SeanMacGabhann

what, no "soss"?

Silverfox. You didn't do anthing wrong but smileys are derived from keyboard symbols and much software converts them to graphic smileys The most common is the wink smiley. A semi colon,hyphen and close bracket Try using different parantheses or adding spaces

The first time I made brownies at home and I saw exactly what went into them was an eye opener ? it?s one of those things which you instinctively ?know? but are able to dismiss. But when you are creating this pile of fat and sugar for consumption it?s a different story

Traffic report on BBC London said it reopened this morning

I can see this turning into a dialogue already - stop it! Ask admin...

I used spreadsheets as a word for exactly the reason Hal mentions - there are alternatives to excel (cheap-cum-free and good ones too) - but if the reason for netbook is portability then I would argue long and hard for a few extra ounces as a necessary overhead netbooks have purpose in life but beyond portable web browsing I'm not convinced what that might be. A decent, cheap and relatively light laptop is much more useful to my mind. Even if one was to go down a netbook with cheap software route, there are issues of (genuine) compatibility to think of. But it depends on the needs of the user. I'm no Microsoft apologist by any means and if I could get away with not using a Windows laptop I would - but work requirements mean I do need one. It's not the end of the world by any means

Last bit: the people you mock do exist, some of them exist on a simplistic plane JUST as you describe, and are mere oppositionists But they are relatively small in numbers and not worth the amount of time someone of your intelligence spends on them

I hope the geek massif acknowledge your mea culpa and reply My knowledge of netbooks is negligible alas. My gut feeling is that if Word and and Excel are needed in and of themselves (as opposed to SOME rudimentary WP and spreadsheet requirements) then they may be better of with a (not much more expensive) chheap laptop

You old smoothie you.. just watch the offers roll in with that talk

Many many people OTHER than Labour voters think his crime was winning 3 elections in a row - and SOME people are shouting "Tory cuts too far" but again, not all of them are lefties. Some of them are able to argue, from a right-wing economic perspective that the cuts go too far. Others are equally able to argue that the cuts need not be QUITE so draconian. The debt was in an already fairly manageable state compared with other countries (and also in a country that flourished many a time despite paying of the Marshall Plan debt between the 40s and 2000s) But hey, it's not you on the front-line of cuts is it? Not in quite the same way as most of those affected will be But, y'know, so long as you are happy making carictures of people on the left, let's not get too bothered- there is no other debate to be had apparently.

for someone SO keen to accuse a group of crass generalisations......

short answer: No that's not possible with the current software expat

But what a beautiful day to golf off a hangover eh?

That's rather the point - Quids HASN'T had any Stella For too long

Also worth pointing out it's as old as the hills - it's not Good obviously but no point harking back to an earlier era because people were flashed at then too, and perverts hung out in parks So be careful, but don't lose perspective

Although anyone coming alone hoping to meet Louisa shouldn't get their hopes up - the lady isn't for turning it would seem

I imagine a few hardy regulars will be there by 8 with people drifting in properly closer to 9 Football shouldn't be a problem - agnostics can drink in the back bar whilst people deluded enough to think the England game will be interesting in anyway (same for all teh other matches tonight)can watch in front bar with plenty of time after the game for mingling It's what the CPT does best!

But that is just the kind of empty rhetoric that lands us in trouble Mick When TB says we had to make a choice and either way there were consequences ? well, tell us what the choices and consequences are as you see them Tone Because you sure had a lot of people telling you what the consequences would be if you pressed ahead As for what the consequences would be if he didn?t go to war? I would guess pretty much the same as they would have been when we were using him as an ally. Or if 911 hadn?t happened, Bush wouldn?t have had the ?excuse? he needed to wrap up unfinished business and make fatuous links. He would stil be a brutal despot but if we are now in the business of getting rid of tyrants in broken states, there is a looong list, there always is, but it was only Sadaam that seemed to interest these two ? so whatever ?moral? reason there is for freeing Iraq, it isn?t transferable to other peoples apparently

I hate how in this country a story isn?t a story unless a ?name? is involved ? and even then it?s still not a story but it keeps everyone occupied for days Meanwhile there is a pretty serious investigation going on by the NYT and to a lesser extent the Guardian on the back of the previous NoTW telephone bugging issue ? the allegation now being that the police were in cahoots abou the whole thing. Which is pretty major but no personalities so hey ho? back to the carnival show

the video doesn't really show it's colours until a couple of minutes in but by the time the triple-rotation starts it's a bit of "oooh!" I'm surprised more peolpe haven't commented - on other sites it's causing a bit of interest - a few articles in the national papers as well

James I suspect if you take yourselves along to the forum drinks at Crystal Palace Tavern off Lordship Lane tomorrow evening you might be bought a drink or two as small consolation

Good point, well made Rosie

ITATM - it seems churlish to argue with you as now you have involved your mother - any argument I put forward will sound insensitive. But it doesn't mean that what you are saying proves anything

It wouldn?t matter ? eater81 isn?t interested in stats Hey wants to believe that we all go around with our fingers in our ear going ?lalalalalalaalaa ED is paradise, nothing wrong here lalalalalalalal? When the reality is we are going around with our fingers in our ear going ?lalalalalalaalaa living in any city in the world involves a degree of awareness about crime in cities but given that ED ain?t too bad at all if only chicken-lickens like that f***wit eater81 would do one lalalalalalalal? Imagine having him over for dinner ? you spend several hours cooking a meal and spends the whole time saying how rubbish it is, his mums food was better, people are starving in Africa, why are you being so Stepford Wife with your pretensions to cooking

There is no questioning the guy?s sincerity ? to my mind anyway. But that is also the same reason he worries me so much It all sounds so neat and agreeable when he says it you find yourself nodding along ?it?s only when you thnk ?hang on.?? To lift from the New Statesman TB ?I can say that never did I guess the nightmare that unfolded, and that too is part of the responsibility? Never did you guess? But why did you have to "guess"? Six of the country's top academic experts on Iraq and international security warned TB, in a face-to-face meeting in November 2002, that the consequences of an invasion could be catastrophic. Cambridge University's George Joffe, one of the six invited to Downing Street, got the impression of "someone with a very shallow mind, who's not interested in issues other than the personalities of the top people, no interest in social forces, political trends, etc". Meanwhile, the Joint Intelligence Committee warned TB in February 2003 that the threat from Al Qaeda "would be heightened by military action against Iraq". Similarly his conviction that Gordon junked New Labour policy and that's why Labour ended up in trouble is bunkum - Gordon was just as in thrall to the same policies - they had just been exposed for the unsustainable myth they were by his tenure