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[The Headliner]

I'd have probably put that in the Things That Make Me Angry thread. Stupid kid ruined your swim.

[El Jackal]

So, I looked the story up this morning.. and it wasn't really a little kid as we had been told, it was a 16 year old boy.

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/4416127.Tragic_Appleton_Reservoir_boy_named/?ref=mr

[Fan]

Wings lost. 

[Advocate]

That ol' Detroit.  First Chrysler, then GM, and now the Wings

[The Headliner]

The realization that I haven't seen any toy in a box of breakfast cereal in ages. I cannot remember the last time. It's bad enough that TV advertising no longer makes kids think their cereals are aimed at them (just banging on about health and nutrition - "Coco Pops and milk make a bowl full of fun" ), but now it seems a generation is missing out on the joy of choosing their next brand based entirely on the free gift. Even a Hawk Girl pencil topper would suffice in this drought of in-bag freebies.

[Hazzy]

I noticed that too. This also makes me sad.

[The Gopher]

Some Cheerios around here are currently giving away legos inside some boxes - it just seems dangerous to me, though.

[The Headliner]

I don't know how it is in America, but over here the toys are (were?) individually wrapped in a plastic sachet, so there's no chance of accidental consumption.

[El Jackal]

Well you know how Americans are with food.. they probably shovel cereal down their throats.. so even in a plastic sachet the items probably still aren't safe.

[Kraul]

We shovel the food down because it's delicious. Don't be jealous that you're stuck with crappy english cuisines. The whole of Britain isn't exactly known for it's good food.

[Illusion]

What?  If you're talking shit about Britain I'm gonna get H-Man to kick your ass.

[The Headliner]

For the past few weeks, there has been a pigeon nest in the tree overhanging the bus stop near my house. I've seen the birds taking turns to bring food while the other sits on the eggs.

As this is the Things That Make Me Sad thread, you'll have already guessed that this morning, I found a cluster of feathers and two broken eggs on the ground below the nest. Without getting too close, it was clear to see that at least one of them contained a motionless ball of fluff.

[The Headliner]

I've just found out that Teletext is due to close in January 2010. I'm truly gutted.

For uninitiated foreigners, "teletext" is a directory of text-based pages accessed via British televisions, predating the rise of the Internet by many years. However, the brand name Teletext refers only to the service available through Channel 4 and the ITV channels - other broadcasters have their own services, like the BBC's Ceefax. It's only Teletext with a capital T that's getting the axe.

But over the years it has been an integral part of my daily routine. In my mid-teens I'd play the Bamboozle quiz and read the Mega-Zine letters pages. From then onwards, I'd religiously key in the page number for Digitiser, the hilarious videogames section, since replaced by the more subdued GameCentral which I read to this day.

With the increasing prevalence of the Web for news, and TV guides just a button press away on digital platforms, it was always going to struggle to remain relevant. But it's still going to be a huge loss when it goes the way of its predecessor, Oracle.

End of an era...

[The Headliner]

The end of tonight's Home and Away.

[The Headliner]

Quadruple post. Go me.

Today I learned that a lighthearted comment I made towards someone ages ago wasn't taken that way, and because I haven't seen or spoken to them for years, they've been carrying this impression of me without me realizing. Which sucks, because it's hard to change their view of an event so long after it happened, while they've spent all this time thinking I'd turned on them for no reason.