Walsingham

"You bloody limeys! Can't you take anything seriously?" - Comment by LCT captain to my grandfather after being offered five pounds to take them back to barracks, Normandy landings.

Holy Crab Nebula! I don't know that guy should be posing as an achorman. But I like his guts.

Meddaforicly, ya putz. Foggedaboudit.

I always write stuff in openoffice and convert to PDF now. Removes the potential for formatting weirdness.

I am certainly of the opinion that a lot of disagreements come down to the premises on which a view is based, more than the internal logic. At least between smart people. I don't know if that's what you mean.

Riding the dog.

I remembered why I didn't like it when I was younger. The humans awere always these ineffectual creeps. We were totally reliant on the Autobots, and the autobots never took the trouble to help us defend ourselves. If you think about it I believe it was only going to be a matter of time before Optimus lost an election and the autobots just upped and left, arguing it was a human problem. We'd be pretty stuffed then!

By God, you're right! An even more interesting notion. Although I'd have thought the more obvious shift is that in RPGs you get powers from being religious like shooting lightning from your fingers.

Like Songkhran in Thailand, cunning shopkeepers have a way of making you believe bigger and louder is better. Anyway, on the subject of birthdays, if the Queen can have two I don't see why we should begrudge Jesus. An official one and one for just his friends and family. [thinks: Actually with God being such an authoritarian, and since Jesus lives at home, I bet the second party sucks.] WHICH REMINDS ME I think from now-on we should make Guy Fawkes night the night when young hip atheists have a gathering of friends. Now that friends are the new family this would be good. It would be like Christmas, with presents, food, and brandy. But with explosions.

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I should never have bought you that dachshund.

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Personally I prefer incompetent amateurs, when I'm the target.

And serial killers get wedding proposals. Women are insane.

I laughed so much when I read this I started coughing. I think in order to decide on terrorism your creative problem solving skills can be assumed to be pretty lousy, though.

As Sando knows I have become more sentimental and sprirtual about Christmas over the years. For me its a damn good excuse to be nice to people without anyone thinking you're mental. I loathe and despise the commercialism.

Hey! Is this any way to welcome a new member? I think it's an interesting observation. The concept of a universally accepted truth which turns out to be completely wrong is quite powerful. You may remember me mentioning the concept of a 'Tonypandy' where historical events are twisted by folklore until they are utterly different from the facts. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonypandy_Riot

Just not your views then?

Back on topic, I don't see why aliens are so bad. You can make aliens have wildly different characteristics and equipment. Which makes the game space more interesting and challenging.

But don't you think it's healthy for one's views to sometimes change?

I was going to object, but it's a good point about needing to make 9/11 a normal day again. Otherwise the terrorists are only 364 days away from paralysing us entirely.

Sand - always rushing around, stirring up apathy. I think it should be Obsidian. Because otherwise they'll stop feeding me bananas.

It's rather like the Queen having the legal right to call out the Army and change governments. She isn't obliged to listen to parliament. But she doesn't do this because it undermines her legitimacy. This makes me particularly angry because we need strong effective leadership from the USA right now in the global context, and this was a small opportunity to prove Bush wasn't a crony feeding powder monkey*. To rise above critics. This 'proves' everyone's worst fears. * I tried to think of an insult that made sense but none of them were printable.

I love the logic behind it. Apparently if you are killed in terrorist action you are either 1. A true believer, in which case you will be happy to die. 2. A non-believer in which case it doesn't matter what you think. Note that this argument is pleasingly circular. Might make for an interesting democratic system. "You can vote for someone other than the government, but if you do then you are clearly a traitor and shouldn't be allowed to vote."

The style leap was cerainly impressive. However I do think it's a shame that given he was building EVERYTHING from scratch he still went with a box design. Thinking about making something that would look very unusual without requiring a lot of craftsmanship, would a totem pole effect work? All components linked to the outside of an aluminium cooling tower. The artistic effect deriving from the component placement?