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Festivals do not appeal to me.Yeh it might be great to watch live 'acts' from about fifty thousand feet away on a big screen, but you have to be surrounded by scruffy tree huggers who are unfamiliar with the concept of soap, the whole place turns into a piss filled swamp. food is shit and the toilets become teeming towers of turds. And then someone steals all your stuff.No, think I'd rather stay at home.

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When I was driving limos for a living I got a job up to 'Flamingo Land' somewhere up near Scarborough. About a 3 hour drive from here in a stretched Lincoln.Nice hot day, reasonably friendly punters in the back; they were going to watch Girls Aloud and Lemar (who?) so they sat in the back happily listening to their tunes while I listened to the radio in the front with the partition up.Get to Flamingoland and the Security waved us through the gates - no need for tickets, you're in a limo, must be important. I found this quite funny as it was a bunch of 15-16yr old kids from Kirkby in the back. Security found me a really nice spec to park and the kids disembarked.Security comes up to me and says "I thought you were bringing Girls Aloud... we were expecting 15,000 people here today, but there are only about 3000 because of Live8". So, the kids wander off to find somewhere to watch the show and I climb into the back of the limo, fire up the telly and watch Live8.Half hour later, security bloke comes over "If I were you, I'd be watching Girls Aloud, they're furious because there's nobody here and they couldn't cancel the gig because of contracts. They're stropping about like proper divas".I was only parked about 400m from the stage, clear view, and the girls started to do their show. What a disaster. They obviously didn't want to be there, their 'dance' moves were half-assed and I don't think they could even be bothered to mime properly. So I got back into the limo and watched telly for a while.40 mins pass and I see two Porsche Cayenne Turbos absolutely leathering it out of the car park... that'll be two of GA gone then.Ever since then I can't watch them on telly without wanting to laugh. That Cheryl wassername would get it though, and the ginger one looks a lot better in the flesh.

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Don't think i'll bother with V again, It was shit this year, Everyone, even girls were pissing behind trees as the toilets were so bad, I nearly threw up after going into a portaloo which had a big turd in it and dirty ladies things everywhere.By the end the crap on the floor was up to my ankles and people were laying in it all.I kept having cups of piss threwn over me whist near the front watching ocean colour scene and some bloke took a piss right in the middle were everyone was standing over some poor 12 year old girls shoes and than ran off, Although my mate who was on my other mates shoulders at the time fell off straight on top of it all!.Still i had the pleasure of dancing with James Corden (Smithy from Gavin and Stacey) for a while in the Bacardi tent, even though i did give him a hard punch by mistake whist doing my retarded dancing!.

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On a Girls Aloud note, I saw that Cheryl when I was in France. Sat on a bench near some yachts in Port Grimaud and who pops out on deck eating her toast but Cheryl herself. She looks lovely. Her husband looks like a right twat though.

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  trigger said:

Still i had the pleasure of dancing with James Corden (Smithy from Gavin and Stacey) for a while in the Bacardi tent, even though i did give him a hard punch by mistake which doing my retarded dancing!.

I would have done that on purpose. And to that Horne twat he did that shit sketch show with. In the face.
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  Mash said:

Halfords paint range.I went in to get a can for a friend's Micra and came out with nothing - they have about three Nissan colours in their range.What they do have however is Ford Purple Velvet which was applied to about half a dozen cars in 1973, Ford Highland green from about 1962 and BL Applejack for all those Allegros still out there in this colour, plus a myriad of other long obsolete hues but not the shade I want for a 14 year-old Micra. Must be cos they're pretty rare nowadays I suppose. :roll:

I used to work for the company that supplies the paint to Halfords...........they actaully do sell those out of date colours more often than the newer ones which is why they are still in the range..........Though even I fail to understand why Highland Green would still sell......... :shock:
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If they have any BMW Pastellblau knocking around your local Halfrauds let me know, I need about 3 cans for my front panel, I'll have to get them to mix me some up if not.

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  AnthonyG said:

 

There is a law that states that any retailer that sells a television has to note the customer's address.

 

If you didn't have a Clubcard they would be entitled to ask for your address.

 

Its got nothing specifically to do with Tesco - its all on behalf of the TV licence people.

The law states they must collect an address when selling a telly.

 

I worked at Maplins yonks ago flogging, amongst their other crap, TVs/videos/TV cards for PCs. We had to by law take an address whenever we sold something capable of receiving TV signals, the till system actually popped up a screen and wouldn't complete the sale until an address had been stabbed into the keyboard.

 

You wouldn't believe how many TVs a certain Mr M Mouse, of 1 Disney Avenue, Norwich actually owns.

 

TBH if it was an arsey customer we'd demand an address, just to be arsier. If it was a mate, it'd get a false address.

