Walsingham

I've spent 24 of the last 72 hours transcribing voice recordings. It is unbelievably dull. At least when you're stuffing envelopes you can listen to the radio.

Sobverting communist China... Hmmm. yeah, I'll buy that for a dollar.

I don't know why but I suddenly thought 'why don't we lead a sort of slave revolt of all those poor saps in the Far East being paid to do scut work for cash.' Just kind of what is lacking in MMOs is more meta-currents of activity. Social change, schemes, etc

That would explain why I'm so bloody tired then.

Had to be to get to sleep the last few weeks

You shouldn't be stepping into your mother's bedroom like that without knocking. 10/10

That is very saddening. Agreed. But don't worry, I'm sure those slavers deserve long treatment at taxpayer expense so they can rejoin society as productive individuals.

Good question. What shall it be WalshY? If the state of my own liver is anything to go by, I'd stick to animal.

Spider's suggestion looks cooler. I'm just emailing teh company to ask where they retail in the UK.

It didn't work. I drove a fast car for a bit and then Chris Buckley started shooting at the rats in my ceiling.

Actually, the zulus practice a form of stick fighting where you have a long stick grasped in the left hand which is used to shield the body with wide sweeping motions, while the shorter one in the right hand is used to batter an opponent. I would therefore think it perfectly plausible that you would use a double handed one in the left hand and one of those short ones in the right.

My view precisely. EDIT: well, not precisely. He left out the beer. okay how about this one then.. if you punish every bad decision harshly, pretty soon people won't even make good beer anymore! I hope you're proud of yourself, you big bully. You made me cry!

In my crystal ball I foresee two alternatives... 1) You hire a local childminder who, thanks to there being no screening of such people locally, turns out to be a child abuser anyway. 2) You spend years shackled to your children, and wind up resenting them so much that by the time they are 8 you are leaving to fend for themselves armed with hammers. Deprived of affection, and marshalled by an increasingly angry and jaded parent they begin to commit crime in a pathetic attempt to get attention from others. They also eat hotdogs. From those guys in the street.

Actually the lesson it taught me was how to shuck oysters. Go figure.

All I'm saying is, you're both doctors, you have three kids. You are on holiday. You find a nice restaurant within a stone's throw of your flat. You go out for a BIT of quiet, and still go back regularly to check on your babbies. I' not saying that the children mightn't get upset at being left alone for 30 minutes but jeez, it's not the end of the world. If you wanted to guard them against threats, predatory abduction is probably a lower probability than choking on their own feet. Which is not to say that predatory paedophiles aren't a serious thing. only that an individual parent should be forgiven for not seeing it coming.

Do you three gentlemen have kids?

I remember demanding a pair of trainers back when I was a kid. I was absolutely adamant that they were a great idea. About six hours after I'd spent the best art of a year's pocket money on them I understood I'd made a dreadful mistake. Still, it taught me an important lesson.

My view precisely. EDIT: well, not precisely. He left out the beer.

The behaviour AFTER the arrest is silly. I don't find anything odd about cops thinking they could be being lured into a trap.

Sergeant, arrest that kitten!

There's usually an excuse for it. When I was offerred the house I thought I'd be out of the country within a year. It didn't make any sense.

I'd rather they got a straightforward dressing down, followed by them apologising and getting on with their jobs. Talk about over-reacting. Sheesh.

Option to buy three bedroom house in County Durham for 20k in 1999. Recently sold in 2006 for 135k. GodDAMMIT!

You used to steal kindergarteners from the pockets of fellow elementary school kids? Lift many elephants? You seem to have a rather exaggerated sense of what people take notice of. Cheating at cards, picking pockets, and kidnapping children rely on one very important and common factor about humanity. Humans don't notice jack ****. Never having tried I shall bow graciously before your superior experience. I shan't distress the forum with details of what happens to persons taken for sexual slavery, but it has been my habit in the past to do so whenever some fethwit tries to tell me that the death penalty is never appropriate. I'd rather they took the money spent on keeping such people in high security jails and spend it on any surviving victims.

You used to steal kindergarteners from the pockets of fellow elementary school kids? Lift many elephants? Gorth, you have an interesting point about the possibility of it being a different crime. Particularly kidnapping. This might explain why the father is reportedly sure his daughter is still safe. On the other hand that could just be the wishful thinking of a devoted parent. What I do find unlikely is that anyone other than a moron would try to snatch any living organism for sale without having the capability to care for them in an opportunistic fashion. In any event such a cretin would surely have been found by now.