[you think the american diet has gone astray?]

I thought they stopped doing that...I could be very wrong. I thought they had some good hearts (and minds ) to realized they were hurting their customers. Don't get me wrong, I love McDonald's (I go once every few months), but I thought they wised up about the Jumbo/Super sizing bit. If you've seen Supersize Me, it might make you not want McDonald's for a few weeks.

 

AJ

Oh dear , that to me is really sad . It is surely your business to eat at McDonalds or anywhere else but it is not rocket science to buy good ingrediants and cook something yourself . Decide on the dish . get the ingrediants and the rest is just getting the timing right , with the aid of just a little chemistry .

Visiting Florida in 1998 and 1999 we were amazed at the poor quality of the food and drinks available , coffee terrible , beer awful , wine ok TG for California . Tell me I am wrong but steaks looking good and fairly cheap seemed to have come from cattle that were pumped up with steroids .

We do not use McDonalds , Starbucks etc. as they IMHO sell an inferior product . Like a lot of things in life the hype is generated by advertising and the media .

Come on America , shape up the world is looking to you for inspiration . Fat is not fit so get a grip .

[Need backup of my system & programmes]

Thankyou DennisD for your reply & advice given .

Unfortunately our system was custom built so as such has no brand name on it . I will have a look into this recovery partition that you mentioned , will get back to this if anything more is found .

JHC

[Freeware!]

I must be doing something right , have 4 of them & use them . Mucho concerro senor !

[Freeware!]

AntiMalware section

 

CWShredder

Removes cool web search. Make sure you click on "stand alone CWShredder.

http://www.intermute.com/spysubtract/cwshr...r_download.html

Spyware Blaster

Stop spyware and adware from being downloaded in the first place. Just be shure to keep it up dated and to always click block all know issues after updating.

http://www.javacoolsoftware.com/spywareblaster.html

Ad-Aware

removes adaware.

http://www.lavasoftusa.com/software/adaware/

 

Spybot

Removes spyware and immunizes your pc from know threats.

http://spybot.eon.net.au/en/index.html

Microsoft AntiSpyware

A antispyware tool from microsoft, includes a realtime scanner.

http://www.microsoft.com/athome/security/s...re/default.mspx

 

CCleaner

(Crap Cleaner) is a freeware system optimization and privacy tool. It removes unused files from your system - allowing Windows to run faster and freeing up valuable hard disk space. It also cleans traces of your online activities such as your Internet history. But the best part is that it's fast (normally taking less that a second to run) and FREE! .

http://www.CCleaner.com/

 

HijackThis

creates logfiles of key areas of your hard drive and registry. Post log files on this forum to have them evaluated.

http://www.download.com/HijackThis/3000-80...tml?tag=lst-0-1

[Need backup of my system & programmes]

Would appreciate any advice on what I can do to backup our entire computer system in the worse case scenario of the dreaded computer crash .

We bought our computer system in August 2006 on recommendation of friends from a legitimate business run from a shop run by an Englishman . Being complete computer illiterate we never received any cd recovery or even a barcode on the tower! Luckily our m/s is ok as we get our updates etc. I should add that this gentleman has left the country - did not even say goodbye .

Now , if I have made some of you laugh then so be it ; I am always trying to make someone laugh , do not look in the mirror very often these days !

Anyway I digress , please can someone of knowledge help & it would be appreciated .

Regards

JHC

[So Damn Embarrassing]

Smart arse salesperson !

Seriously , going from a dynamic , engineering , exporting successful nation to a third world level service orientated

nation of losers is going to be really hard for the USA to stomach . The UK has managed to do all that in a few decades & could be a role model for other once mighty nations to follow .

Anyway in God we trust & I hope your God smiles on you .

hub

[Life in Liverpool]

Life in Liverpool England is a bit different these says as it heads into it's year as the city of culture

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7574866.stm

 

If you remember it used to be home of the beatles, now it's home of the spider

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7600126.stm

 

Mate of mine went to a non white part of Liverpool some years ago & you should have seen the culture he

picked up . I settled for a spicy chicken curry , bit young for the other .

Obediently , hub .

[Life in Liverpool]

Make sure you watch a bit to see inside the spider.

 

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=4vNtVRpvCiw

 

As usual you will notice it's raining again!

 

Only decent other one I could find of the trees, the BBC one was best

 

 

 

Always whinging about a drop of rain - poor bastards in south east austalia have not seen rain for about ten years

& do you hear them whinging ?

What about growing hybradised , GM modified rice in the parts of England that gets a bit of spare rain water ; could

be a winner .

As ever , your servant , sirs & madams .

hub

[I have a problem]

Hi Hazelnut

 

I own a Weihrauch HW77 K air rifle if need be this would cure your problem instantly may be a little drastic I know but pidgeon pie is very nice with a bottle of red.

 

Thanks

Steve

 

 

How wonderful to see the celebrated British eccentricity continuing to be displayed .

The chinese seem to know what they are doing - eating rat with their Becks .

Anyway I was right about those 2 Hull FC teams !

Tata for now

hayupboy

[Little known facts]

35% of our DNA is the same as daffodils have.

 

One of the ingredients of dynamite is peanuts.

 

 

I have tried eating daffodils ( when had too much pop ) . Definately not recommended as parts are

toxic .

[Little known facts]

If you hate peanut butter, you'll love this:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDUIwUbkFZs

 

And the Hull City thing is definitely something I'll drop into a conversation sometime.

 

Kingston-upon-Hull is a city which has 2 FC?s ( football clubs ) , neither of them are any good .

[Little known facts]

Michigan Blows..................a cold winter wind, that will chill you to the bone.

 

Speaking of cold facts!

 

Bill Gates earns $250 every second; that?s about $20 million a day and $7.8 billion a year!

If he drops a thousand-dollar bill, he needn?t even bother to pick it up because in the four seconds it would take him to pick it up, he would?ve already earned it back.

 

That will kick you in the snowballs!

 

Ooii ! , did you say ?earn ? referring to Bill Gates ? Just a lucky opportunist who was in the right place at the

right time . The brains behind the whole concern was Bill Allen or am I wrong ?

At least Bill & his lady wife have decided to do some good with their foundation ; the Fed should have got in

first & begged for a loan , at commercial rates of course .