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I see it had a whole page feature in on of those freebie papers last night. My childhood hero Floella Benjamin will be there apparently.

Armed rats MadWorld. Pigeons tend to go for flick-knives.

Oh my god, now accents aren't what they used to be!?!?...you couldn't make it up!!

Disturbing reading, apparently Iran could be only 9 years away from 2016 http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/report_iran_less_than_10

Cockney? No, you've lost me ;-P The Crow in Withnail & I, the perfect pub.

Just for MadWorld74: Muttering Something About Milk... - Holland 1945 *sorry about the typically bad youtube home video thingy.

Ok two on the go There once was a lady called Tillie Who decided she wanted a willy and Jah Lush has gone down the boozer Cos with limericks he's a bit of a loser

I was in the Plough last night.. and much to my surprise I had a drink with Mockney, and then we had a fight! Mr MadWorld did stay and later he did pay... he mumbled something about a band called 'Milk'... For saying that Mockney was in the right It has to be said that that was the worst limerick since limericks began. Lets have another go shall we. There once was a lady named Tillie

Mr MadWorld did stay

I was just trying to determine if the lack of accent was of a south london variety, or perhaps a north herts slightly yokel no type, or perhaps the of the accentless hooray henry ilk, or the absence of accent to be found in the thames estuary, or perhaps that famous west country no accent, or maybe a missing accent possessed of canadians or welsh speaking patagonians. You know, just to see what you're getting at.

What the hell's "no accent" when it's at home?

I was at Croke Park last saturday watching the missus' Wexford get trounced and the very exciting Cork v Waterford. Of course sitting in the p!ssing rain while London was enjoying its brief flirtation with summer was a bit of a downer.

Mrs O'Mockney always called it Santana. Irish gaelic, being absolutely a pronunciation mystery to me, I always deferred to her greater knowledge. I did feel a bit better about it when an Irish chap in Madrid corrected her though, so the language isn't THAT insane. And the Castle does, I'm guessing any pub with a sky box will too.

* stumbles blearily in * * feels the presence of ghosts and sniffs the whiff of liver crushing spirits * * picks a corner and stares wistfully out of window at the passing trains * chuggada chmp . chuggada chmp . chuggada chmp . chuggada chmp ...

You say sadly, but Charlie Chaplin would be a pretty disturbing sight if he was still going today. Could you imagine Dick Emery in a dress at the age of 93?!

yeah, lame joke referencing soap, his precursor to diff'rent strokes. *hangs head in shame*

Top shout Ben!!! I was reminded of this man's qualities around at Sean's the other night. Stewart Lee - endoscopy Stewart Lee - in Glasgow

Mark, was it Benson?

Currently reading Francis Wheen's How Mumbo Jumbo Conquered the World and he seems to be neatly summarising most of the things that annoy me about the modern world.

Life isn't always happy bunnies. I can tell you right now I'm in a pretty s****y mood, but you persevere. The fact that dad pulled through shows that it would have been futile topping himself. Read the book of Dave and it's pretty obvious that Will Self hit rock bottom and was suicidal at some point. But if he'd done it, given in to the idea of the futility of life, we wouldn't have had his quality contribution to Shooting Stars. Genuine medical reasons aren't clear cut, particularly mental illness, severe depression and chronic (terminal) pain. I just say there but for the grace of god* go I, but to say "One could argue that it's selfish to expect someone to carry on their unhappy life just so you don't have to be sad" sounds a little flippant, especially if they come out the other side stronger for the experience. All just my opinion obviously, I'm no expert in ethics, psychology or religion. *or flying spaghetti monster

We've had this discussion, we'll agree to disagree. Suffice to say though, I'd have taken Simon's position had the tables been turned. And we got 2 million for him!!!! Ha ha ha ha

Blimey Smith, that's terrible. And weirdly theatrical too.

I hope not Schneiderweiss. We all got drunk on that in the phoenix when it was on special and without exception had the worst hangovers of all time the next day.

I think generally any selfish act, whatever it be, will have some rationalisation and justification behind it. That doesn't mean it isn't selfish. I had to spend an entire christmas trying to persuade my own father from topping himself about 4 years ago. He's prided himself on being super-rational all his life and figured he had all the reasons why he should do it completely worked out. The most goulish christmas day of my life was spent alone with him in his flat trying to keep the cons of each method well outweighing the pros, "think of the poor driver of the train, you wouldn't want to make another person suffer now would you" etc. Eventually the treatment he was on was increased and he (more or less) regained his senses, but in his eyes he'd have been right in every way had he gone through with it. Objectively of course it would have been a spectacularly selfish act leaving everyone else to pick up the tatters. He was rational enough to know that, but refused to see it no matter how much I pointed it out. Like I say, selfish.

Is it sold in thimbles? Actually the microbrewery beers in the Florence are pretty good. The K?ln style lager was crisp and flavoursome. My mate tried the bonobo which was a fruity dark bitter if I recall, and he was partial to a drop of it.