planetcutie has been a member of JezUK since 9th April 2001.

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Helium isn't a molecule. While most elemental gases (hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, chlorine etc.) are diatomic (found naturally as H2, N2, O2, Cl2 etc. )and therefore molecular, helium has a complete electron shell and so can exist as a free He atom. But I'm sure you knew this anyway and had just slipped your mind.

M.Lawrenson (A Level Chemistry class, Newcastle Under Lyme College 1992-94)
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:43, 06 Mar 2006

Believe me, if you have 'flu, then by god you know it. I had it in 1991 and I couldn't get out of bed for 2 days. The clock was my only entertainment. Even my mother believed I was ill, which took some doing.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:08, 02 Dec 2005

Maybe the Queen had it killed for her Sunday lunch.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:46, 09 Nov 2005

for 'hus' read 'hugs'. And no, I'm not drunk. Yet.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:52, 25 Aug 2005

I think hus are the fuel that power American social society. I find all hugs creepy and unsettling, though, having only had one in my life.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:51, 25 Aug 2005

Right phoned, bought ticket etc. Dealing with the ticket office was no problem (after the queue waiting piping light jazz music - I thought that after recent revelations that reggae would be more appropriate), but pysching myself up to use the phone was agony. Still, I managed it and I'll get many plaudits in group therapy when I tell them this tomorrow.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:31, 14 Jun 2005

Oh,I know that. But try telling that to my amygdala.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:19, 14 Jun 2005

Ooh, 10 pounds is no problem, less than no problem in fact. Using the phone is another thing entirely. Why have a 'buy tickets' option on the website if a customer can't actually do that? Are Warwickshire waiting for next year's Sky TV money so they can fix this? Right. After a bottle and a half I may be able to use the phone, but I can't promise being able to give details correctly.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:16, 13 Jun 2005

I'm presuming the above number is the ticket sales number, right? Any idea of price (I should be able to afford it, but I like to have a rough idea of these things) and what stand to be in? Edgbaston's website seems not to be very helpful here.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 07:36, 11 Jun 2005

I'm available for the cricket (pending holidays going through), though since I'm giving blood the previous day my alcohol tolerance will be reduced :^)
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:54, 10 Jun 2005

Yup. Outpost Gallifrey's forum has been shut down by the editor because of it :

http://www.gallifreyone.net/forum/index.php

Added to The Coffee Grounds on 06:34, 01 Apr 2005

It's more atmospheric that way - a silhouette thing, if you like.

Goes well with your new cyan background too.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:56, 20 May 2004

"Only fits the definition of laptop if you have an extremely large lap"

Well, you said it. Not me...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:17, 10 Apr 2004

The wonderful world of "choice" :

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1180749,00.html
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 17:18, 30 Mar 2004

Well...'Daniel' is a hebrew name, but I'm struggling to come up with any other connections.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:24, 29 Mar 2004

Your age, dear boy :^)
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 13:06, 15 Mar 2004

It's difficult for me to take 'first wave' punks seriously, as most of them are the same age as my father.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:53, 15 Mar 2004

And what's more, Al's weapon of choice was the baseball bat rather than the shmeiser.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 06:28, 05 Mar 2004

Christ, *my* mother (age 49) thinks that the PC will blow up if she presses a key...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 18:35, 10 Feb 2004

Oh good. As I type this he's probably in the process of being hired as a road safety instructor.

I'm not saying all problems would be solved by having cars banned from the road, but...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 22:48, 08 Feb 2004

I still don't know who 'Jordan' is.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:53, 23 Jan 2004

Good god. You'd have a heart attack if you read some of the things that are on the Atlas F1 Nostalgia forum.

And one senior motorsport journalist, in his weekly column in the biggest selling magazine of it's genre, wrote that "Instead of using all that technology to devise traction control software, those scientists should spend their time devising something to shut down speed cameras before I pass them."

So, don't be worried about *you* being reactionary...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:56, 09 Jan 2004

I went out in light rain to buy Autosport and DWM. Halfway into the 1.5 mile trip is starts really chucking it down and I get thoroughly drenched.

I came home and dried myself and sat down with my mags, and the guttering outside my house falls off (due to massive water overflow) as it's been threatening to do for me.

Somebody up there....well, you know the rest.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:30, 08 Jan 2004

£210 from my parents. Unimaginative, but I'm not complaining.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 17:58, 06 Jan 2004

Now let's see how old he is when he escapes from the house for the first time. I managed it when I was 2, and I didn't even walk until I was past 1.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:49, 30 Dec 2003

I've recently ended a long running dispute with Demon. Namely them trying to charge me £233.25 for an account I cancelled last year. A simple and vaguely offended email set it right on 8th December - one of the best birthday presents I've had. Still, it brings home the lack of 'joined up thinking' between a company's 'online' staff and those who deal with the financial side,
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 07:28, 11 Dec 2003

Education? Oh, don't get me started...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:58, 04 Dec 2003

