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I've got the theme from Blue Peter stuck in my head.

Blue Peter, FFS.....

Dammit, so have I now! Bastard!

I'm dreading seeing the state of my flat when I get home. Housing Association workmen arrived at 8am (Why do they need to start so damn early?) to begin work on a complete new kitchen and bathroom. They were ripping cupboards out when I left for work, and the entire contents of the kitchen, including fridge and cooker, are in the living room. However, after a few weeks of crappiness and disruption, we should have a lovely new kitchen and bathroom.

I hope that your builders are members of the considerate builders scheme !

I never start work at 8.00am if i am doing building work.No way as i dont do early starts.I always start about 10.00am and work right through until about 5.30 - 6.00 with no breaks apart from the odd 10 minutes.

It also shouldnt take a few weeks just to change a kitchen and bathroom either.Thats way too long.

Most builders in my experience do seem to start work at 8, and knock off about 4, I've no idea why - I'd much rather hire a late starter like you! The electrician actually showed up closer to 7.30 to shut the power off ready for the builders! They've advised 20 working days, including decorating and finishing off. It does involve some structural work (there are large concrete built-in closets that are being removed to incraese the size of the room), extensive plumbing, rewiring, a lowered ceiling and lots of tiling, so it's more than just fitted units.

You couldn't make it up 

I may be cynical, but after reading the full blog (including sale of T-shirts) I began to suspect that they actually were!

If that's anything like "Guy Ritchie's Gamekeeper" comic, I won't be holding my breath!

Dark hair, so clearly Rico's ginger hair is a result of his Titan-stretch.  

Was Rico a Ginger? Don't remember that!

Best of luck with that mate. Remember, if any answer involves speeding up and beeping your horn furiously, it's almost certainly not that one!

No real advice to pass on, as they didn't have theory tests when I learned to drive.

I cant really relate to the idea that JD is so ugly that he shouldnt be allowed to live because its not as if he is facially disfigured or deformed to the extent of the Elephant Man so i am not sure what the scriptwriter was getting at there at all.

I think that "hideous Dredd" scenario was one of those early continuity things that was quietly dropped, along with there only being about a dozen judges and MC1 being a domed city!

I've got the theme from Blue Peter stuck in my head.

Blue Peter, FFS.....

Dammit, so have I now! Bastard!

I'm dreading seeing the state of my flat when I get home. Housing Association workmen arrived at 8am (Why do they need to start so damn early?) to begin work on a complete new kitchen and bathroom. They were ripping cupboards out when I left for work, and the entire contents of the kitchen, including fridge and cooker, are in the living room. However, after a few weeks of crappiness and disruption, we should have a lovely new kitchen and bathroom.

Teddy Pendergrass, aged just 59

I do remember a couple of prog scenes where the helmet was off. In one he was getting suited up and his head was in shadow (POV from above looking down - anyone know it??) Then there was another where he set a trap for someone by putting his helmet on a shaded religious-type statue to trick someone/thing with a bow and arrow.


Please tell me I'm not dreaming that last one...

there were a couple more - in one VERY early story he takes his helmet off - we don't see his face obvioulsy, but the assembled citizens recoil in horror saying "something that ugly shoudln't be allowed to live" or some such comment. Another early strip plastered a big CENSORED blackout over his mush.

On a couple of occasions he's used face-change surgery to infiltrate perps, but that's not his real face so it doesn't really count. The first was when he was Marshall of Luna 1 and  he took the face of lawyer Manny Bloom,which was based on obscure horror movie actor Rondo Hatton (I think this was the name - one of my favourite early stories, he was hunting bank robbers who'd changed their faces to Chaplin, Groucho Marx and Laurel & Hardy - absolutely fantastic Bolland artwork). He did it again to impersonate a perp called, I think, Icepick Brown in 'Perp Runners'.

And then there was the whole of The Dead Man...

But no, we still need to afford Davina to front "So you think you can dance"

errm - that's on Sky 1

wow, that's what I call efficient service!

On the Members page, the 'search for a member' and 'view all members' links (top right) are practically invisible as they dipslay as white-on-white. I thought the search function didn't exist anymore until I accidentally highlighted a big chunk of the page!

Help! I am a slave to Bloons Tower Defense 4!

I'll check out that link when I'm not at work cos I love these free flash games.

It's a band, not a solo artist, and a damn fine band too.

Wow - I always thought it was a person too, in which case they may have had no choice in their name - but you mean a band actually CHOSE that awful moniker? Sounds like a kitchen cleaner.

only things I use the bbc for?

The point about the BBC is that it's not just about what YOU (or any individual or group) use it for. Listeners of radio 1 are unlikely to listen to radio 3; people who need the shipping forecast may not care about Match of the Day; fans of the mighty Boosh are unlikely to watch Songs of Praise.

The brilliant thing about the BBC is that produces a huge range of different services, on TV and radio, at local, national and international level, everything from kids telly to sport to comedy to drama to news and documentaries, not to mention the diverse raft of radio stations. No commercial broadcaster would do all this. Without the beeb we'd end up with dozens of channels competing for the popular and marketable things, such as comedy and drama, with tiny underfunded niche channels producing more specialist content, and then all the vital public seervices such as the shiping forecast would end up being government subsidised anyway. We'd have hundreds of channels of identical, middle-of-the-road crowd-pleasing shite.

Oh and the joy of watching telly without adverts! (apart form the ever-multiplying in-house ads for other programmes - but at least they don't interrupt a film a dozen times with these!)

I think it's days are sadly numbered, but we'll only appreciate what a fantastic thing it is once it's gone.