Walsingham

I'm going to assume that a swede burger is grated swede, onion, parsley, blue cheese, and parmesan, fried in olive oil, and served with chopped chives and fresh bread, possibly with garlic mayonnaise.

Indeed one does find brutalities all over the globe, but in civilized societies, especially western, do I find them more gruesome due to their sophistication and premeditated thought Good point. Scrap the schooling system, I sya.

You can't possibly be serious, btw.

Not everyone can write that fast, taks . I write about 30 pages a day and I'm told my typing sounds like a war between armies of mice.

Eastern Roman you may have been, but you're still Western to me, Sweetie.

I have long intended to make a film called 'Cover me in fudge sauce and chocolate sprinkles' It won't in fact be porn, but the tale of how I eat nothing but food from Baskin Robbins, the icecream people, for 30 days. And become very very fat. To slim down I intend an equally popular sequel where I am chased through the woods of Connecticut by live roleplayers armed with porcupines on sticks.

It's like some horrific... well I just don't know. But what worries me is how many of these subterranean pits are turning up. And the ones turning up are just the public ones. It occurs to me that we could use some of the clever technology flying around to survey for this sort of thing. Maybe that wouldn't work. *fume* Come on, chaps. There'd brains on this board. how could you identify and stop this sort of thing?

Of course he did. Everyone gets... *cough, walks off*

I'd like to see a training sequence from my own experience learning Muay Thai. old hands will already know the story, so apologies... My trainer told me that my problem was I worried too much about whether I was going to hurt the guy at the other end. Too much or too little. He said I had to forget all that, and just hit. Being a twit I didn't get it at all. So he todl me to go hom e and hit the wall as hard as I could until I understood. Several weeks later, and with bleeding knuckles I utterly lost my temper, and hit the wall with complete and careless conviction. The wall cracked. I had forgotten to think about what would happen, I had done it so often. I haven't been able to do it again, but it proved the point. We could have the agent being told to batter something inanimate until he loses.

Dalton was a good Bond, and he was let down by the script, but no-one comes close to Daniel Craig's Bond. Genuine nutloop.

Torture only works in the movies, mate. Still, I suppose that would qualify it for video games. I can't triple roll a car fifty feet through the air and sprint off afterwards in real life either.

Hey walshingham do you have like double sets of man parts becuase you are like on a whole other plane of bad ass. Bwahahahaha.......that whole quote is pure GOLD. Pain ^distance = comedy.

In general I'd agree. Cult brainwashing, in fact most brainwashing can be very effective. However, as suicide bomber handlers know you have to work fast once conditioning is set. You have to expose people to the victim for short periods or they start asking awkward questions. Besides which this sounds like only two individuals. Hardly standard cult many-on-one behaviour.

English players are generally overrated. Wayne Rooney would be the most obvious example. He is only overrated as a football player. He would make an excellent muppet.

I just ordered 'Whoops Apocalypse' on DVD. A great little film, and even more politically relevant than when it came out post the Falklands war* It is a comedy. Some quotes, but not the best ones, because it would spoil it. "Santa Maya must be liberated by any means necessary. Even diplomacy if it should come to it. " "You can't show you're resolute without showing you are strong. And you can't show you're strong without blowing people up. " "Having established the root cause of unemployment, we now need to come up with a job creation program. I have devised an idea that will create millions of new jobs within the first year of operation. Every week, five hundred working people jump off a cliff, thus creating five hundred new jobs. " *You Yanks may remember it as that time you refused to back up the UK, your oldest ally and closest Cold War ally for the sake of a tinpot military Junta, because the State Department were still upset about Bunker Hill.

The thing is I read a lot of military history*, and I know atrocity goes on. What I can't get my head around is how and why you'd brutalise someone you must know very well, day after day. I mean, just to give one example of how it fails to float, what happens when you get those inevitable days you feel like achange of pace? I mean I love my work, but I don't do it every day. What happens if your hobby is torturing and ruining the life of a human being? Do you call in a friend? Do you let them out? Do you bake them a cake? It's madness. Pure madness. *For the car chases

I'd like to know why still nothing significant has been done to fix England's performance. I mean, what, we just say "yeah, we're rubbish and are too apathetic to care"? For the love of Christ we're supposed to be a first world nation. Our population is what 72 million? Our players are some of the most expensive in the World. But we can't field a working team? Come off it.

Perhaps. There's already some discussion about whether Mugabe is still really in power or not, or whether we have a military junta with him as a figurehead. That's not something that will necessarily become clear anytime soon, and I don't think they'll shoot him if he's happy enough to remain in place drawing all the attention. I don't think it will get as bad as Rwanda because I don't think they need that to stay in power and it would attract too much international attention and calls for intervention. That said, these things aren't always rational. It's also possible that the 'war veterans' have now been stirred up too much and the government won't be able to restrain them any longer. My impression is that what you are describing was precisely teh kind of thing which happened in Rwanda. The interahamwe got out of control once off the leash.

The bottom line with Echelon is that it works. See 'Big Boys Rules' (I forget the author). The IRA, and other terrorists are basically lethal amateur dramatics clubs with bombs. They hire weak players, they make mistakes, they get over-excited, and they slip up. The point of Echelon is to make sure we are ALWAYS listening so when they do slip up by communications we catch them.

Launch a well-staffed and managed investigation, followed by trials, arrests, analysis, and a high level examination of ways to prevent and mitigate it happening again?

I was gobsmacked to see this today. Boy held in basement, being eaten alive. Yes, you read right, being eaten alive BY HIS FAMILY. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-50...OUR-months.html http://www.radio.cz/en/article/91640 http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article1316059.ece I mean, seriously. What?

Are you claiming gmail or ISPs actively violate privacy? Or even have a right to? Please don't try be misleading. This would be bad, too if any entity had legal immunity to privacy violation, but that it's a government with it is worse - not because the government is necessarily untrustworthy, but because it's a right they don't deserve and which can easily be abused. Governments are fluid things, and you can't base your defence of them on the notion that they stay static, because they most certainly do not. And by the way, random n00b, they most certainly can arrest you if you say you plan to kill Bush. Both in Britain and America. What do you mean right they don't have? At least in the UK there is no such thing as a constitution. Our constitution is whatever we will put up with, with the exception of habeus corpus, and it turns out even that no longer applies.

Didn't Chris Avellone go through how to become a programmer in The Amazing Fallout Bibles? I rather think he did, and it was in issue five...

What I think is more interesting in some ways is WHY he is getting away with it domestically. I mean bouncing Bob can't be controlling everything from inside his rotting braincase. There must be a collage of people wworking in concert with him, feeding the violence and keeping him safe. My own reading on this is that this behind the scenes mob intends to work up enough violence to nail the opposition for a generation in a surprise blood-letting a la Rwanda .Once they have they will stage a coup, shooting Bob and anyone they don't lik in Zanu PF, plus the peopel who know where the orders came from. The real perps claim to be the saviours of freedom and democracy, and live happily ever after in their one party fantasy land. Any takers?