Be Excellent To Each Other

http://www.oft.gov.uk/shared_oft/busine ... oft698.pdf

There ya go, something to read.

Sheila's Wheels will quite happily insure men (and in a lot of cases are cheaper than other non-discriminatory insurers) so they can't be done for discrimination. The adverts are horribly sexist though.

It's the pink, scented cover note that puts me off, though.

While Sheila's Wheels is annoying, the 'police' version they used for (CSI? Law & Order?) made me laugh so I can't completely hate them.

Those Diamond adverts, where the smug bitch spontaneously bursts into song about how Diamond is a girl's best friend DID piss me off. I wanted to forcefeed her the table from that fucking posh coffee shop, the bitch.

How about an insurance company for men? EXTREME Insurance or GRIT insurance or something?

"Here at Grit insurance, we appreciate that as a male driver that any accident you're going to be in will likely be serious, but at the same time you are 100 times less likely to claim because you've crashed into the inside of your own garage.

With this in mind, we keep our premiums low because one big smash in your big saloon will cost us less than ten Corsas being reversed into bollards."

Cheers Mal. I found an email address for the MD so I have sent him the following.

I (think I) used that very roundabout on Friday. I'm pretty sure I too wanted the third exit.
Edit: Yes, going back to the previous sign, indeed I did.
That's not a fun junction. They should have tried something when they rebuilt the rest of it.

I'd show you a fun junction (aka the twernt, barse, biffin bridge) but it's NSFW.

Just to point out JC, advertising "Next Day Delivery" doesn't mean that the seller has to deliver the item to you the day after you order it. It just means they have to deliver the item to you the day after they despatch it. Check their terms and conditions.

You were, at some point, then about 400m from MaliTowers. Only I was out, probably. I don't mind, you know.

Here's my first run at the football

DELETED AS IS RUBBISH> SEE LATER IN THREAD.

Needs more depth and details

Why is one of the locations fuzzed out? It isn't even the MOD facility.

Good point. No idea. It's "Ambrosden" which is where a lot of army people live and has a school and a hairdressing shop and a newsagents, and that's about it.

Dear Computer people:

http://megahal.alioth.debian.org/

using that can we have a BeeXBot that will learn from our posts and occasional drop its science upon us assembled?

Please?

Or expain to me how one would get written?

Speaking of roundabouts, there's one at the Cheshire Oaks where people use the left lane for all exits. It frustrates me muchly, but more annoying is how a lot of the driving test routes pass through that place; you will fail if you go in the left lane to go right, but go in the right lane and you'll be met by cars circumnavigating and will also possibly manage to fail. Nasty.

Roundabouts are like a circle,
Sometimes pink but often purple.
Always give way to the right,
Because if you don't you are a bag of shite.

Oh, Christ yes. Coming off the Motorway from the south and hitting those 2 roundabouts is like going around the Arc de Triomphe sometimes, especially a saturday.

There's a roundabout in the middle of Bridgend where BOTH LANES can go right. My bike instructor took me around it on practically every lesson so I would recognize and fear it. Apparently the examiners also take you around it, and tut angrily if you move needlessly over to the right lane because you didn't know you could stay on the left to take the second exit (three exits on the roundabout in total)

Heading towards the motorway on the Sainsbury's/Oaks roundabout yesterday we got into the right lane to take the 3rd exit. It's a two-lane exit and we needed to be in the left section, but as always were blocked in by a stream of cars circumnavigating. Fucking pricks, the lot of them. They never indicate, either.

It was about 4.45pm by that point, and I was late for pub friday, having left Milton Keynes late.

Insurance companies are allowed to discriminate on everything apart from race (otherwise everyone would pay the same premiums).
Anyway, Shelia's Wheels is just eSure with a different name, and only exists because Winner pissed off so many women with his "calm down, dear" adverts.

Is that why Craster and Ramsea pay so much extra? Ginger people are more accident prone.

I don't think that you actually need to be female to get a quote from Sheila's Wheels, it's just a marketing thing.

I'd at least piss on Winner if he was on fire, which is more than I'd have done for Mister "Fucking" Mouse.

I'm doing a City & Guilds Dreamweaver course at college and last night was lesson 2. I've used Dreamweaver in the past, but haven't done any proper website making in 10 years, so enrolled on the Level 1 'Beginner' course so I could pick it all up from scratch, figuring that I could then use that to later enrol on the Level 2 and possibly the Level 3 courses.

I was prepared for the course being really easy, but I wasn't quite prepared for some of my fellow students. One is a very charming disabled lady, who is clearly a veteran at the college. I'm wondering if she enrolled on the course for something to do, as she doesn't seem the most confident computer user I've ever seen. She often needs to interupt the lesson by loudly stating "I'm sorry, I've completely lost you now", requiring the tutor to go over and try to slowly explain the last half hour of the lesson to her again. She needed help working out how to get to the Save function (psst, check the 'File' menu). She's lovely and I really feel for her, but y'know, it can be a tad frustrating for the rest of us when the lesson ends and we've only managed to do half of what was scheduled for the evening.

