yeah, we're ok, thanks. The wife and kids were a bit shook up but not real harm done.

Could've been a lot worse, considering the force of the impact. Much love for VW right now - I'll miss that car.

Now I have to try and get a hire car at short notice, on a bank holiday weekend. The insurance company aren't exactly filling me with confidence - I swear I heard the prick on the end of the phone suck his teeth when talking about a replacement.

The fact that you are all OK is the important bit. and yes all the VAG cars are rather well built.

That's right - he's using your kids to scare you since there's an election. Is it any fcuking wonder political pariahs start to look electable with the scum we've currently got

Bloody Travelodge! My step-daughter and a girlfriend are in London for the Easter Weekend.

As neither have credit cards, I booked their flights and hotel with my card. I took them to the airport yesterday and everything went smoothly, but I had checked my credit card and the hotel hadn't booked the price of the room.

I then got a call at 10 yesterday evening, they had just arrived at the hotel in London and they couldn't get the room, because they didn't have a credit card! Luckily the friend has an international flat-rate on her telephone contract, so we could talk and I eventually managed to get the hotel to take my credit card details (again) and book the room to my card.

I booked a Best Western in Magdeburg for this weekend and the money was booked from my card over a month ago, so we shouldn't have any problems there.

It looks like Travelodge only take your credit card number when booking in case you don't turn up, so that they can get payment for the room, but if you do turn up, the credit card information they have on file is totally useless! Gah!

You're spot on there Dave.

Taking the credit card details on booking is standard practice here but I really can't understand why they couldn't use the existing details to pay for the room, just as they would have had your step daughter and friend not turned up !

I hope they don't let it spoil their weekend and that they have a great time in London.

I got it sorted over the phone and an email explicitly saying that I authorized the use of my credit card to pay for their room, it added about 30 minutes to the check-in process, but that is unneeded stress on a holiday!

WTF's wrong with Amazon these days? Whether you're on the main site or using Send To Kindle it continually refreshes the page or just hangs. Blocking elements of the page has helped a bit, but it's utterly infuriating

Nothing wrong with the site here.

At first I thought it was creaky Firefox, but it happens no matter what browser I'm on.

How fcuking hard can it be to get a browser that works these days?

Firefox crashes like a German pilot and loses all your tabs no matter what you've selected to prevent it, Chrome seems to run on the bits of flash even Adobe rejected, and IE is... the disgrace it's always been.

I read about a new browser the other day and can't remember the name of it, but I don't want to be opening two bloody browsers anyway (Firefox extensions are pure win until Mozilla puts out yet another bollocky update).

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015 ... veland-zoo

What is fcuking wrong with people who do that?

I think I've had 1 Firefox crash in the last 4 or 5 months - generally restart it every 5 or 6 days, open a couple of hundred tabs per day - currently have around 30 open.

Sounds like it is more your PC configuration than purely a Firefox problem. Do you have anything else running? Some dodgy addon or plugins?

Flash? I disabled that a few months back on all my machines.

Idiots. I hope the parents are successfully prosecuted. How bad a parent do you need to be to do something that stupid?

My father used to sit me on his shoulder to get a better look at exhibits. There is no way my parents would have dangled me over the railings and it is not something I'd ever dream of doing with my own kids.

It wasn't even holding the tabs with a clean installation, FF is getting more useless by the update. It hogs memory like mad and then even simple pages become a chore.