I remember a whooping cough scare at my primary school in about 1983 (and about someone from my class too). Letters given to the parents from the headmaster and everything. Coupled with that, in the mid 1970s there was a whooping cough vaccine scare, so very few of my generation were given the jab for it. So the MMR thing is nothing new, you know.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:54, 29 Oct 2003

Yay! Exactly the weight my brother was at birth. Except he was two weeks late. Happy times bringing up *your* second son :^)
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:10, 19 Oct 2003

How many people could a 3 year old know who could email him?
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:37, 09 Oct 2003

And it only took you three minutes to open it, too.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:31, 25 Sep 2003

Aaaaah, cute. Or something.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 18:36, 04 Sep 2003

Aaaaah, cute. Or something.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:30, 04 Sep 2003

The lesson here is : Drink dry martinis instead.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 16:17, 24 Aug 2003

As I say in therapy - "Who am I to judge?" :^)
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:07, 25 Jul 2003

Simple - shove him out of the bed so a piece of his ear gets cut out by the bedside drawer unit. It's what my father did with me, and look at me now!
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:44, 25 Jul 2003

Well, that and for SimCity 4...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 23:07, 14 Jul 2003

My BMI is 18.8 (healthy, if on the thin side). Oh yes, and I bought a new PC so I can actually see this page properly now.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 20:13, 14 Jul 2003

Look on the bright side. There are worse places to discover varicose veins. Especially whilst on the toilet.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:08, 14 Apr 2003

The above comment was by me. Have you altered the login settings?
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:40, 07 Feb 2003

Ah yes, the second biggest event in the UK during that September weekend in 1997...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 03:55, 27 Jan 2003

Trucks powered by SmartPrice cooking oil? That'll be something to look forward to...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:41, 20 Jan 2003

Nah, it's ok. You should always try a new look when you get bored of looking at the same old face in the mirror.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:19, 14 Jan 2003

Ever heard the phrase "Too much info"?
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:53, 10 Jan 2003

Just wear a coat while at the PC like I do. The mouse-moving hand gets cold, though.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 19:31, 07 Jan 2003

Good stuff. We'll make a writer of you yet.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:04, 03 Dec 2002

Simon Jones - the future of English fast bowling? Yes, because we'll only probably see him play again in the distant future. But this is what happens when you select a squad of players who break bones, muscles and ligaments if you just look at them in a funny way.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:27, 07 Nov 2002

I was barely awake. I was just about to get up (this is me, remember) and I heard some stuff on my PC desk bumping a bit. I thought 'Nah, can't be an earthquake'.

Last one we had round here was a few years ago - a 2.8 Richter one when some local mine workings collapsed. Now that was mildly disconcerting.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:02, 23 Sep 2002

I hear (insert a certain supermarket with whom I have connections) have some vacancies. Apply now to become a Christmas temp on the BWS section! Earn about £5 an hour for hour upon hour of back-breaking labour! Then be given a swift boot up the backside come January 3rd! Then listen to them beg you to come back because 6 people have left by the second week of February!
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:19, 20 Sep 2002

Yay! The reappearance of the old 'there's only one of these things but this program assumes there are more and pluralizes anyway' thing!
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 20:39, 10 Sep 2002

Poor bean. My parents couldn't afford nursery, so I just took advantage of my mother's unawareness - escaping from the house, smashing bottles, putting books in a full bath, eating laburnum pods etc. etc. My message to all parents : watch your children at all times.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:06, 27 Jul 2002

What kind of man are you? Do you really need excuses to go and buy gadgets? Be a modern man, and buy stuff whether you need it or not.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 13:06, 15 Jul 2002

They've got to keep the BBC graphics deparment in business, y'know. If they didn't, it'd have been closed along with the costume department, design department, radiophonic workshop etc. etc.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 13:56, 19 Jun 2002

Comics 2002 was reasonable enough. No bar, though. How can a comics convention function without a bar? See you at Caption - conventions have been much easier for me since I decided to go for only one day.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:04, 07 Jun 2002

It's very sad. I heard about it early last week. During the 80s he copped a lot of flak from Whofans because of his 'light entertainment' guest star policy, his 'tacky and glitzy' production style and the awful shirts he wore. Still, his era was the one I grew up watching.

Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:39, 13 May 2002

1986. I had the Panini sticker album for that year, and I remember Villa, WBA and Birmingham being in the 1st Division. WBA were relagated that year.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 01:27, 13 May 2002

It makes you wonder how far you can go, watching out for additives, adulterants, GMing, farming practices etc. In the end, you'll end up growing your own wheat in the back garden (having first checked the soil for pesticides, herbicides, industrial pollutants etc). There comes a point where it just becomes unviable in a modern society.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:51, 18 Apr 2002

Aaaah. Reminds me of the time I gave my 2 year old sister an extra strong mint. She put it on the table to cool down. Aaaah.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 18:05, 08 Apr 2002

Gaming does have an effect on behaviour, obviously. Look at me - I've been playing Sim City games for over 10 years, and I have these uncontrollable urges to zone land, deal with taxes, and make fully functional transport and water systems.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:56, 04 Apr 2002

