Walsingham

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.

According to a former editor at the News of the World it's not a big deal. *jaws on floors*

As do I, but I assert, they pour it wrong in the south, THEY POUR IT WRONG! ???? I'm usually slavering like Pavlov's dog as soon as the pump starts to move. Far too excited to notice how it's being poured.

What is this pressure you refer to? Accountability? Doing ones job? The program sprung into place do to unacceptably high percentages of US children doing poorly. What entity is directly responsible for educating our children? Teachers. So if the teachers are asleep at the wheel dont you feel they should be held accountable in some way? Shouldnt there be some metric for grading individual teachers capabilities in how they perform their jobs? I see your point, but if I set up a bonus scheme which rewards staff for making trips to clients on the assumption that this means improved contact with clients... I'm going to see a wadge of surprising journeys turning up in my in-tray. And I don't think my reaction would be to smack just THEIR foreheads.

Glad you asked. It's because Britain's former colonies include the USA, India, Canada, South Africa and Australia. I can't help feeling your independence was a wee bit premature.

The problem is trying to use bureaucracy of any kind to measure human factors. Beans yes, brains no. Mind you I take an extremely dim view of anyone who evinces an enthusiasm for bureaucracy of any kind.

The key indicator there, old man, is that we didn't NEED to outlaw the Nazi party. What with no-one here wanting to belong to it. Apart from the king, obviously. And, you know, if you chaps had stood up to fascism as valiantly as you say you did then Hitler wouldn't have got around to invading Poland. Just saying. More to the point, although the yanks did turn up exceedingly late to the party a lot of them did die. And a lot more worked like dervishes making the guns and bullets we all used fighting. So another hurrah for America!

Guinness is certainly very popular. And I think Guinness' superb advertising was responsible for making normal folks realise that lager is actually fizzy disinterest. So I have a special affection for it. However if you kind of like Guinness but it's not exactly right for you, try porter. Roasted grains and presumably other stuff make it rich and iron-ish. Often brewed with spices, to a high alcohol content. It's a bit like drinking vodka laced chimney soot, while wrapped in the arms of a beautiful woman.

Being a fat old fart I like real ales. When I remember I'm not grey haired yet I drink light, very hoppy ales. Usually IPAs.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke...dshire-14043959 Man who helped woman after terror ttack had his phone hacked? Police are investigating... Busy little ****ers, aren't they?

You have to ask? OK, let's start with a basic flaw: British journalists chiefly write for other British journalists. Makes sense. Excuse my being thick, but what's your next point?

Roughly two thirds of an imperial quantoon.

Also, reading up on this now, it's startling to see firstly my own ignorance and secondly how connected into these goons the Prime Minister is. Indeed, not just this PM but the last one and the one before that. Can it really be the case that democracy in this country is indivisible from Rupert Murdoch's jowly assent and winged minions? Whose fault is that?

It seems indications are that journalists - from somewhere - accessed the phones of relatives of the 7/7 terror bombings. Pretty much to get reactions. Seriously, WTF is wrong with our news media? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...nes-hacked.html

This week seems to be free beer week for me. Went out to help with an event organised by a friend, with just a fiver. Came back with fiver and eight pints of beer. Am wondering if is not some incredibly subtle misfortune, since I may not be able to be nice back these people, and consequently haunted forever.

If it wasn't for the English you'd all be French.

OK, I tried to be nice. But you're deliberately taking the piss now. If you want to fantasise that bomber crews would have gone to attack Austria on trips that were hundreds of fighter-infested miles longer than trips to Germany because some old dude claims he made it that way, or because Britain didn't really dislike Austrians, then you're mental. End of. It's science and military logic. Not an interview for a ****ing newspaper. Grow the **** up.

I've already got the New Vegas stuff you can get, but I know there's at least a couple of weirdos on here who have been waiting for a sale.

I'm no plane specialist, and I'm guessing you aren't eirther. So let's be dignified and agree that at surface level, given the choice between bombing Germany and bombing Austria, Germany is a lot closer and simpler. Logistics and distances have certainly also a lot to do with it. There were considered several reasons by Churchill and Roosevelt why some industrial areas in Austria weren't totally destroyed, but I'm posititive that Otto's intervention/plead was one of them. After all, in 2007 he gave his last interview at some Austrian newspaper, and he said so himself. Why would he lie? That's a little naive, isn't it? You're asking why a man would claim t ohave been the author of his nation not getting blown ass-backward into the stone age? Maybe because it makes him sound clever...