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What about films where no one dies?

Then she didn't say anything (she was talking about the actors btw, not the characters).

When I started reading the sentence, "Modern British TV chefs who can do anything without using the word...", "just" was not the word I was expecting.

Call it the Ramsey effect.

I just wanted to share this. After an entire morning of trying to find jeans that fit, I finally found some and bought two pairs (that was all they had in my size and length). I put them through the washing machine, as per the washing instructions, and they have stretched so much that they are now unwearable. I hate clothes shopping.

Anyway, my point is that if anyone has as much difficulty as I do finding trousers that fit, they probably bought ten pairs back in the day.

I wish mine would stretch in the wash... to match my expanding waistline usually they shrink, even on cold wash

I got into the habit of buying more of one thing - trousers, shoes, shirts - if I really like it, after several instances of thinking 'I wish I still had that' after it wore out. And I always buy at least two pairs of 501s at a time because the only place I can get them is the mall, and it means I only have to go there about once a year away! away!

3. A sense of irony at the BBC

The biggest story of the moment: horse-meat in processed food products http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21377601

Thirtieth anniversary of the disappearance of Shergar http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21316921

Or maybe they're pulling a double bluff

We randomly found a new pair of 501's in DD's wardrobe last week - horribly as I was looking through old or rarely worn stuff at the back of the wardrobe to find a decent shirt for him to wear at my Mammy's funeral - these are tagged, fully labelled....but in a 28 waist, 30 leg.

If anyone can find that skinny boy that he must have been before I met him, please apply here! These must be vintage cos I'm sure he's never been a 28 waist in all the years I've known him!

4. Rubber/silicon spatulas.

I don't believe for a moment that Almighty Bob would allow anything His universe that scrapes the bowl so clean there's nothing left to lick out.

In His universe. *IN* His universe! Oh fer Bob's sake

It's easy enough to leave stuff to lick--just scrape out in stripes (And do such sneaky things when children aren't around)

Or you could lick the spatula

The one that doesn't exist, that is

I always make sure to leave some scrapings in the bowl. You just can't make cake without licking the bowl out afterwards.

Damn straight, and to hell with all those 'you shouldn't be eating raw eggs because you'll get salmonella' elf and safety pillocks

Most hens are vaccinated against salmonella anyway.

I prefer eating it at the stage where you have just creamed together the butter and sugar. In fact, I have been known to not bother going any further...

A bit disappointing for those who were expecting a cake to come out of the oven 45 minutes later, I'll be bound

5. People who dislike TV advertising and think it's all dreadful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UprxM_aBWk