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New comment box

Mr Fuzzy here (I now have posting rights :-D *Cackles*) Ok so after LOTS of frustration and temptation to get drunk in an attempt to make sense of it, I FINALLY got disqus to install and work. (its a new comment handling applet thing, meant to try and reduce spam, as comments which get a poor rating automatically dissappear as voted by people (if it gets abused then it goes, the threshold for stuff vanishing is pretty high to counter that though :-) If its too annoying for people commenting then it also will go, so leave a message and let us know :-) ) Issues: 1) Will not work with Ubuntu linux (Which is what is on Mrs Fuzzy's laptop and what I had loaded on my desktop) which meant a lot of wasted time, till I logged into Windows XP where it worked fine. 2) Took a few goes tinkering around for it to work, found that comments had to be set to "full page" and not "pop-up" to get it to work 3) I don't get the name, I realise its a trademarkable name, but I ...

Melted Wires and Imminent Death by Electric BBQ

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So there was this odd smell in the bathroom the past few days. But it wasn't always there. So yesterday while Mr Fuzzy was in the shower the smell was very strong (it wasn't him :p). He thought it could be the wires in the switch and then the switch stopped working, so grabbed the little ladder and had a look. Now remember to turn off power to the shower when trying to do something like this! (don't want anyone getting hurt trying to have a look) [For those of you wondering why we have electricity going into the shower, most showers in the UK have their own water heater built in so in theory the water temp doesnt change if someone turns on the taps /flushes the toilet - in practise the kitchen tap is fed directly off the water main as is the shower.....so turning on the tap to do dishes results in a yell and a stream of obscenities from the person in the shower....usually me...yet she swears its an "accident" everytime it happens - a "semi scalded" Mr Fu...