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Anyone care to give us a "Previously, on Battlestar Galactica" montages for the race?

Doing that twice a month does indeed sound awful.

Things I don't do on the internet: click on partially obscured links ending 'of-gay-porn' What I do in the public toilets of Aberdeen is my own business.

A glorious victory for 'superbly' 'engineered' corporate procedure.

Fever down, but joints aching all day, and dog tired. Judged my utility to work was nil so stayed at home in bed. Listened to the radio. Luckily BBC radio 4extra seems to be producing the audio equivalent of teddy bears at the moment. Hope I recover soon. I can't afford to be off too much just now. EDIT: Hope your husband doesn't catch whatever this is. Doesn't seem too serious, apart from the shaking. But it has made me very short tempered.

I'm told that this fever I'm running is common to whole swathes of the country. Who else is down with lurgi? And who else is schlepping into a high tech office which is how they got it in the first place so that they can infect everyone else?

I really need to eat more lobster. Glad to hear from you, and thanks for writing it up with some meat on it. (no pun intended). It's good to hear the details.

Copy that. Maybe set it on the back burner for now. But if we can get enough GMs then we kick start.

Well, I don't think that's so much of an issue, really. I mean we're not bound by lots of things which used to be canon. For example marriage without parole - I mean divorce. Anyway I was just reading today that AlQ is 'taxing' the west African drug trade to get money for their ventures. I mean, seriously. How many enemies have to be feeding off the illicit trade - while you can still easily get drugs - before it we grow up and admit it's just making things worse? I mean how can funneling billions of dolars into the pockets of our sworn eneies be better than admitting that people who want to fall the **** out of life are going to find a way to do that? I was highly amuse dto see that in the second season of The Wire they actually use my argument: "If we can't win the war on drugs in a prison, then what hope do we have?"

Merry Easter to anyone not so mentally tangled that they can't just wish someone a merry anything without analysing it fifteen ****ing ways from Sunday.

Kicked back, ate beef, drank booze, watched The Wire. Relaxed.

Just had a thought: Fallout has a pen and paper game equivalent, right? How about we do a game on here while we're killing time waiting for our next post-apocalypse fix? I've got quite a neat starting premise, but I reckon we will need a total of three referees/GMs to keep the pace up. We have to agree on general themes and storyline, but get to run our own casts of villains and mini-arcs within the bigger game. Overall I see the theme as having a little humour, and not a little on lampooning fantasy cliches in an apocalypse setting. Mechanically we could agree to run the game on a chat channel like Steam but obviously we'd want to post the highlights on here. Anyone interested? Again, that's two to four players, and three refs.

As I see it the fundamental problem is that legalising drugs would require the organs of state to admit they can't possibly control everything. This makes lefties and righties upset. And the people in the middle are already taking bloody drugs.

I like the idea of someone's nemesis cutting their hand off, and this leading to social awkwardness.

I'm not going, for obvious reasons, but if you're in the area and don't know Vampire, why not give it a go? Aside: _20th_ edition?

I fail at Trek.

Prohibition is one of those 'circumcision' policies. Either go the whole way or don't ****ing bother.

Mate, you need to break it down clearly. I've completely lost track of what you're trying to say.

Decrim the nonphysiologically addictive stuff. Anything genuinely addictive gets given to you FOR FREE. Because it's a bongzillion times cheaper for society that way. I'm fed up with organised crime killing tens of thousands of perfectly decent people so that we can pretend we're stopping people taking drugs.

I block out Facebook by not being a completely vapid hypewad.

Isn't Bambam using the wrong hand, though?

I'm back to not caring. If private companies like Google track my every inter-moment then why not Her Majesty's Government? Honestly, what bloody difference does it make? I reserve the right to be less tired tomorrow.

If my career was an airplane flight then the little fasten seatbelt lights would have turned on with a muted 'ping' noise, and a reassuring sounding captain would be burbling something about turbulence. While the airhostesses would be mincing about with barely concealed anxiety.