Walsingham

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.

I got it instantly. What kind of nerds are you people?

But you're seeing someone and in love, aren't you? Seems just a wee bit harsh to call you the arsehole for being faithful! Ignore 'em.

Hah, no. But that is interesting, who knew they needed mil-spec pens. I'm totally getting my niece one of those pens.

So they proceeded to have some sort of Maoist self-criticism intervention. What a bunch of wankers!

Leaving an enemy to do his own intelligence work is ALWAYS going to be a good idea. Particularly if he's a basket case and will split into a bongzillion different theories, as Gromnir suggests.

You know how a basic survival skill online is never EVER saying "How bad can it be?" This is 100x true for following any image search to 4chan. ESPECIALLY if it is intriguingly impossible to imagine any way in which your search term could produce an image of genitals. ~~ The Daily Telegraph lists psychology courses as promoting human understanding. But I think the chap in their picture might have other things on his mind.

That's just another fiendish Anglo cover -up. The truth is that the British Empire NEVER WENT AWAY. We're still running things. 9/11 really happened because John Prescott ATE some of the supporting struts after becoming anxious when two enormous planes flew into the building. The coward.

I had something al most identical happen to one of the office PCs last week. How strange. I don't think I'm in Australia. I'm sure I'd have noticed all the venomous bestioids.

Hurlshot, you're a teacher. Punching a kid in the face for swearing will certainly send a strong message to the other kids not to do it. But you'll admit that it could be rather shocking the first time. The whole premise of a 'tariff' system is that if you commit crime X then you receive punishment Y +/- Z Not punishment D and a kick in the pants.

Because he wouldn't have had daily operational updates on what was going on. The whole point of where he was was that he was not on phonelines etc. Saying something's happened to him just because we've no proof he's dead is completely insane. I can play that game too: I hear he's actually alive and well and living under the Whitehouse. He escaped the guards and lives free roaming in the ducting, like Bruce Willis in Die Hard. But with more canapes.

Grow a moustache.

Chucking people out of council homes is perhaps justifiable but it's retard grade inconsistent. You're quite entitled to one if you stab some fellah, but not if you loot, apparently. Nevertheless, it makes sense to send a shot across the bows of anyone who decides to go to war with society if society goes to war with them. Genuinely can't help feeling sorry for the family who's had it done to them first. Given how soft we usually are this will have come as an awful shock.

In layman's terms, if cancer were space pirates, tarna's battling them with laser cutlasses around the navcomputer. Simple messsage, for you, old man: People beat stage 4 cancer every day. All you have to do is be one of them.

This surprising and awesome piece from the Telegraph swayed me in my seat: "The moral decay is as bad at the top as the bottom"

They put me on voltarol for my back. Although that made me giddy as a schoolgirl, so I stopped taking it.

I'm massively conflicted now, because Max Hastings has written an article loosely agreeing with my pervious post. And I love Max Hastings. But the article is in the Daily Hate. I can't work out whether to congratulate, or shoot, myself.

Is anyone canny enough to shift his voice down an octave? I think it would be interesting to see if one takes him more seriously.

I've always considered not accepting the status quo to be my main strength, in addition to being my main weakness. And I consider myself at my best, intellectually, when I'm awake. It doesn't mean I should stay awake all the time.