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Fell asleep on train home last night. Luckily the train staff were all really nice, and I was allowed to hop on all sorts of stuff to finally return home in the wee small hours. Also, as much as I like work drinks, why are they always on a Friday? All I want to do on Friday is go home and rest.

What, did you put them up yourself or something? Actually, iirc he did.

Two slices, either way.

Oh good god.

The point isn't ever whether cops abuse tehir power. It's what happens when they do that matters, as Gfted1 says. I'm awake at 1 am because I just found out - after a couple of months of not using it - that Napster has been bought out by Rhapsody. Something like 2/3rds of tracks I BOUGHT AND PAID FOR HAVE MYSTERIOUSLY UNPAID FOR THEMSELVES. Makes me so goddamn angry. It really isn't beyond the wit of man to run a simple service properly. How come so many businesses seem to struggle. Me? I blame Dave in Marketing.

These pills are made from people! Seriously. China? W T F

Note to self: compile list of Liverpool fans.

LOL at Minx. With the exception of the sniper guns that makes sense. ONLY THE GHOUL GETS TO BE AT ALL MODERN. Minx, I'm not clear why your dark elf is Chaotic good. Please explain.

Actually, while we're on the subject, how do I backup toast? I just dropped mine.

LOL

My new position keeps sending me on team building and awareness exercises. I keep objecting on the grounds that team work and forward thinking are why they hired me in the first bloody place. I am becoming increasingly enraged by their wasting my time. A younger me might have enjoyed being taken on paid jaunts around the country. But i find as I age that I insist that work time be used for work!

Deterrence might work on individuals seeking to shift a few hundred grammes. But we are talking an industry here. It works in tonnes. Drugs move (so I understand) largely inside licit goods. Machinery, fruit juice, lampstands. As I've said before, it takes the simplest mathematics to perceive that so long as drugs are cheap to make and expensive to buy, and licit material moves across borders with all the automation and tonnage we see then it's pure stardust to suggest they can be kept out of the country by the border people. If anything, all the border customs do is prevent entrepreneurs from moving drugs, which keeps effective control of the market in the hands of organised crime! Sorry if I keep banging on about this, but people are dying for this foolishness.

Right, Raithe has agreed to be second referee. So it should work, although we're in the same time zone, which may frustrate any forn'ers.

Look, just run with me on this one. Give me those fantasy characters to begin with. EDIT: Except for the ghoul, who (as I say) I'm going to keep.

It depends entirely on what your citizens <sic> want, and (as has been said) what your international stakeholders want. If you can do all those things then you can bet people will call you a country.

I hear you, man. The more ****ed up work has got, the more I just want to lose myself in tunes and wine in the evening.

Um, it's THEIR money. Where the smeg else are they going to build it? In Australia for all the Australians to enjoy? :headbang: "Naaah, we can't try to make this a great place to be, because this is a bad place to be!" Well, frankly, yes. Might just as well build a massive butter palace on the slopes of Montserrat.

Further evidence that prohibition is a childish fantasy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/9248958/Heathrow-border-drug-checks-dropped-over-queues-crisis.html Border controls have effectively ceased to exist at Heathrow, with no drugs checks taking place AT ALL. This is less irresponsible than it sounds, since checks barely make a dent in the international trade. The Home Office know this, and you can see the truth bleeding into policy in sideshows like the Border Agency.

Smashing idea. Let's build a massive fragile future utopia smack dab in between two of the most volatile and violent countries around.

For all our problems, I'm pretty keen on right now. Mainly because I think we're going to look back on now as a golden age.

I knew those photos would mither LoF, and lo' he doth mither.

Because it was late in Italy, and everyone loves Italy, I'm going to let Jackie stand as is. Everyone else I'm talking hobbits, bloody night elves, half orcs. You name it. Now if you'll excuse me I'm going to have to hammer this plot until I can fit a ghoul in.

'STI'? In my day we had STDs. I mean generically.

*immediately imagines a surprised looking Norwegian in a small log cabin*