Walsingham

Hey, guys. Quit trying to make Hurlshot feel bad about his new stuff! You think he's going to take it back, and demand a refund because teh intarwebs told him it was bad? Personally, given 99% of hotels attitude towards customers I'd love to tell them to get stuffed. Modern hotels are so highly cost-run it feels as if you're an annoyance rather than an essential. No soap, no tea, scratchy bedlinen, pay for an alarm call.

I was reading the latest on the Haute de la Garenne orphanage case. Basically, over a prolonged period, children were systematically tortured and abused. Well, we've seen that before, and we've got used to it. But in this instance many were tortured so badly tehy died, or were murdered to keep them quiet. Teeth, bones, and other assorted ephemera of life have been turning up at the old orphanage, after it was decomissined, and builders came in. Torture cells and sub-basements keep turning up. Anyway, the police said today that no murder investigation is likely. There have been accusations that the enquiry is being dleiberately mishandled, but this takes the ****ing proverbial. PLEASE if you live in the UK, contact your MP using THIS website or better still by post, and demand that an outside team be sent in from the Met, properly supported by SOCA. This is the largest case of organised proveable child abuse I've ever heard of, and despite a lot of flapping, very little seems to be actually happening.

I'm not sure I could handle the Truth.

It wasn't so much the architecture. I think the biggest thing is the sheer profusion of adverts. They're on everything; although I don't recommend looking, since you'll probably go mad like me. Adverts, and really crappy corporate themed facades. Bits falling off even as they go up.

Walsingham staggers sideways across the fight, with a lobster clinging to the septum of his nose.

I may have to get a mage or two in the party for my campaign that I am going to be running which no-one is helping me with. That may allow me better insight. *cough cough*

That's weird. I really liked the story. I thought the ending was a bit rushed, but otherwise not bad.

fixed Hey, we aren't in China. Nobody stands up to the Panzer division and survives. Nobody. Unless they were some kind of desert rat. I kind of see what you mean, brdavs. But also, I think that Putin's Russia, and China are unlikely to have such tender feelings as you credit them with. A tough stance is probably warranted, given their very aggressive moves in recent years. Arms to Sudan and Iran, expansion of strike airforces etc etc. I know I'm a dinosaur, but I can remember the last time we tried appeasement. Or at least I think I think I can. Unless that was just bathtime.

Like any good student I refuse to read the set text, and will instead crib from you fellows.

That's an interesting idea, but with a person needing a bare minimum of 0.5 litres a day (my guesswork based on historical accounts) you're still going to run out pretty quickly. A further thought: zombies may not rot, but what about the other corpses lying around after the first outbreaks of cholera and typhus?

Wait, he stole a squad car? That sounds like Grand Theft Auto, not a criminal. I sometimes wonder what's worse, educated criminals who steal millions, or uneducated criminals who kill for fifty quid.

I rather unconvinced that a zombie outbreak would provoke the need to farm food. Scavenge, and harvest food, certainly, but farm? Has anyone else read Day of the Triffids?

Well, I can totally see that being annoying.

Hang on, why not approach this more systematically. What are the primary needs, in order: 1. Not being snacked on 2. Water 3. Food 4. Shelter Agreed?

7th Sea had a good magic system. How does it work? *he asks sweetly*

I have that DVD somewhere It was rather good actually. Not brilliant but certainly good I just realised that, ironically, I can't remember the plot now!

I'm STILL annoyed that the Radio 1 reviewer gave away the entire plot of the first X Files movie when it came out. What a total nob.

I follow you, but what if he wants stamina?

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Sorry, I genuinely didn't mean to be rude. But it would surely be insulting your intelligence to pretend I am not a steakhound for the sake of some fatuous politesse. I suspect meat eating would need its own thread to avoid derailing this one.

Sounds interesting - just checked it out on amazon. What kind of writing is it? Historical fictional narrative? History-book style? The book traces the development of the religious beliefs and behaviors that led to the Holocaust and the erecting of a large cross at Auschwitz. The ideas of important secular-religious figures and institutions are presented - people such as Jesus, Paul, Constantine, Ambrose, Augustine, Anselm, Abelard and Heloise, Thomas Aquinas, Voltaire, the Popes, the Kings, Luther, Alfred Dreyfus and LaCroix, and so on. Some of these represent missed opportunities to do better. There is some discussion of Jewish religious thought and figures. The book does have a narrative aspect as well. Carrol presents the history as an illumination of his own personal religious journey. It is a very good read. That does sound interesting. Maybe I'll ask for it for Christmas.

My limit at present is 13 straight, but my chest doesn't connect properly in the middle at the moment. I told my doctor I'd dtried pushups and he looked as if I'd confessed to shooting bottle rockets at the Pope. If you're cracking out those kind of numbers you should definitely get down to your local National Guard unit, mate. Maybe JROTC. Probably the latter. You'll find the phys a breeeze.

Well, obviously.

I definitely agree that it's bad to try and drink your problems away. I'm doing a fair of that myself at present. BUt it is at least partly sociable. I'm not drinking on my own.