My train line was flooded. So me leaving the house late didn't make any difference to what time I would have got here and I am now half an hour late but it wasn't my fault.

For some reason I feel a sense of satisfaction at this.

Why is this thread so large? And...
I'm thinking there should be a reference to it in the FAQ section.

Unfortuneately the original attachments have been trimmed now, but it was originally started because Steve Manthorp cracked one of his intricate wooden ball carvings and felt the need to test whether the join was neat and true.

Since then there has been minimal pictures of the rest of Steve's balls and maximum drivel from teh Teh lot. It is one of the best titled threads ever anywhere ever like.

Your sig seems to be slowly getting more animated and attention-seeking as time goes by.

Please stop before it gets to be 1000 pixels high, with 29 animated gifs (one of which is a waving US flag), links to 8 other forums and a site to donate to the 9/11 fund, and pictures of you and all the pets you ever had, with R.I.P. approriately interspersed.

A subltle little non-moving "yank" is all that's needed here. It's a cross-Atlantic thing.

Well, there is an unwritten rule about no animation at all here, but I'm easy (yes, John).

Even Dave had to sedate his banana :O 

Pffft - hack work compared to the awesome marvelousness of Steve's cracked ball, which I've personally cradled in my hand. That was before he showed me his snake and it tried to escape behind the bookshelf.

Um. I guess you had to be there.

I'm not worried... you're on the other side of the water. You'd have to travel at least... oh.... 100 miles to get here!
(that's right... you use kilometers..... what would that be...... about 5k?)
And I don't think you want to make that journey.

I don't think you fully appreciate the hatred for animated GIFs.

(And no, we don't use kilometres. We use miles. Fuck Europe.)