Walsingham

I know you're only kidding, but keep in mind the fact that you have to carry the bastard around with you. I know i wouldn't carry any laptop bigger than 15" for work.

It can find out ANYTHING IT WANTS TO. You give it permission to establish who you visit, what you say, where you bank, what kind of icecream you like... ANYTHING. I could pay them to stare vacantly up your nose, man.

I never understood the business of signing up for individual classes. It always struck me as more random and prone to over-booking than UK university. or maybe it's just that you blokes turn up?

*Drumroll* Flood A surprisingly good cast, including Robert Carlyle and David Suchet Highpoints: a general Mystery Science Theatre vibe. Unnecessary violence to a Scottish grandmother. A tidal surge travelling the wrong way up the Thames... then reversing direction. Lowpoints: ALL the soldier's berets were wrong, unmolded, looked like Russian sailors. The heroic sacrifice at the end which could have been simply avoided by giving the man two air tanks. OVERALL well worth watching. If you are a fan of bad movies.

Hung out with an ex yesterday and today. Lovely woman, with a really fun son who's sixteen and loves stories with guns in them. Back home to my proper home away from the family seat tomorrow. Oddly sad and hollow feeling., echoed rather conveniently by chill blustering winds. It's been a pretty eventful and emotional Christmas. Or maybe it's just a desire to avoid getting back to harsh realities that has me feeling blue.

I don't even know where to begin to answer that question. Do I point out that I'm not a big fan of drum 'n' bass? Do I ask what a double ristretto is? What is fully functional in regards to a warzone? How does that relate to a more realistic scenario? All good questions. 1. It's interesting that you don't like drum'n'bass. 2. A ristretto is a short espresso. Highly concentrated; like being hit with a sack of coffee beans. Until your nose breaks. 3. Most importantly, by fully functional I mean once at a high level of arousal are you able to engage in lower arousal tasks? A classic high arousal person, once they're firing at the right pitch is quite happy doing 'normal' things.

Out of interest, how many of you anti immigrant types actually know any immigrants?

OK. But what I'm saying is, how about I get you, load you up with drum 'n' bass music then send you into a warzone with a double ristretto and a string of firecrackers? Are you going to be fully functional?

I eat at MaccyDs. Doesn't that make me even more stupid than the guys who work there?

The aliens will force a meteor into our orbit that will spread the diease that turns everyone into zombies. Then a nuke goes off. Can everyone go blind due o the meteor as well? I like my armageddons oldskool.

No more a lady than you are. Despite that fabulous diamante twinset.

If you read the article carefully, its much more than just her stirring up anti India sentiment. It deals with her perspective on a lot of issues, such as nuclear weapons (the ultimate weapon for asserting the moral superiority of Islam? WTF? Is this woman insane?), denial of the genocide in Bangladesh, sacrificing the welfare of the Pakistani people in order to maintain the conflict with India, her bigoted views of history (Pakistan and India were never one country), her incompetence and corruption, her desire to ferment terrorism in India, her role in the formation of the Taliban, encouragind jihad and radical Islam and so on. But you are free to gloss over all these things if you wish. When one makes alliances one rarely gets to choose the perfect partner. But I agree it is only sensible to recall that she was not perfect. But then I think the dynastic progression in her political party should have done that.

Warm, and sticky. Ew.

Anyone who can come back from crack addiction gets superpower points in my book.

Ok, serious now. i'm used to think about cognitive arousal in the Yerkes-Dodson sense. That everyone has a personal comfort zone. Some are very low and are extreme risk averse, and become anti-scoial librarians. Others are extreme sports risk seekers. My question is, how does ADHD differ from someone who simply has a high optimum arousal threshold?

Nah. I would miss the comfort in feeling sad. What about the comfort in waffles with double cream, and a fruit beer? My cold came back after the New Year party (London was like being in the trenches. Lots of explosions, and no food to be had). So I did what any red blooded Englishman would do - went for a four mile run in the snow. I feel fanTASTIC!

Tinfoil hatters are always good for a laugh. Good link, Sluggo.

*Somebody keep Krezack's attention while I phone the police*

You've obviously never 'met' Fall From Grace.

Its true to some extent. I know that women have been bothered with my lack of attention to my surroundings, but thats just because I walk around like a proper man with my head in the clouds, pondering scientific theories or why Spiderman married Mary Jane and not Felicia Hardy. *puff puff* Quite. Now let us put on giant cowboy hats and ride tiny motorscooters to the beach.

Yeah, cause Hollywood writers have such difficult jobs. They turn everything into the same goddamn film.

You'd need to be one hell of a swordsman. I've hunted rats.

I can't speak for the States, but the fact is that the United Kingdom stopped being able to feed its population with it's own land in the 1930s. We could farm every inch and have windowbaskets and we'd stilll go hungry if the logistics chain broke down.

I didn't mean to imply it's usually the case that the person who says they have ADHD is just a jerk. But it's like autism, now every nerd is autistic. EDIT: Actually this got me thinking. In many ways isn't ADHD and autsim simply being a man? i do sometimes think we've feminised our society so much that if you are a man you are diagnosed as having an illness.