mockney piers

well said Mr Black.

Oh no, Piers the Programmer. I knew I should have stuck with being a Ploughman... ... ... doh!!!

Do you smell the charred embers of a flame too?

It's a grower, but yeah, thumbs up; may put it on now as it goes.

Am a complete sucker for Goya, his Tres de Mayo (3rd of May) is such a powerful piece and has extra resonance with my own family's struggle in the 30s, with their loss, imprisonments and exile, but is sadly a timeless piece. However I give you Un Perro (a dog), it's just so beautiful and mournful * no biggie on the resizing in this thread i reckon. If someone wants to appreciate art, let the page take a while to load I say. Let's not sueeze the pictures into thumbnails. *

It's a classic to be sure peckhamboy, and there ain't nothing wrong with the classics

I'm on the Origins of the British by Stephen Oppenheimer. I regretted not buying it when I saw it in a GRafton St book shop, so glad I spotted it a few days back. Already very interesting reading. It would seem we've all be sold a bit of mythology in our schools as regards who we are (it covers the whole of the british isles) all down to some iffy conclusions come to by victorian linguists, archaeologists and historians.

Ha ha ha, I love it!!! Ooh, and I've been there.

yeah a right trouble maker that one, he had a right go at "lost cat" out by the litter bins in the car park once, nasty fella!!

tee hee, lady bumps. It is art though innit.

I once "met" this couple on WoW who played together (quiet at the back) and teamed up with them a couple of times. They'd met on WoW, but both lived in manchester and were seeing each other in RL. The frightening thing was both were divorced and both had met their previous spouses on other online games. The girl on Counterstrike and the lad on Diablo. I didn't hold out much hope for them.

I hope nobody minds my adding images and editing them to get them the same size, I just thought it made it all look a bit neater and cooler.

Beirut - Gulag Orkestar. Zach apparently ripped the photo out of an old library book in Leipzig.

I've got a copy. Plant's vocals are very low key and it's a bit more country than even I'm partial too, but actually surprisingly beautiful.

or if i'm being serious

HMHB's spoof covers

I saw that "Can you recommend a place for a sunday roast" down the household goods aisle on sunday. I also recall seeing "Three wheeled-pram hell" in the booze section, having a go at the mother's ruin if you get my drift.

Hang on, haven't we just read that people are resorting to doing their own dentistry here? how things improve. The Day Today - Back Street Dentists

Do i have to change the old thread to "Pictures of Slosh's wedding" now ;-)

Tony Blair, middle east peace envoy anyone? Clearly not!!

Why don't you just come as a normal, non snorky punter and just approach people saying 'what's going on here?' 'oh a meeting of internet geeks? interesting', whilst calling yourself albert and affecting a dodgy english accent? Perhaps a stoke one, so noone will be the wiser. Just for curiosity's sake you understand.

I can't believe mcFly are realeasing a greatest hits album, what are they, like 18? The reviewer above clearly doesn't have much time for them either "I always smelt a rat; for a start, if you wear a Ramones t-shirt but you sound like all your guitars have been turned down to 3, you?re probably not as punk as you?d like to think you are. This shower, heaven help us, weren?t even that pop...2/10" For my part I recently got Kate Rusby's last one, well produced folk, does what it says on the tin, interpol's last album, more of the same but it still works, and keenly await Neko Case's Blacklisted.

Agree with Keef, it's much more to do with the area. I think the AB1 type tends to be relative newcomers to london who are still impressed with that sort of thing, I was no different at 21, but by my mid twenties I was a tad more discerning. By my mid thirties I'm just a plain old snob ;-)

It's my party and I'll cry if I want to

Will Snorky's Bar be open by then? You could get it into the vote. BTW anything has to be better than a night out in Waddon, just an observation *shudders and continues to scrub TGiF slop smell off fingers - out damned slop*