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mockney piers

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  1. Sarajevo, beautiful place. Porto, so much nicer than the algarve (lots of lovely port too). Finland, Helsinki is lovely then all the lakes and forests outside. Anywhere in Bavaria. The dolomites if you like walking..... Blimey choice is endless.
  2. Please tell me these aren't privet hedge problems....
  3. You do realise that this was done years ago? (if we're talking double jeopardy, and not the really bad film with Ashley wassername, though she's a right NBO) I can't see aroblem with retrial if there's new evidence, we now live in a world of DNA, which it would be wrong to say there's a medieval precedent that says you can't be done for a Crome despite new evidence showing you unquestionably did it. Pragmatism, as long as it's used pragmatically.
  4. Thank god that mockney fooker stopped posting when he said he would.
  5. Way to rewrite history, did they make the desert bloom did they, unlike those unworthy lazy mexicans. sheesh, poor little Texans. In fact the Union wanted nothing to do with Texas, troublesome arrogant upstarts causing friction with the neighbours, until the press got involved, whipped up public fervour and when hostilities broke out the union had its hand somewhat forced, can't let nasty swarthy people kill white gringos even if you don't like them. Dictatorial my arse, just trying to assert legitimate control on territory they were having stolen from them, which if you recall ended up being some 60% of the country. You want to sob for someone it's not going to be poor ickle monroe doctrine spoting, social darwinism wielding US of A. Bloody hell. Mexicans quite like the Brits on the whole, don't let them read this or they may change their minds. I guess this is probably wayyyyy off topic mind.
  6. The Alamo in Texas yes, formerly (now) of, errrr Mexico?
  7. Aggressive Mexico? You are kidding me aren't you.
  8. Call me Mr Nosey. http://www.deborahmckenna.com/Client.aspx?ID=115&Name=Katy-Ashworth 23 apparently. *joins Otta in Vic Reeves impression*
  9. She reminds me of an older girl I had a huge crush on at my saturday job when I was younger, I guess I'd have been 16, she an ancient 19, left school and everything. So even though more than 20 years have flowed since then, she sort of still has that a bit older than me mystique, even though I'd hazard a guess at about 25.
  10. Greene, Forster, Wodehouse cannot praise highly enough (actually from that list I'm partial to Vonnegut and Steinbeck too). Hemmingway, Lawrence, Nabokov, Woolf and Joyce (because I haven't the faintest idea what he's blithering on about) I can live very happily without. Fitzgerald's trickier, spoilt playboy, eminently unlikeable, but writes rather well. Heller wrote one good book, actually make that masterful. I've tried others. He should have quit whilst he was ahead in a catcher in the rye stylee. Have read most of that list. Alot of it I want my life back please.
  11. Well, anglo saxon at least TM. I guess apart from Joseph Conrad, who was of course a Polish Immigrant, doing an excellent job at half the cost. Very marmite list whether or not the best. Can't stand some, love others. Where are the Jeeves and Wooster books though?
  12. Ah I see moos, yes of course you're right, what's on the guardianistas' coffee tables and all that. Jonathan Livingstone Seagull anyone?
  13. can't we just call this thread 'overrated x episode 453'. At least it's not bands with umpteen people telling us how awful the Beatles were. Aaaanyway, with you on OTR, I'd add most of Burroughs' output in there too, terribly dated and very dull. I did try a GGM novel a while back but got bored very quickly, a latin american Henry James if you ask me. I am rather partial to Mario Varga Llosa though. La Ciudad y Los Perros (I think it's The Time of the Hero in English) is well worth a read, right up your street snunks, all having a pop at the establishment and revealing societal hypocrisy and stuff. Reading Karl Marlantes Matterhorn at the moment; was initially reluctant as Vietnam's a bit done isn't it, but any book that took 35 years to write has to be worth some attention if just to appreciate the sheer bloody mindedness of it all.
