Walsingham

Yes it will. There's only about 1,000 votes margin.

An improvement. Now I can't see what I look like.

The news was first reported in Finland back in 1994 and now again just few days ago. Your representative in the negotiations all most single handedly drove our negotiators away with his 0 skill negotiating skills. He made ridicilous demands, would try to boss/dominate our negotiators and not to mention tell us what a sad bunch of a** lickers we are, soviet a** that is. Can't remember whether he was drinking whiskey during the 2 day negoatiations as well. Anyways the German representative managed to contain him to some degree and the negotiations could be finished. But I guess I'm just making stuff up... It would be helpful if you provided links to the relevant stories.

All legislation is ultimately interpreted by the courts. Personally I feel at the point where we cannot expect the courts to administer fairness and common sense using grey area legislation is the point where we surrender ourselves to draconian black and white law enforcement. As - if you will excuse my being pointedly rude - you have to put up with in the United States; and which is complicit in a culture of aggressive punitive policing. This isn't just my view, but it gets mentioned quite regularly in the House of Lords.

Tinpot academic authorities make collossal balls of sensitive issue. Nothing new here.

Having listened to Kills for a while I can see why he'd like the notion of a single currency. Reduce divisions, reduce scope for shenanigans. The problem, as I understand it - and I could very easily be wrong - is shown up by Greece. The currency then rests on its weakest adherents, and pursues the economic benefits of the strongest. Expand the membership and you increase the degrees of freedom for the problem. Anyway, I voted Tory in the end, and out of a frantic sense of self-loathing voted green in the tandem local election. I still can't work out why, beyond a childish sense of having done wrong with Tory, and that Green was somehow holy. I ought to have my fething vote taken off me.

I think dogmeat should be the one who finally snaps and starts going on and on about existential doubt.

Pssibly. Although has I say I've been talking to my local UKIP party - to reassure myself they weren't racist - and they have said categorically that the candidate locally is crap. If we weren't a potential swing seat I'd vote UKIP, but I'm going to go for it. I've already scheduled a chat with the Tory party for after the election, where I intend to make the case for euroskepticism.

If we're wishing for magic powers I'm voting we give Sawyer power to control publisher project schedules.

What this fine gentlemen said.

I lol'd

Apparently women feel blackberries are the reason they aren't getting good sex. The funny thing is that in the attached picture, the man is clearly gay. Personally I blame the ongoing fashion conspiracy to make women look like 12 year old boys.

Couple of thoughts: 1. If public debt is used on projects which build the country, and the debt keeps being repaid easily then fine. 2. Government debt is considered (usually) to be very secure and low risk. Having low risk investments is presumably helpful to the markets. can't say I have a coherent view.

Given a hung parliament means more Gordon Brown you'd have to vote conservatives, but I just can't do it. Maybe if their cabinet weren't all twats. It just doesn't feel democratic voting for them. I don't want them. At all. Come on, Moose. I reckon you're the same as me. We were both raised to hate the Tories, but if they have the policies we want, and it's the only way to stop political armageddon then we HAVE to vote Tory. I still haven't been because I'm struggling to make myself do it, tho.

Very crudely, Raithe, you take p hit^3 So if his chance of hitting was 2%, then it is 0.02x0.02x0.02 = 0.000008 EDIT: Or a 0.0008% chance. REDIT: Or, to put it another way, to have a 2.7% chance of pulling off three in a row his accuracy on each individual shot would have to be 30% So I'd say you were right.

Looks like I may owe you an apology, Krez. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbys...ety-record.html It seems that Transocean have been previously discplined on their safety record. Perhaps this will be another nail in the long overdue coffin for ****ing subcontracting key business operations.

I know from personal experience that keeping a blog helps with ANY crazy project. Therefore I suggest you keep us posted here on your progress.

Actually I've changed my mind. Although I may change it again. UKIP can't get in in my seat and there is no way in Hell I am putting up with another five years of ****ing Gordon Brown. To think that 6 years ago I had a big argument with someone who clearly knew better that he was quite sound.

But can you disguise a chicken as a golem? That's a crazy idea. You want iron golem soup? You mean crazy awesome. Golem-terror with the weight of a single chicken. Good point. I'll start finding chickens. You get ready to get us out of any sticky situation by punching 'golems' unconscious.

Walsh, I personally don't see what is wrong with this analogy. The conditions in the golfing field vary as do those of the battlefield, but if your bother is that soldier have more stressful conditions than golfer then let me assure you that no one is saying that. It is simply a good example as to why a 1 in a millionth shot can't be pulled by just anyone. I think I've managed to get confused. As I understand it the sides are: Mock Goblin: Pfah. Pulling a shot at that distance is a 1000 to one so it's just luck. Me: To get to the point where the odds are merely a 1000 to one means you have to eliminate all the human factors which would otherwise make the shot 10 million to one.

The TA is very very civilised. I got a warm and prolonged goodbye. Even the training unit I had a sergeant and the CO express disappointment I was being booted. Which is something I take pride in. Don't feel too sorry for me. I volunteered, I did my best, and I got unlucky with my body snapping. BFD. I've already been talking to the charity Afghan Heroes, and of course I can help by explaining what we are doing and why. If I can't be in the front line I can still contribute. Only losers need a rifle to beat the Taliban!

Agreed. Capitalism and imperialism suck. Are you five years old?

Portion size is a big deal if you're cooking for one. You invariably make enough for two, and if it tastes good (and it should) then you tend to eat it all. The only solution I've found is to VERY swiftly package up extra food and refrigerate it to eat later.

I think the biggest single thing which is undermining politics at present is MPs themselves, and the single biggest reason they are so crap is that the majority have never done a proper job. I mean, what a shower of ****ing arseholes we've got running, even at cabinet level. And by the sound of things, it covers all parties. I think the thing I'd really like to see today is people voting for people, not parties. Have a look at the candidates, choose the person who seems most clued up and moral. Bugger party politics. FWIIW I think I may vote UKIP. Because no sodding British politics will make any difference unless we claw back sovereignty. I admit I was very worried about them being racist to begin with, but I've been grilling UKIP people and all of them seem to regard immigration as a problem only because of stretched resources, not because they have the slightest issue with foreigners. Which I hardly feel is racist unless my friends who work for a charity which helps immigrants are racist for feeling the same way (with a different solution).

Indeed. What I particularly love is the way mass murder attains a spurious glow of legitimacy if you say you only want to murder rich people.