mockney piers

My favoured method is to run something through and back in an obscure language on babelfish. becomes -> The method which is visible my favor in babelfish from dark language silence from the first when will split until end and running is for after. [Korean]

Ooh, just finished "Feckers" (50 people who fecked up Ireland) http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feckers-People-Who-Fecked-Ireland/dp/1849014426 If anyone wants borrowage do say. SOme intereseting bits, some less so. It could equally have been called "John Waters' Opinions on people he hates or thinks are unfairly maligned" or "Mary Robinson you Bitch" mind.

First consecutive away wins in four years! Admittedly they were against two unfancied teams, so I'll reserve judgement until some tougher tests*, but are there hints that I may have to grin and bear it and accept that Big Sam might be the right man for the job it it's ALL about going up? *albeit that the tougher tests were the ones we often excel at and lose games like these by the cartload normally

cheeky :-P

torehy saetts taht you can cgnahe the oerdr of lrttees whiitn a wrod and it soulhd slitl be lbgeie. Mind you the example given on the story that did the rounds was a lot more legible than the above. Richard, it must take quite a bit of effort to do what you're doing. Do you have a clever plugin to notepad you wrote yourself that obfuscates what you write as you type it?

liberal conspiracy - check. Now all we need is the evils of the bbc.

It's not based on smoke and mirrors, it's based on a collective understanding that has facilitated societal development for 400 years. Without it there are no mortgages, no development loans, no capital investment, no nothing, there will only be lending from peter to paul via a middleman. If you think small business has it hard now, wait until banks cannot lend anything except depositors money! In fact you're proposing an end to paper money which is just a promissory note, part of your smoke and mirrors; a return to money having an actual, not a conceptual value, so no more cards, cash machines etc. You are, quite literally living in the middle ages with this.

tbh, my 16 year old step brother used to get into over 21 places when he came out with me back in my early 30s. Why not pop into the EDT and ask for a couple of volunteers to join you as a smokescreen.

You make the 'ponzi scheme', by which you mean fractional reserve banking, financial system sound like a bad thing. It's what made our world possible, it's what has built our roads and bridges and hospitals and allowed entrepreneurs. You seem to sound gleeful at the impending collapse of the international banking system. Careful what you wish for.....

I think your average poster on here is long past the point where they need to worry about this I'm afraid. I suggest using clunky old 20th century technology to find out 020 8693 4418 ;)

A tweet? How the very dare they!!!!!!

Was that Deuteronomy? I could have sworn that came straight out the book of Kelvinmckenzie

The Jesus and Mary Chain LPs gather dust in a forgotten corner of a dark cupboard, he never did really get them, whilst memories of their first dance to the Lighthouse Family will always raise a smile.

way to let a thread die there otta!!

"The world is passing through troublous times. The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they knew everything, and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for the girls, they are forward, immodest and unladylike in speech, behavior and dress." 1274 - Peter the Hermit

"I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words... When I was young, we were taught to be discreet and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise [disrespectful] and impatient of restraint" 700 ish BC - Hesiod

"The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers. 400 BC ish - Socrates.

He'll definitely get a rise from the libtard types in there. Well....type. seriously what is it with libtard. It doesn't even make sense, and that bold bit just in case we couldn't spot the lib reference in a poorly manufactured term, it's all a bit desperate. plus it makes me think of leotards not retards, though now I have an image of Sean Mghabbhannn(RIP) in a leotard and I can't make it go away....help....helllppp!!!

61 pages in on my fourth Cormac McCarthy book (The Crossing), and something truly strange happened. I laughed, there was something funny, not once, but twice in as many paragraphs (not that he uses paragraphs obviously). I was so surprised I almost soiled myself.

perfect pint indoors weather if you ask me.....

Rail, that phenomenon of the industrial age yep? ANd yes it will. I don't hold with the apocalyptic predictions of many but everything will change as a result, and as usual the richer countries will cope better in some repects than the poorer ones. In other respects pooorer countries won't miss what they never had much access to anyway (I remember reading about an EU symposium given to agricultural ministers of new member states about organic farming, and one of them shrugged and said, what the hell do they think we've been doing all this time, we can't afford their chemicals!!). Air travel of course gone, i suppose shipping can all become nuclear too....obviously not a finite resource either especially if the whole world turns to it. Then there'll be instability all over the place, further fracturing communications, war and piracy, think somali pirates * 100. Of course in a world where pan-national governance is gone then I suppose we can all turn back to coal because we're all too shortsighted to care about wreaking further havoc to the environment. Everything is changing, our world as we know it hasn't got long left, for starters the era of cheap air travel is pretty much going already (actually altogether it hasn't really lasted all that long has it).

Oh don't get me wrong, capitalism as we now know it will end, but not out of choice. Not as a reaction to failed markets or banking systems or desperate inequality and exploitation. As long as we want fresh salmon from Alaska and cheap electronics made with cheap components manufactured by cheap labour, then we won't voluntarily let go of this system. The odd bail outs and service cuts are the taxation we're willing to pay collectively. But the end is nigh once peak oil hits, or if we still muddle through, once the oil runs out, and who knows what havoc global warming may yet wreak upon us. Our global system is going to become something akin to the early industrial period, and obviously our horizons will be that much narrower. At which point the homogeneity of the global system will fracture and there will be a much more varied approach towards our means of exchange and production.

Seriously, and I dread to think how often ive given this advice, but take a step back from the thread. Just let it lie for a while and allow it do digest like a good meal. Sometimes you need to take a step back from these things. No one is ganging up or brow beating and certainly no bullying, though it does look to me like there is quite a bit of teasing going on. Sometimes with discussions like this it's easy to lose sight of the wood for the trees, and you've backed yourself into a corner, ...mmm...of woody trees presumably, so have a stroll, leave this thread (cornery wood thread) altogether and enjoy the evening sunshine. Have a glass of wine, watch episode five of the hour and see you tomorrow. Just my advice like, no need to follow it.

And onwards to Page 11. Who'd have thunk it eh, parking spaces and fois gras of greater import than the recent riots. God I love East Dulwich ;)

Here you go http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,20,20#msg-20 Thinking about it, they were more naive times, when 4 pages was considered a protracted argument!!!