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Music is just the continuation of politics by other means, so it would seem.

How is anything 'worth' dying for? I'm not trying to be an **** about this. *yeah yeah it comes naturally* But seriously, you've never been rock climbing, or shinned up the outside of a building, or careened down a snowslope or anything when there was no point whatever? I certainly have. I don't do it any more precisely because I value my rotting carcass, but I certainly have done and nothing bad happened. It's part of being a bloke, surely?

Concrete inflata-house. Just add water.

What, you never taken any pointless risks?

Well, some of you chaps seem to be stuck on this notion that an 'illusion' means something automatically bad, which is a circular argument. Is bad bad? etc. Replace 'illusion' with 'working simplification' and what do we get? this made me wonder if the whole point is that we don't naturally perceive time most of the er... time. I mean how often are you actually aware of your finite ration trickling away? I've done it a few times in the last few years and it drove me almost mental. It's not healthy.

Nicknames should be insulting if possible, so I choose 'Flaps', and I'd ride a Because I'm a moron.

He has around 34 sons to carry on his legacy. Hopefully they'll be like all celebrity sons. i.e. totally rubbish.

Henry Moore sculpture, more like.

Was that because of the work he did for you.. or because he worked for you?

The distance travelled by light in a vacuum in 1/c seconds. My shoe size is a 43(10

Had been on the point of firing off an irate email to a subcontractor demanding to know if they were insane, regarding a piece of work they did and has been causing me problems, when I remembered that in fact the chap who wrote it later emerged as in fact insane. Lucky I remembered!

I can't seem to convince my spell check that the term is 'modelling' rather than 'modeling' I always imagine modeling to be comporting oneself like Walther Model.

Aye. We should probably form some sort of dusty robed cult around this thread.

WTF was never more justified?

Against my better judgement I attended a local parish thing, got bored and suggested it would be possible to arrange a literary festival along the lines of grassroots terrorism. A lot of people thought I was mad, and someone informed me I should join their rugby team because I have the build of a prop.

Better yet; they support whine about "cute and cuddly" animals. Ever hear them whine about alligators, snakes or komodo dragons? Nope. Never mind the alligators. You ever known an animal rights activist who'd be happy to live with sewer rats?

Love the comments.

LoL at GD and GRRM. ther's really such a tremendous buttload of animal crybabies out there. Yet they rarely seem to actually do anything practical to help actual animals. Not that I mind. It's just even rarer that they show the same empathy for people.

Lots of suicide bombers et al. enjoy porn. It's part of the deluxe warrior-of-God package. You're allowed it because you're special. cf. The Islamist, Ed Husain for a line on this. He was one, he should know.

Yeah, and you're not French, so use Imperial. Metric is scientifically standardised, Imperial isn't. It's got nothing to do with historical origin. Try saying that again, not smelling of garlic.

Happy brithday, Nightshade. One year closer to being awesome. ~ I just heard the next door neighbour's child make a noise exactly like what you'd expect from a kind of cyborg pod-person zombie death monster. Clearly audible across quite some distance. So if this is my last post, it's been fun.

Probably the Mitrokhin archive.

I'm not telling you, man. I'm keeping this thing on ice in case we have to go through the 60s again.

On the grounds that it means you don't have to host the whole sorry affair, I suggest we send Gordon Brown.

Yeah, and you're not French, so use Imperial.