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Knowing you I'm surprised you're not planning on taking a primus stove and cooking your sushi.

Er... look, this is something which costs a lot of money to put into place and a lot more to enforce. To my mind there are two components: 1. Criminalise claims that water is needed for hydration. Strictly speaking, yes it is. Your body can acquire water in other ways, but water is very good at providing water. 2. Saying that your product is good at doing something when there are alternative options which may be better is NOT CRIMINAL. FFS, this is exactly the kind of mad socialist overbearing nightmare I used to scoff at people for saying the EU was. If people drink water instead of tea or juice when they are exercising then who the **** cares? They might, because they could maybe do the same thing cheaper. But that's not something which should be a criminal offence. Why not criminalise car manufacturers who claim that cars get you places quickly? Because I know for a fact that I can walk some places quicker than a car can drive, particularly in London.

Story That's it. This just tipped me over the ****ing boundary. I'm saying scrap the EU. Democratic deficit, corruption, mismanagement... it's all exemplified in this one bonkers law.

i could see this as a public statue somewhere, animated in soapstone and titanium ligatures. if i made a sculpture about the size of a man out of that, do you think it could sell for a few grand. I'd suggest finding a sculptor then having them seek a commission.

Aye. Scotland's shatteringly dull, isn't it?

I have pent-up frustrations.

I'm totally with Gorth on this one. No faster than light sounds like the kind of thing that Austrian fellow would say just because it was gloomy.

i could see this as a public statue somewhere, animated in soapstone and titanium ligatures.

I'm just hurting my way through another game of Borderlands. On my second playthrough I used the fast travel system in an ill-judged attempt to escape the tedious tutiral bit* and managed to unstick my character from the plot. *Why the flying f***bats would anyone need a tutorial on the second playthrough?! The game knows it's the second playthrough.

Vote where?

Some day you really must tell me where you buy your perennial gloom. I should like some for the spare bedroom.

I was merely going to raise one eyebrow. But I'm English, so that's nearly the same thing as machinegunning and pit-burial.

I absolutely agree. Modern nutters aren't a patch on the nutters of yesteryear.

Had some more bad news on the work front last thing, so needed some comfort food that was cheap-ish. Fried some beef shin until the fat crisped, then added water and a big bag of fresh spinach. Black pepper, chicken stock cube, paprika. Boiled until spinach soft, pureed with stick blender, added a cup of milk. Loads of nutrients.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/...-day-Jesus.html Because as we near the celebration of the birth of Jesus I always think "You know how Jesus would spend the festive season? Buying an assault rifle and hammering rounds at the White House. That's how." I nearly put this in the funny thread, because his argument seems to consist of "But, d'you see. I LOOK like Jesus."

Are you drunk? *sobs* No.

The pint (edit: 'point'. You can tell it's Friday) may be, Krez that they are hoping WE learned more than them from the World Wars. They're hoping for appeasement. The old 'peace at any price'. That map of territorial claims you posted is awesome. Shown like that they look like they're taking the piss! I presume it's based off some half submerged atoll at the south end?

Noticed this in the sig file of an email I received:

In theory they're a competence buffer to abosrb knock s and collect fail notices. But in reality there's almost no connect between CS and operational behaviour. Policy is almost always top down. There's some good reasons for this. You only have to review customer complaints for a very short time before you get the impression that most customers are completely insane, or attempting fraud. But there's a lot of sane and sensible stuff that comes in, too. It gets mangled by rage occasionally, but not that often. My current favourite for customer service has to be BE broadband. They treat you like an intelligent adult (even when I'm not behaving like one - router cable fell out, I thought the service was down), and are so not procedure bound that when I asked if my new router would get me adoring ladies they actually sent me an email explaining why it would! But more importantly they react in an agile fashion to every problem I send across, however miniscule. Althugh I don't have many ecause they've clearly thought tehir polciy and offerring through well, so they already do what I want without me asking. Compare that to the behaviour seen here, where reasoning is kept hidden behind a wall of lawyers, and commitments to change procedure are not followed by action. That's a case of a customer service head who is either too feeble or too lazy. Time to make like Sun Tzu and the concubines...

These enormous firms have 'customer service' that is nothing more the a 'blame buffer'. Steam are pretty responsive, even when I send them emails and I'm drunk. EA, Bioware, Relic (weirdly)... I should like to remind you chaps of my proposal that we form a union.

How about a toast sandwich? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

Not much point investing in non-state of the art military hardware, Krez. That's like investing in a hand of tens.

I probably did say something bad. I'm not saying she's mental. I just don't work well with fine sensibilities. Ironically.

Just invest in a cell phone jammer. They come as cheap as $135 dollars and fit in your pocket. ROFL brilliant!

Finally I have music for my metiere: chap hop