mockney piers

well I for one say top man! With the airwaves clogged with the dull platitudes of even duller so-called 'personalities', I'll raise my hat to someone willing to use 'droopy-eyed armless children' as a simile in an interview. Don't forget, he served in the Nam man, and the enemy was in him. The war is over for Charlie now, but it will always be there, the rest of his days.

As long as the dead leave us alone whilst we're having a pooh. That thought really disturbs me.

Best analysis of the Jasmine spring and how it will affect western policy I've yet read http://crookedtimber.org/2011/02/26/after-the-sauds/ "Uncounted billions (counting Iraq, trillions) of dollars have been spent on the premise that the US has a vital interest in determining political outcomes in the Middle East. Yet in the current upsurge the US Administration has been reduced to the role of a bystander at a sporting event of which they don?t know the rules" and more on whether Saudi Arabia could be next http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/02/28/yes_it_could_happen_here

I just heard a strange and spooky whooooshing sound.

mostly loving the mash today http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/gaddafi-welcomed-by-online-forums-201102243579/

Browning in naive, bless, shock. http://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2011/02/twat-not.html

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=recursion I'm pretty sure this qualifies for geeky humour.

uncanny

CPT is usually pretty cricket friendly.

Or Dumb and Dumberer

or the Godfather.

I thought exorcist 3 was an underrated film and Brad Dourif does a fine chilling turn as the returning demon. Ok, not a patch on the original, but when are sequels ever? .... apart from The Empire Strikes Back.

I think Russia got away with it for two reasons. In terms of foreign investment people wanted to continue to invest in the country rather than write off their losses (sort of double or quits). In terms of the governemtn getting away with it, just think oil and gas. Russis's cash rich at the moment and enjoying the fact. Significant invesment in anything but energy infrastructure is low, and apart from the shiny new urban prosperity for a very narrow middle class, Russia is rotting away. Argentina even more so, I've seen the legacy of the sell-offs, neglect and instituional corruption there first hand, and do not underestimate the economic fragility of the country (one of my favourite places in the world I might add). Defaulting would be a disaster for Britiain, we're running out of natural resouces and the most bankable asset as a nation is our triple A status; lose that and we've not much left to offer the world. (well, there's all the drugs and guns that we do well out of, but that's another story).

It was an absolute cracker. Enjoyed in Hoopers where there were three sporting occasions to choose from!!

Funnily enough I said last year that the difference between the two teams was Torres, and without him we spanked you. Nice!

Plus I'm pretty sure there are pockets of people in Norfolk and nunhead who DO speak French.

And whilst we're talking zombies, everybody in the world has to read world war z, best book ever. ....about zombies

My jaw quite literally (in the figurative sense) hit the floor in the cinema when the midichlorians explanation happened. I felt utterly betrayed and a beautiful thing was destroyed forever.

In all experience, everywhere, overlordship breeds discontent and rebellion, not acquiescence and malaise. It wasn't the English who defeated the Irish, it was the church. If you want someone to blame, look a little closer to home. My mother in law asked of me the other day, without so much as a hint of irony or sadness, 'so piers' she said 'do you think now times are bad, people will return to the church'. The sense of glee was irrepressible. The 19th century saw the church, who had always seen the Irish flavour of Catholicism as difficult, as an opportunity to tie in a sense of identity and nationalism with a strict version of worship reserved for Ireland. It was very successful and managed to galvanise, in many ways, a united national self image and destiny, something tellingly in ireland's quest for self-determination, no one had hitherto achieved. But I would say from personal experience, that that particular breed of Catholicism was too much and has coloured everything else in th country and better explains the traits you describe. The good news is the grip lessens with each generation, and fingers crossed, my mother in law's vision for Ireland won't be realised. And what's with that weird tolling bell death hour on the telly??!?! Freaks me out every time.

*wanders through soupy, cloying fug, breathing in the heady scents* blimey, no wonder it's quiet in here. *lies on cushion, beckons over small monkey in waistcoat and fez, takes pipe from the proffered salver*

I caught two minutes of it between Family Guys. Very silly. I was reminded of the bullied vicar played by Steve Coogan on The Day Today.

Here's an interesting comparison of outlooks in a similar situation Fergal Keane on Ireland OOC on Spain

Zombies feel the same way.

6. Cool, give it another 33 overs then!

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