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I doubt they would want to "invade" Europe. Too expensive compared output. Maybe they need 50 provinces?

LOL. I haven't done that since school. Shredded 8 large boxes to get over being dumped, one time. Hell of a mess. Happy days...

Just to make mkreku happy. Because I live for his happiness: A blog which addresses the hypothesis that only attractive girls, who leap like springbok pass A-levels.

I still think it's a bit weird shooting the leg off a fellah. He limps for about five seconds, then starts running again. Ditto arms and dropping what they are carrying then picking it up. Should have been fixed. Bit late now.

Damn right. I only hope that if I ever face it I do half as well. Having said that, mate. Feel free to panic in front of us. We can throw peanuts.

Oh great. Shall I roll out the red carpet for the Indians and Chinese or would somebody else like to do it? I don't know much about Indian education. but the chaps I meet through work, work HARD. Working with most UK graduates is either an exercise in remodelling the little fethers, or they think they should be served little treats on a daily basis for being so clever. And ALL of them thin there's something unfashionable about caring about your work.

A-Level results show rise for 29th consecutive year Quick recap for foreigners: results for the 18 year old school leavers exams keep rising. Many, such as myself, have lost almost all confidence that an A (now the second highest grade to A-star) means very much. Instead we suspect that the privatised examination boards have devalued the difficulty so that more students will take their exams and do 'better'. Anyway, I had three questions: 1) Who in the Uk has confidence in a-lvels when it comes to hiring? 2) Who outside the Uk was aware of this, and how do you look at the results? 3) If the rise is 'inflation' due to exams getting easier then I had a thought. Presumably thsi would be more pronounced a trend at schools which are capable of taking advantage by aggressively shopping around and teaching to test. In other words privately run schools who have a big economic incentive. Does this make ogical sense, and if so, has anyone exmained the data accordingly?

I won't lie Tarna. That's not good news. Nearly put me off my coffee at 8000 miles... However, if you'r going a chemo route, having multiple sites isn't necessarily as bad as it sounds. You're gassing the little ****er, not surgically striking it. Chemo your kidneys and you chemo everything else anyway. Do you know yet if the metastases have protective shells around them?

Thanks for clearing that up, Zoraptor and Enoch. Jewish eh? Where the hell is the Mel Gibson emoticon? Come to that, what's the emoticon for threatening someone with a colonoscopy?

...Because it's ALWAYS a question of judgement. Although I do think it's questionable if incitement merits the same tariff as someone who assaults kids. Even if I think that's because the latter should be far far higher.

You're threatening me with a colonoscopy? ~~ BTW, scuttle is that Rebekah Brooks* is still idling about in her company chauffeur driven car. I tell you that woman has dirt on the Murdochs... *Who seriously calls themselves 'Rebekah'? Sounds like a page 3 girl.

Feels pretty good. Probably go horribly wrong as all the details conflict.

Not a bad day. My eroded patience snapped, and I have transferred my phone line, broadband, bank, website, and e-retailer accounts in a burst of righteous fury. Oh, hold on. I was going to change my gas and electricity... EDIT: Done. Awesome.

What DOES that symbol mean, anyway? Looks like someone mooning out a car window.

Phys, old boy. Phys till your knees make grinding noises. Soon get to sleep.

LOL. We've gone from the Nanny State to the Boarding School State. I'm not sure how I feel about the next stage, which would presumably be the 'Brideshead Revisited Oxbridge Fwah Fwah State'. I suppose at least there will be plenty of champagne.

New York's 'rock' hotel succumbs to the rising tide of respectability. Nice little obit here. And a touch of appropriate jaunty .

Good manners are never bad form, old boy. Being English, one understands these things. *thinks* OBAMA IS ENGLISH! IT@S ALL A LIE!!!!!!!!!

WDeranged. I atke your point about losing miles instead of inches. But is it really so much worse that the government should shut down Twitter for 24 hrs/48hrs? They can detain you without trial for whole days on suspicion of terrorism. They can shut down the streets.

That's - if you will forgive my being blunt - bloody silly. If the roads suffer they'll just sell bakkies. Indeed the cars will wear out faster and be more imperative in a land of crap transport. I accept that a capitalist's true interests/maximum profit are served by taking a long term view of what is good for society. But That long view is inherently risky, being affected by many other factors. A short term view raking maximum profit by exploiting weaknesses in the system will prove best. And this is fundamentally what capital does. The example I'd give would be all the British defence manufacturers. We used to have quite a few. They built crap that didn't work and cost too much. Result being that our defence capability went down the tubes, and the country stopped defining itself as having a functional military. We stopped buying British. They all went bust. Except the ones which learned how to bribe people.

I'm not entirely sure what you're getting at, the headline clearly says "state media" which is exactly what the Global Times is, the lack of Hu Jintao giving Cameron a personal high five doesn't invalidate it. LOL. Interesting point, though. If the 'fire' spreads using social media then why NOT shut it down? It's not as if the rioters were some coherent movement, with alternative comms.

Look down. I'm on a horse.

I just realised that the reason Putin is standing straight is probably because Russia is still butthurt after the battle of Tsushima. Whereas the USA is relaxed and can afford to be gracious.

Riff Raff should be the name of a high fibre breakfast cereal.