Ronnie

It's car keys with my wife (her car keys) You see, I will insist on moving or hiding them on purpose. Mine are always either in the back door keyhole or the hook in the kitchen. But I like to hide hers and it does annoy her. I put them in the bottom of her bag or her coat pocket. Sometimes craftily on her dressing table behind a bottle of perfume and even on the baths edge next to the toilet. I once left them in her ignition - boy I was a tw*t that day :)

That is fantastic. Watched it 3 times already and it grows on you.

It's a jackass clip but I don't know which series or film All the same, you'll either puke or laugh - or both http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWGpSUT1NfE&NR=1

I think you have missed the point cobra - and it is easy to do. And it's the word 'bid' that causes the confusion. You have no say in how much you bid - each new bid makes the price go up 1p The item starts at 0p with 20 seconds left on the auction. If you were the only person to bid you would get it for 1p (and that's why everyone bids) You can't see and are not told how many people are watching or trying to bid Each time someone bids the timer is reset to 20 seconds. But it's not a bid really, it's a paid ticket to allow you to participate in the auction. Which auction do you know of where you have to pay to raise your hand and you can't see any other bidder. It's a sort of Dutch auction where you have to pay to bid I suppose the concept is brilliant - some clever dicky thought of it and will be very rich by now Imagine you being the owner and every item you auction you recieve thousands of £sssss for a £100 item Go to madbid and watch

You must have seen the adverts where people get a new car for £400 and ipads for £40 So I had a look at the site. Oh, it's all flash and exciting and you watch the auctions and bids and see things going very cheap alright. So I studied it closely - it took a while but then I saw it's a total 'legal' scam and rip off. here's how it works and why it looks so good. A blue ray player comes up for sale for £0.00. Someone bids for it and it goes up to £0.01p You only have a set time to bid - a time counter counts down to zero seconds then the auction is over and the highest bidder wins. Sounds great so far! Well of course everyone is bidding while the price is very low - so the price soon shoots up to £30 Then it is sold for £30. A bargain you think. £30 for a £100 blueray player - and of course, it is. But - and here is the big BUT - you have to buy bids. You can't just bid money for it like Ebay You have to buy batches of bids for money. Something like 50 bids for a tenner. So........... you fall for it and buy 50 bids (cost to you now £10) You see the blueray player and bid while it's low (oh and most items cost you 3 or 5 bids a go and more) Someone outbids you the timer is falling to zero, you bid again and again and again - someone always outbids you until the price gets to around £30 then it slows down. You bid again as the timer gets to zero, you see your name as the last bid - the auction finishes but somewhere along the line someone manged to outbid you in the final millisecond. So you dont get the item. But, you have used nearly all your bids up and paid a tenner for those bids - so has everyone else who was bidding and only one person gets the item at £30 The other thousand of you that were bidding have used a tenners worth of bids trying to get it. It's only guesswork here but if a thousand are bidding for the same item and all use up their £10's worth of bids madbid.com have scooped £10,000 for a £100 blueray player - they have sold it for £30 true enough but raked in a fortune You have paid a tenner and got ###### all.

And there is another saying That is if Japan goes tits up... It's an ill wind.................

And when you write, try use a few paragraphs in your letter. That was really hard to read in one lump.

Depends what scale you are using and how far you want to go back.

I was about to say the same thing as Phil It's apples and oranges.

Is this horrifying or maybe disgusting. Or is it only natural to want to know. I don't know either but once you start tracking in real time where your jobbies go on their mystical journey it sort of becomes compulsive. Just watched mine go under the bakery, if only they knew what was passing by them below You may be skeptical and alarmed but once you start tracking, you won't be able to stop looking until it's journeys end :) :) http://www.flushtracker.com/

Oxfam, cheese spread, trainers to walk there. It's a start.

It must be very frustrating for you to be the only one to see how it really is!

I realise this 'now tradition' stems from American culture and so us older ones have some degree of resitance to it, but what harm does it do. The kids seem to really enjoy it. The dressing up, the treats and the atmosphere of hidden menace. Any kid will love that scenario. They come in droves to our house and all get money and a treat even though I will say every year 'stupid American traditions' Anyway, I seem to remember when I was a kid, there was a thing called mischievous night (the night before bonfire night) and we played tricks and pranks on people without them even getting a chance to placate us with treats. And they included the dogshit in the keyhole/letterbox, dustbins tipped over, fireworks outside their door etc.

There are always going to be one or two policemen who 'lose their cool' in the heat of the situation, it's not a police thing it's a human thing. But to hold up this and others situations like it as typical police responses is too easy. You don't see many youtube videos of the police doing their daily duty in a calm and proper fashion which would probably be 99% of the time. Like all the public service sectors, they are generally invisible until you need em.

I don't know what happened before this incident as it doesnt say too much. But, if a few more louts got a clip from the cops they might think twice about doing it again. There was a time when you knew that if you had been a bad lad, a clip from the coppers was more than likely. Now, there will be more publicity given to the rought treatment from the police than the offence the man commited.