Walsingham

Back on the booze today. No coffee though. Three pints of ale so chewy it may have actually been a plank of wood. Or my own shoulder. Now onto some delicious Spanish red. It tastes like a sock full of tea leaves that an angel has pissed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osldhYv3bIE Key point: when you get older you don't just believe the hangover bull****. You believe ALL your own bull****. It's FANTASTIC.

If giving meat a name stopped you eating it, what would become of Jesus?

Is anyone else a bit concerned that all this bollocks with extreme left and extreme right is resulting in a total lack of sensible mainstream ideas/action?

Last night had to whistle up food fast. Toasted (dry) some cumin, basil, chilli, salt, and fenugreek in pan. Once toasted, added butter and olive oil. Turned down heat. Laid fish fillets on spices, until thawed, then raised heat. Steam fried until just cooked. Served over plain rice with fried onions, and a splash of soy sauce. Guests pronounced it excellent.

Upbetimes, but half awake. Receive text message saying 'rebels attack Idlib'. Think "What can the Rebel Alliance want with a small town in Syria?"

I know very well how the world works Walsh. Doesn't mean I have to like it. I should leave this, but I'm not going to. What's wrong with how he's been judged? The man's an adult. Surely if there's just one thing which measures an adult, it's an ability to moderate one's reactions. You don't have to be a stereotyped Japanese salaryman. Just apply a dash of respect and self-composure. At the very least have the stones not to burst into tears if you fail to live up to the code.

I may be somewhat a product of my rather expensive and monocultural upbringing, but I don't associate manliness with regularly going online and pretending to be Russian, while slandering people quite literally fighting for their lives. And at the same time idolising a shiny-headed ex-KGB midget. I was brought up to regard such an individual as a sort of urine-scented milksop. As I say, stuck in the 19th century, me.

Sounds to me like you Then you should know better, and buck your ideas up. It seems to me that you're brandishing 'empathy' like a mallet. Have you stopped to wonder what Valve feels like about this? They work unbelievably hard and consistently to foster a reputation of being reliable, sharp, yet gamer friendly. His first action should be to talk with Valve.

Yet somehow still more manly than a person who spends his time pushing Putin's message on the world.... for fun.

More awesome. From Elysium

You say that, but I can see at least two eyes of horus on your avatar, you Illuminati stooge.

http://hollywoodsubliminals.wordpress.com/franchise/pirates-of-the-caribbean/pirates-of-the-caribbean-on-stranger-tides/poster/page-2/ Literally every poster that has an eye - even an eye-socket on a skull - is an eye of horus. I CAN SEE THE FNORDS!

Phones ringing. Pisses me off something chronic. Sucks to be anyone trying to call me.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/ The Taliban aren't a monolith.If Party A is locked up by Party B who call themselves the Taliban, it doesn't mean Party A are automatically good guys. What the hell do you think is going on here? Cowboys and indians? Ok, a guy is in prison for being suspected of being another guy that's already in prison. I'm talking about the 'proof' they weren't taliban or alq.

No of course he wasn't threatening to kill anyone. That's not what he did wrong. Maybe you can't understand this right now, but putting a line between you and a key partner is not OK. Accusing them publicly of failing is not OK. If you are in partnership with someone, and something goes wrong, you do not point the finger. You do not vent to the customer - the public. You contact your partner and you work to fix the issue, and you try your hardest to protect the reputation your partner has built. _Try_ to understand this, because whether you agree or not, I assure you that this is how proper business works. If you've never worked to these standards then that's sad. But it's no excuse.

It's not harmless. It's treating a partner in a serious business venture like they've made a mistake - which may not be the case. Even if they have, they deserve consideration. I wouldn't do business with anyone who badmouthed me the first time anything went wrong. Rash and emotional are not qualities which appear on many CVs. There is a reason for this.

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/nov/06/afghanistan-shocking-indictment/ The Taliban aren't a monolith.If Party A is locked up by Party B who call themselves the Taliban, it doesn't mean Party A are automatically good guys. What the hell do you think is going on here? Cowboys and indians?

Well, I wouldn't call it moronic. A lot of people seem to struggle with the way the internet interfaces with real life. They think just because twitter's deliberately casual that it makes everything you do with it casual. I don't think the guy's an idiot, but it's really not a professional way to handle the situation. Not with (presumably) tens of thousands of dollars on the line. Going through Steam makes Valve his partners in getting his product out. Not a service provider you get narked with.

Wen I was little I was given a lamb to nurse. It used to bleat incessantly and piss all over everything all the time. I'm sorry. i must be getting old. I have literally no idea why that story came back to me.

be advised, am informed that the film handles prisoner taking in a horrendously schlock fashion.

But if you read the article, it becomes clear that the headline should have read "Valve reads frustrated man's private twitter feed, then removes the game he helped make from STEAM" Some guy got mad about his indie game not launching smoothly on steam and wrote some angry tweets to his friends and followers, and because of that, STEAM took his game down. Then to make it even sillier, some game journalist goes off and spins the mess into a "That showed him!" story. The guy didnt send Gabe Newell anything, he essentially said "Im gonna kill 'em!" which is a perfectly natural reaction to being angry and frustrated. I've mumbled way worse thing about Ingvar Kamprad when assembling IKEA furniture. What bussiness do Valve have reading some dudes private twitter feed? And how thin-skinned are they to go to the trouble of tracking down which game he made and removing it as revenge? And how does this **** even qualify as news? Business is for grown ups, and whatever the trend is (edit: for Twitter openness) now, you just don't trashtalk your key business partners. End of. I'm a wee bit astonished anyone is surprised by this.

Yeah, and when I was sixteen I thought it would be awesome to die on a hilltop somewhere wrapped in a union jack. Wanting it doesn't make it a ****ing good idea.

Well, I'll grant you it tends to keep things interesting.