Trouble with "standardised" spelling is it take no account of accent. My son says tooth with a long oo, kids in his school mostly say tuth with a short u like put. He says clothes, they say clowers. He says shoes, they say shoowers. How could you standardise that?

Most are dumb, but the one on the Bobcat loader-thing seemed very sensible - doing it wrong would be easy, seem sensible and be dangerous. Perfect conditions for a warning label, I'd say.

Certainly sounds like he isn't the only arsehole there.

98 in ten rounds - but then I plead being British and never having heard of most of the programmes, let alone seen or heard them!

49 or 51 point turn, Shirley? An even number would leave him in reverse.

"Man's worst nightmare"? Never crossed my mind till now! There are far scarier things in the world than a vagina, toothed or otherwise.

In what way is it hermaphrodite? My ten year old son's got hair half way down his back (he gets teased at school, but only by the girls - I think they're jealous), but trust me, he's all boy.

Our local play group and our nursery all had dolls with all the bits - the kids just took it in their stride. It's not as if it's any great surprise to a child!

I've always wanted to run a singles bar for Lost Socks. I'd called it Tootsies. You'd arrive with a sock and work your way through a decision tree (with possibly a drink at each table); plain/patterned, stripes/spots/pictures etc until you arrived at a table with socks of your sort.

About a third of the way up I see a baby bird - two eyes and a crossed beak. Trouble is, once you've seen it you can't stop seeing it!

At least they're a step up from the London Olympics logo. Then again, so's a cowpat.

When your bookcase is full the screw-thread is going to stick out a long way and be awkward to pack with other things.

It's pretty, but a sliding divider with wedges or similar would do the job a lot better.

I just wonder whether the spotted base-bit is actually /meant/ to look like Davros, the originator of the Daleks, or whether it's just serendipitous.
http://www.davross.clara.co.uk/personal/jpg/davros.jpg

Can't work out which country he's in - but I guess it's not the UK since pitbulls are banned.

It's a thing for getting Boy Scouts out of Girl Guide tents.

We dry outdoors when we can, indoors on a pulley-thing like this
http://www.usstore.ecodri.com/images/EcoDRI_PR.jpg
only a fifth of the price, when it's wet or too cold.
To get a good breeze we've a desk fan screwed upside down to the ceiling. Dries a full load of washing in about two hours at 15 Watts.

Banning outdoor drying is for snobs.