Armageddon. Not because it was sad, it wasn't, but because it was bad. Very, very bad. I weep for the loss of 2 hours of my life. I also weep at the continued existence of Michael Bay and Jerry Bruckheimer.
I'd offer mine but apparently it's not, errr, working properly.
That's the last time I give Oliver Reed a lift.
My sister's a cheeky minx. She needed a new PC a couple of years back. I said I could buiild it for her if she wanted, but that Id' rather not because I can offer no guarantee. I selected and priced up all the parts to give her an idea of how much it would be. I said I'd do it if a shop bough box was really that much more expensive. She took the info I gave her down to her local computer shop and presented it to them as if it was a quote she'd got elsewhere, so they matched it!
The only customers that companies like Dell care about are business customers. By and large they get better treatment. The business after sales support call center is local (or was the last I heard). Nothing else matters. Fuck 'em and farm it off.
As far as gift buying for xmas in our family goes, we're all too boring and usually just give people a list of things we'd like. So while we may get nice things they don't necessarily have any kind of emotional resonance which is what I'd need to class something as particularly good and memorable.
Dell UK are muppets. For reasons I won't go into they forced my sister to cancel one of her credit cards.
I got my laptop from Dell US, they seemed pretty prompt and fairly helpful but only because I was able to get a mate with a US registered card to order it for me.
PC World are also muppets.
Generally, Dabs are ok for computer stuff, though I've had a couple of problems with them in the past.
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Ah! It's one of those clever sites that tricks people into giving out email addresses to they can later be spammed into oblivion. Cunning.
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That's a great uplifting story for the start of the day.
I've tried to measure your probability of success but, sadly, my calculator can't handle numbers small enough.
The reason why was partially explained in your other thread.
Also see my rough estimate of a regular, well balanced, established single guys chances of getting a shag in the other thread on here from the poor fella who thought he was having no luck because, in his opinion, he was too small.
It's nearly my bed time and I'm going to go to bed thinking of half a million greedy girls. Oh yes.
Yup, I'm not doing xmas this year for my own reasons.
Edmonds did Swap Shop, Superstore was that other fella.
edit: Mike Reed, was it?
Ah, cinnamon, one of my favourite spices.
The smell of woodland after rain (think someone else already mentioned that one).