mockney piers

Keef Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- LOL!! took me a moment though.

Pootle (noun) - An aimless wander with camera. Pootle (verb) - To aimlessly wander with camera. Pootle (collective noun) - A group of pootlers pootling.

Of course the dangers of being too receptive...

Those reiki types just aren't cutting the mustard you know...still in agony :(

Again, a pleasure Keef. Go for it embellina it'll be fun, it'll be good to see another new face, there are always a couple at every drinks.

..past 4,000 posts. Well done Keefy boy!! There's a goal for you now Kel.

Not been a brilliant year to be honest, but highlights are definitely getting engaged (even if I've barely seen her since..could you blame her), Nick and Keith's weddings (that's 2 weddings people, not to each other) and, not to sound to licky, but the friends I've made this year here. The Marks, John, Bea, Mike, Ant, Spence and lots of other quality people too numerous to mention in one post, it's added a whole lot to living here. Oh and CrystalClear finally getting himself a bloody girlfriend!!

Ha! Me too!!

Yeah sorry about that lads, i got some pitchforks and torches for christmas, and you know, was just a bit bored and stuff.

it is horribly addictive though isn't it.

he he, she's the cat's mother don't you know!!

and the f word?

Having just read Tatchell's piece and finally catching up with what this row was all about, I can't help but think that all the BBC achieved was draw attention to the presence of those words in the song. I must have heard it hundreds of times and had no idea they were there previously; at least I can sing along to it now. One of life's little ironies I guess.

I had a feeling it was your fault (6) ;-)

It is a bit gay though isn't it. Mind you, I'm still partial to Babycham.

I keep finding myself saying "what do you do when you want to do a poo" an awful lot for no reason at the moment, I wish I'd stop.

Ooh yes, I'll have a drop of the black stuff, ooops can't use black, stout? hmm, offending the cumbrously challenged... err guinness, naa all those people who have alzheimers and don't miraculously recover after they get out of prison easrly might get annoyed. Err, lager please.

"kind of" I hate myself when I hear me say it.

I guess most instances are like this one, an individual circumstance responded to in a certain way and either something is changed or it's not. All generalisations like "its political correctness gone mad" serve are to undermine any debate by implying there's some sort of global/national loony-left conspiracy to stop people saying anything at all. Yes, any level of 'political correctness' is by definition almost a newspeak in that it attempts to change the way one thinks through curtailment of language. If that stops the casual use of nigger, paki or the pejorative use of jew and faggot then I don't see it being so bad. As with anything there are degrees and lines, and every case should be based on its merits. In the famous hackney banning christmas it was an error of judgement by a junior administrator that was quickly overturned, in this case the BBC has had a ponder and rightly changed its mind (I think, I haven't really followed the story). Doubtless sometimes things do go too far, I for one thought the Prince Harry - Afrika Korps thing was funny, but hey. But to lump them all under some umbrella of PC gone mad is in itself newspeak. Sorry if this opinion is obscured by the muffling effect of the sand ;)

I love Charlie Brooker

genius!!

Keef's right, it's soccer. Sorry quids, back spasmed mid commute so in a bad mood and quite a bit of pain. If any reiki healers fancy some long distance healing I can be found just under the green arrow View Larger Map

sheesh...class...yawn.... When you've something useful to say....

You could eat after a hard night's raving?!

As I've said before Political Correctness is a term coined by the 'libertarian' right to undermine efforts to protect minorities. Most examples cited by media tend to be at best exaggeration at worst downright disingenuous.