Thanks. Both comps run on XP. They were both built at different times by a friend of a friend (whom it would take far too long to contact, hence why I'd rather do it myself), and are a few years old now. Technically, my comp is OK for the moment, really - now I've got a few spare pennies, I'm thinki...

StuartPlymouth wrote:Giz a job Lorna, I'm sure I can snip bits !

But which bits?

I'd appreciate some advice, please. I want to increase the RAM (basically, to double it) on both my computer, and that of my Gran's. I've heard that it's simply a matter of buying some more memory and just plugging it into any vacant memory slots in addition to the existing RAM (or replacing it if a...

Has anyone living in manchester EVER heard it called this except in the media, which is populated by those filthy London types? I've been in Manchester for 4 years and not once have I heard it called Gunchester. I get the distinct impression the media have actually coined it themselves and simultan...

I won £7.60 on Euromillions, once.

Well, we generally already say, for example, ten-sixty-six and nineteen-eighty-four, so why would twenty-ten be any different?

Here is me...

And frankly, once I become an old fart like you Kat, I don't know what I'll do :D Start mowing over disrespectful yoofs with your zimmer frame? :P Honestly Kat. Zimmer frames are sooo yesterday!! It's retro, innit? :D I seem to remember a sketch on BBC THREE a while back which showed some geriatric...

One thing ive noticed, no one ever seems discuss their lives on here. Is the site for getting away from the going ons of daily life? I don't want to discuss the minute of my life. It's not that I use Metropol to "get away from it all", just that I don't think my life is anybody else's bus...

cwathen wrote:And frankly, once I become an old fart like you Kat, I don't know what I'll do

Start mowing over disrespectful yoofs with your zimmer frame?

onetrickpony wrote:No, this is not one of my sick fantasies. If you came across someone standing on the edge of a building wanting to commit suicide, and they had a note attached to them, would you be tempted to push them off yourself?

In that scenario, would you be prosecuted for murder or assisting a suicide?