mockney piers

I'm going to read the petal, I'm assured it's a good book, but even its recommenders said they had no idea how anyone who hadn't read it was meant to be able to follow the drama.

PLus the right=warmonger thing is also a bit of a myth, I think left wing governments go to war more often, maybe it's a hint of that 'we are at war with Eurasia, we have always etc' mentality. Blair certainly was partial to a good things exploding episode (though I guess see earlier points about him not really being left wing in the slightest)

Yeah, I missed the first few of the original, and much to my chagrin have done likewise with the remake*. Oh well, I guess a box set coming my way. *I'm sure originalists will sream blue murder, but from the snippets I've seen the remake actually looks ok. Occasionally the US gets European remakes right, Insomnia wasn't a bad crack at it, and errrr....hmmmmm...

...usually found, damp, in woods or railway sidings.

Oooh nooo, terrible film. There has been some other good drama this year, I thought The Exile with John Simm and Jim Broadbent was good, if a little too like the last Abbot/Simm collaboration State of Play. I tried The Petal Rose Thingy but that was completely incomprehensible, and just got bored of The Shadow Line, though hats off to Rafe Spall for campest villainous turn of the year, most enjoyable.

Tuesday, normally so devoid of anything watchable, I can't be the only one watching The Hour can I? Is Britain rediscovering quality drama this year after so much HBO dominance? Witty, convincing and gripping.

Probably not as well as the Pakistan Dawn to be honest, but I get your point ;).

Speak for yourself, I don't go anywhere without my 'say yes to a waitrose food hall' bag, and my SYTAWFH badge showing prominently.

anyone wondering what all the fuss is about, here's the design plans http://www.lambeth.gov.uk/NR/rdonlyres/12C88D2A-08D3-4F78-9B28-C08EC21EB6B1/0/Brockwellparkwetplay.pdf Took the mocklet down there on sunday and he had an absolute whale of a time!! A really well thought out space (and a stone's thrown from the pub for a parental refresher afterwards.

I'm reliably informed by the sort of people who seem to think it matters what other people think, that Banksy ceased to be cool about a billionth of a second after he became cool.

Too soon? ;-)

OK, I'll do it. Animal welfare is waaaay down on my list of priorities to be concerned about. I quite like petting the things and going awwww cuuuute if they are, I never kick dogs, or even cats, but if meat is their destiny then I'm not going to get upset about it. A rod in the brain or a quickly wrung neck is probably better than being corralled by a bunch of men with pointy sticks stabbing them repeatedly in their side and then following the blood trail as they slowly bleed to death. I do try and avoid battery produced anything mostly for reasns of flavour, texture and health, I'm not sure i like the idea of eating stuff pumped full of hormones, then plumped with water only to evaporate during cooking leaving you with some shrunken scrawn. If welfare is someone's thing then I admire the stance and get why they would poopoo all meat production, but like SJ don't see why FG is any more of a cause celebre than any other meat production, especially factory farming. I'm afraid I like animal produce too much and once you have made the decision that you're ok with having something die for your gastronomic pleasure then any abitrary line further down is a bit hypocritical. So I'm fine with it all, battery farming included, because billions of people depend on it, more the fool them, but if you haven't got the cash then I suppose I understand. I'd be more interested in legislation to stop the growth hormones meaning that they'd require a bit of exercise rather than try to appeal to people's better nature. I'm wandering all over the place, right I'm foiegratacus and so is my wife

I must say I fear for the mocklet's future. He was playing with the DAB radio in the bathroom the other day and stumbled upon some jazz and actually started boogying. Now the only thing that stops him jumping up and down on my head when he joins us in bed at 6 o'clock of a sunday morning is if I give him my phone on the jazz radio thingy. He puts it to his ear and nods sagely. Mind you he'll throw it away if there's any hint of a slap bass, naff synth or wanky utterances a la 'yeaaaurghy' or 'get daaaaaaaooown'; he only likes what my mate calls 'the plinky plonky stuff'

Ce Ce Penistone? With a cutlass I trust!

MArmite XO, is that their version of Lea & Perrins special edition? ie how to con your punters out of more of their hard earned cash when increasing your sales looks unlikely? Mind you it does look marvellously imposing and I'm a sucker for a gimmick *runs of to supermarket*

I'm pretty sure Ramprakash still thinks he's in with a shout. Someone needs to sit the man down and explain things to him very sloooowwwwwly.

"Two extremes" I'd be hard pressed to call the differences between new labour and the tories 'extremes' ;) In practice they are politically millimetres apart though the rhetoric aimed at appeasing traditional support whilst in reality selling themselves to the vast majority straddling the centre ground differs slightly in tone.

Oh, I guess you've missed the 'delights' of the squeezy marmite jar hugues.

HP can wait, marmite!!!! Sacrilege!!!!

The cynic in me might suspect someone of pasta based embezzlement fearing exposure ;-)

'let it happen base player', Time Flies By - Half Man Half Biscuit.

I can't decide whether stopping to pick flowers in the middle of a battle is either a bit weird, a bit camp or incredibly hard! Or perhaps all three.

It's the fixation with, superfluous comma,s that frightens me more, than anything,

the little arabesque canoodle followed by bass line intro and a quarter turn of a football rattle(?) on Killing an Arab, marvellous.