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Be a struggle to find a 4ft 11 skeleton

Well it is only a game show! If you wanted to raise a bit of cash for a business venture, I think there are easier ways than national humiliation on the telly  I don't think any of them show any particular flair. I do like it though, as cheesy as it is I do like the one liners and the mickey taking. 

My favourite bit last night was the Irish girl at the Diamond dealer. Some serious flirting and pouting going on, which the bloke fell for hook line and sinker. Best line: "Your blond like my wife". 

Question is, is he still married this morning?

I can't believe I'm going to stick up for the traditional directories

But I imagine there are still quite a few people that still use them, I'm guessing maybe older folk?

The days of the Yellow Doorstop are long gone, which is why Yell is up to it's eyes in debt. But if your business model allows a viable offline published version of your directory, and you can reach most UK households, then why not? It's great brand awareness. 

The crazy advert prices are long gone, and if you are generating numerous leads a year, then why not? I can't believe all the advertisers are new business signups that have been closed by a slick salesforce. So surely businesses would only re-list if they know they will get a good ROI?

Have you tried installing classic shell? It does make 8.1 a lot more usable and gives you a lot of settings to basically make it look like Win 7, but keep the better efficiency, memory management etc of win8.

Agree though, boot my lappie, with no applications running, it's using 2GB of RAM 8GB seems to be the minimum now, no doubt my next one will have 16...

Yet I remember my old IBM thinkpad back in 2002, running Windows XP with 1GB of RAM used to run like a dream, split screen with a momitor, run numerous browser sessions, and rarely needed rebooting.

So what happened? 

Interesting watching the reaction and various political posturing. No one really has come forward with a viable plan.

Good comment I thought from the CBI Director General:

"Most of what we've done in this parliament, frankly, has been efficiency savings, cuts in head count, controls on pay," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"If you're going to make the cuts we now need to make you've got to be far more lateral, you've got to re-engineer the whole model."

One "way forward" could be a reduction in the number of government departments, he suggested.

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Agree, we need bigger and more sustainable businesses. Firms that will recruit and take on apprentices, firms that pay plenty of Corp Tax. Is it a mind set that seems to be driving us to lifestyle businesses versus a scalable business?  Do we worry about risk? Hmm, feel another thread coming on... 

Whichever way you look at it, the countries cupboards bare, resources stretched to the limit, a token military that has had it's professional reputation decimated in recent times as military ambition has gone out of synch with actual capability. Welfare seems to be finally under the spotlight along with changes to the NHS, but is it enough? 

As the CBI bloke said, "you've got to re-engineer the whole model", but which political party is going to step up to the plate and take the challenge on when you know it will be unpopular and lose votes. Instead we get tinkering and tweaking 

So how is the Xmas push going? Guessing this must be peak period at the moment?

This is an older thread, but there still seems a lot of hostility to Windows 8 or 8.1 as it is now. 

We've now got 3x Windows 8.1 users but I'm still hanging onto Windows 7 (along with Office 10) for at least another 12 months.

Without Classic Shell I think there would be a mutiny!

I wonder what the adoption rate has been like for Windows 8, or if Win 7 and before are hanging on for the next version.

Sometimes our legal system really does get it right.

10/10 for Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Lady Justice Hallett and Mr Justice Openshaw. Between them, it took them 45 seconds to throw out the defence of one of the Lee Rigby killer's, that they were at "war with Britain". 

He also lost the argument of getting his sentence reduced from life without parole  Now grow old and die in obscurity behind bars.

Full story: Daily Mail

So the chancellor is debating the Autumn Statement, and the news services are alive with facts and figures, money for flood defences, new towns, road infrastructure and putting Stone Henge on stilts etc.

All sounds great and no doubt designed to tick as many voters boxes as possible before we move into election hype.

But as we've come to expect, our illustrious leaders feel the need to connect instantly to the masses, and the masses will never let us down with their eloquent and formulated responses, respect and patriotic fervour for this fine nations Prime Minister 

So anyone got any positive thoughts on the Autumn Statement?

I like the sound of the 25% "diverted profits" tax for big companies, also being called the "Google tax"

Freezing Fuel Duty is welcome, especially with falling prices at the pumps. That's the sort of thing the man in the street wants.

Well following on from the October announcement to repay some WW1 debt, our man George has now decided to repay all of the outstanding £1.9bn in loans relating to the WW1. Which will be a nice unexpected windfall for anyone who has inherited bonds from their great grand parents.

George Osborne said: "This is a moment for Britain to be proud of. We can, at last, pay off the debts Britain incurred to fight the First World War.

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But if you see him in the pub and asks if he can borrow a tenner, I'd say no 

Have you got anything else in that coke bottle?