 

 

As for Halfords paint cans, I guess it's down to those folk with a 1979 Allegro being more inclined to (badly) blow in a rust repair than a 2009 Audi. And all new cars are silver anyway :)

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  whitevanman said:
  Mash said:

Halfords paint range.I went in to get a can for a friend's Micra and came out with nothing - they have about three Nissan colours in their range.What they do have however is Ford Purple Velvet which was applied to about half a dozen cars in 1973, Ford Highland green from about 1962 and BL Applejack for all those Allegros still out there in this colour, plus a myriad of other long obsolete hues but not the shade I want for a 14 year-old Micra. Must be cos they're pretty rare nowadays I suppose. :roll:

I used to work for the company that supplies the paint to Halfords...........they actaully do sell those out of date colours more often than the newer ones which is why they are still in the range..........Though even I fail to understand why Highland Green would still sell......... :shock:
Bright colours are normally bought for other things, mainly kids with bikes hence why VW Mars Red is one of the most popular. Since they now mix paint to order, the range doesn't get updated as much
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  whitevanman said:
  Mash said:

Halfords paint range.I went in to get a can for a friend's Micra and came out with nothing - they have about three Nissan colours in their range.What they do have however is Ford Purple Velvet which was applied to about half a dozen cars in 1973, Ford Highland green from about 1962 and BL Applejack for all those Allegros still out there in this colour, plus a myriad of other long obsolete hues but not the shade I want for a 14 year-old Micra. Must be cos they're pretty rare nowadays I suppose. :roll:

I used to work for the company that supplies the paint to Halfords...........they actaully do sell those out of date colours more often than the newer ones which is why they are still in the range..........Though even I fail to understand why Highland Green would still sell......... :shock:
Hycote perhaps? I used to manage an A1 store, and I very much doubt if 20% of the pre mixed paints we sold ever ended up on a car.People bought them for all sorts of things, fridges, bikes, mowers, garden furniture and in the days of Changing Rooms on the telly, lampshades and picture frames!
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  Hirst said:

Also an idea to make self-checkouts better - a mute button. If I could just mute it, I wouldn't have to listen to that panicked woman

The self serve checkouts at Tossco's do have a mute button. Its at the bottom of the screen.I dont know what I hate more, the weirdo's on the manned checkouts, or"Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item""Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item""Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item""Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item""Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item""Unexpected item in the bagging area - please remove the item"AAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :evil:
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  Pillock said:

As for Halfords paint cans, I guess it's down to those folk with a 1979 Allegro being more inclined to (badly) blow in a rust repair than a 2009 Audi. And all new cars are silver anyway :)

That's going to be a proper ball-ache on my A6. There are one or two areas that could to with a touch up so I checked the paint code.Mica blue pearlescent.Fucksticks. It was only then I realised that it's not just dark blue, it's got a purple side to it that only comes out in bright sunlight.Probably the only time in history I wished my car was a simple old BL colour.
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T-mobile advert. That bloke singing Bonnie Tyler's shite song. Must die. Or at least have someone accidentally stamp on his foot.

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  Pete-M said:

That's going to be a proper ball-ache on my A6. There are one or two areas that could to with a touch up so I checked the paint code.Mica blue pearlescent.

Aye, I had to do a minor repair on my old Mondeo. So I went to get some metallic green paint, armed with the paint code."aaah yes" said the man at the motorfactors, "juice green mica. That's £18 a can, plus lacquer."Bloody boring old metallic is £3.95 :(
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  dollywobbler said:

T-mobile advert. That bloke singing Bonnie Tyler's shite song. Must die. Or at least have someone accidentally stamp on his foot.

That twatting advert just came on as I read your post. Horrific.
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Highland Green. Nothing like as grand as it sounds. It looks like cheap soap....My Mum had a Cortina, MJN 197V........ordered in this colour, thinking it was a nice rich, deep green, like Apollo, or Acquatic Jade. Nope! Think again Mum! 1.6L Cortina 80!

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It's funny you say that reg Mr. Ross, I know a chap who's dad and aunt both bought MJN 86V and MJN 87V new in 1980.Both came from Kennings in Colchester, his dad bought 86V which is a Marina Estate that's been sat in his garden now since 1990 when his dad died, still with only 32000 miles on it.87V which was his aunts was a Dollomite 1300 that had 6 clutches in 40000 miles, she died years ago but the car is still about.

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  Pete-M said:

Probably the only time in history I wished my car was a simple old BL colour.

Front wing BL Oyster Gold Metalic - £2.99 / tin

Rest of car VW Polar Silver Metalic - special mix, £12 / tin :shock:

bugger that - BL colours, slowly repainting teh world!

 

Can you see the join???

