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Absobloodylutely. When it comes to being ravished with an overgrown chopstick "coward" is my middle name.

Ye gods and little swimmy things, An Ankoù. Has your good lady seen that? Suggest you take special care of your jewellery or she'll rip it off. If I dared to suggest that a bottle is more beautiful than my good lady I'd have every triad in the orient trying to do an unpleasant mischief to...

Does Marmite attract slugs? I've got lots of them in my garden and I go out every evening on a slug-and-snail hunt. I've got a couple of slug-pubs which work when filled with yeasty beer, but I'd prefer to use the beer on me rather than on the local wildlife. On the other hand slugs are...

However, it's also worth noting that some stuff produced in China is rubbish. A few years ago I spent a while browsing in a fishing tackle shop while SWMBO was doing something. Prices of rods were comparable to UK prices. It's difficult to tell a good rod from a bad one just by looking at...

I've no doubt that some (perhaps most) comes bulk by sea, but I have received stuff by airmail at ridiculously low prices.

What puzzles me is that I can buy something on ebay from China for a total cost of 99p. That 99p covers the cost of the item (including manufacturing cost and profit for the manufacturer), profit for the retailer, and airmail postage from China. If I were to buy the same item in the UK the...

Really??? Why not??

It seems that Gunge has managed to have a lot of fun and has had everyone hoodwinked on this site. My guess is that in reality he is an arch-environmentalist and he has been playing this game in order to prompt others to put hard environmental facts and arguments on the site in order to get...

Phildo79 is absolutely right. A billion is a million million. Always has been, is, and always will be. The rot was started by Harold Wilson when he wanted to suck up to the yanks, so he abandoned accuracy and common sense and decreed that the government would henceforth treat the word...

Therein lies one of the problems with our "democracy". Many or perhaps most politicians have no concept of what the real world is like. The obvious and simple answer is to restrict standing for parliament to people who are (1) over 40 years old, and (2) have had substantial non-political and...

Does anyone remember..? South Pacific (the R&H musical version) because it has had a lasting effect on my life - in particular I fell in love with France Nuyen (Liat) -- as did every male who watched it, I suppose. 2001 A Space Odyssey

And it can be rather ****** right from the start.

Stet.

You're right, I'd forgotten. However, if he survives the wine, Ricard, French beer and garlic he might get round to seeing this when he comes back.

I ditched all my aluminium cookware when the health risks became known. Similarly I ditched all non-stick-coated pans (Teflon etc.) when the connection to cancer became known. I use one ceramic "non-stick" pan, which is not very non-stick; the rest is stainless steel. Dutto, how do you...

A chum who is somewhat older than me (he'll be 91 in a couple of weeks) can't recall "A Pub With No Beer". (He is, of course, familiar with The Drinking Song and much else from The Student Prince.) So, as people have started putting lyrics here, I thought I might as well join in - just for...

Remembering Thin Lizzy's "Whiskey in the Jar" does not make us "old". At the most, middle-aged. AKA mature. One day you children will understand this.

Thanks for the comment An Ankoù. Listening to anything on Youtube is out of the question because the sound card in my computer departed this life a couple of years ago and I’m not going to replace it because within the next year or so I’m going to treat myself to a new computer. However, I...

Your Granddad was clearly a man of taste. Mario Lanza's tavern (bierkeller) song in The Student Prince is not simply a drinking song, it is The Drinking Song. Just to emphasise this, the word "drink" is used 32 times in a total of 192 words - that’s 16 2/3% of all the words. A Pub With No Beer...

How about a non-drinking song? Does anyone remember Slim Dusty and "A Pub With No Beer"?