of 2 & 3, and the first half of episode 4. Seems like a really cool series.

Sixty-six people are confirmed dead and around 20 are unaccounted for after a budget airliner crashed on the Thai resort of Phuket in driving rain today, the airport director said. The flight from Bangkok was carrying 123 passengers and five crew, airport officials said. Flight manifests at Phuket airport suggested that well over half those on board were foreign, mainly European holidaymakers. Amid conflicting casualty reports, police said that some people had been rescued alive from the wreckage of the MD-80, which was operated by Thai budget carrier One-Two-Go, owned by Orient Thai Airways. “The confirmed dead is 66 now. Forty-two survived and were hospitalised. The rest are still missing,” said Pornchai Eua-aree, the director of Phuket airport. “There are absolutely foreigners among the dead because almost 70 percent of passengers in this flight were foreigners,” he added. Among those known to have survived are eight Britons, two Australians and one Irish citizen, along with an Iranian and seven Thais. Germans, Italians and Israelis were among the others being treated in local hospitals. The aircraft apparently slid off the runway in the rain, slamming into the nearby jungle and catching fire. Television pictures showed smoke rising from the wreckage, amid a downpour, and the fuselage broken in two and partly smashed into the ground. The airport has been closed as emergency officials comb the wreckage. The pilot had asked for clearance to land and it was not immediately clear what went wrong, said civil aviation official Chiasak Angkauwan. “The airplane asked to land but due to the weather in Phuket - strong wind and heavy rain - maybe the pilot did not see the runway clearly,” he told TiTV television. "We won’t know what really happened until we hear the black box." Chaisak Angsuwan, director general of the Air Transport Authority of Thailand, said the plane had crashed in heavy rain and then split into two parts. It skidded off the runaway and crashed into a wooded area, he said. “The visibility was poor as the pilot attempted to land. He decided to make a go-around but the plane lost balance and crashed,” he said. “It was torn into two parts.” An unnamed doctor at a central emergency reporting centre in Bangkok told Thai television that initial reports indicated more than 100 people on board the plane had been taken to hospital, injured or dead. “Deaths could not be confirmed. Most people were injured from broken legs and wounds on the head. The passengers were both Thai and foreigners,” the doctor said. Phuket, the biggest of Thailand’s islands, is a popular holiday destination located in the Andaman Sea. It was last touched by major tragedy during the Asian Boxing Day tsunami of 2005, when 300 people died and 400 buildings were destroyed by a powerful tidal wave. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article2466222.ece

Two children on McRae helicopter Rally champion Colin McRae, his five-year-old son, a six-year-old boy and a family friend were killed in a helicopter crash, police believe. Strathclyde Police released the names of the four people they thought were on board the crashed aircraft on Saturday. Mr McRae, 39, his son Johnny, the youngster's friend Ben Porcelli and family friend Graeme Duncan, 37, were all thought to be on board. Formal identification is expected in the next few days. Chief Superintendent Tim Love from Strathclyde Police said the crash was not survivable and it was very difficult to tell the aircraft had been a helicopter. He added that the families have been shattered by the news. Air accident investigators have started searching the helicopter crash site near Mr McRae's home in Lanarkshire on Saturday. About 40 firefighters attended the accident which happened in woods just north of Lanark at 1600 BST. Users of the rally champion's official website http://www.colinmcrae.com were greeted by a black screen on Sunday with no information available. Police have been at the scene throughout the night and a cordon has been thrown around the area, including a private road up to the McRae family home. Mr McRae, who is married with two young children, was Britain's first rally world champion in 1995 and is the son of five times British rallying champion Jimmy McRae. Wider fame Mr McRae admitted to enjoying the adrenaline rush of activities such as bungee jumping and was a keen pilot. He moved to the principality of Monaco in 1995, partly through his friendship with David Coulthard. But as his family grew up, he spent more time back at his home in Lanarkshire. He and his wife Alison bought the 17th century Jerviswood House. Rev Bryan Kerr, minister of Lanark Greyfriars Church and a neighbour of the McRae family, said: "A lot of people have been stunned by this and our thoughts go out to all of the families affected. "This will be hugely devastating, particularly in such a small community. You just don't expect these things to happen on your doorstep especially when it is someone who is so well known and well liked in the town. "The town's ministers have spoken to each other and special prayers will be offered for all those affected by the tragedy and remembering those who are working on the rescue efforts and trying to piece together what happened." His brother, Alister, is also a professional rally driver and has enjoyed some success, including winning the British Rally Championship in 1995. Mr McRae's sister is a doctor at the University Hospital in County Durham and she too enjoys rally driving. Video games He also achieved wider fame by endorsing a range of successful video games. Codemasters released the first Colin McRae Rally title in 1998. 'Colin McRae: DiRT' was the title for the latest instalment of the games series which launched this year on PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. Stars from the world of motorsport have been paying tribute to Mr McRae. Fellow Scot and Formula One ace David Coulthard, said: "He and Alison were good friends and I cannot imagine either without the other. "He was fearless, flamboyant, blindingly quick in the car. "We had some great times and his passing is a terrible blow for the McRae family and everyone who came in contact with him." http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6997270.stm

from what i understood on newsnight yesterday, that shouldn't be a problem for most of the bigger banks. the problem with northern rock was the majority of its business was mortgages and not bank accounts.

he got 10 months and 2 graffiti artists get 12 months & 15 months respectively?????????????