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I can't stand TV nowadays, what an absolute shower. The evening primetime stuff on normal channels in particular - rubbish variety shows, dreary talent contests and awful sitcoms full of unlikeable people. Channels 1-5 are now pretty much unwatchable.Some truly dreadful TV shows on too - Come Dine With Me being a perfect example. Ugly, socially-offensive people having dreary little dinner parties in their horrible little homes, whilst a poor man's Harry Hill makes snarky comments over the whole thing, just so the "thickies" at home know when to laugh. I can just imagine all the morons at home having a good old chuckle at someone's lasagne coming out a bit sloppy, utterly oblivious to the fact that they're sat there eating Microchips and smelling of wee. Not that these cretins having dinner parties are any better.So anyway, I watch TV pretty rarely. I've got Sky+ and when I decide to watch something, my box usually needs unplugging at the wall to reset it. It goes funny if you leave it dormant (for some reason). Then I'll flick through the channels, quite literally hundreds of them - there'll be sod all. It will nearly always conclude in me settling on some channel called something like "Extreme Action Reality Zone Extra +1" and watching some dog-eared episode of Cops I've seen twice before, where they're driving around Houston responding to homicides.I think I can sum up the last month's TV viewing as about two hours of American car chases, the last 30 minutes of "The Stone Killer" and some Louis Theroux documentary about crystal meth. They should do a special infrequent-use TV licence for people like me.

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Gadget Show is good telly. Goldie doing classical stuff was FANTASTIC telly. QI is good telly - though even I am getting fed up of the repeats on Dave.But generally yes, telly is crap. Idiot lantern. Wish it was easier to stop watching it...

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I like QI as well, seeing as i dont have dave, i dont get barraged by endless repeats.One thing i find funny about dave is the fact that with most of the top gear episodes they show, they cant use the original music that it was made by due to copyright issues.So instead they use the shittest music, which makes watching top gear unbearable( or even more, for those of you who hate it anyway)I rarely watch tv, I only use my tv for ps3 and dvds. (which i hardly ever use now)

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I hardly ever watch TV either. Tend to have a bit of a watch of the news just before bedtime and other than that the only thing I do like is Casualty :oops: Other than that there is generally bugger all on that I'd want to watch. Endless repeats of utter crap. I'd actually be quite happy to do without a TV, would certainly save me some money and I can still watch Casualty on iPlayer.

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  brammy777 said:

I like QI as well, seeing as i dont have dave, i dont get barraged by endless repeats.One thing i find funny about dave is the fact that with most of the top gear episodes they show, they cant use the original music that it was made by due to copyright issues.So instead they use the shittest music, which makes watching top gear unbearable( or even more, for those of you who hate it anyway)I rarely watch tv, I only use my tv for ps3 and dvds. (which i hardly ever use now)

What's that about the Top Gear music? I've missed this one.. what is different about it?
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Its something to do with avoiding paying the Copyright holder of the music again, so lesser music has to be used, so it costs less.Because i presume, with the amount dave repeat top gear, it would be alot of money to pay if all the original music was kept.So during roadtests and challenges, its different music.

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Hollyoaks is a particularly irksoome program in my book. OK, so its not aimed at me (37yr old bloke), but the number of girls of my age who watch it never ceases to amaze me. Why!?! Idiots.

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Erm, I'm hooked on it :oops: When I met my girlfriend she watched it, and then we started watching it together. We record it on Sky plus...I soon stamped out any viewing of Big Brother however :twisted: Mark.

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  mnde said:

Erm, I'm hooked on it :oops: When I met my girlfriend she watched it, and then we started watching it together. We record it on Sky plus...

Ah well, horses for course I guess.
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I just can't be doing with any kind of soap or reality show at all. From my telly I need to learn something or have a damn good laugh or feel I've had my money's worth from an excellent film or drama. Freeview is great because you get old quality stuff that you can watch whilst the main channels are entertaining the mouth breathers!I like quite a lot of the US sit coms for my sins but I like UK stand-up and improv shows like Mock The Week, QI, Live at the Apollo. Programmes like Coast are very informative and well produced, but inane waste of airspace stuff like Big Brother, X Factor or Emmerdale can just vanish.Actually on the subject of reality stuff I did start watching The Rat Pack as it's quite funny with the guys and their Jack Russell but some of the people they go and see are just useless. Rats yes, but if a bloke can't dispatch a tiny mouse from his gaff there's not much hope.

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Stuff like Coast and Rivers and even the new hairy bikers series make me wonder how many helicopter hours the BBC clock in a year... they do make the UK landscape look spectacular, makes you wonder how it looks from the ground sometimes.I secretly like a lot of the BBC property shows too, mainly because of the locations and the expensive houses. Some presenters suck less than others. Some buyers are highly annoying. Or just too wealthy. I just don't watch stuff I think is rubbish (99.7% of everything) but I hate the fact that whenever I do watch tv I keep commenting on everything I don't like, facts that are wrong, stupid people, bad continuity, bad translations etc. I need to learn to shut up.

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