  14. Tony Cottee didn't do too well did he.
  15. You don't need real examples when conjuring up the 'other' a bogeyman to attract the focus of the baseless fears and prejudices of those you want to appeal to with one's demagoguery, whether it be the corrupt west, the sharia hungry muslims, pinko guardianistas, racist mail readers, or dare I say, scheming jews. Oops I've just snorkied this debate by invoking snorky's law. Ironic how much certain posters go on about tiresome drones isn't it.
  16. I'm not sure anyone's playing devil's advocate at all, though the 'same names' may seem light-hearted, dismissive or irreverent, they, ok we, are making a real point. Bad things do happen, but thankfully very rarely. Your example is horrific but was 19 years ago. Why does that mean you have to spend the ensuing 7000 days assuming the worst when to me that says that on the whole nothing happens rather than bad things happen? God knows the more negative papers love to scaremonger but it depresses me when this forum, which has a very real influence on the way people perceive their area, is a constant source of negativity. Every other thread seems to be about a mugging or a break-in, and helps to cast a sense of fear and gloom. This erodes the sense of community that a resource like this should be helping to build up. Without that community then everyone else becomes a target of suspicion as you are demonstrating. I'd rather believe that most people are good rather than the other way, and as Marmora Man states, ultimately who was harmed other than the fabric of our community, our sense of safety and, concomitantly our personal well-being? Not indeed by a couple of people who were probably a father and son sharing an interest (how nice these days), but from someone sowing fear. I understand why you felt disturbed, but you did the right thing, you went to the authorities who investigated and deemed nothing to be wrong. Yet still you come on here warning people that something is wrong from your apparently baseless suspicions, then attempt to dictate the terms of the debate to boot when people go 'maybe si maybe no'. Forgive me if I prefer to firstly think of these people as at worst a bit rude or insensitive rather than arrive at the conclusion that i must fear my local park for paedos/kidnappers/murderers casing my child; weirdly enough I think I'd prefer to live in the former world than the latter.
  17. I too was pleasantly surprised by the measured responses last night. I can't help but feel that being in wormwood scrubs probably helped prevent a more shrieking vigilante mob reaction, particularly given the shorter sentences nature of his proposal.
  18. I've always wanted to go to Beer. I've no idea if it's nice, but great name!!
  19. Just drink some beautiful soup Sue. Tutorial here: http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/documentation.html#Parsing%20a%20Document
  20. I stand corrected. *note to self - check facts before opining using capital fm phone-in as data source*
  21. Plus it's all a distraction from the real issue. That a woefully low amount of rapes even make it in to court in the first place, and thence to a very low conviction rate compared to other crimes. This probably needs addressing more urgently than whether a quick guilty plea can knock a couple of years off the sentence; carts and horses spring to mind. And spot on *Bob*, of course I think you're wish is pretty much granted isn't it?
  22. "but you all seem to know exactly what he meant" As apparently so do you, inferring from a two-stage extrapolation that he thinks non violent rape isn't serious despite saying it is. The whole point of what he was saying was that it's up to the courts not politicians to decide, they're just tinkering with the framework (not in a way I particularly agree with but that seems to be the topic for another thread). I'm pretty sure that if statutory rape was committed by a grown up in a position of trust and one committed by an 18 year old in love with a fifteen year old, that the judge might be in a position to judge the seriousness of the two cases as different (though maybe not if it had been judge pickles where they're all asking for it apparently). I say storm in a teacup, lets focus on the proposed policy and not Mr Miliband*'s petty point scoring from a labour party in disarray. *whom I rather liked before he became leader
  23. From a chain, are you mad?! Blue Mountain please (ignoring their other branches).
  24. I think he did cause offence, and everyone is agreed that he came across as insensitive, but he basically stumbled into a minefield, trying to address issues as a lawyer but suddenly finding he was actually discussing things from a moral and social perspective before he realised that that was what had happened. A politician of his long years should have known better frankly, but I do think it's unfair to suggest that he was attempting to imply that rape sometimes isn't serious, indeed he was quoted as saying that isn't the case. I do feel a bit sorry for him as I rather like the old codger one of the last of a dying breed of decent (no, not in that sense) politicians, and some of my pity comes from having an idea just how much he's going to cop it on Question Time tonight.
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