mockney piers

"Mockney piers is the forums prince among men." Cripes, that's a lot to live up to!!! The way to a man's heart is clearly through his whisky penchant ;-P I'd also go with Michael Paleagolus(sic) is our resident charming wit (and can have a man killed for the right price)

There seems to be a nice sort of equilibrium. For every lost Quaywe we might get a new Quids. If marmots man pipes down santerme pipes up. If there isn't enough Huguenot pedantry I can fill the breach. Not much snorky? Presto blah/whatever coincidentally embittered surly Hibernian misanthrope may appear next.

I suspect he was in his cups. A more accurate comparison mght be King George I selling the Aylesbury stones to his cousin in Hanover (to protect them from a turnpike bypass that was planned) and us demanding them back from the Kestner Museum now because they're 'British'. Make of that what you will

Or more accurately once of the concretes. She's now doing her own thing with the marvellous Taken by Trees whilst the Concretes have suffered as a result. Try listening to Camera Obscura if you like their older stuff.

Rather enjoying Vampire Weekend, Wavves and a nice bit of Tim Buckley at the moment.

Rather enjoying Vampire Weekend, Wavves and a nice bit of Tim Buckley at the moment.

I don't holdwith any ofthese cheap tricks

Sounds fair. Perhaps Tunisia can join forces and sue Italy for damages done to Carthage whilst they're at it ;) Mind you animal rights groups might have something to say about the treatment and fate of all those poor old elephants.

In all fairness crona, Huguenot merely presented the prevailing academic argument. For keeping them as a counterweight to the nationalist and apologist positions, neatly summed up by Brendan as both essentially absurdist positions. The argument that modern nationalism can't then be retroactively applied to two different situaions in the past i think is worthy of consideration, I'm totally at a loss as to why that should make Huguenot a membeb of the BNP? At risk of being all strawmanny, if Wales or ireland was to claim stonehenge as their cultural birthright stolen from them by the cultural genocide of the Saxons then we wouldn't be so very far off what's actually happening here. Hellenic culture was pretty much endemic to the whole of the eastern meditteranean between the first and the 10th centuries, so where is the line drawn, how many buildings of antiquity around turkey and Syria could rightfully be claimed. For that matter are the Turks, most of whom still genetically descend from the original inhabitants of Anatolia equally have a right to claim the marbles (for gods sake don't tell atila I said that). I'm inclined to say that if there's a nice place to show them near their original setting then go for it, but I think it's important to spit in the face of modern nattionalism imposing it's narrow and emotional interpretation on the past. Modern greeces cultural identity is of course influenced by ancient Greece, but little more than ours to be honest.

We've witnessed a few teams go into free fall once they finally drop out of the Premiership, and with the set up Newcastle have at the moment, it wouldn't surprise me to see really struggle this season. I guess the Reading has to be in with a shout....again and I'd be surprised not to see Sheffield Utd contenders. QPR seem to be proving the old adage that money can't buy you...well anything necessarily.

Currently the laugh a minute The White War - Life and Death on the Italian Front 1915-1919. Became interested a few years back in finding out more about the conflict after stumbling across many of the battlefields whilst walking in the Dolomites (in fact we can thank the war for sheer number of paths and routes cut through the dramatic terrai)n. But there was literally zilch in English. This is the first work to deal with it in any great depth outside of Italy or Austria.

Right, yes good point well reasoned ..... ...... errrm .... sorry which bit of the papers?

Ted you don't know what you are talking about sunshine there's no such thing as a make invisble button

Which they can't ... Next. Iran has simply learnt the bvious lessons of Iraq v n Korea. If you ACTULLY have WMD you don't get invaded. Attacking Israel with nukes would only result in MAD. Even the mullahs aren't that stupid. I'd rather they didn't have them but then I'd rather we obeyed our duties as signatories to the nuclear non proliferation treaty and didn't renew trident so no joy all rOund

When I've had enough of a thread I may not say a polite goodbye like marmots man, but I do stop posting, occasionally though I'll grant you that just when I thought I was out they sucked me back in. But not for nine pages;) lol marmots man, iPhone autocorrect at it's best!!!

I too have issues with the way Israel conducts itself in fact rather than in it's rhetoric, but it is a state that would prefer peace even if it seems a bit stupid in the ways to achieve it. Bringing up the David hotel helps noone, it's like saying we can't trust the german because they didn't keep their promises at Munich. Like Israel, Iran has a large and sophisticated professional tier who would prefer reform and peace, bt they are ruled by a ruling elite that when it is by definition extremely conservative and like any revolutionary generation hugely paranoid. Israel isn't ruled by hardliners, though they have a voice disproportionate to their popular support (the hardliners in Iran do enjoy popular support, hence why the mullahs took control after the shah was bright down by an extremely broad coalition and why the current standoff is potentially so fraught, it could essentially be a revisit f the post revolutionary struggle, but this time the reformers know the price of failure) and their government ers on the side of hawkish. To compare the two however s unhelpful and disingenuous. I'd elaborate more, but fecking iPhones aren't fun.

I dunno, it's more like fusty cardigans and unwashed socks to me. TLS whatever your politics it strikes me that you are either severly OCD or a troll, noone else could keep a single point argument going for this many pages. Isn't there weather r something to discuss, what are the jelled eels like in kentland or wherever you ended up?

There is a sort of randomness to 20-20 that makes for exciting games and is a decent leveller, but it's not real cricket is it. I love it, but I don't take it seriously!! Don't tale it too much to heart Brendan, and be sure to have that hair of the dog at lunch time...in fact if you're free...

Oh god. What a loathsome site. Can't help that stylistically this quote is familiar. I can't put my finger on why though. " 3) Domestic violence is far more prevalent among mixed couples than among Whites. We need only to cite the O.J. Simpson-Nicole Brown marriage as evidence for this."??

Well, the full quote was "As you know millions died in the last 2 World Wars fighting for Freedom for Britain and the British people. 99% of them were White/British, which was representative of British Society then." which by any measure is patently absurd, both in numbers (millions across the empire fought, not died, the millions who died were vastly Russian, Chinese and german civilains and european jews) and sentiment, doing a huge disservice to the carribeans, Africans, Indians, canadians, antipodeans etc who fought for Britain, leave alone the Poles in the RAF to whom this nation owes a debt of gratitude, but we know about your penchant for making up nonsense to support your points. More soldiery died in the first war, perhaps a million empire deaths across the 2 wars, but then noone was fighting for British freedom in the first one, just a whole stupid fuck up (in defence of a fast eroding global hegemony which is actually fighting to prevent others' freedom from our rule) noone had enough imagination to avoid or stop.

Nor do I, just trying to think of a married man with a penchant for fleece trickery. And she was pretty impatient barely had time to blink like a million times before getting all those suitors in the floozie!!!!!!

Odysseus?

How about the pre season friendly at champion hill. Always a winner and cheap beer, sort of christening the coming season. Something to look forward to?

Took me a second there keef, I thought you meant Jason from the horror films. Lazy vain henpecker at home, explains his disposition ;)

Starship Troopers is indeed a classic. At somehow raised above daft nonsense by having tongue firmly in cheek. Could never understand why they'd send huge starships across the universe to battle bugs with ancient popguns. Why didn't they just start battles with big explodey things? But some films just rise above holes in plots!!