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mockney piers

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  1. Yee-hah daizie dook. You tell em like it is, you go girl!! And you look so cute with those little fists, so tight by your side, knucles all White and your eyes all scrunched up, jaw set hard. Yeeeeeeah, middle age people are soooooo boring, I wanna be a princess when I grow up, I wanna zigazig ahh.
  2. As ever, genius. "Livingstone said: "When I was mayor I wanted them to do a story about how the US government should drop its economic sanctions against Cuba in exchange for Castro repealing laws which discriminate against homosexuals. "But they said it would not have rung true as Ricky and Bianca both felt Castro had betrayed the founding principles of the people's revolution and would therefore have dismissed the idea out of hand." A corporation spokesman insisted: "Allowing Ken Livingstone to appear on Eastenders would have breached the BBC's guidelines on allowing Ken Livingstone to appear in Eastenders. "These guidelines are in place for a very good reason: He's a dreadful bastard who makes people want to puke."
  3. I like to think that war is entered into a little less likely than venting some societal pressure Afghanistan was about primarily about revenge and secondly about destroying al-Qaeda and punishing those who harboured them. We all entered into it because that's what NATO are supposed to do when one of is atttacked. The problem was we suddenly remebered we're the good guys and we should do some nation building and throw a bit of demcracy in if we can. Both were done half heartedly and in an ersatz fashion. If we'd been pragmatic we'd have left them to it and dropped a few more bombs if the Taliban managed to oust the nasty warlords we put in power. I think there were a series of agendas on Iraq, they have all been long discussed on here, but war on terrorism it most certainly wasn't. I think Blair was earnest in thinking it was about making the world safer and removing an 'evil' man from power, which just makes him stupid. Safety valve though? A bit wishy washy that.
  4. He may be young but he ain't shallow. Always seems considered and thoughtful. Of course he could be a page 3 model or an eight/legged child eating alien for all that it actually matters a damn! Talking of which, will that pretty green candidate be running round here? I do hope so *rubs thighs*
  5. Funnily enough I was thinking about giving it a go recently. My mum grows hops up in bedfordshire (she makes sleep pillows out of them) and it set me thinking. Last time I gave it a go I was in the sixth form. We bought a lager kit and a bitter kit. The bitter turned out as this foul stenched unpotable cloudy foamy slop. The lager was a crisp blonde fizzy foul stenched unpotable brew. I guess that counts as varying success. Let me know what would be involved.
  6. - do you post? - only from the east!
  7. "All the idiots that vote the labour government out at the next election will be handing this country to an outright bastard in Cameron." I'm afraid I'll fail to spot the difference. Blair was an absolute pusfilled dcumnag of excremental proportions. Brown may be genuinely principled, but he's also a power hungry control freak and made this mess for us all. I obviously can't see the new Tories being any better, but worse, don't make me laugh (unless you're a single mum I imagine, they tend to pick on you)
  8. I guess the answer MM I'd it's impossible to quantify. I doubt it has as much direct influence as it likes to think it does, but as Jah suggests, it and a number of other papers have an I sidious influence on opinion forming, sadly. It may well be hindsight, as a historian it's sometimes difficult to tell as that's kind of part of the game, but looking back I was upset but not surprised when the Tories won. Mind you, I was part of the problem as didn't vote Labour then and buggered if I ever have or will considering what folllowed.
  9. Personally I'd use the rag to wipe my arse with, but that's about it.
  10. '92 was the first modern election. The opinion polls were out of date, they asked 'who will you vote' and people responded labour. Whereas the tories had been using these new fangled focus groups and targeted marketing techniques and so forth, and look back at the newsreels (ok it wasn't quite that long ago) and the tories look comfortable that they knew victory was coming. Compare it to the footage from '97 when they pretty much knew the writing was on the wall. The sun picked up on this very late and switched allegiances dramatically enough to be able to lay claim to the kingmaker title. They're not though, Bob's spot on, But you can see why Blair wasn't taking chances as it was all about image and perception with him. Plus he probably made Murdoch lots of promises about deregulation.
  11. I think i may actually be able to make this one. First since the EDT is it cripes?
  12. "Yates's Wine Lodge" Shouldn't that be a Wetherspoons?
  13. Try PMing the chair with your message and maybe he'll post it on your behalf?
  14. I'm sorry ladymuck but Huguenot was quite right on the pre-tool society thing. The 'EDF Guru's'* arguments only allow you to infer that the earth will only be happy when man has no society capable of breakdown or cohesive enough for war and must make no progress capable of any harm at all. Which rather suggests some point in the late paleolithic period at latest (if not pre tool at least pre society above that of the family (although isn't that where most abuse and murders are commited? Oh let's just do away with mankind altogether venal little beast who has wasted gaia's gifts and doubtless deserves banning from this Eden we were granted, or something). Added to that Hal's previous arguments for population decline I think Huguenots inference is spot on. Aaaaanyway, I remember an EU chappie who went out to Bulgaria to give a talk at a farming conference there on organic methods and most of them laughed and told him they can't do it any other way as they can't afford pesticides or fertilisers not produced by their own animals. It does seem to be a peculiarly western issue this one. *I'm sure te EDF should have more of a say on who their guru is. I don't think we have one but at a pinch I'd nominate *Bob* for pearls of wisdom.
  15. John Steinbeck, Harper Lee and JK Rowling? The real WTF is considering her for the award in the first place!!!!
  16. In space noone can hear you scream clowns in spaaaaCe
  17. I can kind of see where sean's coming from. Marriage seems to me a pointless enterprise to embark on if you're doing so with the sortof attitude to it that requires a prenup. It should or shouldnt be for life. If it isn't then perhaps the marriage was ill thoughtout in the first place, or if you're just being realistic then why get married? Have yourselves a big party, live together, make an agreement about how you will split and enjoy your time together. I've no idea whether mine will last the distance or not as life is unpredictable, but I'll give it my best shot and approach all our decisions based on the assumption that were together til death do us part. Call me old fashioned...
  18. Err, the review made me laugh.
  19. http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/sep/24/ian-brown-my-way-review some very good lines in there. Have just listened to it on Spotify. Like I pretty much did with many of his other albums, I'll happily buy it when I see it for ?3 in Fopp. It passes the time well without really making itself known to the listener. Music to fill the spaces if you will.
  20. Blimey yes. Even Ince never got animal carcasses thrown at him.
  21. Ha ha, I think the only thing that rather selective and deeply disingenuous list is revealing of is a misanthropic bent. Fine, at least I know where you're coming from.
  22. No prizes for my favourite character
  23. avon - Q yeah we are quite sad BBW
  24. I dont think Avon became Q, though they do look alike thinking about it.
  25. I can sympathise with your point of view, but ultimately you have only unfounded fears describing possible domesday scenarios. Doubtless if I talk of the potential of nanomachinery in medicinal use, you will talk of the earth being turned into a brown soup. Yes, consequences of progress can be unpredictable, as I said the car has done far more damage than nuclear power ever has. Indeed even the land around Chernobyl is blooming again and nature has proved surprisingly resilient. But I do believe that science is the path to progress and salvation. It has been ever thus and I think remains so. If a certain level of na?vet? is required for the conditions which bring progress rather than allow fear to stay our hand then it is a moniker I'll gladly wear with pride.
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