Walsingham

Not a single response to my enraged counterpoint? *sulks*

I'd been meaning to comment on this, but had no time. In fact I actually meant to link to the article. Short answer: it shouldn't be banned. ****ing get your heads out of your arses. Long answer: There would be benefits to society and to the Army if it was banned. The soldiers would be fitter, and they wouldn't look like cancerific role models. However, and I really can't write this loudly enough: SOLDIERS ARE ALREADY DOING THEIR BIT FOR SOCIETY, SO SOCIETY SHOULD EASE THE **** OFF. You can encourage them not to smoke, just like you encourage them not to swear, have mental breakdowns, get drunk and start fights with students, but you absolutely cannot tell them to risk their lives and not give them the tiny self-determination of being allowed to smoke. Seriously, anyone who think the armed forces have got nothing better to do than give up smoking should be immediately drafted into route patrols in Afghanistan.

Just got back from home. Travel is costing me a fortune. Long long story short: my mum isn't about to die. The doctor's got it wrong and we showed them why. We also learned that asparagus is high in calcium, and if you eat too much (200g a day) it can make you look as if you have exploding organs. I also had a totally unexpected reunion with an ex of mine who turns out to have me confused with Shryke. Since I'm overweight, stressed, and worried half the time I am deeply suspicious.

What does her face look like?

I just had a thought: why not sneak it onto her finger during sex?

It's the mini me in a baby carriage, with a pipe. He is being attacked by a wild dog that is top left, just like I was.

I think you should build a glass case, and run a mix of mercury and alcohol based coolant through the whole thing. That would look cool. Incredibly dangerous and expensive, but cool.

LOL "back and to the left"

I would try to establish who they are looking to get as the rep. It may be they are trying to get you to make a stand on something pointless to make you look bad. However, what really boils me is, I could understand some crap like this if the situation were worth ten grand or more, but over a few shifts? That's ****ing evil, man. I swear some people like to play dirty just to play dirty.

An artistic, yet scientific rendition of how my children will actually be.

Sorry about dragging this whole thread off topic. I should have known better.

I haven't had really proper fish and chips since I left the North. The good places still fry in beef or pork fat. Plus there are a lot of good English recipes. it's just that no-one really uses them any more. You can't get the herbs or the meat in sainsburys supermarket. Or, more importantly, the time in the day.

I always knew you were a man of taste. I love Raymond Chandler.

*sound of bashing head into wall* And every country is only as good as its worst elements, every person only as good as their worst organ... pure liquid genius. You condemn billions as extremists for the actions of a few. YOU preach intolerance as bad as some extremists do. Not someone at random. You're doing it right now. And i believe like most intolerance it is borne of ignorance. You need to get out of your damn basement and go see some of the good being done in simple every day ways by christians, go see the common humanity, and stop looking for a whipping boy to vent your spleen on.

That is absolutely ****ing outrageous. I don't know what to suggest. They're clearly trying to finagle the angles by muddying their counter-offers and trying to cherry pick the rep. Who the hell are they?

I wonder about those gaming systems. I don't understand what I'd be like today if i hadn't been forced to keep myself amused for hours and hours getting into fights with my siblings.

Like several rare cliches this is perfectly true. 95% of English food is absolute balls. We eat any old rubbish and smile politely when we do. Mind you, its kind of symptomatic of the whole corporate serf mentality people have here.

Football is a game you play with your feet, as opposed to a game you play standing on your feet. I think it's fair to award the title to the game which does more fot stuff. And that is clearly 'soccer'. In any event, as Giles from Buffy said "I don't know why America, a nation which prides itself on its masculinity feels it has to don 40 pounds of armour, just to play a simple game of rugby."

I'm fascinated by anything to do with parenting round about now. If you keep her entertained is she quite good on holiday? Or does she complain tonnes? It's basically teh male version of broody, which is equivalent to the enthusiasm you feel about going up on the roof to fix a leak in a storm. You just feel its something you HAVE to do eventually.

For my money, if you want to understand Jazz you should listen to the live recording of Benny Goodman at carnegie hall. You have to grasp the daring nature of jazz in its time. We're too used to thinking of it as a Dad's thing. I couldn't find a good copy of the Goodman session, but conveys about 80% of the energy and daring for the time. But you really have to hear the crowd in the background to get it.

I'd say Holland and Sweden, for my money. I guess it depends a lot on what you want to get out of it.

Love thy neighbour? Turn the other cheek? Alms to the poor? Oh yes, makes no bloody sense at all. That is just one bit of Christianity, Walsh. Take it as a whole, not piecemeal. At the same time as Christians advocate love thy neighbor most are also spouting off bigotry when it comes to those who they think are living in sin such as gays and lesbians. While they are advocating to turn the other cheek, there are those among them that seek to start wars and hoping that Israel starts Armageddon. A religion is only as good as its followers. It is YOU who are taking things piecemeal. Being a fascist bigot and blaming Jesus does not invalidate Christianity. At least it had better not or by inference the BNP being fascist bigots in the name of Britain means I am by inference one too. In any case you can't measure any belief system by its worst examples. As I could swiftly prove if I knew precisely which belief system you claimed to follow. BTW, I guess LoF didn't pay the slightest attention when he ragged out for using pointless bits of latin.

Good grief. I know i complain about your usual happy lifestyle, but all this sucks. I don't treally know the situation well enough to offer concrete advice. So I'll settle for saying I hope you find truth and the courage to act upon it. As does your friend. I got back from visiting the aged parent. Managed to raise morale a great deal with the help of my sister (who is still an annoying bint). I think I also cheered up my stepfather a little.

ROFL. "Reeeeee!" man, that kid should have been taken off WoW years ago. That's why I'm never playing the damn game.