Raithe

Okay, let's add a touch of celebrity ...

Oh no. In the UK "Public School" used to be the private, high fee charging (mostly boarding) schools. They were "Public" schools because they weren't run or maintained by the Government, also they were meant to be open to anyone who paid the fees regardless of occupation, religion, or where they lived in the country. They were also more likely to be single sex and the majority were Boys schools. Nowadays they've started to go co-ed, and a lot of them accept "day students" as well. Over the years they developed into being where the early "old boys networks" were formed, as the upper classes and high middle class would send their kids to them. It really came into it during the British Empire days when the sons of the various administrators / officers would be sent to them while their parents were out around the colonies and overseas.

However, there is a carbonated energy drinky thing in Scotland called Irn-Bru... (for the totally random)

It's had some close calls....

Part of me wants to make some crack about all women are seasoned torturer's and interogator's in their own fashion...

Reading through a draft of a friends novel and making notes of potential editing issues and hopefully useful criticisms.

Okay, let's then throw in a completely different set of influences then...

Going for the amusingly trashy image after all that class...

Hey Ros, at least she isn't a wee bit drunk and half your age...

Enough random banter without any pictures..

Heh, and apparently Cameron's going all "we've won a great step forwarf for morality" over setting things up that all UK isp's will have a default "parent-filter" that households will have to opt out of to get access to internet porn. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-23401076 Hm, how much longer before they start adding other filters that get much more quietly mentioned so people are aware or not.. <quietly paranoid moment>

Okay, now we need an emergency drop of women to blot out Wals taste of post there...

You can barely stumble around on Tumblr without finding a ridiculous amount of "self-shot" girls plastering themselves across the interwebs...

Were they foxy? EDIT: Anywhere I can't walk I go by taxi. Maybe a touch ferret-faced...

As part of the whole teaser trailer aspect of comic-con.... http://youtu.be/toPstPIcGnI

Does choking a classmate unconscious count?

For some strange reason people who meet me keep thinking I must have gone to a public school. I have no frelling idea why. Is it because you can't sit down? I think it's a mix of the accent and always wearing a jacket....

For some strange reason people who meet me keep thinking I must have gone to a public school. I have no frelling idea why.

To wander briefly into celeb field again..

Heh, I think the most I've had at any one time is about 700k. I've just never really sat down to make a heavy effort to get the mounds of cash that so many people seem to have.

m'colleague http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdol18SVS7A (note: 'the future' was 2010) I'm still trying to figure out if Wals is Fry and I'm Laurie...

Belief is a personal thing. And there are a lot of scientists who discovered a belief in God (or some idea of Deity) through their science. Although hm, thinking about it, from the people I know .. the physicists are more likely to be believers in a deific concept, while the chemists tend to be more science without a god. Which is a little quirky. There are a lot of genuinely good and sincere people in many religions. There are just as many annoying and bigoted fethwits as my colleague Wals says. There's the fairly same split for agnostics and atheists. As time goes by, just remember, your choice of religion or not-religion is not a sexual organ. I would not want you to try shoving it down the throats of any children I might have in the future.

And to go with the short-shorts weather abounding...

What is a militant atheist? Do they go door to door and say "Have you welcomed science into your life?" Or wave guns at you telling you not to pray? Sorry, I can get people being aggressively atheist. Or even aggressively anti-organised religion. But I think it's hard to justify calling someone militant unless you accurately compare it to various militant <insert x religious belief> behaviour...