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Pedantically I would refer to an acoustic guitar that has a guitar jack output as an 'electro-acoustic'. An acoustic electric might suggest an electric guitar with f-holes and a semi-acoustic body such as a Gibson ES-335. I have an acoustic of the curved back variety and it does slide away. I...

Mmm. I so want to see that re-cut. This thread is very old yet very welcome. I've posted on it a couple of times.

I'm glad you cleared that up for me as I was thinking it was some sort of US slang. :b

Would that be "potting the brown"?

I just can't help thinking of the infamous 'Stone Henge' sequence in This Is Spinal Tap. The fact that we're talking about Iron Maiden is just the icing on the cake... :D :D :D

Ah well. Metric rules anyway. We'll drag the USA kicking and screaming into line one way or another! ;)

Complaint is the human condition, though...

Hmm. I believe there's actually a difference between Imperial ounces and US "British" ounces, isn't there? Or is it fluid ounces? I had a feeling that a pound or a pint in one place is 12 vs. 16 or something like that...

I presumed ChristopherDAC meant that if one never had sex with virgins then you are eventually condemning the population to die out. It's a pretty weird rule...

£7.99 would be cheap for a UK album (assuming it wasn't an ancient one) on CD so I'm guessing this is a special single? Yeah, the value of the dollar means importing from you guys is quite fun at the moment. One thing - you might want to find out about VAT? If it's added to the item you...

As far as I know, "cups" are a uniquely US invention and it's only by luck that mum has some so that we can use her US cookbook. In general cookbooks from the UK will have things in both metric and Imperial systems and yes, tablespoons, teaspoons and the like are in use. One teaspoon is 5mls...

You know I was going to do this and in the end I bought a Sony T1 VAIO ultra-portable notebook direct from the factory outlet (£1000 including VAT so should be WAY cheaper stateside). There are a couple of these tiny widescreen laptops around now - Fujitsu do one. Clearly it's not always...

Hmm, well unless you're using older versions of Word and Windows, 256 isn't really a lot of RAM. Still, I don't remember ever getting such messages on my old PIII 800 win98SE system with that amount. Are you using Win ME by any chance? That definitely had 'memory leak' problems. If you're...

Cheers, though while I do indeed reside in Great Britain, my name's Theo Graham-Brown, whichh is what the GB part stands for. ;)

I only just found out about this new 2006 release date and I'm now getting excited. :D I'm bloody glad the R2 versions of the set included the pilot that's all I'll say. What surprised me most about watching Season 1 again was how incredibly small the timescale is: All 8 episodes (including the...

Actually reading this over I'm a little confused: I understood the earthing of appliances to be for our protection as much as anything else? The idea being that if there's a short circuit in your appliance, the outside does not become live and therefore pose a risk for you. Are surge...

Sounds a bit concerning. How much RAM / free hard drive space do you have?

Also, if you have Word then open the saved page using Word and you should get a WYSIWYG editor to allow you to fix the page. :)

Hmm. I couldn't really say for sure. I think all of Europe is now 230V as it was determined we could drop by 10V and they could rise by 10V without problems for existing equipment. In England it's always been three pins (well not always but you'll only find two pin stuff from a VERY long time...

Hey, I thought no US plugs were earthed and only came two-pin style? Is the three-pin plug becoming a standard or have there always been both? Sorry, just interested.

What are you trying to record, though? I've only ever used my mini-disc to record gigs and in such cases the hiss was un-noticed when the music was actually being played, due to its loudness. You could always remove the hiss? Personally I'd advise a 'test-run' in similar circumstances to the...

Oddly I've heard the original Little Britain radio show a few times courtesy for BBC7, but not seen the show. I am really really bad at watching TV! D'oh!

Well, not *the* Dave Gorman, but the HTF's Dave Gorman. Happy birthday Dave. (Though of course that raises the question of whether or not he is actually called Dave Gorman, or if he changed his name...or if his user name is that way for a reason. Is he in the book? Presumably he should...

Yeah I did Physics at Uni, but the point is that medicine is a weird thing because of the effect psychology has on the body. I can't will gravity to stop working no matter how hard I try and someone who claims the Earth is flat is clearly barking up tree so wrong there's not a lot you can do...

Why do you care, though? Is your wife spending $4000 a year on the stuff? Placebos can work so in that sense there's little wrong with someone using it if they believe that it will work, especially when we're talking about something as trivial as a common cold. ;) I'd rather see the quacks...

I think the biggest pointer to Snape not being the evil character it tries to paint is that he only harms Dumbledore. Lay aside that Harry is to be kept for the Dark Lord, why does he knock out Flitwick (is it? Whoever goes to get him) and then feebly get Hermione and Neville (? I can't...

Maybe the government want to keep it too much? Don't forget that the UK changed on the back of a currency change and the integration into Europe, so these things were more likely to come together I reckon?

I don't really agree with that Andrew. It's unfair to talk of the inaccuracy of the original measurement since I thought it was done in Napoleon's time. In a sense it's bold idea and a clever one to take what would have seemed a very good constant distance and divide it up into a nice round...

Yeah, the rod's still there but these days the SI value is calculated via a laser, I believe. (Actually the Wikipedia listing explains about that.) So there were to be 10,000,000 kilometres from the equator to the north pole. :D I knew the value I suggested was very small but I think I'd just...