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It's no worse than people debating what the Royal family should and shouldn't do. It's not as if we have any choice in that either.

I've been trying to work out why I look tired all teh time trhese days, until I realised I am just getting old.

I don't see all the fuss. what with all the loafing about and beer my blood is practically kobe beef blood. On the other hand, _airforce_ blood. Blimey.

A further 25% cut, presumably in light of a lukewarm response by Europe to the first 25%. Bloody useless Brown.

Not if the many are very small and thin, and the few are very large and fat.

Would people prefer he was giving out free cookies? Jeez, tough crowd!

The old charger is in Bristol (a long way away by European standards). As I say, the machine is an old compaq, and my colleagues insist no replacements are locally available.

I thank you. Ukraine gas supplies cut by 25%.

Damn you. Damn you all the way to hell.

Since I don't have a clever closing remark, I am going to borrow Gromnirs (without asking him no less)... There is another thread discussing the company and it's games http://forums.obsidianent.com/index.php?showtopic=49079 gromnir for teh win on this occasion.

Ladies and gentlemen, the task is to get enough power into an old compaq laptop to get the existing files off. We have no charger and a deadline of 14:00 GMT. IDEAS: 1. Heat battery - to what temperature? For how long? ...

Further interesting questio: do people get bored in heaven and start causing trouble?

New contract begins today. Up at this ungodly hour to make certain I get to work. What the hell is wrong with my life-planning? I'd intended by this stage to be taking it totally easy, and working all from home. Instead if I'm not charging off to some meeting at the other endof the country I'm bloody charging about Salisbury plain in a truck and whatnot. *grumble grumble stupid me* I've lost no weight whatever. But the weight I do have has changed consistency, and moved upwards.

Good effort. Hope that's through exercise not the diet formerly known as starvation. A bit of both. I have cut down and changed what I eat along with exercising. Very wise.

Good effort. Hope that's through exercise not the diet formerly known as starvation.

Steve, that's for you poor sots out in the drylands. I suppose one could drink wine without food, but why do so? Good food and good wine go together. As one of my French colleagues woudl say, to have one without the other is [censored].

I don't believe any of this nonsense about having a specific time to go. But I do think that the majority of people die for reasons beyond their control. It's just more comforting to think of it in terms of some external Fate than random roulette.

You're lucky you're not getting a slice of my fist! I boil the slice and make a knuckle sandwich.

I meant everything. Like swinging a donkey into a box full of kittens.

Assume for the purposes of this discussion that we would live with the gorgeous bodies of twenty two year olds.

It's no good. I keep getting slices of toast. Anyway, if we're talking varieties I'm a fan of Chianti, and Grenache. Or the real ales of grapes. Strangely, in spite of its cachet I can't stand barolo. Whites i don't usually like, but I had a very very good but inexpensive 'green' wine from Portugal the other night. Very slightly fizzy (petillant) it complimented the tapas superbly.

*repeatedly hammers insta-kill moderation button and wonders if it's actually connected to anything.*

This would give me the heebie jeebies. It'd be like when I had rats in the ceiling.

I think we should campaign to get the Bush daughters driving logistics like that soldier who got kidnapped in Iraq. Lindy something. EDIT: I just read that article about New Idea. I simply can't fathom what they thought they were doing. On the one hand, obviously their core readership are probably too stupid to care or even understand HOW the story put lives at risk. On the other hand what in God's name made them think their readers would care enough to justify running the story!? Surely they'd have been more happy reading about Jennifer Aniston's latest salad or something? Godawful bastards.

I'm sick of people slagging off South African wines. They buy cheap plonk at 3.50 a bottle and somehow excuse this by pretending it's awful vbecause it's South African!