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Details!? What's she like?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/c...icle6821037.ece I'm genuinely interested to hear what the various people on the fora think, given the variety of different people we have reading this.

Yeah. Thumbs up, mate. Upset 240 passengers and eleven people on the ground's families. Why don't you just tapdance a little?

I'd consider the Oz dollar more inheently stable than the euro. Simple economy, central authority, unlikely to go to war with anyone major unexpectedly...

I'm afraid of a robot apocalypse; I just noticed BOS hybrid's sig.

OK, you got me willing to listen now. 1. Passport 'error'. It's a mistake to presume operational behaviour can't look odd to people who weren't there. Using his own passport may have been safer on that one occasion. It may also have been intended as a double blind. BY your own argument inconsistency with or expectation isn't proof. 2. I suggest (for the sake of argument) that attempting to pursue multi-national terrorist cases where there is state involvement is inevitably going to throw up a somewhat threadbare case. Particularly when a deliberate effort has been made to make the trail look weird. Is it not fair to say then that we can either accept a lower threshold of guilt in such cases or we're going to have to surrender to the threat entirely? 3. Don't be so mean to Stratfor. They are nice guys.

I did rather fall into that. I mean the theory that a broken heart can be quickly and efficiently mended by eating two lbs of very cheap pork sausages at one sitting. Ironically I just realised that while it may mend a broken heart it probably makes you far more likely to suffer a coronary.

You swine! One of her favourite books was 'Eats shoots and leaves" by Lynne Truss*! Must everything remind me?! I just realised with a sinking feeling that this means I must go out tomorrow and purchase sausages for the ritual purging of the romance. *Deals with grammatical correctness.

Rotten mood. Woman I'd given up thinking about got very keen recently, I'd been very happy and considering opening up a bit despite emotional background at present. We work very well together, but we live in completely the wrong places and are heading in very different directions. I tend to regard this sort of thing as not worth worrying about. Apparently she thinks it comes first. So no romance for me! Weather fierce windy. Suits the moment. Ate chips. Got outrageously flirted with at the chipshop, so am pretending this means I am not a total loser.

Comics ARE for nerds, and speaking as a screaming nerd I'm all for facing up to that fact. I have nothing but contempt for the pasty faced masses who will only contemplate a medium if the bovine whey-ball next to them is already gazing blankly at it.

If Chinese products are made with lax safety and quality standards then clearly they are going to be cheaper than competitors. However, it is just daft to claim that we as consumers should accept lax quality and safety from one producer when we don't from any others. As has been pointed out already there are no shortages of countries desperate to receive the kind of investment we see hoofing it to China.

I did have female bodyguards on other occasions, but they weren't really bodyguards in the genuine physical danger sense. They just told people they were my bodyguards. It doesn't count. Although they were buxom.

Interesting counterpoint, Kaft.

I used to do that, years ago. Then one time I wrote what I thought was really stupid, but posted it anyway. It changed my whole life, because I met Ace!! Ace Garp?

If we're just focussing on buxom bodyguards then I still say it's redolent of injustice. Where's MY cadre of buxom bodyguards? The best I've ever managed is one female bodyguard, and she wasn't buxom. Deadly, but not buxom. Blew up a dog.

And Kim Jong Il has a waterslide. What's that really supposed to change?

I read the article and had been about to post it here. Surely a death knell for anything remotely interesting in Marvel?

Can anyone else understand what he's saying? All I read is a series of grunts and wuffling sounds.

I don't believe it was to wangle some oil deal. Scotland doesn't own any oil companies I know of. If oil was the issue you'd expect it to be the US leaning on us. He killed 240 people. Stratfor's lengthy analysis went through the case in detail and the balance of probability is that he was a Libyan agent. I really genuinely don't see what compassion has to do with this case.

I hate bouncers. They get away with murder. I don't see why you shouldn't have a drinking license. You get points for being found incapable, hitting people, breaking windows etc etc. If you lose your license you can't get served for the duration of your drinking ban. That would also serev to tackle underage drinking. Hell, why not have a learner's drinking license, where you can only have non-spirits?

I just finished reading this article in the Financial Times. Essentially it concerns a liability suit by a chap called Robert Silverman, over some faulty fireworks, and should be a serious worry to all of us. The meat of the article is that the chinese based company, asserted that because it was owned by the Chinese state it was exempt from civil prosecution. And that was after years of refusing to even address the case, after more than one writ against them. What it means to you and me is that if we are using or consuming a chinese product and it goes awry, we get sod all. Even when a case is found and pushed through, chinese companies will dissolve rather than pay up. I found this terrifying, and at the same time am bothered by the injustice. I will be seeking to avoid chinese manufactured products and urge you to read the article and comment.

Huh?

I drink, often to excess, and the toll of my drink fuelled anarchy amounts to: 1. 3 fights resolved peacefully 2. 1 heroic intervention to save a girl from a guy 40 kilos heavier than me, and a foot taller. 3. A large number of women danced with then snogged 4. A larger number of foul fast food meals consumed 5. A smaller number of vomiting sessions Drink doesn't automatically turn you into a ****. Even if it seems to, the answer is to stop that person from drinking, not everyone along with them.

1) Scotland, or more specifically one scottish minister released him. 2) Having said that, Gordon Brown, the 'missing prime-minister' did nothing about this. Given that the Scots assembly has no writ upon foreign affairs and this has a strong foreign policy element, it should have been possible for him to intervene. He didn't. 3) Personally I feel it sends interesting signals to the mid-east if we act compassionately, and would consider it except... 4) We made a very clear commitment to the USA that he would serve his term in Scotland, and releasing him goes back on that promise.