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I thought the whole point of science was that it is fallible. You put a theorem up and everyone tries to disprove it. Until that time it holds 'true' but it's never an absolute. In fact on the beeb there's a story about a physics professor who's been working for years at Connecticut Uni trying to invent rudimentary time travel. An astronomer says of him "Much of the science being done today in many fields will turn out to be wrong. Being wrong is an essential part of investigating the universe." Sums it up quite nicely.

Or something...and the pointless shield in the sky, and the terrible nonsensical editing. Reminded me of Metro with Eddy Murphy for that, editing so bad, scenes just had no context and made no sense. Aaanyway Men at Work - Down Under.

I think it did pretty well when it was the only late opening place nearby, prior to licensing changes. It seems to pull in a few punters for sunday lunch. It would be such a pity if it went under. :))

Actually I had a secret soft spot for the series for reasons I don't think I'll ever understand, silly but watchable late night tv. The rest of it was truly woeful however, and if ANYONE can make sense of Highlander II I'll eat my hat.

Different pubs for different moods too. I think on the whole we've a nice variety and they do the job well enough across the range, but also agree scor46 that there are no outstanding pubs. In fact very few in London full stop. I fled the outer territories for London for many many reasons, but they do do pubs and beer better as a (hugely generalising) rule.

I think the owner would be flattered by your theories frankly, but it's actually just a front for his ego. Go on, sue me!

Not to mention his ...mmm... aussie accent in ..err.. zardoz. And to think, if it wasn't for Highlander we'd never have had the superlative Highlander II The Quickening (named after the equally riveting accountancy package), or even the unfathomable Highlander III The Sorcerer, or the quite simply unmatchabley clich?d Highlander IV ironically named Endgame, or even the as yet unreleased Highlander V The Source. Or Highlander the Series (of terrible programmes) or Highlander The Raven, beggaring belief by being even worse than all of the above (other than Highlander IV of course). All of this from an extended Queen video. Amazing really.

I'm with you Jeremy. How can there not be life in the vastness of the universe. But expending huge amounts of energy and or time to get to boring old earth and then do some zigzagging motions in the sky with funky lights on, or kidnapping mid-western farmers to shove things up their bottoms? Pull the other one (leg, not .. err... bottom)

I was more or less told by waiter at TN not to bother with the red handi, that it's a sort of in-joke and punishment for drunken lager louts, that if I like it spicy the green handi should be plenty. I ummed and aahed and erred on the side of caution in the end. Green Handi was very nice with heat on a par with Sean's chilli-con-carne, but no fiercer. *not to imply that it isn't pretty pokey btw*

I can't believe you've brougt that up!! Brendan, I checked their site and opening times are apparently Error 404 Not Found, so not much help there then

Interesting reading Yes Sweden from the 50s to 50s, legislation withdrawn in '76. Churchill also tried to pass it for mentally handicapped, however it was defeated in the commons in 1913. Actually loads of countries have given it a go. I've seen this sort of behaviour on buses and some pretty selfish loutishness on the trains too I agree with a point in a closely related thread that we need more staff (sort of quasi-conductors/inspectors) on public transport to discourage this behaviour (down with this sort of thing)

Managed to find this.

Quite a few recent sightings have actually been those chinese lanterns which have been pretty popular in recent times at weddings. "3 or so lines of quite small orange fiery lights, each line with about 4 lights in it" sounds a pretty good candidate to me for this.

beerintheevening.com is more comprehensive, but fancyapint is much more useful imo, good sense of humour too. Plus b.i.t.e. seems to have given my details to every nigerian scammer out there. very annoying.

* spies singapore sling, thinks perfect * * wanders over, sits down to savour the....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz *

Aaaah Brad. Lurkers always welcome especially those who've done up our fine local pubs and posters' mums' houses!!

Totally with you Sean. Marinate overnight in my homemade "Death By Chicken"? marinade, then cook in a bbq. As Brendan says, trick is a bit of patience, don't use these insta barbecues which burn fiercely for half an hour, just get some decent charcoal and get it just right. An absolute delight. For the record my back garden isn't covered in spit and sh!t. Damn right brendan, fire, fun, beer, sun. What more?!

Is it just me or does the little organ chorus exactly like the forest people (or is it the gerudo village) music in the zelda games? The Monkees - A Little Bit Me or a Little Bit You

Teaching union gives practical lesson on the Luddites. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/02/teacher_votes/

You could put a macaroni cheese on it in a foil box and heat it up I guess Louisa ;-P

This just came up on shuffle play, one of the best covers around. Futureheads - Hounds of Love bad quality takes away some of the impact sadly.

I bet you there will be health and safety issues. All that raw chicken and pork...

Nice laid back tune, pretty little thing too B?a - Duvet

Indeed you are right. There was something of an exodus thanks to the celtic tiger as people no longer had to rely on London for jobs and Ireland's economy skyrocketed. I appreciate that most posters here are first generation, especially having met or indeed engaged to many of them*, but something that's always slightly irked me is why people seem so keen to continue their identification with their Irish heritage and happily ditch whatever other nations may make that up. Apparently the Irish vote in the US is considered to be over 50 million!! That's one in 6 and 10 times the population of the motherland. I for one can count 4 nations just back to my 8 great-grandparents, but don't consider myself any of them in particular. I met a chap in chicago who considered himself irish because he had family who'd gone over 6 generations ago. I bet you he was so diluted he had polish, russian, swedish, german, english and gawd knows what else among the 126 ancestors that made up who he was. Not sure where I'm going with this......err...i'll get my coat and go off to the bratwurst-haggis-chorizo-jellied eel shop. *I'm just engaged to the one, just in case that looks like i'm planning polygamy on a grand scale there.

I certainly shall keep an eye out for the little fellas, though I'm thinking identifying features might be a little superfluous. -ohh, blue eyes, must be different escaped guinea pigs ;)