mockney piers

I should think next Tuesday will he ok. See you there.

Tricky one. On the one hand life has survived much direr circumstances than those we are ushering in, but that doesn't necessarily do us, the polar bear or even the grey fox, whoever he is, any good. It's a tad arrogant of us to believe (and it's very implicit in the question) that we matter more or even less than other species. But then we do have awareness so I suppose as we realise that species are becoming extinct as an indirect result of our actions (I guess in a weird way direct is more acceptable, such as outperforming rival hominid species etc) that maybe we really ought to do something about it. Mind you whilst we're being all roman and stuff can I nominate the vespula vulgaris for extermination, no ecosystem could possibly benefit from the little bully can it?

There is no thread Level banning available so well just have to put it down to gremlins I reckon.

Cheers bbw. Less predictive text and more diddly iPhone keyboard. It has it's own predictive ifiosyncracies for instancethst the act of Reading is really a town....as you can see.

True enough, though obviously such matters pale when compared to my discovering that a train fare to Bath for the stsg do I'm off to is ?96!!!!!!!

Believe me I'm no defender of empire or our shameful past. I think I'm just being a bit picky at the meaning of militarism and genocide. Killing lots of people in colonial suppression is horrible and bloodthirsty but is not an attempt to eradicate a people or culture. Likewise the empire was by and large commercially driven and run and generally got interested proxies to do the dirty work of the actual fighting. It wasn't until the very late nineteenth century with the perception that hegemony wa threatened by the likes of Germany that Britain became more militaristic. No coincidence that the Bier war was the first since the continental wars ofthr napoleonic era to be fought mostly by Britons rather than foreign British auxiliaries. Again my pedantry shouldn't detract from the shame of gassing Kurdish civilians in Iraq or leaving civilians to die of starvation and disease intered in concentration camps. But it is an important distinction.

Arrogant and imperialist yes, happy go use violence, chemical weapons on civilians and concentration camps. Yes, yes and yes. Genocidal and overtly militaristic? Perhaps not.

I remeber at upton park kitson receiving the ball from first kick off and booting the ball inexpicably out for a throw in. Doesn't take a genius to think they were all at it

Ok a bit of an exageration by Brendan, bit chemical castration or imprisonment of homosexuals is hardly something to be proud of. Thinking about it. forcing millionsof people to pay ?64 to prove to the state that they are not paedophiles says to me that our society is making two steps forward one step back. Depressing really.

So sorry about treating one of the most important single contributors to the allied victory in the war, up there with Zhukov or Churchill for importance, in a bit of a rum manner. Whilst belated apologies are kind of gratifying, has anyone else noticed a penchant with Brown and Blair for apologising for others' misdeeds yet a total inability to put their hands up for their own very severe ills they brought upon the world? It rather sours the whole experience, though lets face it, it's a bit late for poor old Alan isn't it.

With PGC, martini all the way. Hard to beat a good G&T too. I am partial to margheritas too mind, bloody mary's as hangover cure, tom collins on a hot day and all mashes and sours. Oh and yep, go mojito out of the offered choice. The old Spanish civil war cheers was 'salud, pesetas y mierda para la derecha' ?good health, wealth and fuck the right!

Oh and was Reading a review in a Spanish gaming mag, celebrating this game in the lamentable trend of 'mata a todo lo que se mueva y corre' in the genre. 'run and gun' is a tad snappier don't you think.

My poor old gaming rig died to be replaced with a more normal desktop, but gaming potential is available in quite medioce machines these days, DDR3 memory, good quality 1gb GeForce cards and the new i7 coming as standard at little more than budget levels allowing maxed out crysis at under ?700. Not bad. Anyhoo, tried my hand at ARMA II, the latest offering from the Czech development house that gave us the flawed visionary that was operation checkpoint. Basicallyy i wanted something a console couldn't do ad that satisfies most of my gaming needs leaving the PC to do deep RPGs, MMORPGs (having a crack at the latest eve online) and immersive shooters. ARMA II certainly is the latter as you spend most of your time cowering in a bush wondering where in gods name those bullets pinging up mud nearby or buzzing past your ear as your teammate cluthes his stomch in agony while your other team mate who was literally dragging him into cover lies inert next to him, are coming from. Buggy and problematic perhaps, beautiful, ambitious and enourmous in scale, another flawed masterpiece from those Czech boys!

amazing, the next day. probably see you in Kings at some point!!

Not so much the schedules. I know lots of people ploughing through the boxed sets at their own pace. we generally try to avoid spoilers as it really can, well, spoil it for people.

Hello. Fancy a bit of an edit there? That's a huge plot giveaway about one of the best characters. Not everyones finishing tonight. I'll pm you the answer later

I might be feeling sorry for myself after all the criticism, or maybe I'm not.

Ooh, my first ever post in this neck of the woods. Keef, you don't need a group to have a pint with me where we moan together about sleepless nights due to crying rather than getting too messy and getting locked in to the house and noone working out how to get the door open. I'm up for it. For the record first time dad, due in January. Hopefully fulll time dad sometime in march or April. Can't wait.

I know how you hate those winking smiley things.

May be a bit harsh, but everyones a critic especially of the chair's hard efforts (poor thing HAD to read the entire HAL v Huguenot bitch slap for instance) and can wax lyrical about what should be, but not a single offer on doing anything about it, and yes that's depressing. And yes, earn it lackey!!!

"Do me a favour and put a sock in it will you Mockney." as the forum's premier poster of irrelevence and inappropriacy (is that even a word?) I'm not sure you've earned the right to shut me up about it in a thread entitled 'drawing room yay or nay', not interestingly enough 'tony's dick' or even 'it's all about wolfie' though sometimes I wonder if that's the default aka of every thread in the lounge.

Perhaps I spoke too harshly of the DR after all. Still waiting here people, how quick people are to criticise but i see noone with the courage of their convictions to think they can do better.

*drums fingers nervously yet impatiently* hello ... ello ... lo ... lo ... ... o .... .... ... o

Curiosity got the better of me and here was the bizarre result http://www.mirror.co.uk/celebs/news/2009/07/06/anita-harris-is-homeless-and-in-debt-115875-21498062/

I like to think there can still be a purpose for it. It has been unusually flamey in some threads but I actually think a couple of them were actually pretty good. Keith, the offer still stands, indeedif anybody feels like they'd like a crack at the whip of the chair and feel they could do some proactive (god I hate that word but it sort of fits here) change then do pease PM me. I have enormous respect and sympathy for the current chair. Dropped in at the deep end with noone really knowing what the remit was they've go e for a light touch approach to give the room err room to develop it's own personality, but it's about time for the changeover anyway and perhaps someone might like a go at shaping it themselves? Anyone .... Bueller?