mockney piers

Wasn't me guvnor. Clearly you're too high brow PGC, aim lower.

cromulent : (cr?m-y?-lənt) 1. (adj.) Being well-formed; legitimate; of a word, especially a neologism, that is not previously attested in the language but obeys its rules of word-formation. ? As in 'under the circumstances his offtopication is perfectly cromulent'

I think mockneygate sounds more like an adjective than a scandal. The DaVinci Code? Surely you don't read such mockneygate nonsense?! Keefgate? Slash revealed to have a love child perhaps?

PhewPOnds think I've thrown them off the scent, right where are my stiletto and cilice?

Oi unfair. You try ranting on an iPhone. And as for editing your post using the 1mm of real estate you can move that magnifying glass around at a snails pace in!!

Plus I worked with an opus dei chap for five years and he never once tried to kill me despite my regular blaspheming. Though on the other side of the coin...Ruth Kelly....

I guess it's about how impossible it is to work out what will cPture the public imagination. I grew up enjoying lots of boys-with-magic-powers type books, what's not to love. But there are hundreds of them, HP is no better or worse, so I'm at a total loss why it did so well. I've read any number of hackneyed thrillers I picked up at the airport and threw into a bin at the other end (perhaps people missing the bin and hitting the bench is where the myth comes from TM). I enjoy not having to think when on a plane tired and trying to pretend I'm not in a high explosive building 40000 ft of the floor. Many of those thrillers have dealt with Templars and Gnostics and religion (I think I mentioned before a very enjoyable one about Jesus being alive and well and drug dealing in Sydney) so nowt wrong with these books per se. But again I've non idea why DVC did so well, it's bizarre, like HP before it it is utterly derivative and averagely written. I guess mcdonalds proves you don't need to be good to be popular but I hate adults telling me I MUST read HP or I have no imagination, or the loons who think there is some truth in DVC. For goodness sake I barely believe Jesus existed and certainly don't believe in his divinity, why would I care if he shagged someone? Anyway Eco's Foucault's Pendilum should be prescribed as the perfect antidote to anyone infected by DVC syndrome. Pacy, thrilling, intellignet, amusing and brilliantly written, for once what really is not to like?

Absolutely. Name is on the tin after all. Then we wouldn have lost the supposedly worthless cup winners cup, which amazingly should be for cup winners. I guess it boils down to is modern football a sport or money generating entertainment. That was a rhetorical question obviously, I'm clearly naive, old fashioned and out of touch; post cronje, bloodgate and now piquet juniour, no sport is sacred.

Can any of the Hibernians among us tell me if knacker is acceptable parlance in this day and age?

Ha ha I think you're right. Damn case closed!!!

Oops cross post. I'd agree it's more about the music than the money. They can get it a bit wrong and have weaker years (this one springs to mind) but it's always nice to see a couple of the albums and new artists I'd stumbled upon and been raving about get a bit of recognition.

Really? Maybe I exaggerated a teeny bit in my post. I referred to her inexplicable 1987 best British female artist when she'd released her previous album Hounds of Love in '85.

I suppose we are all minorities of one of sorts, but I don't see how you can say clinton and bush minorities. My first thought on hearing carter was also of clintons healthcare plans. But while there was considerable political opposition, and the usual conservative bandying about of such awful pejorative terms like 'known socialists', it was never so populist not personal. You didn't see people outside the whitehouse (ha ha iPhone autocorrect wanted to make that whorehouse) with placards saying 'nuck clifton' or questioning his nationality. There is an innate respect for the office of presidency which isn't being observed and I believe this has prompted carter. I think it's mostly fall out from the horribly divisive election and the smear campaigns they used liberally (ho ho). I do think that some of it does stem from an undercurrent of racism in many quarters. Quids is right it's unhelpful to lump in all opposition under the banner of racism, it does noone any good, but I think carter was right to point out the obvious (White?) elephant in the room.

All a bit harsh. It's still better than the other one that awarded prizes to Robbie Williams fourteen years in a row and one to Kate Bush for best musician three years after she'd died!!

I saw it got 92 in metacritic, almost unheard of for this type of game. I'll probably pick up a used copy in a couple of months when my current crop is done. Still have dead space to finish, the mighty arma 2 and about a million of sean's trials HD records to beat.

Im with you keef, give me Palace v Forest over some dull qualifier in the CL. Even the so called big ties are usually pretty dull unless qualification is actaully at stake. And with you all the way MM. We all have partisan points of view, doesn't mean we're incapable of objectivity, and whatever your allegiences people must admit that this was a horrible own goal by UEFA. The whole cheating thing is ruining football for me almost as much as the mercenary and ludicrous behaviour/wages of the pampered teats who play the game.

It's not his BBW, he's just forwarding on info. In my experience don't attempt anything in Vista with less than 4gb of ram. With windows 7 coming up you can take advantage of more ram. I went 6gb which should future proof me for the requisite 23 and a half minutes before your new pcis completely obsolete.

I hope I'm not hijacking this tread but while were on the topic of photography loving geeks putting DIY things together on very low budgets... http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/the-150-space-camera-mit-students-beat-nasa-on-beer-money-budget/

I got the selfsame Studio XPS. It really is quite swift though haven't done anything to really challenge it so fat hasn't had to break a sweat. It runs ARMA II without batting an eyelid. Have to replace my 'borrowed from work' Adobe suite which I'm going to have to fork out for tuis time as no longer work at a media company full of graetful techs when I write them dedicated software or reports.

I can personally vouch for the i7 it's an awesome chip, 4 hyperthreaded cores it really dies shift and you'll need a nit of that for intensive processing in those big files. You will need a new motherboard which has to work on a six memory slot configuration and most providers seem to be insisting on DDR3 memory, so out with the old. Good news us putting it together yourself I reckon you can do it on a fairly decent budget. Good article here for you http://techreport.com/articles.x/15816

That's really intereting. Thus the act of 'raiding' a tomb is actually a murderous one, as if it had remianed sealed they wouldn't be dead. That lara and Indiana have a lot to answer for don't they.

Muley, that's another case of the decline of Britain. Our old Wade-Giles romanicised spelling of Chinese has long lost favour as PRC's own pinyin has taken over. Taiwan adopted it sometime in the eighties I think and many of the old WG's words have slowly ebbed away. British based news media eventually just stopped pissing in the wind and adopted what by the 90s was an internationally accepted standard. Although place names may be a lost cause for the old WG ways, most historical people such as Mao Tse Tung(as opposed to the pinyin maozedong) still retain favour in the west. Since when did cider become lucozade is the more pressing matter surely?

I'm not sure how formulating parallel interpretations of disparate concepts or phenomena is in any way useful other than in a sort of navel gazing intellectual excercise. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with that per se, it can certainly be interesting and fun But lending it any credece only results in theories like homeopathy, whereby the correlation between symptoms of a poison and those of an accident or illness, are conflated with classic vaccination theory. The ideas may have some confluence but theres nothing useful that emerges in the end is there?

Cider withdrawal?

Isn't the apparent congruence simply a consequence of taking an illustrative example of how the paths of electrons cannot be determined until observed, just a little bit too literally? As far as I know it's not really to do with feline ressurection is it?