Be Excellent To Each Other

There's not enough room in a double bed for two people.

There's not enough room in a double bed for two people.

There's not enough room in a double bed for two people.

I think even small tempur mattresses are scarily expensive. I've laid on one once and didn't like it myself.

It's a way of life.

And certainly not enough room for three!

But when you think about it, you'll spend far more of your life asleep in bed than you will driving, eating, or working, so you might as well invest well in one.

Memory foam mattresses are just giant sponges, soaking up sweat and dribble.

But when you think about it, you'll spend far more of your life asleep in bed than you will driving, eating, or working, so you might as well invest well in one.

"We need you to tag along to our two-day meeting in Swansea. Not sure how much you'll be needed but figured we'd better bring you along just in case"
"Oh, ok. When is it?"
"Tomorrow"
"Fuck off!"

3:01pm. I receive a phone call. There's a guest speaker in one of the lecture rooms and he needs his laptop attaching to the projector. First I've heard of it.
3:06pm. I arrive at the room, at the other end of the campus to witness 3 non-technical staff prising open the AV cabinet and jerry-rigging the laptop into the system.
3:06:10pm. I turn my arse around and leave the room. Fuck them. If they break it, it's not my fault.

If they'd bothered to book tech support in advance instead of with minus-one minutes' notice, I could have had the room up and running before anyone even arrived, but apparently they'd prefer to scrabble around in the dark with a room full of students looking on. Fucking amateurs.

So... I just had to sweet talk my way out of a severe bollocking over this.

THE Royal Navy is to send one of its most powerful warships to the Falkland Islands as tensions rise with Argentina over the disputed territory.

The News understands HMS Dauntless will deploy to the South Atlantic in late March – almost 30 years to the day that a naval task force left Portsmouth to reclaim the Falklands after Argentina invaded in 1982.

The South Atlantic patrol is one of the navy’s global commitments and a warship is sent there every year.

But Portsmouth-based Dauntless will be the first of the navy’s new £1bn Type 45 destroyers to go to the area.

The deployment comes after a period of increased rhetoric between London and Buenos Aires about who has the right to rule the islands.

Dauntless would be a valuable asset if Argentina attempted to restage its 1982 invasion. She is armed with supersonic Sea Viper missiles and an air defence system which can take out targets the size of a cricket ball moving at three times the speed of sound.

A navy source said: ‘HMS Dauntless is an elite warship. She is one of six Type 45s built for the navy as the most advanced fighting ships in the world.

‘She is going to the Falklands on a routine deployment, but the fact the navy is sending her there and not one of the older warships is significant.’

The Falklands patrol will be Dauntless’s first operational deployment.

It comes after her sister ship HMS Daring left for her first mission to the Gulf at a time of worsening relations with Iran over its nuclear ambitions.

Admiral Lord West, a former First Sea Lord and Falklands veteran who was in command of HMS Ardent when she was sunk by Argentina with the loss of 22 men, said: ‘The Type 45s are becoming a key part of our modern force.

‘The thing that is fascinating about them is they’ve got the most amazing anti-air warfare capability.

‘Should there be any foolish nonsense from Argentina, Dauntless can sit just off the airfield and take down any aircraft coming in. It’s a game-changing capability.’

The deployment of HMS Dauntless to the Falklands follows criticism of the government’s decision to axe the navy’s Harrier jump jets and HMS Ark Royal – leaving Britain without an aircraft carrier until at least 2020.

Military strategy expert, Commodore Steve Jermy, who served in the Falklands War, said: ‘We have a critical lack of carriers so the Falklands is much more vulnerable than it’s been for many years. Sending Dauntless down there, while it doesn’t make up for the carrier gap, shows resolve.

‘It’s a very prudent deployment.’

At the weekend, former Army chief General Sir Michael Jackson warned it would be ‘impossible’ to reclaim the Falklands if it was invaded today.

Brigadier Bill Aldridge, commander of British forces in the South Atlantic, responded by saying: ‘I am not expecting to hand the islands over to anybody and therefore put us in a position to have to retake the islands.’

HMS Dauntless sent to Argentina S/Atlantic.

Are the Argies renowned for attacking boats with cricket balls?

There is another solution you know.

Buy a king size bed.

I have a King Size bed, I could never go back to a double unless I was sleeping alone.

Dude, you're a brisk walk away from Ikea! I got my mattress from there 15 years ago and it's still supah boffo.

Might go for a lie down there then.

I (and Malabar) also have a lovely sprung mattress with a memory-foam topper from there.

They don't quite have standard sizes still, but all our bedding is non-Ikea and fits fine.

They don't know what the fuck a 'queen size' is. They call it 'royale with pillows'.

Standard across Europe doesn't help when you go and try and buy a fitted sheet from Debenhams.

Do you share it?

Yeah, as if Craster is a man who understands how to share…

Speaking of beds. Any other tall people here got experience of buying massively large beds and recommendations for shops?

theres a big gap down the middle that mrs. Wookie falls into all the time so I advise against IKEA.