Walsingham

Picture Jeffree Star sitting on a bar stool, waiting for an old school friend to show up after making a random connection online after years apart, and trying to picture YOU upside down in a vat of angry hornets.

Surely chimp would taste like people. i.e. pork?

May I suggest that the religious debate move to a new thread? The principle is simply one of courtesy to those using this one, and you never know, you may attract some peripatetic theologians. Thanks to y'all who put the data on the Iranian/Israeli tech here. Hello to kinslayer. If I can sum up, I think you've indicated that the Iranians and Israelis view the most likely reaction to an Iranian nuke will be an air strike by the Israelis. The Iranians are trying to bolster their defenses. The Israelis are trying to give themselves fast striking craft. However, I find neither gambit reflective of the inegnuity of either side. each side will not react in the obvious way and will be trying to pitch curveballs. I came up with a bunch of neat ideas, but a couple of them were far too neat, so I'm not going to share them for fear they might be used!

I wouldn't do that. The US gets a great big slice of her oil from Canada.

Colonel Biff Starchunk! Now that's a name. Here's hoping the silly bugger doesn't actually get sent to Darfur. Between his weedy physique, and his shocking grasp of the reality of the situation ('arab horse-riding gangs') he'd likely end up

Proper comedy there, good sir. Russia is a long-standing arms dealer in this region, although they have been losing market share to the Chinese since the mid-eighties when even the Russians realised it was a litle irresponsible and started expecting some sort of restraint in retrun for weapons. The Chinese are your perfect arms dealer. They never ask any questions at all. Sources: Janes Intelligence Review; The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Do what my folks did for me. Buy an enormous cardboard box. Fill it with woodshavings. Mix in a couple of hundred toy soldiers. Kept me busy all day findings the little swines, and then I had a fantastic box to play with! Computer games can come later.

I would decry these comments as borne of ignorance. But then I realised that as far as I know from British media the average american high-school is worse than downtown Mogadishu. Perhaps you could trade delinquent teenagers for ethnic minorities?

I agree it sounds like a kind of Mr Bean idea. you can imagine the damn things turning on their creators in a sudden frenzy. Interestingly I naturally attract wasps for some reason. Never known why.

One of my ex-girlfriends smokes constantly, being a nurse. I'd never tell her, but it really does affect your skin.

I think they will next train crabs to serve coffee.

It's not about doing it just once a year. But the idea is if you do it even once a year you may realise how good it is.

Not all militaries teach the same way. yes, most succesful ones require obedience under crisis, or under fire. But many democratic armies assume that the soldier deserves as much of an explanation as there is time for.

I buy this angle.

If you ask me, CoF, you got off lightly. I'd have set wild pigs on you

I was debating doing it, then I remembered I am a mod, so I can't. Not saying I would have done otherwise, but it's just not a question.

And yet no-one can find the time to add WH40k skins to Star Wars Supremacy? For shame.

I know nothing about overclocking except that a friend of mine tried it, and set fire to his CPU and motherboard. I was there.

My fondest memory is of getting up one christmas morning to cook lunch, and listening for the first time to some religious guy in Johannesburg delivering a sermon on the meaning of Christmas. And as I'm standing there, chopping stuff and listening, I look down to the street and see this homeless fellah wandering around. My brain made the connection between the two things eventually, and I thought 'I should go be nice to that guy who is less fortunate than me.' Of course, being a paranoid freak, my second thought was 'Yeah, right, and get stabbed on Christmas' (I've been stabbed by homeless people before). But I grabbed some mince pies, and about twenty pounds, and headed down. When I trotted over the poor man looked scared like a rabbit, rolling his eyes a little. But when I proferred the gifts he beamed suddenly and with a spring gave me a huge hug. After releasing me, we exchanged christmas blessings, and he went on his way, munching happily. And that is quite certainly my favourite memory of Christmas.

There's nowt odd about it. Nor is being a soldier as much about being a blind automaton as many people would have us believe. This assertion should not hold water for the simple reason that some of our best posters here have been servicemen. But is any of this still related to French History?

Because you are related to English nobles. None of them have any money. They only turn up to the House of Lords because it's warm, and there's free tea and bisccuits.

That's just the doorbell. I have to say I reckon the wee man is interested in getting a few more DVD sales. BUt as also said, he wouldn't mind making another film. Probably because the fething thing is already written.

Way to welcome the new guy. I swear some of you are like Senator Mccarthys of Jodo. you see him everywhere. Hello! *waves at new guy*

It has been remarked on. But I'd have thought pens were nicer than swords?

I think it is worth noting that the French do have a record of officially vetting things we wouldn't. The Academie Francaise authorises words for use, and prosecutes people who stray outside on TV and so on. Given this, vetting history _may_ be ill-advised, but not inconsistent. What about german legislation that says one may not deny the holocaust? Is this wrong?