mockney piers

LOL!!

"I've found myself in was a pitched battle in the middle of Banbury!" Ooh, with all of those rings on fingers and bells on toes I imagine that could've got quite nasty!!

Wow, just missed out on that then. Would love to catch them locally, I caught Mr Renbourn last year though.

I know a few people who've had it, and they all caught it travelling in SE Asia. Blame cheap flights.

You get no argument from me Jah, it was a shocker.

"an Irish fighting family" I love that, I'm picturing a victorian stable owner breeding some Irish "yes, I've a fine male specimen with six knuckles that I can't wait to blood in this weekend's meet" Anyway, I think the aggressive, warring Englishman is a total myth. We've a far far more peaceful history than just about anyone on the continent, and we have our island status to thank for that; thus post norman invasion we had next to no repelling to do, though admittedly we did spend 300 years terrorising France, and we weren't especially nice to the Irish. However empire came not through being good at fighting, but by being well organised, clever, good diplomats and excellent at commerce. As for winning two world wars, first one was a land stalemate, we effectively starved Germany into submission with the naval blockade, and the second one was won by Mother Russia.

Prostitute? I say I'm a Programmer rather than I work in the Information Technology Industry. It's also more matter of fact than and less condemnatory than geek or IT Bore.

On the contrary ????, I've liked quite a few of your posts, and I like that you're a man (?) of opinions. Just because I've disagreed with some of them doesn't reflect personally. In this case I'd rather you'd have (quite rightly) said something more on the lines of "posters seem to be avoiding mentioning the elephant in the room, that talk of knife culture and rap culture is avoiding use of the term black' or 'i notice this debate is suspiciously colour blind' or something, rather than pussyfooting with a post about pussyfooting ;) I think knife culture isn't anything to do with colour and it's nationwide. Even growing up it was an issue, but as stated by others, their use is more prevalent now. I do however think the macho gun obsessed rap culture is horribly unhealthy and a much more urban thing (thang?). I'm not blaming the music industry any more than I blame Rock & roll for bored teenagers beating each other up in the 50s. But there is something in the misogyny, misanthropy and nihilism of this culture that is so much more destructive to the bored/impressionable youngsters who buy into it. That's not an exclusively black thing by any stretch, but locally I witness it much more among the black youth, but that's I guess because I witness a lot more black youth on my commute.

"Man City 0 West Ham 1 (Revenge!!!)" Aww, are you getting a soft spot for us? I'm touched :-)

quite bob quite.

Ha ha, what a bunch of idiots they managed to interview.

Gosh, my ancestor was his contemporary. John Evelyn, who watched the beheading. He was one of the first tree huggers, wrote about the dangers of pollution in London about 400 years before the clean-air act, watched the great fire, sometime diarist, epistler, carouser, keeper of the privy seal, author, philosopher and theologist. A lot to live up to frankly. Darn.

Steve also jolly good, agreed. I love the "each to their own", most people would hear the word folk full stop and run a mile ;-) Best of luck with this endeavour, I'd be well up for going and if I can help in some small way, just ask.

I recently discovered that my Great Great Grandma was Welsh!?!?!?!?!?!

Cassius, i was taught English by Josephine Wiggs' mum! Chav, no offence but I can't see you as a spy. You're far too honest!!!

"With the exception of Madrid - I agree 100%" Not to take the discussion too far afield, but like any place depends where. Majadahonda or Pozuelo and you're in amongst the nicest, wealthiest and safest areas in Europe frankly. But the number of people I know who've been robbed, mugged etc in Madrid outweighs London by a country mile, well half mile maybe.

I wanted a soulless job in a sterile office working on an ill thought out piece of legacy enterprise software.

True enough Keef, leafy Letchworth was no exception.

I've said at a few times and I'm not alone. The threat of violence always seems to me to be much greater when I leave London to visit friends and relatives in places like Reading, Hitchin, Stevenage, Bristol, Madrid et al. This is a disturbing trend and the police should nip it in the bud before these kids think it's easy and normal; but for my pennies ED is still one of the safest areas I've ever lived.

;) I may jest but I do love all sorts of folk me. I'm listening to some Martha Tilston as I 'work'.

I sincerely doubt its based on solid stats. I think it's just a gut feeling rant based on thin air frankly.

Count me in, I can grow a decent beard at 3 days notice. Now, where did I put my ankle bells and a stick?

spot on both of you, but it really was the writing that got to me "In the eternal cesspit of senseless urban crime...a benchmark of slaked lust and casual, sadistic cruelty." "could weep an ocean" "these savages, who hunted in a pack like animals" "and underlines the fact that some of the rootless delinquents who roam the London streets are now scraping the bottom of the barrel of humanity" "I'm not racist but..." [ok, paraphrasing here] "a patchwork of rigidly delineated little pockets of race and religion, knots of unyielding humanity" "the middle class are fleeing from inner London like pashmina-wrapped lemmings" "airytale, roses-around-the-door belief in the safety of the countryside" "a great termite nest of law-breaking and corruption" 'If you have absolutely nothing to say, then cover it up with terrible writing' appears to be the gibbous call to arms of a spittle-flecked fleet st (enough; ED) [cont. p94]

A couple of reviews of sheer class Bioshock MOH Airborne

and if you're still trying to detox and need some nights in 101 free games for 2008 Miestas is just genius