Walsingham

The Daily Mash gets it perfect yet again. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/busines...t-201107084049/ Andyes, the News of the World really did have the biggest circulation of ANY English language daily.

The fact that you got a letter from them might not make your position quite as strong as you're imagining. Jus' sayin'... Check with McDs?

Good on you, sir. I should add that my housemate/lodger is the of the same view.

I don't give an Arcturian mega-f*** if you're about Alpha Protocol or not. Make with the GM!

BBC pic says it all.

BTW< funcroc. Had a look in WoT lately?

Stem cells are the ****ing shizzle, man. Assuming that means what I think it means.

*nods grimly* *waits tensely for funcroc* *eyes traverse sideways* HE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS! *bursts of gunfire*

Apology accepted. I am a privately educated douchebag, after all, so your error was natural. NB. I really am, btw. ~~~ On the subject of the topic, up until relatively recently the school served a pint of stout with lunch to aid digestion and give the boys vitamins and iron. We were also (even in my day) furnished with a junior common room serving beer, ale, and cider.

It actually worked a lot like the trains here.. Although trying to make sure it's not looking back with rose-tinted specs and all.. They seemed to run a lot more efficiently when they were Nationalised. Which is bloody strange by anything run by the government... But the things get privatised.. and they seem to have both gone to hell. Unfair comparison. Train technology hasn't changed in fifty years. Much. This lets both parties unfairly off the hook. BT because they claim everyone's doing it, and ...anyway the point is that train companies are monolithic and poorly supervised and underinvest. BT is monotlithic, creakingly inflexible at the organisational level and totally lacking in a spine of leadership. How else can one explain a company which should be commercially unassailable given its various monopolies and head starts constantly hemorrhaging customers?

Sacrificing the entire paper is the equivalent of setting fire to the files and fleeing in the staff car. There is no way a company as amoral as News Int. would have stood by the bastards in charge of this, not just Rebekah Brooks, if said bastards couldn't tie things in even higher. I'm looking directly at Murdoch. I'm thinking it needn't even be a case of evidence on tape. I'm thinking Rebekah Brooks sitting in front of a Commons committee testifying that she had instructions to behave in this way from The Boss. I'm also thinking that the politicos have been itching to give Murdoch a kick in the nuts for at least twenty years and this might be the only break they'll have to do so. Of course, rather like Gaddafi loyalists, many will be thinking that now is precisely the time to rally round the disgusting git and win enhanced status when things calm down.

Completely knackered and man-flu-ish. I should really sack work and go lie in bed with a lemsip or something. Amused myself by doing some admin and emailing British Telcom to complain about unresolved technical issues on my phone line. I know being snotty doesn't help in the least, but it makes me feel clever. And after being stupid enough to use the wankers in the first place I'm in need of emergency clever feelings.

True enough, many a time I have simpley had the desire for a pint, and damned be if its good or bad, or whatever just give me my ale so I can may the throbbing hum in my head stop. Well I've no problem with people being pushed back into work, but I think the concept of Northern folk as lazy is wrong, its actually all part of a legacy Thatcher started, you can't make that many people unemployed all at once and not expect a social impact. Some folk are stuck, and some folk have merely given up, want everything on a plate, and decended into decline. I certainly grew up in a hard working family, with people who had little to no aspiration, but they always worked. My point was more a cyncial despairing note about affluence than anything digging at Northern types.

That's true. But thinking about this, and without for a moment excusing the revolting scum, but 'story' is a term partly defined by us, the media consumer. Although, as I say, I think that 'story' is only partly defined by us, the people. Most people believe that what is in the news is the news, rather than - for example - what they need to know being the news. The latter being something which increasingly doesn't live in newspapers. Not sure why the amoral goktards at News Int./Murdochland have decided that we should be force fed mawkish tripe like French info-geese, but they obviously have. I suspect it's trickle down of a sick leadership at the highest level into the fertile ground of half-awake sycophants and sociopaths. Rather like - and I'm choosing a deliberately provocative analogy - the abuse at Abu Ghraib.

I stayed away from Gotham because I heard a lot of scuttle that it struggles on Win7. Just saying.

I really don't know why I'm surprised, given the targetting of the family of an abducted child during a criminal investigation, but it seems the Murdoch affiliated (see above) newspaper targetted the phones of dead soldiers' families. For those of you struggling a bit with this story abroad. This is FOX NEWS' parent company.

Gone baby gone. Abducted child crime drama. Actually bloody good. Directed by Ben Affleck. _Ben Affleck_ Hearty recommend to anyone who enjoyed Silence of the Lambs, or any crime noir.

I'm now visualizing Wals looking like Clive Owen (with a beer gut) on "The International" hunting down executives Not far wrong. I noticed this morning that The Sun is running with the story that Rio Ferdinand is accused (by them) of having 10 mistresses. And The Times* was actually just not on the shelves. The Daily Mail has the story front page, but while I think they are bowling green fascists I guess they aren't stupid enough to think their hyper-judgemental readers won't have noticed the story. I mention this to underscore the way Murdoch media functions as a coherent action group. It's not acceptable to claim it's an ordinary business and the subcomponents are free agents. *These are both Murdoch papers.

The south just constantly disappoints me by being wrong. Ale should be poured correctly. It does mean that I don't enjoy drinking Ale as much as I once did that is a fact, and its not picky, its just the final part of the holy trinity. Doesn't matter now, I've got my own personal sparkler. Be fair. Most southerners live in a doomladen vortex of rush-hour traffic, office politics, and 24 hour celebrity news. Consequently their poor brains wouldn't recognise quality if it bit them with Sheffield steel teeth. I understand that if government plans work out the North will be the same way in a few years.

I think as usual it's probably 'horses for courses'. Getting results from a group, even an oppositional one like a school, depends on the responsible authority twigging to the style they need. Tidy focussed minds like order and objectives. Dynamic untidy minds need inspiration and energy. Although, writing this, I can see how teachers are probably the orderly sorts and schoolkids the disorderly sorts. Hence the premium on a good headmaster-secondmaster match.

i used to have a really annoying manager that would do stuff like that then i started taking notes of how often she was late and how long before she finally deigned to join us in the office couple of weeks later the bus broke down on the way to work, and when she came over to ask why i was 5mins late i turned around and asked her why she'd been 30mins late the day before, and 40mins the day before that, etc etc she soon shut up I had a boss who voluntarily said he'd compare our respective tardiness. Never got in trouble if I was in before him. Strange bloke, but impeccably fair.

Well option four, 'normal person' is clearly out. He's here, after all. Seems pretty clear to me that he's an advanced corporate AI who developed a fixation on Obsidian by becoming romantically interested in Fallen From Grace.

But you're ignorant because you're probably just "educated" through The Sun and the BBC. "Some old dude" my ass. Sure. Like. Whatever.

Actually, I'd suggest its harder than splitting the atom. Splitting atoms is easy once you have the right machinery. Fixing a faulty education outcome is a hell of a lot harder. You got a lot of elements in complex interaction here: - School facilities - Curriculum - Student background - Family background - Chaotic emotional issues - Funding - Teacher behaviour - Teacher management - Dept. politics - School politics - Racial tensions - Violence/gang violence It's like doing plate spinning with 100 plates. And the plates are live pigs. Just my view, anyway. I don't think you can just point at a teacher and say 'you suck'.

I'll settle for a place that serves at the right temperature and keeps the abarrels right. Don't give me this oxygenation nonsense. Can't enjoy anything in life if you're that bloody picky.