Walsingham

What if there are dancing girls and tasty treats? If you think they can dance around the snare cord then it may work.

There is taking the role of devil's advocate, and taking the role of cretin's advocate. I leave it to you to ponder which is more appropriate to your behaviour on this particular topic. I must admit I believe it has been the latter, and that you have been wating good debating space. You might as well argue that since the Iraqis are elephants we should concentrate on saving the African elephants first because they were in danger before the Iraqi ones.

Not that this is relevant to the topic, but frankly if the folks that vote go on to vote for the death penalty then that's what democracy gives them. To argue against it would be elitist snobbery and I shall sue you for demarcation.

Neil Armstrong (amongst others) believed that humans have a finite number of heart beats. Get healthy and make them last longer, or clock out early with an express cardiac arrest. Acually all mamals, from elephants to sea turtles that live 200 years, have the approximately the same finite numer of heatbeats. I suppose it is true that a fit person has a lower resting pulse than an out of shape person. but things like diabetes and obesity and lifestyle choices like smoking pose a far greater rist for a slob like me. On the other hand, who wants to live to be old enough waste away in a nursing home with nothing to look forward to but dementia and incontinence. ...When one could inflict the dementia and incontinence on one's least favourite relatives? I wholeheartedly agree.

It was a gut instinct overriding common sense purchase. But thoroughly borne out.

but the pictures are starting to loose their golliness... I don't think it would be so humorous again, because you'd be unlikely to catch my baffled expression as I reached for the pie-bait just as the elastic tightened.

*looks absolutely zonked* Couldn't put book down. So engrossing... Must eat braaaains... NO! Waitaminute. Except for a couple of very minor tweaks this has to be one of the best books I've read in a long whille, and without question the only one in years that I literally couldn't put down. I have now finished it, and heartily recommend it to everybody. Although I should add that I'm utterly fatigued and can barely see straight.

I'm just pleased that as well as the more obvious anglo-saxon words, we've managed to export the word 'fluffy'.

I just bought 'World war Z' by Max Brooks today, and after 100 pages I can't sleep. Absolutely great book, definitely on a par with John Wyndham, even if it was certainly inspired by him. The research and near future aspects are the most scary bits. Anyone else read t, and if so did anyone hate it?

Hah! I must say it's very kind of you all to give me support. But I'm not trying to lose weight per se. I'm afraid the body beautiful just ain't the one I was issued with! I'm trying to get fit so I can feel better, and if all goes well sign myself up for the reserves (being too ancient for the regulars any more). It's all off in the distant future, tho. I'm still pretty pathetic as it goes. But just good by my past standards.

Nuhhuh. There's no way you are catapulting me into the belltower of a church. Again.

True. But they are, as it were collective expressions. Not some individual grandstanding. Anyway, I've no doubt the chap meant well. It's just that to an Englishman it would look crass, and thus the eyerolling arose.

Seems like the guy was busted for fething about during a trial run. Not for killing Lord British.

On a related point http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6570721.stm I feel obliged to observe that in my opinion Cowell was probably expressing cultural disjunction rather than disrespect. We Britishers find weepy grandstanding utterly stinkworthy. To me it would seem as if the contestant, not Simon Cowell, was being iditiotic about the poor people who were killed.

Only if you bring them over here. My calves are all cramped.

I thought this guy was railing against capitalist corruption? And I'll take the odd loon over Five Year Plans that reduce millions to starvation and cannibalism.

Just wanted to report that my dieting and exercise appears to be paying off. This time five years ago I could barely climb stairs my knees were so bad, but physio and determination now see me able to run for 30 minutes, and sprint to a finish! Huzzah! EDIT: You could say I'm improving by leaps and bounds. ....Aaaah how I laughed.

What about us n00b guards?

The incident was awful but this guy is a laugh riot. An alter ego called Richard McBeef, and his 'glorious testament' to NBC fails to arrive on time because he got the address wrong! I have to say that it looks to me as if the second incident was probably more or less off the cuff after realising the authorities weren't doing anything to effectively prevent a second shooting. He probably went more or less to pieces in the two hours in between and the breather gave him time to steady his nerves, and removed any previous 'restraint'. But I'm purely speculating.

You're quite correct. Quick, lock all the doors! Fire all my staff! They're only accidents waiting to happen and stab me in the back!

Was that the one with the guy who lost his sense of humour?

You're saying that you reckon the State Department is just handing out cash out of pure glee, rather than because they know they will make a profit? I can only assume you feel a very different sort of person holds sway there compared with the evil s.o.b.s who started the Iraq war purely for oil.

Absolutely. It' not like being mistaken for a copper will get you attacked randomly in chip shops....

I should point out that Meta and I are not citizens but subjects of her Britannic majesty. The old dear who lives at Buck house.

I'm not sure cthulhu - while I'm inordinately fond of it - is really likely to catch the imagination of the present market.