Walsingham

Influenced by reading about the 1600s I experimented with a curry heavy on aromatics like nutmeg and cinnamon. Think it would have been better as chicken, rather than lamb. But lamb was in the fridge, so..

Not sure I fully understand how a 656 page book can be sparse on substance... But stuff like leaving out an index seems weird.

I shall remember this the next time some ****hole tells me there's no such thing as luck.

Urgh. Ate domino's pizza for dinner yesterday. Feel like I've swallowed a synthetic fibre pillow.

Hopefully you can start reclaiming a bit of your life, now you won't be running around after her and her pets for a while.

I'm pretty badly hungover, but I think there may be an inconsistency in the Whitehouse assessment. The assessment refers to multiple prior incidents. If there have been multiple prior incidents that would give credibility to this one. However, if there have been multiple prior incidents, and such incidents were supposed to constitute a "red line", then why in the name of clockwork funt badgers has the Obama administration waited until now to do something?

If you look at 1:58-2:38 you will see the infinite superiority of the moving picture. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Toc3EjHMOB8#

I see your classic siren, and raise you one Jenny Agutter

Forgot to mention we tried out Rifftrax the other day. Mesa of the Lost Women. Well worth every MST3K minute. The quality of the video (which came bundled with the track on this one was actually BETTER than on my DVD copy of the same film. The quality of the film was just awful. Great drunken mocking fodder.

When I worked in Thailand I found Thai culture to be much more casually racist than anything I'd ever seen anywhere else. So the fact that one can look at that advert and not be offended over here means they had **** all chance of being offended. Never mind the fact that, you know, only a few countries used 'blackface' in the first place! Personally I can see the guy's point.

BTW, for the record, I take it we can all agree that Miley Cyrus has no place in this compilation?

Terrifying, more like. I wouldn't touch her with a specially designed NASA probe. Although I have to grudgingly approve of her anti-bullying efforts.

One of them keeps mentioning this but I suspect she just enjoys teasing me She's not.. go for it.. You're not in love with 4 girls, old boy. You're in love with one girl who has been refracted into 4 bodies and personalities. There are two options I know to try in this scenario: 1. The 'Hugh Hefner' - Go out with all 4, when they all know about each other. This is hard work, and expensive, but epic. 2. The 'King Solomon' - Suggest the above, and go out with the one who refuses to share.

I don't know about impenetrable. But mine are definitely unapproachable.

In fairness to GD, I think he's assuming that normal people could handle the situation better. Normal British people don't go anywhere near irritating kids, least of all to admonish them. I think I told you the story about us interrupting a party when it emerged that local children were patiently but unsuccessfully attempting to burn the house down. They told us that if we so much as touched them then they'd claim we'd groped them. We had to _talk_ them out of it, politely and good naturedly. Actually it's just occurred to me that they've probably got a lot older now, and I should track them down, and punch them in the face.

like a magic eight ball? Nah man, I must deal with it and make my own decisions, decided to finish a book, and I did today. one that had been bugging me for weeks, if not months. Kind of like that. But I think to be compelling it would need to reflect something about you. So making a clockwork device is better than some cheesy phone app. ~ Two salacious emails, and a phone text asking me on a date arrived this evening. From three different ladies. Too tired to work out what new lunacy this portends. Will puzzle it out tomorrow.

They are assassins. I concur. It's well established that if a plain looking chap has women flirting with him, then they intend to lure him into a cupboard, bop him on the head and steal his keys/uniform. EDIT: If any blokes doubt this, just try wandering around without any clothes on. No uniform = no flirting.

Today seems to be my day for arguing about depleted uranium. Third conversation in 24 hours. It's obviously pointless trying to have a discussion about the balkans with you when it motivates every single one of your points. Right or wrong, you aren't going to budge one inch. The relevance, however, is that action was taken in the Balkans, by the US against Russian wishes, in order to tackle a humanitarian disaster [analysis and more detail]. No doubt you will say this was a US stitch up, but when Russia tried to get US actions condemned, they failed. ~ There is a fundamental and repeated question to the whole world which keeps going unanswered: what do we do when hundreds of thousands, millions of people are suffering at the hands of persons or groups? When those actions are a direct violation of 'international law'? The UN has utterly failed as anything more than a single stage upon which arguments can be made in a media and diplomatic spotlight. It resolves none of them.

I'd been about to wee all over this bag of chips, but judging from the comments it could be good.

Still not fully processed this. But one thing I would say is that Scott was a very level headed and down to earth guy. If there is an afterlife _of any kind_ I'm sure he'd be regarding our comments with wry amusement. So, for what it's worth, I am going to pretend that's what's happening.

Overstrained my back at work, so on t bright side I'm going to have no appetite tonight. Probably just have some lime and soda water, a few oatcakes.

Just thought of another history inspired one: "My only regret is that I have but one life."

There are dead people on both sides and many of them died by US army donated weapons. Many more will die when the cruise missiles start flying. Empty moralizing is empty, because none of this is, or has ever been, about the well being of the people. And here is were you are wrong. Stopping chemical weapons use is about the well-being of the Syrian people. Or at least it was when that option was still on the table. By now it's blindingly clear that no effective intervention will come from the west and endless bickering in UN over reports and security council meetings only prolong the inevitable. As sad it is - given that the best way to handle the conflict is to let Assad gas-away unchecked. But we are far too hypocritical for that. The issue is not chemical weapons use, it's that they were used by someone the USA don't like. Remember it was the USA delivering chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein who then used them during the war with Iran and to wipe out a Kurdish village. As always, USA taking moral high ground is risible. OK, so what's your actual point? Because judging by your tone you think chem-weapons shouldn't be used. But all I actually hear is you arguing that no-one has a moral right to do anything about them. The thing to bear in mind about America is precisely the thing Martin Luther King believed in. That while America might fail its principles, it had principles. It can be levered into moral action because of that fact. The same is true - to a lesser extent - of France and the UK. Of course, if you prefer we can all just sit about doing **** all because once upon a time we did something wrong.

I'm not sure if this is helpful, or merely polishing your descent into madness, but... what if you had some sort of clockwork monkey which got enthusiastic about things for you. And you just do what the monkey says.

That's right, DE. I'm sure the dead people have US power relations at the top of their list of interests.