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Ted has brought a welcome change of pace, and ne'er a mention of a bugaboo in sight. Consider him...mmm...thirthed?

OI!!!!!!...I'll get there; like the Project Gotham 3 competition was so seat of the pants ;-P

Luckily now that the current crisis has taught us all that greed doesn't pay, everyone's behaviour will change for ever and we'll get back to core values, sensible savings led economics, wise investment, balanced books, nurture local talent, sustainable wages........errrr........

Ah yes, played the demo, looks very nice, but wasn't sold on it. Geometry Wars 2 was better. And so far my 360 has only died the once :-/

Hmm, Icelandic bank Landsbanki has been nationalised. As the bank was owned by our chairman who leveraged his (now worthless) shares to buy the club, does that make us the official Icelandic national team now? As someone said on a fan forum "just our luck, we get the only billionaire in football who is skint" Made me chuckle anyway.

Daily Mash on fire today Market Suffers Biggest Ever Blah Blah Blah and Vivars to have 'Full of Sh!t' Stamped on Forehead ps, what ever happened to the things that have made me laugh thread...seems to have gone walkabout.

LOL *edit* Spurs seem to be on this weird trampoline of quality with an ever decreasing springiness, reduced to about half a season between pants and pies...must make fans as sick as a parrot!!

Boneyard, Spurs fans (and coming from Stevenage vicinity most of my old friends are either Spurs or Arsenal) did spend rather a long time with a certain arrogance, claiming to be the only purveyors of the beautiful game in London. Right up until the 90s this could be done with quite a bit of justification with regards to their north London rivals and Chelsea, I guess it irked you're average West Ham fan for whom the beautiful game is more important than victory, which let's face it, is just as bloody well. But that's all changed now hasn't it. Spurs seem to be on this weird sine wave of quality with an ever decreasing length, reduced to about half a season between nadir and zenith...not conducive to a decent championship run, nor I warrant a happy fan!! These days I see less scorn poured upon Spurs amongst the Hammers faithful, they just don't really seem to care as much anymore, I even tend to see a pretty good atmosphere post match at White Hart Lane whenever I venture up. Chelsea receive far more invective these days, and as for Arsenal, I mean seriously, how can anyone hate a team that provides that much entertainment.

hats off, apology accepted :D

Brilliant!!

Just read Robert Harris' Ghost, it's not about Tony and Cherie, honest...it's an entirely fictional ex Prime Minister. *Shudders at memory of Cherie's sex scene* Other than that a very entertaining novelette.

Came to this: Jesus is My Friend by way of this Independent article on internet hoaxes. The implication seems to be that it's legit, oh i do so very very hope so, it's fantastic. "I've had friends before / and I can tell you that / he's one friend who'll never leave your flat"

Wishing Well and Montpelier fine by me. No issue with Hoopers at all either.

Looks like our title hopes ended too ;-P Maybe next season *coughs into hand* Cracker of a last goal from Bolton though. green won't be staying in the England squad long if he carries on like that, I can see Zola giving him another taste of a drop from the first team. Yeah, great comeback by liverpool, could have been more frankly, but I did feel a bit sorry for Man City, I rather like old Sparky.

They remind me of Turin Brakes with a dash of We're from Barcelona funnily enough.

Brendan, borrow World War Z when Sean is done with it, there's a chapter in there dedicated to how the bigwigs in society all found themselves rated category E, no useful skills.

Notes on entering the Shanghai Tower Marvellous

You're not coming home hooked me immediately. Nice!!! Cheers D_C. Rather confused by the category "Folk / Acoustic / Japanese Pop" on myspace?!? Are Fleet Foxes like that? I see their albums on the cheap in Fopp all the time Might have to give them a go.

Ha ha, yes, totally agreed Jeremy. Just pointing out that history has lots of examples if it all going drastically wrong. No fun if you're there at the time, yet here we all still are!!

"Surely the effects of climate change are gradual" Tell that to the Mayans, it happened within a lifetime. Likewise the loss of the North European land mass to rising sea levels was in the order of many metres a day which would have been pretty alarming to those around then. Pandemics are ridiculously quick. Decades in the 1300s, months for the Spanish flu, with air travel it will be days/weeks.

They make damn good pie, much better than 4 and twenty blackbirds, I can tell ya.

Shhh....no spoilers. Some are still on 1

Seems my plans have been thrown completely out the window, I'm no longer at someone's b'day, I've just been reminded that I have to go and zorb down a hill near Matlock!!!

"Don't think it can't happen to us" That said, I've doubts it'll happen in our life times...at least I bloody well hope not. Right I'm off to cull the entire bird population of the world, I've done pretty well with London's sparrows so far at any rate ;)

In fairness I was in Guatemala recently and got to see first hand what drastic climate change can do to a large and healthy civilisation comprising thousands of cities, the largest of which had populations in the many hundreds of thousands, intensive farming and a service oriented population, far more populous, vibrant and sophisticated than England in the 10th century I can tell you. Then the rainfall in the region lowered drastically and permanently (historical rather than geological permanence, ie still a quarter of pre mayan collapse levels) and the sub Yucutan Mayan world collapsed into famine, pestilence, plague and death in a staggeringly short space of time, the jungle soon reclaiming millions of Acres. The Black death killed 1 in 4 Europeans 300 years later and it took almost 2 centuries for France to have nearly as much farmland as it did pre-plague. Don't think it can't happen to us, nemesis always follows hubris. As the Chinese say, may you live in interesting times!