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I blame central heating. Just think of the money that family could have made sweeping chimneys.

It's one thing to say 'all black girls are sexy' and another to say 'that black girl is sexy'. The first lumps them all together and is based on their colour; the second doesn't and isn't. Thus the word black becomes redundant in the second sentence. If you tend to prefer white girls but have the good fortune to encounter a black girl who you think is lovely then all well and good. If you think all black girls are rough because they're black girls, but reckon you've spotted one who might just pass muster, is another matter and just goes to show that you probably ought to get out more. Just before posting this I read back and realised I'm just repeating the same point as everyone else. D'oh. Still, seeing as I've spent all this time typing it out... *hits post message*

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Just to play the devil's advocate... if someone > found people of a certain race to be particularly > attractive, would that be considered racist? I think the difference here is that you can't control who you find attractive.

It's not really like anything else, so explaining it can be difficult. Loz's point about the emotodrug is a good one though.

http://www.civilizationrevolution.com/ Looks like the sort of thing I could lose a lot of time to. Perhaps it's just as well I bought a Wii rather than a 360.

I like how it says "did you mean to search for happytown?"

Is it usually very cloudy there?

Tillie: Firefox (a browser, not a server) is compatible with virgin. I'm on virgin and have been using it for ages with no trouble. Just in case you fancy giving it a go... Version 3 is very good. I'm not even sure it's possible for a browser to be incompatible with an ISP's service...

...when I'm cleaning windows. On the tube the other day some whistling wag took the door-opening bing-bong and turned into the opening bars of Hitler Has Only Got One Ball. That took a while to expunge from the synapses.

Mama Mirabelle's home movies [clap clap], Mama Mirabelle's home moo-veees! Damn you cbeebies!

*mutter mutter* -kin' cockerel *mutter mutter*

Sorry to hear that Mockers - though not surprised given the hard time you were having with cash machines the other morning. Wonder why they couldn't tell then that there were odd goings on, withdrawals in Africa and such.

Sorry, forgot this wasn't in the lounge and was getting too chatty. *slaps self on wrist for going OT*

Spot of lamb would be very welcome. Pass the mint sauce.

Definitely seconded Keef - all hail Moos!

Top story that. Very popular with the Antlings too.

You forgot to add how terribly touchy you are, Mockers. I reckon it's that Spanish temperament showing through. 'hem.

I'd be interested to know where those figures came from. (Not that I want to cast any doubt on them. I'd just be interested to know.)

I sometimes get the feeling the that more flamboyant a gay man is, the more he's accepted and vice versa. (Talking mainly about people in the public eye here.) As if somehow they're OK if they become Comedy Queers. And if you think about it, for all Graham Norton's smut, his public persona is a curiously sexless one - he can make plenty of blowjob jokes as long as they're about other people doing it. I don't know... am I imagining all this? Also this may be something of a sideline when it comes to the homophobia/racism comparison. Can one be flamboyantly black?

Just when we thought it was safe to open the windows and try to cool down at night. Bah!

So embarrassing for the guy because he knows he?s totally busted. Pun intended giggirl? :) Muffintop - my reply is essentially what Keef and Mockney said, so I won't waste too much space repeating it. They're twunts, you're pretty; you win.

*wipes tear from eye* Ah, hearing that it's like I'm a child again! [edit: OK, reading that. But I heard it clearly in my head as I read the post, so...]

Possibly - I haven't heard it either.

Sounds to me like someone's messing you about.

The sad thing is that the ads mentioned above have all just proved their value (in a commercial sense*). Annoying ads work, and so we're doomed to more of them. Calm down dear, it's just a commercial. * no pun intended.