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I bumped into MP (the other one) at the station this morning. He looked a little the worse for wear but told me what a lovely evening he'd had.

If I can take down a Big Daddy called Rosie, Toto.....

I'm all for that! I'll dance for crusts; I do a marvellous bugs bunny style soft shoe shuffle. Anybody need Halo 2 completed on the hardest setting? anyone .. anyone .. Bueller?

I was watching the Sopranos last night, and it hasn't lost anything for me. They're two very different programmes. The Wire has a great deal more depth and density, the Sopranos has more humour. But essentially they're doing different things. Agreed that it seems odd that the emmies neglect the Wire and adore the Sopranos though.

If the value of coinage is intrinsic to the value of the metal of which it's comprised, then all you do is get people nipping stuff of the edges and/or debasing the currency, so you end up with the same problems, inflation and lack of confidence/trust in the currency, so there's no great improvement. The moment you've moved to paper money it's all about abstraction; this ain't the problem; papaer money is essentially smoke and mirrirs and based on confidence, but as i said its a tried and tested trick, whether it's backed up by gold reserves, currency reserves or just sound financials (ie, don't keep printing the stuff to get out of trouble). The problem is when financiers believe in alchemy as has happened over and over again. Nutmeg, tulips, dot coms, sub prime mortgages, yadda yadda yadda. Reality will always catch up in the end.

I think that's pretty much been the case for the last 500 odd years chav, so pretty tried ant tested. Sub-Prime mortgages, an amoeba could work out that charging more to people less able to pay is stupid, no matter how well you think you cover yourself. Northern Rock were just sailing too close to the wind with their operating model, mind you I see large chunks of the populace doing exactly the same, so they weren't alone in thinking the good times will roll on. And do the gov't honestly have the tax pounds spare for this? Oh well, there go the flood defences again!!

*rolls trouser leg up and winks with unblinking eyes.* *strange how my eyelids blink upwards*

Freemasons obviously Brendan. Duh!!

People (and I include the chancellor in all of this) keep saying that the gov't won't let banks go under. But if it was to underwrite financial institutions' debts it would obviously have to go to the money markets, whether issuing bonds or taking loans, to raise the funds to so do. If confidence continues to be undermined and this panic gets out of hand, where exactly is the government going to go to get the money to prop up the entire financial system. I suppose we could sell some of our trident submarines to, oooh I dunno, Iran, that'll raise a pretty penny? I guess it'll have fall to the ECB, who have alreadly released billions of their cash reserves to prop up the markets, to save the day. Nasty old europe eh! ;-)

It's not quite seedy nightclucb status, maybe sh!t wannabe nightclub, but it's the closedt thing we have. NOT that I'm recommending it, mind!

There's always the Vale.

Oh yes, it's the Thames festival this weekend isn't it. Probably closing ceremony.

Sorry James, not to panic you. But I have to say it's not looking good people queueing to withdraw their money

Who was it talking about how my argument that traders don't make money doesn't hold water because banks make money? He clearly hadn't heard of sub prime mortgages, institutional incompetence, untrammelled greed or the wall street crash!!

I was well into buggles in 1980. Mind you, I was also well into those choose your own adventure books :-$

How strange. They seem to be my photos of East Dulwich on there. I may have to sue!! Ooh and aren't those beatnic's snowy ones? Somebody's been nicking our photies. ::o

I've no doubt some people will find something to complain regards cynical marketing ploys. I for one say bravo Foxtons!!

I'm smiling thinking about primus playing "I've got a brand new combine harvester"

The Wurzels?

Blimey. Sigur Ros, Buck 65, Taken by Trees, Raveonettes and The Wire series 25 apparently. Quite a line up!!!

Ooh, I love Rachel Unthank and her winterset!! She's a canny wee lass. Wow, that place is pretty amazing. Any good gigs coming up?

Yayy a group hug. Although I'd rather not be next to any social inferiors if at all possible. Can I be next to Linda Barker please?

Cos I'm geeky and that, I 've just searched the WHO's databsae for you. 6. British Virgin Islands 7. St Pierre & Miquelon 9. Croatia

Come on Jah, you're clearly not pulling your weight. Beaten by Lulxembourg?!? From the economist.