Walsingham

I'm not allowing myself to buy it until I get a new contract for at least one of my team.

I'm saving Kelly Brook in 3d for if I have a serious crisis of morale.

Far as I know: 1. This 2. Kids filming beatings 3. Abu Ghraib Uniformly ****ed up.

Well if all we can do is hope you ain't bleeding in the brain then I guess that's what we'll do. Just don't forget bloody Sand.

Doesn't make it OK.

You;re clearly not going to go see the doc on this occasion, but you really should. Head injuries can do all kinds of nasty stuff you don't even realise is going on until they smack you flat.

Gratz Wals.. To round out how my week is going.. Friday arrived. The doorbell went early. I leapt up to answer it..made it to the door of the room I was in..and suddenly, for no reason that I can understand.. I found myself falling backwards. I bounced my head off the floor loud enough to startle everyone in the house. My neck is now having a joyful throbbing ache, a quite amazing bruise on the back of my head, about three seperate patches of grazes along one arm (again, no clue how that happened), that headbang induced sick feeling and as I realise the pleasantness of Fallout New Vegas having arrived.. I find out the family has volunteered my services as a physical labourer to help a family friend shift things this morning... I hate t osay this, but anything like a concussion should be checked by a doctor. At least this should get you off heavy lifting.

1. Although my natural tendency is to avoid women in bars ever since those Laotian twins stole my kidney, I am nonetheless intrigued by her hostility. It sets my heart beating like the blades of a huey on a sultry night. I wait until she goes to the bar to buy a club soda and campari, then spring the ambush "the Zulus have a word for for a woman like "Kuong trang naz vedkya" it means she who loves with a thousand knives." She will search for a stinging rebuke, and while she is doing so I will stab a jacknife into the bar top within her reach, and lean back with an implicit challenge. 2. At the beginning of our date I will say "I know a woman like yourself won't need walking home, but there's a lot of scum out there. Some day a real rain will come and wash all the scum off the street, but in the meantime here is a thermal detonator." 3. Unlike that pansy, Lincoln I don't destroy my enemies by making them my friends. I welcome her hostility as the honest compliment it is. I know the brutality of man better than any other, and if she hates me for being a man that just makes me love her more. 4. I will simply address her as 'colonel'.

Once again, I understand not doing anything*. It's taking photos instead of doing something which I find insane. *I don't condone it, but I get it.

Pleased to report that in spite of being laid up for the best part of a week, my diet and no booze seem to be having an effect. I'm still a tubby bastard, but my torso doesn't actually bulge any more! Took my belt in a notch also.

I wouldn't say you ask for it, but if you play well with others you often get extras without asking.

I like Slowtrain's notion of a paycut across the whole sector, in so far as it is unlikely to result in people jumping ship to seek higher wages elesehwre at the moment. On the other hand, a high earner taking a 20% hit can just cut their foreign holidays and sell the car. I low income earner is likely to be disposing of almost all their income already.

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I like the track, contrasting the urgency of the voice with the surf. Where did you get the mayday?

I think we are goin gto need our own bespoke euphemsims, if we are going to get through the rude bits of this game.

You have obviously lost awareness of the sheer giddy magic involved in being able to flick a switch and make light. It's almost godlike. Just think of the thusands of years of societal and engineering evolution required to make it happen. Then think we may be one of only a few generations who will ever enjoy it. Leaving a light burning isn't an empty gesture of absent mindedness. It is a heroic gesture of pride, resonating in the darkness of eternity like the tolling of a great brass bell.

I like to think that for our many other faults, we aren't so ****ing stupid as to think burning cars sticks it to the Man. It just burns some poor sods car. But in reality we're probably just too pig lazy to go out and do anything at all. I actually think the handling of the carriers - given that they couldn't be cancelled - is pretty smart. We don't need a fast jet carrier for at least a few years, so delay that component. When we do get one, having one going spare is pretty smart. It means we can actually send the real one out on missions without being terrified of losing our only carrier. Then, if we can somehow get the second carrier to function as an amphibious HQ with helicopters and whatnot then hurray. What I don't understand is all this waffle about how support to Afghan will not be compromised. We are getting a handful of helis, and cutting thousands of infantry. We need those sodding infantry in Afghan! What I still don't understand is why the only people who haven't been hurt by this financial crisis are the ***-stained ****ers who got us into it. Whack a two year levy on the bastards. Not long enough in duration to make it worthwhile leaving the country, but squeeze the juice out of them.

I can only suppose it speaks of a total failure of empathy. Combined with an absence of any codified sense of propriety. Gives me the heebiejeebies.

I'm pleased to report that Steam will have to whistle for my custom I told them accidentally that January this year was my birthday, and now I'm not allowed to view the purchase screen. Clearly a child of only ten months can't be allowed to buy things on the internets. Wankers.

He's probably on the lam. Hiding in racoon nests by day.

Well.. to add to your worries.. isn't she ethically bound not to date you whilst you're still her patient? So to date her you have to lose her physio services... Tough. I haven't fallen for someone this fast in years. I'm running with it.

Well, yeah. But these people weren't leaving or just getting clear or even going to fetch help. They were taking photos of people in distress.

Physio today with my extra cute physio. Slightly more compos mentis this, and kept my cool. But i'd swear there's a natural thing going on. I just don't know how to proposition someone who's your doctor. As if to mock my emotional state I have this afternoon developed a spot on my nose.

Do you know how it is to get blood out? Actually yes. And it's nothing compared with all the other icky stuff which leaks out of people when they get hurt.

If there's a half million civil servants leaving to find work then I blame the last government for building such a wantonly huge civil service. However, by saying this I don't blame the hiring and firing. It's a question of all the mindless rules and regulations we saw generated. Standards, guidelines, targets, fifteen different flavours of assault charge. Madness. Not to mention all the bull from Europe. The bureaucrats simply existed to process all the crap. And the crap existed so that noone felt obliged to make decisions. It was a machine to dodge responsibility. You barely need to graze the surface of defence to see this in action. Aircraft carriers years behind schedule. A medium weight vehicle which isn't even built after hundreds of millions spent on it. Not the slightest coherence anywhere in the capability assessment process. What wars will wwe fight and against whom? Even the legal process surrounding combatants got crazier under Labour. BUt we had masses of forms and new IT systems, and new rigmaroles. Basically so no-one had to sign on the line and say "I say we go with this". Half a million unemployed is going to be ****ing painful. But the alternative is what? There isn't any. The best thing we can do is focus a bit of brain power on what the hell these folks do instead. Anyone need a civil service?