El Pibe

the bill and ted evil bots?

R2D2? screw=restraining bolt, he broke probably every imperial security protocol around.

you might enjoy this MM http://sport.bt.com/video-01363814401986?videoid=2619324211001 the chap on the right is an old mate of mine. brighty's 'misunderestimate' is a gem too.

It is the proverbial cluster isn't it. Every possible move is fraught and will have repurcussions far removed from the ideal results that any international action would like. Having said that, even limited strikes on command and control could begin to persuade the regime to soften its stance, though the likelihood is tiny. I guess the ideal, given the state of affairs, would be for a coup to remove Bashar and create a space where negotitaions could ensue.

Well if all the bloody nimbies didn't keep whinging about the noise/bird strikes we wouldn't have to build them all offshore at double the cost and half the lifespan....grrrr

The fields behind sainsburys are usually good.

in fact this seems to be now a forum navel gazing exercise so perhaps it will be moved....

nice post, I tend to think we get exactly the football clubs we deserve.

Bender the Robot?

p256, it's not so much that there's no moderation, it's just offtopication seems to have reduced significantly as a concern over the years, and is pretty much accepted practice everywhere but the main thread. In the main thread these days it just needs to vaguely stay on local issues rather than on topic per se, depending on the seriousness of the thread (ie there'll be a lower tolerance threshold on, say, the local councillor thread than on one about, say, blue bins in general turning into all bin/council/fox related gripes.

Sheemy's previous alterego was a classic case of the world saying it quacked like a duck, so obviously the world is wrong and full of bullies for ganging up on bleating on about bloody ducks!!

I can't even parse point 1, but on your second point, finding the smoking gun won't happen if that's what they're looking for. Do you even remember the un inspections of all those bread queue massacres and so forth that used to happen in Sarajevo, the Serbs got to the point where they could safely lob some mortars in from some disputed neighbourhood and the UN would say nothing could be conclusively proved which would inevitably get reported in the press as speculation that the muslims were shelling their own. THe red line had already been nicknamed the thick red line, and there's no stomach for it in the US, so this would likely result in a few tomahawks, and that only if the US can calm the Russians down. It certainly won't be enough to shift any balance of power given that it took a committed 7 month long air campaign to topple a much weaker regime in a less complicated internal conflict with a much simpler operating terrain and much less sophisticated AA capability. To me it seems far more obvious that if the jihadists are gassing rebel ares that this will result in Syrian rebels turning on them, they having the greater numbers and the local knowledge, ESPECIALLY given that's *exactly* what happened in Iraq, and that was provoked by a bit of high-handedness and a couple of zealous summary executions in the street. A willingness to bellieve a brutal secular governement that has massacred tens of thousands and employed murderous militias wouldn't do it but 'jihadists' would just sounds like the usual Islamophobia to me.

Oh great it is me. If spelling things out pedantically whilst trying not to be too patronising is bullying then colour me, erm, whatever colour bullying is! Magenta?

"I don't understand, why would Syria carry out a chemical attack on its own people at the same time it has invited weapons inspectors into the country?" Probably because there's very little chance of them finding anything conclusive, especially if they're obstructive, but better than no letting them in when it looks increasingly like inaction will bring retaliation. I'd have though a better quesdtion, given tha most ''opposition groups'' are based around neighbourhood defence, is why anyone would rain nerve agents down on their own families. Plus given the apparent widespread distribution of chemical shells to army units, I'd have thought a decision to use them could have been made at a pretty low level, you don't need a nuclear football to shove a 100mm shell in an artillery piece.

Naaa both N and S have a really big city, but total sq mileage is much smaller in the N. Simple maths equation really ;-) Alan Medic Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Surely Geography No.2 Q.5 is more to do with > history than geography.I like the English > composition options. Quite a variety. Are exams > anything like this now?

fantastic, an enthusiastic fan has videoed the games and made the goals available to the website. Having a 1 and 3 year old in tow, I managed to miss 2 of the four goals, so bravo. http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/videos/dulwich-hamlet-3-v-1-carshalton-athletic-goal-by-mathieu-boyer-on-the-2482013-43231.html http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/videos/dulwich-hamlet-3-v-1-carshalton-athletic-goal-by-erhun-oztumer-on-the-2482013-43232.html The second one is a doozy. In fact it was a pretty good game though the second half lagged under the monsoon conditions. Anybody know if the striker was ok as he was stretchered off then carteed off in an ambulance. ok, found it, ouch http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/dulwichhamlet/news/ottaway-injury-latest-1022738.html

does long john silver have a sister? (never read the book)

Top post Penguin! *quietly wonders if I am 'E'* Totally lost by SJ's cryptic clues, should it have been in the Who Am I Game thread?

Mine were pretty shoddy too mxxi, the old order restoreth. Nice to know that 0% predicted the cardiff score. only 0.26% got even the right result!!!

Rhinestone cowboy.

He was definitely intellectual and confrontational, but he was no bully, nor did he regard himself superior. For the most part he was just in a different time zone with a couple of bottles of wine inside him ;) I miss him too. *though he did at least lurk last week!!*

wow, great guess Otta, you're getting the hang of this!!

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longer term resident than he realised, he was far from dull.

An all time favourite fictional character, nay, tv series. right, give me a mo.