I'm following my own diet. It's called the 'Tox' diet, where I consume nothing but dairy products, wheat-based products and alcohol. Tonight I'm having 4 cheese pizza, with lots of white bread, a packet of chocolate chip cookies, and washed down with Australian Shiraz and vodka. And 3 pints of milk before I go to bed. It's a great sacrifice, naturally. But you have to persist with what you believe in.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 17:02, 02 Apr 2002

Detox diet? Hah, my body is like one of those crumbling houses that's only held together by the wallpaper. If I gave up all my toxins, I probably wouldn't be able to get out of bed at night.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 13:50, 18 Mar 2002

Colonic irrigation? You can stick it up your arse.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 11:41, 12 Mar 2002

Bad luck old bean. Or should I say good luck. You're a stromger man than I.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:45, 06 Mar 2002

This was UKCAC 98, right? I wasn't nervous, just that I'd never read a Wagner/Bisley comic. But it made an impressive anecdote for a Bisley loving ex-school fellow of mine.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:40, 01 Mar 2002

Well, *I* liked the relaunched series of Green Lantern. In fact, the first DC comic I bought was #19. I eventually completed my run of 1-23 from various shops. I did put a standing order in for 24, but after reading it in the shop I refused to buy it, because it was no good. And all before my 18th birthday, too.

I stick to GL back issues now.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 14:48, 15 Feb 2002

Well, George W Bush has to say things such as 'we will seek vengeance and eliminate terrorism in the world' or he hasn't a hope in hell of being re-elected in 2004.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:02, 17 Sep 2001

Ha ha. Slim Shady corrupts another innocent mind.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 05:35, 22 Aug 2001

Went out shopping after Ramprakash was out. I didn't think they'd get 26 in half an hour, so I'd be home for the victory. They did. Bastards. Never rely on England - even to be crap.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 17:57, 20 Aug 2001

Bah. It's post Caption and no zine to do. Will listen to the Marshall Mathers LP and play Freecell.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:54, 20 Aug 2001

Only because nobody's tried it yet, dear boy.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 18:35, 17 Aug 2001

To hell with coffee. Drink bourbon instead.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:22, 15 Aug 2001

Could be worse. In 1988, my mother was driving us to Lancaster on a weekday morning. Passing through the M6 near Birmingham, a car swerved, hit the back wheel of a truck, and cartwheeled off the road onto the crash barrier. My mother braked just hard enough to avoid being collected by the flying lump of metal. She stopped just in front of it, and it had landed the right way up, though somewhat damaged. The driver looked ok, if somewhat surprised.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 09:19, 04 Aug 2001

What I'm wondering is : Why did it take four years to take off like this?
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 12:05, 21 Jul 2001

Best not to be smug. He'll probably get another novel out of this...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:34, 19 Jul 2001

Don't forget the great 'Ashes Drinking Game' :

England collapse : 1 drink

Steve Waugh gets a century : 2 drinks

Nasser Hussain breaks a digit : 3 drinks

Mark Butcher is England's best bowler : Drink the whole bottle.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 20:43, 08 Jul 2001

I just put C4 on, only to see Mark Butcher bowling. Things must be bad.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:37, 06 Jul 2001

Ah yes. But the time of animations such as the Moomins, the Flumps and the Clangers has passed. Nowadays kids like shows such as Pokemon and Bob The Builder, and have all the merchandise to buy. Cartoons in the year 2001 - simple entertainment or a lifestyle choice? This is 'progress', apparently.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:57, 02 Jul 2001

My experience of this is that schools spend loads of cash on computers to impress the board of governors/local press/parents of prospective students. Having done that, they then have to find some reason for justifying the expense. In the case of a college I went to, this entailed cutting the lecture time by a third and telling us to use the 'Learning Resource Centre' (eg: big, new expensive building full of shiny new expensive PCs) to make up the difference.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 08:12, 06 Jun 2001

And when it's on the radio, it's still as awkward. I mean, Long Wave. Long Wave! They may as well send the commentary by carrier pigeon for as most radios made in the last 10 years only have MW and FM.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 06:07, 02 Jun 2001

Or maybe he's just taking the piss.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 10:29, 25 May 2001

Or maybe he's just taking the piss.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 08:33, 25 May 2001

I'll take your word for it, dear boy...
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 18:49, 16 May 2001

From what I've gathered, I appear to be perceived as a 'non-sexual' person by everyone. At work, I'm not counted as a 'young, available' man, despite being young, available and male. And, my brother, despite being apparently unshockable, is disgusted by me talking about mastubation. He says he can't imagine me doing it. Well, I am a 25 year old virgin, after all.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 15:22, 24 Apr 2001

No. No, this doesn't sound good at all. Where's the sucrose? Where are the chemicals? More lemon flavour bonbons! More Pepsi Max! More frozen pizza! Yes.
Added to The Coffee Grounds on 13:16, 09 Apr 2001