Walsingham

Scotch: DISLIKED BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T LIKE FLAVOUR WHEN DRINKING. Vodka: In its purer forms, and drunk cold, it's like being snubbed socially by the archangel Gabriel. Gin: world's best mixer. Also the only way to make G&T or martini. Canadian: I don't know. Irish: Subtly flavoured. Bushmills ten year ftw. Cognac: It's liquor for those who drink through their nose, and have inexhaustible wallets.

Don't be ridiculous. No-one makes women colonels. *ducks flaming bra*

Darth Vader's breathing.

Look, new start: - Was Kosovan independence advisable? - Was Kosovan indepdence emotionally understandable? - What do the Kosovans say about it?

Sorry, chaps, I'm confused. What is the Red Army to do with gun control, and school shootings?

*Walsh pins his ears backa nd pays attention*

Oh yes, because civil wars always end so well.

On the one hand I agree that we euro-weenies are likely to have unexpressed well-offness, by way of infrastructure, education, and healthcare. I would also observe that much of America (and the UK) GDP is defence exports and therefore unlikely to make anyone except console gamers actually happy trousered. However, there are other points to keep in mind that may support ol' Zak. - We have far less living space per person. - Much of European industry is state protected and uncompetitive in real terms viz France, Spain, and Portugal. - The less said about the Italian legal economy the better - Our populations are ageing, and becoming less productive to a greater extent for teh simple reason taht we care for our elderly, and we live longer. On the plus side, being a true federation we are more robust in the face of shocks and vicissitudes. i.e. his analysis assumes current trends, but ignores the potential for crashes, mishandling, etc.

I'm not on Facebook. I refuse to participate in anything with such explosively lax privacy controls.

aw no pictures? you're no fun basically just picture someone with hooks in their back with ropes lifting them off the ground i can go into more detail if you like Good lord! Well, each to their own, I suppose.

I meant it could be a good continuation of the topic. An evolution if you will.

Maj. Carter is my kind of woman.

It's quite clear that a resignation would have been carried out for two possible reasons: 1. To smoke out any domestic threats to the party, while he is still physically around. 2. To provide credibility to a successor.

Top ten most badass presidential contenders? i.e. people who ran for Prez and failed?

No pictures, but what is a flesh suspension? Is that like when you're gnawing on a whole leg of lamb while you type?

A litre of guava juice.

The fact that he was REALLY REALLY sick? As in well hes always been a sick mutha! I was thinking more along the lines of his kidneys failing.

Picture, if you will, me staring at this bald statement like a dog being shown how to make nylon.

The fact that he was REALLY REALLY sick?

Darth Vader. The James Earl Jones one, not the strange comedic farce in the first three films. There your answers lie.

You can't put Eisenhower below Truman!

An independent Kosovo was always going to be a problem. Hard for NATO to defend, easy for Serbia to take at least with Russian backing). But when Kosovars appealed to the West for aid it would have looked very bad to deny it to them. There's a lot of Eastern European countries looking nervously at a resurgent Russia and wondering if we will back them up.

One has a school shooting per week, one has not. Pardon me for claiming one is wiser and more right. If it's not the easy availability of guns, then what is it? What is so fundamentally different about the American mindset that guns are a non-factor in the equation? So far in this thread you've all been pinning the blame on mentally disturbed people. Since you have many more shootings, something IS different, that much is clear. Logically (according to YOUR logic) since it's not the amount of guns that causes it, it must be the amount of mentally ill people. Are you saying Americans are more mentally ill than other people in the world? Is it your health care system that's failing? Are Americans just more perceptible to mental illnesses? I'm not sure that was GD's argument. I think I was the one saying it was mentally ill people who go on homicidal rampages and kill scores of people they don't know. As for the USA having more, I don't know the statistics. But I would expect that free mental healthcare is even worse than that in the UK. I'll levae it there before I start sounding like a filthy socialist.

I'm salivating like a bloodhound! I'm so going to capture you in a net and make you a chef. Which like all my stomach's plans works on many levels. You'd also be a dangerous chef, like Steven Seagal.

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