Don't know if this is true but a bouncer mate of mine said if you hold a Thompson directory against someone's body when you hit them ie. with a baton then it doesn't leave any bruising and therefore no evidence.
Did you see that programme on BBC1 a while back about the new litter police in some northern town. They were just walking around handing ou £50 fines to people dropping litter. One guy had an absolute fit because they charged him for dropping a fag butt. It was hilarious.
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But thats not the same. NTL are doing 1Mb/s for £17.99 whereas Telewest are charging £7 more for a connection that is 250Kb/s slower and are doing 3Mb/s for a little more than Telewest's 1.5Mb/s so in actual fact they haven't been offering this.
Yes, it's in between the entries for village most out of touch with the real world and the village with the most premature victory celebration. All held by Falmer funnily enough.
I didn't know you could get disk drives for the C64. Remember the old load screens that used to reveal the picture line by line. Then they brought out invadaload where you could play space invaders whilst the game loaded. I've got an old Spectrum 48K with the spongy keyboard in the loft complete...
But its not the same without having the flickering lines around the edges of the screen for 10 minutes before it crashes and you have to rewind the tape and start again.