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[RichardCranium]

Many years ago an experienced freelancer I worked with went on holiday for most of January.

I queried this and he said "Why go on holiday in the summer, when it is nice at home, and stay at home in the middle of winter when it is cold and dark at home yet hot, sunny and cheap elsewhere?"

Since then the Missus & I have tried to follow that philosophy and book our 'big' holidays for January.

It makes a summer holiday seem, well, foolish.

[NickFitz]

Aye, bit sore. I'll spare you any other details

<- for want of a "vigorously scraping the affected area with a loofah" smiley... nah, just kidding, it's a manly hug really

[RichardCranium]

I rather like the combat in general.

It is OK until you're on the receiving end when it can be very, very unpleasant.

We did dogging in there a while back btw

TPD has 'smutty Fridays'. I shall say no more.

[RichardCranium]

Greetings denizens

That's fifteen minutes of Radio 4 I wouldn't have heard otherwise

Coal Queens?

[RichardCranium]

Midnight post?

[RichardCranium]

Midnight post?

00:01

Damn!

TPD is slow tonight.

[Zippy]

It is OK until you're on the receiving end when it can be very, very unpleasant.

Got attacked when I first joined up, dealt with the buggers and all fine now.

Maybe I've been lucky.

[RichardCranium]

Phil turns 40 today.

He was 36 when he last logged in here.

He posted a question, didn't like the answers, and never came back.

I wonder what he's doing now.

[NickFitz]

I wish I'd seen this before I'd signed up:I do hope it has taken a long time for them to accumulate those 21,409 grizzles.

PlusNet are the lot that jumped on the "free email and webspace" bandwagon around 1999 with "FreeOnline".

I still have a FreeOnline email address. I signed up with them because I was about to go a-contracting, and all the other free email services had horrid, unprofessional domains. They, however, had the sense to register idps.co.uk, and then prepend your user name to make up the email domain, meaning you can use lots of different usernames (to track possible spam sources). Back then, an address like [email protected] looked a lot more professional than something like drunkenslutwhore@hotmail.com.

I remember reading an article a few years ago about the fact that people actually submit CVs with email addresses such as the latter specified as their contact address

Strangely enough, some people need to be told that this is a Bad Idea, as they don't sound sufficiently professional

Returning to your point: I've never tried their broadband service, but it sounds like they're pretty useless. The fact that, ten years on, their free email service still works perfectly will probably annoy you even more

[Zippy]

<- for want of a "vigorously scraping the affected area with a loofah" smiley... nah, just kidding, it's a manly hug really

What happened to Voodooflux?