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I don't know what's worse. The cowardly custard creamer, or the coward who lets a cowardly custard creamer decide for him.

Can we ban this guy? 

The correct answer is the custard cream; it's got it all ( pleasant buttery biscuit with a good crumb, smooth and well proportioned filling and size remains unchanged since forever).

Club Mint is a fine biscuit but the chocolate to biscuit ratio has declined severely over the past few years. It's a shadow of its former self. However regarding the king, nay Emperor, of biscuits the humble custard cream ; absolutely no one could say that it's beauty has been diminished by the passage of time.

I'm thinking of skipping far ahead to some of the more ludicrously titled books to see if they're better, because I wanted to read simple books about blokes fighting crocodiles and lost civilizations rather than this.

Have you tried any H. Rider Haggard? I read 'She' a few years ago and the main character is quite unintentional hilarious. It's maybe not *as* racist and sexist as other works of the time but only by a smidgen.

Rara talks a huge amount of sense on this thread.

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Are my posts on other threads nonsense? 

First world or not that sounds like a hell of a stressful situation. Please remember that this thread is not a competition for who is in the worst situation. Compassion and empathy can still be shown to two people in two entirely different situations. Even if you think that other people have it worse than you; you're still allowed to feel helpless, overwhelmed, sad, stressed out and you don't need to quantify or qualify those feelings.

A first world issue would be that the bluetooth is not working in my Bugatti or my new range rover won't fit in the garage so this is as far from a first world problem as I can imagine.

Keep us posted on the situation; we're all rooting for you and the family.

Managed to finish 'Long Way...' in Feb and really enjoyed it. There are more in the series if I fancy diving back in which I may do at some stage.

I have struggled to build up the enthusiasm to read the Tad Williams book. Within the first few pages we find one of the minor characters sexually assaulting someone (he is depicted groping a young serving "wench" that has come to deliver the bad news that there is no more wine and to get back her boss, a wine merchant, he grabs her and holds her on his knee despite her struggles, rips her bodice open and fondles her breasts in the presence of several other men).

I understand that this standard scene in a lot of fantasy books but as I get older my tolerance for this low level misogyny / sexism has gone way down. It's a minor character and only a few lines of the text but it put me right off.

Never has someone's signature been so relevant to a post.

Morning Paddy, I don't envy you this all sounds incredibly stressful. At least it sounds like you've got things under control. Keep the chin up!

Paddy have you contacted Threshold and / or the RTB?

Totally topical taste 

Watched Tar and Saint Maud this weekend - would recommend.

Everything, everywhere all at once was a huge hit and that was an orginal movie

Paco Rabanne, 88, fashion designer.

No disrespect to the memory of Paco Rabanne, but I would be genuinely surprised if he touched the lives of anyone on this forum. I like to think that I am more stylish than the average middle-aged comics fan, but matching socks would often be the limit of my sartorial sophistication.

Didn't he create a classic men's fragrance? You might not wear his clothes but you have probably smelled (smelt?) him at some stage?

Well while we're at it .. really annoyed me that guy didn't have his helmet on with less than a minute to landing and even when they started coming under heavy fire he still didn't put it on .. hope it's a Chekov's helmet type situation though .. let's wait and see 

Delightful

Sure why not, he's currently 'armless 

I FOUND THE FINGER!!