Walsingham

It's a seagull. That's no fun. I was thinking maybe that some kind of insect stung me and I am developing superpowers. I'm now thinking if I want to be a hero or a villain. I never said it wasn't going to bite you.

Watching Tomorrow When the War Began. Have we already seen Caitlin Stasey?

Be advised that since the removal of the iconic red ones, all British phone boxes are now apathetic ****s. Don't even try to haggle with them.

It's a seagull.

Gerard Butler confirmed as Wonder Woman "fan Tom Booker said: “I hate this sort of gimmicky and deliberately controversial re-imagining of characters. “It makes the concept of superheroes seem inherently ridiculous and childish, rather than the deadly serious and entirely appropriate obsession of middle-aged men that it so obviously is."

Another point: Londoners aren't English. They're Londonians.

I've wandered around in -40. I thought it was more pleasant than -20. Drier, probably.

No, I meant from Lord Denning, you arse.

All my bloody nail clippers have disappeared at once. I own four sets FFS.

Not my intention to poke holes in your integrity for posting them. I just felt that I had to question their real provenance. Personallly I think they're real, but I'm not basing that on any criical judgement. I'm just basing that on the principle that I'm convinced the events have taken place, and that the US has satellites that could have taken photos. Those images could still be fake though.

Quotation please.

Amen to that. Get an above ground map, and just walk everywhere.

If you're near Covent garden you could throw stones at my accountants. That'd put the wind up them. All good advice so far. the only thing I'd avise is go seethe Bank of England buildings, and the Foreign Office. It's interesting to see how small they are.

We should test this. I'm pretty shure one of you social media types should pitch the idea to her. She is on twitter and facebook.

I have to concur with Monte here. I actually watched some debates in the Lords on this exact point. EDIT: While I have to concede to Enoch's superior and measured expression of history, I do question whether the actual live practice of law isn't codified rather than interpretive.

Interesting. I'm being very parochial here, but I choose to see this in the same way I see so many things comparing US and UK. In the US they have 'hard' principles and laws guaranteed by the Supreme Court that everyone tries to wriggle around. In the UK we have virtually no hard principles - and are sometimes subject to extreme treatment - but are often better off by virtue of a weird cultural bias.

Note to self: invite Woldan along if I fancy my chances with Malena Morgan.

So is that due to legal instruction, or is it just practical experience?

Speaking of workouts EDIT: NSFW, but no actual nudity. SUBEDIT: i doubt a video of Malena Morgan eating a sandwich would be actually safe for work.

Interesting. Although wouldn't have been hard to fake.

Again, not sure if I've understood the question, but my point here would be: Police in US and UK have to read your rights - in the US 'mirandize' - before what you say is admissible in court. However, if you speak after you have been mirandized that is your problem. In the book 'Homicide' by the guy who wrote The Wire they go on at length about the shenanigans used by the police to get people to talk before a lawyer shows up. To summarise the points in 'Homicide' the best way to beat any police investigation is to say absolutely nothing other than that you want a lawyer. When you get one say nothing at all. But most suspects have in their mind the notion that all the unpleasantness can go away and they'll be sitting back on their couch in comfort if they can convince the cops they are innocent, so they will start talking. iirc this has been raised by campaigners as a loophole, and it was suggested that anything you say without a lawyer should be inadmissiable. But this would bork hundreds of thousands of successful cases per year. Like Gromnir says, this is about providing some sort of protection against police abuse. It is not about protecting you from yourself. Also don't forget that at least in the USA you have hundreds of thousands of crimes committed each year. The really bad ones like murder and rape are hard to investigate because witnesses either don't exist, or have problems with credibility. Although scientific evidence has come a long way in the last twenty years it's till more efficient and sometimes more effective to have a person say they did something. By which I mean try to remember that a balance is needed between the rights of the potentially innocent suspect, and the rights of the victim.

Because Superman is a gelded fethwit.

But isn't she already in 'canon' for the Avengers?

Great link. But I'm not sure about the final quote. The thing you want most isn't the thing you would have asked for at the start. It's the thing you don't have at the end. Situation awareness is essential. But if you had it, and no way of hurting your target, or any way of moving around, you'd say that was most important.