mockney piers

You must have internet, if you can read the BBC news, you can watch iPlayer. It's just a posh auntie beeb youtube basically.

"Also found it difficult to take the guy who was Mark's manager in Peep Show seriously." Ha, yes, I had exactly the same problem. Yeah, they did a slightly weak bit with the doctor explain some last a long time, some die really quickly. I got the feeling that was put in retrospectively to justify why the playboy's pull dropped dead with barely so much as a sniffle whilst tens of thousands had been suffering the flu for seemingly a week or so. How that coincidentally results in the nation all dropping dead at the same time, most of them in their cars for some bizarre reason. Still, enjoyable if, as D_C points out, depressing sunday night fare. Did I mention that I thought the doc was cute?

I've not, but sincve you mentioned it could be done, I've been enjoying streaming stuff from my PC to the xbox 360. You started Generation Kill yet? (did I ask on saturday?)

I thought it was ok; impressed they managed to shut a motorway!! The doctor's very cute!!

Wow, it's like the early days of the forum all over again!!

"Leopards dont change their spots e.g., Iraq" As it goes the military were never in favour of this invasion, it was Tony Blair and a gutless party who wouldn't dare say no to him. The military strongly suspected it was an illegal invasion, but the attorney general ruled it wasn't (of course he to was leaned on and didn't dare say no to his buddy Tony) and the die was cast. The military did their best given a terrible remit, and though they never openly revolted (ie disobeyed orders) they interpreted those orders in such a way that they did the least possible, staying more or less holed up in 2 bases in and around Basra much to the annoyance of the Americans and the embarrassment of the government. This wasn't necessarily a good thing, in avoiding getting involved in a conflict they wanted nothing to do with, they essentially handed over a city bigger than Belfast and an area the size of Northern Ireland to the control of criminal militias who did bad things with impunity. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, I don't envy the army's positions either in Iraq or in Ulster during the troubles. I've friends who served in NI and said it was the most miserable and scary time of their life, and these people served tours in both Croatia and Bosnia during their troubles!!

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Many happy HonaloochieB's to Chawwivalawdegree? I'm confused. Happy b'day Georgia, Cwald, HonaloochieB and presumably Asset, who's a georgia to this forum.

Today's horoscope I'm, gemini: "It's a great day to reflect on what you've been up to lately. The police can't hear the voices in your head."

218?!?!?! Time to get busy with my deletey finger

Yeah, you're right....err...or are you just trying to make me believe that, what's your agenda buddy?!?!

If you did find that bit interesting bon3yard, feel free to borrow this off me. Her history sometimes lacks scrutiny, but there's a lot of really interesting stuff in there, and no mention of astrology!!

Conspiracy theorists have a desperate problem with causality. Just because politicians regularly twist political capital from incidents to their own ends, doesn't necessarily mean they staged them. Even the infamous Gulf of Tonkin incident wasn't actually staged; nothing happened granted, some nervous navy gunners shot at some fog, and that was leveraged and lied about in order to persuade congress to sign a blank cheque to fund the war, but it wasn't staged. Pearl Harbour and the Lusitania likewise, though you'd be hard pressed NOT to have gone to war after Pearl Harbour frankly. Anyway, internet idiocy. A slick presentation and some good juxtaposed images does not a convincing argument make.

Apparently it's stipulated in the contract of employment that all police officers sign. Whether it's right to stipulate limitations of political association in the contract is another matter, but it does make contesting dismissal rather weaker as they are in breach.

"although even a proper old-school Tory is some way removed from what the BNP are after surely?" I dunno, who was it sat next to Neil Hamilton when Gerald Kaufman was speaking in Parliament and he turned to said chap and said something on the lines of "why do we have to sit here and listen to this dreadful Jew"? The chap said it was the single most odious thing he ever heard uttered in the house, his name will come to me. Cuddly little Neil Hamilton, how everybody loves him and his have-a-go-at-anything wife on all those cuddly tv programmes they appear on. Hate them hate them hate them. Aaaanyway Very good point, and by the same token we mustn't make muslim organisations such as Hizb al-Tahrir illegal no matter how repugnant their views, as all that would achieve would be to drive them underground and allow them to validate their position. As a democracy debate should be in a public domain, we have laws enough to punish crossing the line of free speech. Nick Griffin was charged and got away with it, mind you did you see his speech, didn't look very 'speaking hypothetically' to me?

Clearly I'm a Ted Max fan

He wrote the Generation Kill screen adaption. Apparently he's done other telly, but I'm sure nothing special, perhaps Casualty or Grange Hill?

I'm on the same book D_C, and there was a chap next to me on the tube this morning reading it too. Something in the water (cyanide presumably).

I did look for a five o'clock shadow, but alas not as yet available. The picture above will change if I find it though (it's lunk rather than snapshotted)

Fair enough Keef, my apologies. It's just having personally suffered from a wire spoiler on here that you dropped, I took a decision I regret, but I did feel a sense of urgency on that one. On reflection I should have replaced the offending word word with *spoiler deleted* ;-) Just to be clear I almost never edit posts (barring the odd fix on a broken picture image) and will generally have a quiet word with someone once a month or so. The forum is brilliantly self-policing so we all take a less is more stance. And under instruction I never lounge unless the I am informed the admin is away.

I guess therein lies democracy, they have there stated policies, and if the majority of the voters* agree, then they'll be the government. That won't happen thankfully, but as long as stated policies don't contravene international law then they are free to espouse them. Though I'd be very suspicious if, say, a muslim burned down the reichstag parliament. I'm no lawyer and I don't know where 'forced repatriation' stands, but I guess it comes close to contravention, not to mention totally unworkable. As long as they stay in cloud-cuckoo land they are no threat to democracy. *yeah yeah, a majority government isn't necessarily a popular majority.

more avatars...come on, Onion, Bony3ard...err...any other xbox geeks out there?

I read that it was taken on board in 2004 and was unpopular (not I guess because the forces are rife, more the freedom of thought issue) and this is the first time it's been invoked, and I don't doubt an unfair dismissal hearing will be on its way). I'm a little torn. Seeing as some forces have been found to be institutionally racist in the past and have taken great strides to change this, and especially as the inner cities have almost 50% ethnic minorities, I do see it as incompatible with maintaining community relations. Could he be relocated to Hereford or some other 98% white area or something, as I'm filled with the same unease as PGC?

What? I was protecting the innocent!! Surely that's good poh-lees work in the EDFPD? Careful know, I may have to wee on your slippers!

MWAH HAH HAH HAH, witness my awesome power as I edit someone's post once a month or so. Cower as I add some spaces and commas to Tony's posts once in a blue moon, just to stop my eyes from bleeding.