Are referral scheme links tolerated here these days?

You couldn't pay me to use Bing.

I still manage to do music while living with my girlfriend. I've got a band on the go at the moment and I also go busking with a couple of different guitarists. I try to play every day and although I do miss a few it's usually because all my other life stuff gets in the way, and by the time all that's done either I'm too tired or it's too late to start bashing out tunes on a double bass.

I don't really play computer games any more though. I'll still play one sometimes if I just want to relax but they are a bit of a waste of time really aren't they.

Wheels aren't a good thing to buy used. They have a limited life and have probably been abused by the previous owner. Get a new wheel.

Yeah it was clearly over the line. How the official who was standing 2 metres away, straddling the goal line, staring STRAIGHT AT IT didn't notice I've no idea.

Quote from The Moose :

Clive and Andy are the worst commentators on the telly. Cant stand them.

Andy Townsend ruins football coverage for me with his pointless blathering in his irritating voice.

As for Terry and Cole - when they were being flattened by the Swedes I was laughing, and I think at some point I said 'Send them home in boxes'.

This England team are incredibly dull to watch, and Italy are nearly as bad. I don't think I'll bother with the quarter final.

Quote from Stiggie :

Anyone noticed ronaldo changed his haircut during half time yesterday, in case anyone still has doubts about his sexual orientation..

I noticed he did that during their first game, maybe he's been doing it in all the games.

I don't know why you've got such a problem with gay people. You should chill out.

Quote from Stig209 :

I hate that B group, cause there are 3 of 4 my favourite teams.

Does anybody outside Portugal actually like Cristiano Ronaldo?

It's so weird watching RVP miss those volleys that have been his trademark all season, and then when he finally puts one away it's with his right foot. I still hope the Dutch get through although Denmark deserve it really.

Seems odd posting in here but my mum died last Wednesday. She suffered a brain haemorrhage while doing her grocery shopping around lunch time and died in hospital the same evening. Fortunately my sister was with her when she began to feel ill, and I and my partner Jane were also with her for the few hours before she died.

Naively I think we were expecting her to just 'slip away' peacefully in the end, but it couldn't be described in those terms at all. Very traumatic. Hopefully it was some comfort to my mum that we were there. I should add that all the staff at Pinderfields hospital who treated her were excellent, and she was treated with genuine kindness and dignity by everyone involved.

Funeral is on Tuesday. So it goes.

Quote from bbman :

cantthinkofnewname
nocreativity
mustbeg4name

just off the top of my head...

:d

Ah right. I remember the band Fantomas (former Mr Bungle people) although I wasn't a big fan (not as good as Bungle, let's face it).

This made me chuckle: http://www.101greatgoals.com/b ... e-france-euro-2012-match/

Quote from DeadWolfBones :

I don't understand what that is supposed to be. Didn't get it last night, still don't get it.

Met a bloke last night who had a sousaphone, who told me his mate is selling a sousaphone, and now I can't stop thinking about buying a sousaphone. It's an illness I swear.

Enjoy the group games, England fans, it's all you're getting. At least after this competition all the senior players will be jettisoned and hopefully the egos along with them, there are plenty of promising young players to mould into the next world cup squad.

Yeah I saw them in Leeds once, they had a touring member on keys who was the foxy one, I never looked twice at Lauren. These days I'd crawl over broken glass.

Best bands I've seen:

Fishbone, No Doubt (they really were excellent live in their breakthrough year), Cypress Hill, Primus, Squirrel Nut Zippers

Worst band I've seen:

Kenickie

Never would've guessed Lauren Laverne would end up being so foxy either.

Quote from Crashgate3 :

Like Kerrang and NME have ever given awards due to a band's musicianship..

They're a talented band and they're really good live. Not my cup of tea at all but they are very good at it.

I don't understand why anyone would want to see a band in a stadium/arena though. Go to a live show and watch it on a screen? Might as well just get the DVD.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Something I didn't know!

Put it in the file with almost everything else.

Quote from BlueFlame :

A car is a symbol of all a mans achievements. Whether you take it lightly and mod your car to be a novelty joke, or you put race spec suspension and semi-slick tyres on, all cars represent people as individuals. You of all people should know that a car is not just merely a car, it's a tool, a tool you'll probably just almost every day for the rest of your life, it becomes a part of you and you become a part of it, just like a house.

Er...

I've never met anyone who had a single car for their entire life. Also I would argue that my £425 Fiesta is probably not a symbol of all my achievements, but it is a symbol of my achievement of not giving a **** about what car I'm driving, because it's only going to be filled with mud and dog hair anyway.

Quote from lukelfs :

Tbh LFS is probably the only decent game where you can cruise in a 'stanced' car lol.. just drop the suspension on any car and max the negative camber

And enjoy how shit it is to drive.

Quote from BlueFlame :

Well it's a fact. If there aren't any people other than white people in Eastern Europe, how are they supposed to be educated about people they've never met?

From your reply can we assume you've met a lot of people from eastern Europe and many of them were neo-nazis?

I know you struggle to gauge this yourself so maybe you should listen to your respondents and concede that it's time for you to shut your stupid ****ing mouth now.

Dead Snow - Norwegian zombie horror/comedy, it's got a bad rating at IMDB but it was pretty entertaining, better than I expected it to be.

Blueflame would you like to make your generalisation a little broader, there are a handful of people you haven't offended yet.

In some browsers it degrades to a Flash app, but in modern browsers (certainly recent webkit browsers) it's HTML5. And frankly bloody amazing.

If you're using Internet Explorer maybe this is the time to switch...

What other hardware do you have connected to your computer? Anything unusual like anti-piracy dongles / iLok keys maybe?