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I'd play that. I love you and want to have your babies.

I just had a thought, what if ADHD is due to OVER stimulation of the brain at an early age. Early years stimulation is strongly correlated with a rise in positive features like intelligence and sociability. It manifests in these early years in a proprotionally higher degree of neuronal interconnectivity. However, go too far, and perhaps you have a system that is TOO interconnected.

I think it is for concern. Terrorists in reality are often loopier than a rollercoaster, which occupies a lot of their time and attention. Moreover they are amateur organisations for the most part, and doing 'boring' things like trawling together government documents is not tehir sort of thing. So handing stuff to them giftwrapped is bad, m'kay?

The Prodigy. Death to Invaders. Putting it kindly it has yet to grow on me.

I still back my plan to have two teams dropped into various inhospitable locations and required to survive AND deliver a full three course meal at the end of ten days. Each team would consist of a celebrity chef and a representative from each nations special forces community.

Well I think we can all relate.

I cordially invite you to stick it up your flue, and smoke it.

It does have to be said that I often get mental knotted and exercise NEVER fails to make me feel better. I liken it to rinsing out the dead leaves from the mental gutters.

What about a diary? If it doesn't work you can always turn it into a book about procrastination.

Shiny

Brown's real failure is that he isn't a politician. Politics is about people, and Brown is a people person to the same extent that I'm a lichen. Politics is also about risk, and having a vision for which you are prepared to take risks, because governmental decision making is often about things you can't assemble hard data for. The ghurka issue would be the most obvious to my mind. If you don't know the ghurkas they hold a special place in the hearts of the British public. Despite being a mercenary regiment from Nepal they have consistently served with total dedication, winning boatloads of medals. they are tough, disciplined, and laugh sinisterly at suffering. They are everything we want to be and usually aren't. A question arose recently over whether ghurkas who had served should be permitted to come to this country with their families. The government declined. The issue was taken up by celebrity campaigners, and became a public focus. At this point, Blair would have flipped and let them in, making a great show of sucking up, and he'd scorn him for being transparently populist. I feel the ghurkas is a clear example of his failures because Brown showed no apparent interest, and no understanding of the fundamentally sentimental nature of public affection. Long story short he finally caved in to pressure, but long after any political benefit could be had from the decision. It demonstrates his lack of vision because he focussed entirely on the Treasury's projected cost of letting the wee buggers in, and not at all on the benefit to be had from thousands of worthy types coming into the country. Nor did it send remotely correct signals regarding the gratitude of HM government. These same failures are evident in his handling of the bankers crisis. The government was obviously required to step in, as they did. But it should have been done instantly as soon as one answered the question 'who can possibly intervene?' He should then have sicced the hounds on people and show trialled them to make people feel better. Instead he acted slowly, and then allowed the bankers most at fault to be given huge fat cash bonuses. FAIL. Similarly he has acted lamentably over the MPs expenses. In fact he has actually left the chamber during debates, as if he can hide. Now, I accept that the figures involved are derisory compared with the sums MPs routinely handle. But the fact is that they are far from derisory compared with the average wage. Once again he acts, but slowly and truculently, like a boy handing back stolen sweets.

NWN2 was so much better than NWN1 it wasn't funny. Mask of the Betrayer absolutely rules. Baldur's Gate was fantastic less for its main plot, and more for the characterisations along the way. Even some incidental characters had a real feel to them.

you may have to go the other way. Do some extreme sports (I hate that term). Convince your primate brain you are taking enough risks. Hey, the worst that can happen is you cripple yourself for life!

I'm starting to think we are going to have to get together as people and demand a ****ing general election. Jacqui Smith and Darling are gone. That's two of the top four. I want rid of this government, because if nothing else I don't want to be governed by people too stupid to vote out Brown as PM. If they'd done that last month they might have saved their jobs. As it is, they are ALL going to be chucked out when they finally HAVE to call an election. Back on topic, this is another example of Brownitis. He rings up to check how Susan Boyle is doing, but doesn't give a **** about D-Day missing the Royals? They're our ****ing heads of state. 10,000 casualties on that one day on our side alone. He didn't give a **** about the ghurkas either, and he rings up to check on Susan Boyle. Rrrrrrraaargh!

You really aren't listening. I'm saying that our next monarch may be a thicky with bad hair and a bad sense of humour regarding nazis, but he's better than anyone the public would ever choose.

In that case I suggest that I do your work for you. What is it?

which only makes team killing more fun Team killers will have their own private hell. It will consist of a pit full of teamkillers and ample supplies of fine food, and entertainment. The TKs will simply **** each other up for no reason.

Some people are weird. A substantial number would prefer buying by upholstery over engine. If I were capable, I would vomit on them.

I'd just like to say that I regret nothing about buying this huge goddamn monitor. I love it. And want to have its babies.

Take a proper holiday. You'll find you're just overloaded. I had the same problem earlier this year until my Swedish foray. Five days not accepting any responsibility or doing anything work, and staring at young ladies.

My vote goes for: Slugcat's House of Walsausages as well as Other Delectable Treats and Culinary Treasures I like it. Someone PM Fionavar.

I don't have many illusions about the nobility of the royal house. I'd just take my chances with some randomly born yahoo, who MAY potentially be quite nice, than a politician who is guaranteed (by the system) to be a liar and bastard.

[coup de grace] Action Force was better than GI Joe and always will be [/coup de grace]

Perhaps the best use of him would be as a living statue. I'd be up for cementing him in parliament square for urchins to pee on.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8078294.stm I know Gordon Brown is the Prime Minister, and we are supposed to send the office, not the man, but come on! I think the Queen should go _instead_ of the one-eyed shambles.