Also, we have a guy in his late 50's or so who is clearly some kind of IT person and so feels the need to argue with the tutor quite a bit. This would all be fine were it not for the fact that he's always completely wrong about whatever point he feels he needs to argue about. He got in quite a strop in the first lesson, where the tutor tried to drum into us the difference between the terms 'Internet' and 'World Wide Web' by asking if the Internet needed the WWW. Of course, the answer is "no". Old IT dude begged to differ, quite vociferously, by harping on about how the WWW is what allows data to be sent across the Internet and how without it, the Net couldn't function - and no amount of explaining about internet protocols, etc would make him see different. Last night he asked the tutor if buying 'Dreamweaver DX' would be sufficient for doing his college work on and got in another huff when the tutor explained that no such version of Dreamweaver actually exists.

So yeah, all fun. The entire course is downloadable online and I'm giving serious thoughts to just blasting through it one evening.

Wow, thanks. I'll sit through the Max tutorials.

Don't even think about it.

Excellent. It reminds me of being in... well, practically every computer-related class in school, ever. I fondly remember our communications technology teacher who would shriek things like 'Nooooooo, get out of the C prompt, you'll format the hard drive!!!!!!'. I spent half the early lessons asleep and the other half helping pretty girls copy files to their personal floppies.

Lessons were soon greatly improved when I brought in 4D Boxing, Stunts and the Cannon Fodder demo. So much so that the following year the 'welcome to Comm. Tech' sheet advised that anyone found playing games would be marked down 5% on their final grade for each occasion.[

And what did uncle Chinny point out to everyone a while back, and again about 2 weeks ago?

The SVP we knew doesn't exist any more. It was bought out, moved 500 miles across the country and the only thing is shares with the old SVP is the name.

New SVP are just another internet tat peddler with no customer service skills. The first clue was when the genuinly useful weekly bargains email was replaced with the witterings of some moron girl.

It's a brilliant site, and not too expensive, either. I should probably nag work to resubscribe.

Too late. He's been in the room with her.

I had someone like that in a course I did - they didn't know how to copy and paste.
I complained, and they (quite rightly) made her get her ECDL before she could continue. So complain.


There's always one of them - it's hilarious


He meant 'MX', and the correct answer is "Don't buy Dreamweaver".

You (nor she, for that matter) have anything to fear in that regard.

You've had the snip?

He tried, but as soon as the doctor touched his balls she got pregnant and had to leave.

A perfect summary of my four years of adult learning when I was studying ACCA. At least I was being paid as a work day for it every time though. We actually called our equivalent of your disabled woman 'Scuse Me' as she would interupt any five minute flow of learning with this politeness, and would then remove any head of steam that had been built up. When she came to apply for year 3, the uni refused her application as we had made representation that if they took her on again, they would lose ten of us.

Heh, the tutor actually said that to him (the 'MX' bit, not the 'don't buy it' bit), but he was having none of it.

I'm going to do the whole course now because I've already paid for it, but I do wish I'd gone straight in for the Level 2 Intermediate course. In the late 90's I was making decent (ie, better than Geocities-grade at least) websites with Windows Notepad, but I've forgotten 75% of the HTML tags now and I've never even dabbled with CSS (Brazilian dance band, innit?), hence my trepidation. But seriously, I could do this course in my sleep and still come out with a distinction.

Lead-lined boxers.

Rufus never tells them his name! They tell themselves it! What's his real name??

You should stick with Notepad (well, TextPad), IMO. Dreamweaver isn't bad, but it still makes 'bad' websites. And it's spendy. Sites you code yourself will be cleaner and faster.
And CSS is easy peasy. Just start here.

<SHARE>I like the clown bit... probably not worth watching the rest... thx

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2To-4mBdWAQ</SHARE>

Sounds like Lisa. Also "Lisa joined the group F*ck Islam And F*ck allah." Nice.

But, even Muslims can accept that the Christian God and Allah are the same 'thing', just the methods or worship are different. Why would someone want to, ahem, 'F*ck Allah'?

Thousands of years of kegels.

Does anyone else read a post from Zio and get to :



And thinks by the end of this paragraph she'll be pregnant ?

Better football vid.

Dreamweaver isn't bad as a glorified text editor, but it is incredibly bloated. I wouldn't dream of using any of its WYSIWYG bits. I use Komodo Edit right now, which offers almost everything I want from an editor.

I got as far as



before I started planning for the baby shower

I use PHPEd, which is horribly expensive and simply the best thing that exists to do PHP in.
That Komodo Edit does look nice, though. Does it have File upload bits, or SVN stuff?