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"Hey, maybe the whole 2cd-loss was an inside job by a revolutionista?" Or a tory.

Of course Mark Twain was a pseudonym, perhaps it was really ..err.. George Orwell? ;)

Jim, that sounds very very dodgy indeed if you ask me. There's no way your data should go from a bank to an outside organisation. Sheesh, it shouldn't even move within* the organisation outside certain strict rules. let alone johnny minkey being able to download the lot to a couple of portable media

Admin beat me to it, was just going to bleat about duplicating threads without searching. I can however vouch for the veracity of the new user.

This is a very disturbing thread. FnB, feel free to pop over to play with my wii, but keep your hands out of my pants!!

Lets forget about the footie and the weather, let's be transported to an imagined beautiful world where not only does the train go from New york to paris in 90 minutes, but everyone has spandex jackets, woo!!! Donald Fagen - I.G.Y.

I bet you enjoyed this more MrBen Scotland dies laughing

Yep, some pretty poor management decisions. He's a decent chap, of that there is no doubt, but if you can't motivate players for that?!?! I saw the pre-match interview and felt we were going to lose then, not of a hint of inspiration, just a nervous man trotting out tired cliches. 5 minutes of SWP slop through the mud before falling over at the foot of one of the tallest strongest defences in football, had even me crying out for Beckham. Lampard and Gerrard, rubbish; Barry, poor game. I feel desperately for Carson, but again, weird decision. Players apart though, the blame has to fall with the FA. Never mind whether Maclaren goes, sack the cobwebbed shirts in Soho Sq!!! And go spain!! B)

Thank god this ain't columbia eh MP.

*dries eyes* I saw their last ever gig (or so I'm told) in elephant & castle, a sad sad night for all. Still, we have The Aliens, all ex beta-bandians

Don't ask me, it was Giles Brandreth, who of course knows everything, otherwise we would he have been such a stalwart on Countdown all these years? The girls guides used to beat us up when we were cubs, 'dib dib dib' still fills me with horror.

Touch? :))

I too heard the today programme saying that the terms were effectively interchangeable. I shrugged and thought at least there's one less thing in this world for people to be pedantic about. Of course I wouldn't know what that's like ;-P

I think F'nB and I seem to be having our own conversation...don't mind us.

"now, is that a photo of a bunch of nice people having fun, or drunken yobbos waiting for a ruck?" I didn't spot any trouble, but then I left the game, went to an open air concert and had a meal in a nice restaurant (with terrible service obviously, I think the waiter had an issue with the English). There was plenty of trouble on the way over. I got an Air India flight that was delayed long enough for a bunch of England Shirt clad thugs to be drunk enough to be mouthing loudly about how the pane was full of effing p*kis trying to take our jobs, and generally not being ambassadors for our nation. Don't book an Air India* flight next time you ignorant c*nts!! Proud of that? You're having a laugh. *I felt pointing out the obvious inaccuracy would have been a futile and unappreciated exercise in pedantry and may well have resulted in my being beaten senseless. We reported them instead and got the most vocal one shoved in a room to sober up. He missed his flight ho ho ho. *edited for hand holding purposes*

There is something charming about these big old England fans trotted out at big Footie events with "Throcking Utd" or "Badgersfield Ladies U21" scrawled on them. I think I've one of them somewhere too I took in chicago a couple of years back; a little more tastefully shall we...

What have you done Jaaaaaaaaahh!?!!!?!!?!! ps agree with SMG

Woo!! Congrats. Is it just me or is anyone else noticing the fertility powers of the forum?

Of course you Nazi!! On which note I have to say I'm a bit uncomfortable with that. I like the clean look of the forum, so many others are rendered unreadable by moving gifs and ridiculous emoticons and all sorts. Hence why I kept the fave albums as neat as possible, otherwise things become frankly unusable.

I can't help but feel this song's a big p!ss take, pretty funny if it is. Is this your doing reggie, or are you just hosting it? East Dulwich Bag

Talking of bad reporting http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7104421.stm Interesting enough story as it goes, but I clicked on the video report http://www.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/check/player/nol/newsid_7100000/newsid_7104900?redirect=7104917.stm&news=1&nbram=1&nbwm=1&bbwm=1&bbram=1&asb=1 and found my self thoroughly reassured by the closing comment "The good news is that scientists say scorpions are unlikely to evolve to these sizes again" Phew!! That's me ok for the next 200 million years then.

I quite agree *bob*, though under the last lot*, when ministers had done something wrong, it was always huge pressure by the media that finally forced a resignation, and Blair would always say 'he's done nothing wrong', then bring them back after a bit, sometimes, as you pointed out, without portfolio. When an administration has such a deeply ingrained "not me mate, I ain't done nuffink wrong" culture, then it becomes something of a natural reaction to start demanding heads (plural people...plural!!!) for ever little transgression. *I'm not execting the 'new' lot to be any different btw.

I do think the media fuelling fear in genereal is a problem, especially apparently reporting every 'turra' type pronouncement with nary a critical faculty regards half of it being nonsense and what the motive might be. A chinese water torture of hysterical daily-mailesque crime stories doesn't help either. But in this case I think you've got it wrong. Identity fraud is a pretty huge problem and a growing one too. It was interesting reading about how crime statistics such as robbery have been steadily dropping due to mobiles being easily blocked and electronics being so cheap these days, and that the big money is basically in drugs and fraud now. I for one have had an old credit card cloned in the past and it took months for the money to be returned, and it can have far more serious consequences than some questionable transactions. Quite a few people had issues with a certain garage somewhere in the environs allegedly if you recall. It's being strongly suggested that we limit personal details on social networking sites, very sensible suggestion if you ask me, like shielding pin numbers and not putting your purse at the top of your open handbag and being generally street smart. As I say I'm always preaching calm criticsm of media reporting, but this really is a staggering, staggering error (ok, not 15,000 dead in a cyclone, but you know...if no brits die...) *edited to reinforce that neither am i calling for resignation ... yet*

I hope that's tongue in cheek cdonline. If you don't think that shoving the personal details including NI and bank details of 25 million people on a couple of unencrypted disks (that alone is, as a geek who deals with sensitive data all the time, shocking) and then losing them, is serious, then I wonder what on earth you think DOES qualify?!?!

From Gamespot interview with developers "GS: How are you balancing the four-player gameplay? Will the difficulty scale increase with the number of players in a co-op game? FO: We've actually included a whole layer of ways to make co-op more challenging. But the first and most important step for players is to forget that easy and normal even exist. If you have any chutzpa at all, you might as well forget heroic while you're at it. Real men (and ladies) play co-op on legendary."