Anyone playing Premier League fantasy football this season? Got my team selected, and ready to join some leagues
Oh no...Froch has retired. Not that I care, but Sky will be nonstop boxing claptrap. I hate boxers talking to each other like little kids trying to look tough....only marginally better than listening to the build up about wrestling. Boxers should box and never be allowed to speak and should be weighed on different days from their opponents if they are going to behave like schoolboys.
Right...my new Sky Box has arrived. I have smoothed the plastic envelope it arrived in. I may open it tomorrow or perhaps Friday, then I will look at it for a further couple of days. If I am on the ball technologically, I may fit it in a week. At the moment it is sitting in silent reproach.
No, this is a freebie replacement. It's apparently easy to do. Though I can call them if I have problems....why would I need that if it is easy? Or I can arrange for them to fit it, which presumably costs a fair bit of wonga. I just have to gird my loins.
Don't panic. I managed it recently. Just make sure you write down where the wires are plugged into the existing box before scarily pulling them out. Then if it all goes horribly wrong, which it shouldn't, you can put the old box back It also helps when trying to decide where to plug them in the new box. Quite often they can only fit in one place. Trying to scrabble around behind the telly was a worse problem
Government has, no pun intended, chickened out over the Fox Hunting vote. The scheduled debate and vote, due to take place tomorrow, won't go ahead now, because they know they won't get a majority.
Can you answer a question....do you lose the recordings on your planner or are they transferred to the new box. In other words, are they preserved on the memory of the old box or are they in the ether. I am changing from the older Sky+ box to the newer model.
Everything that is stored on your old Sky box stays there so watch it before you switch. Hopefully you haven't got too much! You basically start again. I went from old Sky + to Sky plus HD.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-33520547 I hope every one of those ****ers falls off his / hers horse & breaks their ****ing neck !
Fran - I managed to swap mine over with a bit of help from Lambert jnr. Pretty straightforward. Honest
This is the first instance where the SNP MPs can vote on something in England that they have a separate law for in Scotland. Regardless of the "politics" or rights and wrongs of the subject matter, this still doesn't seem right to me. They have admitted that they will use their votes tactically just to get one over on the PM and his team. For the next four years, they can "play" with things that affect us, at their whim, rather than if they think it is right or wrong. I just don't feel comfortable with that.
I agree with what you say and am all for English votes for English laws. This should have happened when devolution was first agreed and not just now because of the SNP. It's a lot fairer. If they were voting about something else I would be really annoyed with their actions, but my feelings on hunting with dogs are far stronger. I wish the vote had gone ahead if the government were going to lose but now they'll change the rules on who can vote and try to sneak it through at a later date. At least people will have more time to let their feelings known. 74% against they were saying this morning! Of course, the SNP doing this just provides the Government with more ammunition when debating about English votes and English laws.
Just like Thatcher did to Scotland throughout her time in office. No-one, or very few people in Scotland voted Tory, yet the Westminster Government imposed Poll tax in Scotland as an experiment before introducing it into the rest of the UK. Closing down mining, and steel manufacture which affected Scotland and the north of England more than the south, and pushing for an info-centric economy based in the south east wasn't to Scotland's advantage, but they got it anyway. the reality is that any decision about "English" only issues will probably have a knock on effect in wales and Scotland anyway. the real reason for the SNP's decision is Cameron's sneaky way of trying to amend the existing law, which will effectively allow full scale hunting to recommence, rather than going for a repeal of the existing law, which will probably fail to get the support he needs. The SNP is offering the opposition, that unfortunately is currently lacking with the Labour party.
Why don't they just go for a nice canter across the downs? Or take the dogs for a ramble. I just don't get why some poor animal has to die, but that's what you get, when you are dealing with these Bullingdon idiots that we still have lording it up over us. If they could swing it, it would be JSA's (ESA's for the kiddies on Shetlands) they'd be hunting with hounds next.
I'm more concerned with the thousands of pigs that are mistreated before we buy them in the form of Danish bacon, than a few hundred foxes that get ripped apart each year. I don't like rich toffs either, but it's important to keep perspective.
