Naomi Watts

We have a pretty big percentage of British backpackers who do hospitality work while they are here in our restaurants and they are nothing but professional and friendly. We love them. I think this sounds like "put the locals down by saying they don't want to work" to justify paying less wages. It's worked in almost all other sectors, why not hospitality too. :rolleyes: You'd think by now that they would know that we are up on that trick.

Greenpeace have been on their tails during the whole fiasco. The Japanese say they want to kill the whales for scientific research when it's been proven that the whale ends up in restaurants where it's a delicacy and it fetches a lot of $$$$. They have been doing this for decades. The fact that they have murdered whales in waters where they shouldn't be just proves how arrogant the Japanese are on this issue.

Didn't realise that EMI had 14,000 artists on it's books. I think that the recording industry should just drop the price of CDs. We all know that it costs next to nothing for them to make. I buy my CDs when they hit the bargain bins because that's the price they should be to begin with. That's all their worth. Music has to be the worst investment you can make. A friend of mine recently sold their whole collection and was pretty cranky to find that most of the albums he paid full price for , could hardly sell for a fiver.

option B again Muddy Waters - Mannish Boy Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode Elvis- Jailhouse rock Johnny Cash - I walk the Line Elvis - Hound Dog.

option B this time as most of the songs I've never heard before. Elvis - Teddy Bear Platters - Great Pretender Bill Haley - Rock around the Clock Elvis - Thats all right mama Sam cooke - you send me

Alvin Stardust and Garry Glitter are pretty silly names.

1 Cream - White Room 2 Mason Williams - Classical Gas 3 beatles - Revolution 4 Beatles - Back in the USSR 5 Beatles - Dear Prudence

That 2nd one looks incredibly like an old player that my father had stored in the garage until a few years ago. lol Don't know if these count, but I've always been fascinated by old Wurlitzer Jukeboxes. I guess they could be called a record player? The 1939 model...lol http://www.jukebox45s.co.uk/1937-wurlitzer-616-parts.gif The 1941 model.... http://www.pinballrebel.com/archive/wurlitzer/w780/w780_a.jpg 1956...... http://www.jukeboxlondon.co.uk/images/W2000.jpg 1966.... http://www.boomersamusements.com/101-0143_IMG%20opt.jpg and last...1977 model.... http://i2.ebayimg.com/02/i/000/cf/a2/35c0_1.JPG Didn't really realise how unattractive those old ones were!

Talking about Led Zep, Oz band Wolfmother is definately channelling them. ;)

I should've added with a bread and water diet, hard manual labour and no entertainment like TVs. I'm sure that would bring the cost down.

thanks for the link Haze. I love some Dire Straits. :cheer: Mark Knoffler is an under-rated guitar player. His style is sublime.

A lot of Aussie banks and credit companies are using Indian call centres too. It seems a global phenomenon. I don't know why, but when I'm transferred to the call centre, we always end up shouting at each other like we are calling overseas lol. Thats usually when the gig is up that they aren't local indians in Oz but in India!! I watched a documentary about indian call centres and they dont have very much training. Just a few weeks and that is it. Besides the language barrier, the locality and cultural barrier, there is also the barrier that they really aren't that trained in the product that they are servicing. Which results in usually a very unsatisfactory experience. Many people have boycotted banks that use them, but now all of them do and there is no more competitors to move to. The banks seem to think that if they are all using them, then we would get used to it. Needless to say we haven't.

I find the concept of kids in pubs really weird. I was never taken to a pub as a kid. I didn't go to one until I was legally allowed to drink. Drinking isn't the only thing that goes on pubs, not here in Australia anyway. There are poker machines, and gambling (horse races to bet on etc). I think my local pub throws out the welcome mat to kids for lunch but even they are forced out into the beer garden. (outdoors). They aren't allowed in the pub area. No one under 18 is.

It would be even better if they kept them in jail for life.

Blue Monday is a classic!

So it's the BeeGees V The Minogues? lol Alvin and the chipmunks I think. ;)

1 Madonna - Causing a Commotion 2 Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise 3 Eurythmics - Missionary Man 4 Mental As Anything - Live It Up 5 Prince ft Sheena Easton - U Got The Look

Elvis Costello & Attractions - Watching The Detectives 20 pts Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights Rolling Stones - Miss You Elvis Costello & Attractions - Pump It Up Meat Loaf - Bat Out Of Hell Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street Patti Smith Group - Because The Night Siouxsie & The Banshees - Hong Kong Gardens Blondie - Denis Kate Bush - Man With The Child In His Eyes Meat Loaf - You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth Donna Summer - Macarthur Park ELO - Mr Blue Sky Boney M - Rivers of Babylon Abba - Take A Chance On Me Bee Gees - Night Fever Bee Gees - Stayin' Alive John Paul Young - Love Is In The Air Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car 10 only Guns 'N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine Guns 'N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Fee Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Terence Trent D'arby - Sign Your Name INXS - Need You Tonight INXS - Never Tear Us Apart

Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood Ted Nugent - Cat Scratch Fever Al Stewart - Year of the cat Ram Jam - Black Betty AC/DC - Let There Be Rock

1 Shirley Bassey - Big Spender 2 Petula Clark – Don’t Sleep In The Subway 3 Moody Blues - Tuesday Afternoon 4 Lemon Pipers - Green tambourine 5 Nancy Sinatra - You Only Live Twice

Herb Alpert - This Guy's In Love With You 20 pts Simon & Garfunkel - Mrs. Robinson Hugo Montenegro & Orchestra - The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Manfred Mann - Mighty Quinn Barry Ryan - Eloise Beach Boys - Do It Again Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower John Fred & His Playboy Band - Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World Otis Redding - (Sittin' On) The Dock Of The Bay Rolling Stones - Jumping Jack Flash Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild Stevie Wonder - For Once In My Life Foundations - Build Me Up Buttercup Gary Puckett & Union Gap - Young Girl Doors - Hello I Love You Bee Gees - Got To Get A Message To You Dionne Warwick - Do You Know The Way To San Jose Aretha Franklin - Think Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love

1 Garbage - Only Happy When It Rains 2 Hootie & the Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You 3 Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket 4 Garbage - Queer 5 Madonna - Human Nature

Elvis Costello - Alison 20 pts David Bowie - Heroes Iggy Pop - Lust For Life Donna Summer - I Feel Love Eagles - Hotel California Paul McCartney & Wings - Mull Of Kintyre Peter Gabriel - Solsbury Hill Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen Sex Pistols - Pretty Vacant Fleetwood Mac - Dreams Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way Bee Gees - How Deep Is Your Love Emotions - Best Of My Love Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better Carpenters - Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft Abba - Knowing Me Knowing You Abba - The Name Of The Game Barbra Streisand - Evergreen (Love Theme - A Star Is Born) Neil Young - Like A Hurricane Kraftwerk - Trans-Europa Express

George Michael - Fastlove 20 pts 2 Pac ft Dr. Dre - California Love Alanis Morissette - Ironic Fugees - Killing Me Softly Joan Osbourne - One Of Us Toni Braxton - Unbreak My Heart Garbage - Stupid Girl Marilyn Manson - The Beautiful People Manic Street Preachers - A Design For Life Chemical Brothers - Setting Sun Faithless - Insomnia Jamiroquai - Virtual Insanity Oasis - Champagne Supernova Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger Metallica - Until It Sleeps Prodigy - Breathe Prodigy - Firestarter Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out) Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight Tonight Sheryl Crow - If It Makes You Happy