mockney piers

Btw I mean those in politics and in the press, not necessarily on here.

With power comes responsibility, yet these leaks show us just how irresponsible those with power can be. It's not assange who is irresponsible but those who represent us so poorly. I'm all for greater transparency because this forces people to question and scrutinise their actions to a much greater degree, just look at MPs post expenses, I don't see people saying how important secrecy is there, but briefly it was a tactic that our representatives tried to use. As for saving lives, it's so straw man it's quite unbelievable. If we'd had the truth about 45 minutes and dodgy dossiers at the time then there would probably be half a million odd lives saved, but then there seems to be a correlation between those up in arms about some amusing documents (only formally confirming what we already Suspected/knew, lets face it) being circulated and those who felt those half million deaths were justifiable.

Weirdly, and maybe historically I agree with HAL. It's good viewing (only watched series one) buts it's a wrongun innit.

As much as I love ant, I agree with keef, ants might be the coolest creatures on the planet. And probably the chosen people. And how much more elegant a pheremonic language that all this crass guttural sound? We are simply providers....

Has quids been hacking your account djq?

Is there an implication that the hardest animal is a sea or air one? I could go along with a bull shark or orca as the hardest, but if I were to fight one in Croydon I reckon I'd win. Ultimately you'd have to go with something stupidly poisonous over big and strong.

Sadly I thought objectively that cher was best tonight. Subjectively, not so much (too). Bottom two, Rebecca and Mary. Out.....probably Mary.

Original star trek was very good. A bit daft, a lot of fun and humour embedded in the DNA. The problem with the later stuff was that it took the mythos too seriously but lost touch with the ethos of the original series. You hVe to blame the writers of Next Gen. Subsequent spin offs tried to find a middle ground but were ultimately hampered by decisions taken in next Gen. Voyager was the most successful of these, DS9 the least. Really, really bad. I thought Enterprise cleverly sidestepped the prime directive issues by prequeling it, and I still think underrated and unfairly canned, suffering as it did from overload of all the stuff that went before. At least sic fi is no longer a dirty word and we are spoilt these days. Not that it's all good, but some is, much is passable and we can ignore the rest. Babylon 5 ended up crushed under the weight of it's own mythos too, and became almost unwatchable after a few series, but we can treasure the first three. Books will always be the best medium as there's no concomitant budget on the words used to express fanciful ideas. I, like Huguenot, love a bit of space opera and our own alistair Reynolds is very good. Loving Dan Simmon's stuff, though he nods to many another author as his inspiration. I've been trawling through a lot of the stuff from the fifties and sixties and it's amazing how little it ages and how influential it remains. Of modern stuff The Road is a standout novel(la). Everyone should read it. I bought a copy for missus mockney's brother who self confessedly doesn't read much and he was blown away by it. Of course if you want the real thing just read through Philip K Dick's canon. Aaaaaaand breeeeeaaaaathe......

In all fairness a decent GUI could be a nice way of accessing the forum especially from the fidliness of iPhone. Even on iPad that text box can be a bit of a pita on longer posts. Not a bad idea Polly. I might have a bit of crack though as a pc man I can only do a dodgy version, might need a mac man to let me take the source code over and integrate some proper iOS sdk elements in and get it legitimised. Admin, does the forum software have an api at all?

Very true. Not a Trekkie myself, it's so self important. Babylon five was genuinely funny, it even had Neil Gaiman as a writer. New Battlestar Galactica is pretty good drama, though admittedly missing much of that all important humour element. New V is just awful.

To be honest, Cameron wasn't just thought of as lightweight by Obama,the media held him as a Tim nice but dim with a silver spoon heir to Blair character for a long time, AAAAANNNND he managed to become prime minister without actually having any policies to speak of. He even wanted to hug a hoodie. Clearly Ed is thinking what's good for the goose......

If Russia win then it FIFA must be corrupt. I had a tinge of dissappointment, but then got over it. Blatter is a tosser but we all knew that anyway. FIFA is corrupt, but we all knew that anyway. I'm looking forward to a tournament in Russia, it'll be great and an excuse to go back there, possibly with fewer visa hassles than last time.

In Office Space they say, "what would you do if you had a million dollars?". Whatever you answer is your perfect job. Sadly I, like the protagonist, answered "nothing". So software development it is :(

Currently on House MD, very enjoyable and funny. Nowt on tv now spooks and inbetweeners gone. Can we have a new series of Mongrels please?

It wasn't Rosie, but daftly entertaining that was. Apache vs Gladiator and stuff, genius pulp history with exploding melons for heads!!

you're kidding, do they say that? No, it was a great battles programme or something years ago, about the showdown between the mongols and medieval knights, Leibnitz or something. It was something of a one sided affair.

and they're dressing up in it? Mother issues I'm guessing. As a complete incidental aside, the Mongols only wore light boiled leather armour if at all, preferring silk shirts as an arrow went into your body without breaking allowing you to pull it out without causing massive internal bleeding and lessening the risk of infection. Aaaaanyway....moving swiftly on...... (like a Mongol horse archer....(keep digging piers........))

god they're good

loving yeti and seal pup

I got mine in Canada, but I think they deliver. look for Delux Animal Hats. Oooooooooh, amazon uk are doing them now!! http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=delux+animal+hats&tag=googhydr-21&index=aps&hvadid=7298186508&ref=pd_sl_12uwugfcgs_e Goat is also very cool. Avoid pig and elephant, too weird.

"to be specific I cant stand the hyperbole and load of football related old @#$%& that is spouted by otherwise wise and sensible folk" Mr Palelogogolgoglo, any excuse for this

these are pure class

Thinking about it, white satin probably doesn't do a knight much good when someone's swinging a spiked club at him.

Bless?d are the forumites indeed!! :D

was this what you ad in mind Brendan?