SeanMacGabhann

OK - just finished "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy, which like the moview Requiem for a Dream, I can recommend but have a stiff drink handy Anyone else read this - I'm keen to discuss

How could I forget Sufer Rosa - Pixies

Is this romantic or not? I can't decide... Awww...........

The next time I go on a single-malt session I'm going to do it properly and not after several bottles of wine and half a keg of lager [oh the horror] But I like your selection MrBen :)-D

Low - Bowie

Shame it's reset your post-counter to zero tho' . . . . . . .. . . . .. . . . . .. . . . .[Made you look, made you stare....]

Picture of That Man Blair in the Guardian today at a Hong Kong speech - he looked well rough. Speech didn't go down to well either

The cloak of anonymity is a ruse - we all know he's grounded really ;-)

Much as I don't like him I find myself increasingly impressed with Jamie Redknapp's analyses on Sky - certainly compared to other pundits Why ARE UK football pundits (on any channel) so baaad

I didn't know you liked Neko Case Mockney? ;-)

I won't even mention the horror of Irish dentistry in the 70's

a 12 year old Laphroig for young Brendan methinks

Indian restaurants tend not to be open/staffed before 5 or 6pm so I'm not THAT surprised....

heh heh - Cheers Simon I'm not suggesting that people don't need cars and therefore should give them up. What I'm suggesting is that car-owners deal with the fact that other people have cars too. Infinite growth but finite space. There is no right to a space on the street where they live. Why can't I cordon off my square metres and have a little garden. Nope, just for cars apparently As a rule people who own DVD players of refrigerators are pretty relaxed about who else has one ;-) As for "needing" cars - based on all the available evidence* let's be honest. Most people who say the need a car because of where they work versus where they live would never, in a million years, actually live closer to work and use public transport. Because it's not need, it's desire. And that's fine so long as they realise the problem they are complaining about is caused by them * ie my opinion The spread of cars was certainly a powerful liberating force once upon a time. But we are past that now surely? Again, my main point is where is it going. Fast forward 5-10 years and where do people think this is going to go? How many more cars on your street? Where do you park then? How much will petrol/congestion charges/other dissuasions have to cost before people try a plan B? Far from liberated, drivers appear to be endlessly upset with othe people (other drivers, Gordon Brown, Shell, speed cameras) I constantly hear people bleat on about the congestion charge with an argument that goes: "I live on the edge of the congestion zone but my newsagent/florist is just inside - so it costs me ?8 to buy a newspaper!!!! Outrageous!" Not as outrageous as the person getting off their fat arse and walking the hundred bleedin yards obviously... Anyway, that drink..... ;-)

I'm eating light this lunchtime in prep for the impending pre-forum-drinks curry...... mmmmmmmmmmm

Leaving aside Lawro's innate pessimim (he wasn't always like that BTW - when he played for the Republic he was quite hapy to have a pop at goal from 50 yards several times a game such was his youthful optimism) he might be onto something Several draws on the trot, coupled with spirited but less than glamorous football suggest a dose of realism has descended upon the team. Over the season that might work in our favour but for now I can se Monday's game being a draw as well. Of course it might be a watershed as well but I'm a leeeetle bit nervy. Anyway: Derby 0-2 West Ham Liverpool 3-0 Fulham Sunderland 1-1 Newcastle (forgot this was on.. juicy) Birmingham 1-2 Aston Villa Bolton 2-2 Middlesbrough Chelsea 1-1 Everton Man Utd 3-1 Blackburn Portsmouth 2-1 Man City Tottenham 2-0 Wigan Reading 0-1 Arsenal

Zookeeper has paled next to the tile-swapping magic that is Puzzle Quest (Ds and 360 versions)

OMG - I am so slow... it has only just dawned on me why Annasfield has that username.....

cheers Mike - otherwise I would be all 6s and 7s

Whilst I totally agree, I am going to go out on a limb and say.... it don't mean jack. I am going to say that if I pile my bin high with newspapers and cans I am not going to get "done". Some inspectors are doing some work out there but unlike (say) smoking, or speed cameras they don't have enough of a mandate to persevere with this policy...

elsie: if Foxtons's cars were there all day, would any houses/flats be sold by them??? No. So we can assume that like "shoppers" (moral superiority implied) that those cars get moved all day too Simon, I love your posts but the statement: How do their actions constitute selfish, inconsiderate, cynical, anti-social and "wrong" compared to any almost other driver??? you glibly dismiss "car culture" but don't, in any way whatsoever, back up your statement. Tell me, how does the over-abundance of cars on the suburban street contribute positively to our lives?

MW74 You're point will carry more weight when your spill-ung is sorted! I don't agree that LL has got THAT bad, but I know what you mean. But adding an AB1 is so far from solving the problem...

Sometimes a cup of Russian Caravan is just the thing, mouse, but usually English Breakfast (string) with a smidge of milk and one sugar - laaahvly ;-) (oops we are now off topic and will be banished to The Lounge - so...) Now that you have the had the cup of tea and calmed down (kids bathed and washed?) on a more practical, and non Foxton's if we can help it, note what do we think the car situation will be in 5-10 years time? (sorry mouse, open question, not aimed at you) Apart from scaring the drokk out of me (but then I have just finished The Road by Cormac McCarthy and am in that sort of mood) I am almost intrigued how far society will go over the cliff before, Wile E Coyote like, going "gulp"

mouse - sorry if that was a bit harsh. I meant to say something at least about struggling home from work on a dark, dank evening with kids in tow and offer some sympathy - honest! But my general point still stands. Society as a whole, and individuals who I love dearly, still haven't grasped that the reason for so many cars and lack of parking and cost of petrol etc isn't because of a dodgy new neighbour, the new family in the street or a largeish new estate agents - it's everyone's dependance on cars. And I stress again that some people do need cars so I'm not having a go at you for driving (honest - was that one sugar or two for your tea) but that MOST people just like having cars and don't need them, taking up all the space that could be available to others Foxton's are a very visible manifestation of car culture but their fault, it ain't

Keef in one of his more chilled moods today methinks ;-) I've become hot and bothered in the past about this but have adopted Keef's advice and chilled. But when people open a thread even tho there is at least one other within 5cms away from them on the screen I don't hold much hope for that person...