The Banter Thread / Banter Topic / Sean Bean

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Someone's brought cakes in to work today to celebrate their dogs birthday or something equally as random. Among them is a packet of fairy cakes with Ben 10 branding on them (bit odd for a placed filled with adults but there you go).

How many do you think would be in the packet?

10?

No, there's 9. Talk about being lazy!

Your question is equally as random Jamie........

Was it really for her dogs birthday?!?!

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[Spatial]

It was a rhetorical quesation really. I was just foxed that they didn't go the extra step and put an extra cake in to make it up to the Ben 10 branding. You know, one for each of Ben's forms.

I don't think it was really for a dogs birthday. It might have been but it was more likely they were samples.

[abigsmurf]

There will be as many cakes as there are people who want one, minus 1

[Adam Stone]

Finally got a new bed today! Hurrah! It's gorgeous... Bugger having any action on it tonight, all i've got on my mind is sleep.

Didn't blink an eye last night, absolutely shattered now I am... but am so looking forward to drifting off into the world of dreams in my comfy new bed...awwwww. Bliss.

I think the headache excuse is due ;-)

[nintastic]

God damn, flipping eck [please insert all rude words here]. Who the feck invented strimmers every god damn 2 fecking damn blimming minutes I had to take the spool off and sort the god damn blimming thing out !!!! It won in the end I gave up !

[Adam Stone]

I feel your pain mate... Had exactly the same problem last year before moving... In the end I just got the gardening scissors out!

[Spatial]

The ironing is delicious

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8241509.stm

Odd since every time I've been in Currys / Comet the only stupid things in there have been the staff. Then again customers deserve to be mocked for taking out extended warranties.

[ChrisF]

Just said pretty much the same thing to my mate about the staff in Currys!

[JP]

Thought this deserved a post, apologies if it's already been posted. This really made me smile, just trying to imagine the chaos if they tried it over here!

At 0600 local time (1700GMT) sirens sounded and drivers were told to move from the right side to the left. The government brought about the change to bring Samoa into line with other South Pacific nations.

A two-day holiday was declared to ease traffic as people got used to the new rules, which faced legal challenges from groups which predicted chaos. At 0600, Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Lupesoliai Malielegaoi addressed the country on national radio.

"After this announcement you will all be permitted to move to the other side of the road, to begin this new era in our history," the New Zealand Herald quoted him as saying.

Emergency vehicles and government workers were reportedly stationed at every junction and corner but witnesses said the change happened smoothly.
Barbara Dreaver, a correspondent for New Zealand Television, said the scene was "just amazing" but that traffic was flowing "fairly well".
"There were hundreds of people who had come out, just to watch this happen," she said. "We've had the odd squealing of brakes as people suddenly realise that they should not be on that side of the road, but for the most part it's been very smooth."

The move survived a late legal appeal by the protest group People Against Switching Sides (Pass), who argued that it would bring mayhem to the highways and byways of this remote South Pacific nation. Bus drivers have also protested that their doors will now open on the wrong side, in the middle of the road.

But the Samoan government introduced the change to end its reliance on expensive, left-hand drive imports from America. It hopes that Samoan expatriates in Australia and New Zealand will now ship used, more affordable vehicles back to their homeland.

To minimise the chaos, a two-day national holiday has been declared to keep cars off the road, and prayers have been said at the country's churches in the hope of blessing the changeover.

[MonkeyJuggleDX]

Bus drivers have also protested that their doors will now open on the wrong side, in the middle of the road.

Why is this so funny?

[Spatial]

Oh wow, at 9.09 this morning it will be:

09.09 09.09.09



Mind. Blown.

[NW2013]

Is it acceptable to go to a wedding and not wear a tie with my suit or will people think I'm a cock?

[Skull Commander]

Full day or evening only?

[Spatial]

If it's your wedding then no.

If it's someone else's then I'd say yes. But only if wearing a Nero style collar. Otherwise, depending on how formal it is, you could be straying into cock territory.

[Dogg Thang]

I went to my wedding in a t-shirt. And I've gone to others in a t-shirt. And someone else went to mine in a t-shirt. Wear a t-shirt.

Or at least, be vaguely comfortable. If you hate ties, don't wear one. They invited you, not your suit.