What grinds my gears...

[I am Rod Hull]

Hear that. I saw a moth the size of a chaffinch trying to bum a lightbulb earlier.

 

The Chaffinch egg is one of my favourites.

 

 

That there is a thing of beauty.

Edited 20 July 2013 by I am Rod Hull

[Shoe Seller]

We should get better at doing that ourselves. Better education on birth control and breaking the grip the hardcore religions have in Africa would be a start. But that's a digression.

Education about birth control is fine.

The issue is the second/third generation scroungers of females who grow up never intending to work but to have kids young = benefits and try to trap their scummy man (invariably doesn't work)

It changing attitudes and motivations which is the challenge, not throwing money at sex ed. again.

[jgtuk]

The Chaffinch egg is one of my favourites.

 

 

That there is a thing of beauty.

Total beauty...

 

I was lucky enough to find one of these last year:

I Was watching over a breeding pair of Hen Harrier and kept seeing the Merlin fly over, so I tracked it to the nest site. (this isn't a photo of the actual site)

Edited 20 July 2013 by jgtuk

[I am Rod Hull]

Total beauty...

 

I was lucky enough to find one of these last year:

I Was watching over a breeding pair of Hen Harrier and kept seeing the Merlin fly over, so I tracked it to the nest site. (this isn't a photo of the actual site)

 

Nice, very nice.

 

Used to go birds nesting when I was a kid, the family collection had over 100 different species. Great days 

[Rincewind]

It's illegal now isn't it?

[I am Rod Hull]

It's illegal now isn't it?

 

Its been illegal since 1954 

[ADK]

It is if you steal the eggs. Course it's one of those crimes you're 99%+ likely to get away with.

[Mike Oxlong]

You scratch an itch.

You cannot 'itch' yourself.

Sorry to be pedantic but I hate it when people say that!

But you can scratch yourself!

(Fighting pedantry with pedantry :-))

[Guest ttfn]

Can't stand Moyles myself, prefer a bit of Chris Evans on 2.

Don't mind Zane Lowe though.

Most people > Evans >>>>>>>>>>> Moyles

[Mike Oxlong]

Most people > Evans >>>>>>>>>>> Moyles

Haha, yeah

Most people >>>>>>>>>>> most "celebrities"

[Guest ttfn]

Haha, yeah

Most people >>>>>>>>>>> most "celebrities"

BBC must be desperate if they're considering a return for Moyles. He's in his 40s and was presenting on a station aimed at young people. Not to mention that the fat bastard used his show as an excuse to rant at the BBC to pay his alleged £40k per month salary two weeks late when they were having cash flow issues and having to lay off staff in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in 80 years.

[The Year Of The Fox]

BBC must be desperate if they're considering a return for Moyles. He's in his 40s and was presenting on a station aimed at young people. Not to mention that the fat bastard used his show as an excuse to rant at the BBC to pay his alleged £40k per month salary two weeks late when they were having cash flow issues and having to lay off staff in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in 80 years.

I think he's a lot like Clarkson. Doesn't mean what he says, says it only for affect and to get a laugh or to cause controversy. Probably the thing I like about them both

[Soar Fox]

BBC must be desperate if they're considering a return for Moyles. He's in his 40s and was presenting on a station aimed at young people. Not to mention that the fat bastard used his show as an excuse to rant at the BBC to pay his alleged £40k per month salary two weeks late when they were having cash flow issues and having to lay off staff in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in 80 years.

Replacing him with someone younger has worked. Radio 1 have lost over a million listeners since Nick Grimshaw took over.

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BBC must be desperate if they're considering a return for Moyles. He's in his 40s and was presenting on a station aimed at young people. Not to mention that the fat bastard used his show as an excuse to rant at the BBC to pay his alleged £40k per month salary two weeks late when they were having cash flow issues and having to lay off staff in the midst of the biggest financial crisis in 80 years.

 

Moyles was such an annoying gobshite, and why was his sidekick called Comedy Dave. Not funny in the slightest. You could listen to his show for an hour and only hear 1 song, The bloke had more rabbit than Watership Down.

 

BBC 6 Music & XFM are where its at on my radio.

[FoxesAreBlue]

But you can scratch yourself!

(Fighting pedantry with pedantry :-))

still doesn't make the word 'itch' a verb.

[Mike Oxlong]

still doesn't make the word 'itch' a verb.

Itch can be a verb but in your example it's an idiom in which scratch is the verb and itch is the noun.

[FoxesAreBlue]

Ahhh fvck it! You've outwitted me there!!

[StanSP]

Ahhh fvck it! You've outwitted me there!!

 

Just start from scratch

[Fox92]

My listening day

Ken Bruce

Jeremy Vine( love shouting at the radio)

The Archers

Radio 4 afternoon play( trust me some are fantastic,they even swear if you like to live on the edge)

Richard Bacon 5 live

I'm on the road so get to listen a lot.

The cricket will be on all day today

 

 

 

I sometimes listen. He loves a good debate does Vine. 

[Danizen]

People who approach Tesco self-service checkouts as if they are Indiana Jones and it is an Aztec puzzle that has been unsolved for centuries.

IT'S NOT THAT FOOKING DIFFICULT!

Edited 21 July 2013 by Danizen

[ADK]

I'm guilty of that

[Danizen]

I'm guilty of that

[The Year Of The Fox]

People who approach Tesco self-service checkouts as if they are Indiana Jones and it is an Aztec puzzle that has been unsolved for centuries.

IT'S NOT THAT FOOKING DIFFICULT!

No no no no

 

They're a ****ing nightmare. Designed to speed up the process of shopping? You having a frickin laugh?! Why do they have an attendant based at the machines (apart from to serve the booze) if they're so good?

 

You watch next time you're shopping. The amount of problems customers have is unreal.

 

Also, has anyone mastered the art of scanning your items and then putting them in the bags provided without causing the machine to freeze/get told by the machine to replace the product back onto the scales or whatever? I've not, so I end up scanning them, then stacking them on the scales where the bags are, then pay, then pack my shopping. They're a bloody crap idea.

 

Even if I'm nipping Asda just for a loaf of bread I'll still go to the checkout. Also at Tesco Express in Shepshed there are two of these machines next to the tills, but with only one person working behind looking after both. So when you're in the queue to get some fags there's always someone having trouble with the machine so the woman serving me either has to stop serving me or get the chap to wait til she's finished serving me before she can reset the blokes machine.

 

They're wank!

[Rincewind]

I don't like them. There is an unrecognised item in the bagging area

Yes it's a bag.

[StanSP]

I avoided them for ages just because I knew they would be problematic and slow me down. I did it once cos there's a queue whenever I'm in tesco at lunchtime in the normal checkouts. The amount of problems I've had recently though makes me feel I should never have started and just waited in the queues to start with!

The other day, I was paying by cash for about £5 worth of items. Put in a couple of pound coins fine. Tried a couple more and it just gave up. It couldn't be bothered anymore. Sometimes so useless and does not speed up the process at all!