El Pibe

And Blair didn't damage the institution of law...oooh no. I'll agree that Northern Ireland was his great legacy, though admittedly it was really the legacy of John Major, he just had a nice fat majority not to fuck it up too much. Funnily enough those cosy days of shoot to kill being somehow controversial seem to have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Shoot to Kill was responsible for a dozen or so killings if memory serves, Obama has killed thousands of people including US citizens in all sorts of jurisdictions on the most dubious of intelligence with protocols that say any male of a certain age in a certain area is basically fair game;whilst we kidnap to order and outsource torture, interrogation and extraducial killing, and noone seems to bat an eyelid any more. Depressing.

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careful what you wish for.

SHe may have been ghastly and polarising but I don't think she damaged the institurions of politics as such. She told a couple of porkies but deceit didn't underpin her principles of gov't. Compared to Blair (in this respect at any rate) she was a saint.

Out of curiosity, what's the definition for high and low functioning? Are they just synonyms for intelligent and stupid?

youtube comments make facebook look like the judaeo-arabic poetry of Al-Andalus.

Mind you when it comes to BLair I generally make up the extremes of the standard deviation. that you ignore, so feel free to do so. Yeah, it was a special meeting of minds for sure, a special breed of world weary cynicism doing the necessary dirty deeds to allow the one with bulletproof selfblief to pursue his holy mission. *shudders involuntarily*

I think as time wore on the Tories simply thought there was no opposition and they could do what they want, particulalry after Major (for goodness sake) won an election. New Labour felt that doing bad things wasn't worth resigning (or apologising) over because deep down they were you know morally good 'orses and that was the important thing. I do think Blair himself damaged and poisoned politics more fundamentally than any other single factor in the last thirty years.

Oh go on

I'm pretty sure that's the very definition of misrepresentation in advertising, aren't there laws etc...

99% of my usage of lady is similarly "don't run that lady over with a scooter Pibi?o" I am evil, evil!!

"not worth bothering" != "not worth getting worked up about"

maybe. A quick look and of the first six items: 2 are status updates from forumites, one being cute about her kid, one doing his usual polemic about bankers (though it was funny), one self inflicted spam (ruggerbeez that my kid goes to, you have to like their page to see a pic of your kid getting his didn't-you-do-well high five from the lady coach with the lovely bottom) three are corporate links, probably from accidental likes by my friends. Salesforce...who would 'like' salesforce on purpose, Tough Mudder UK (?!?!) and ShiteShirts (you know who you are!!!) ;-P

Just when I think this screwed up world can't surprise me, I read this (in someone else's linky) about cambodia's ersatz orphan industry. http://www.movetocambodia.com/working-in-cambodia/volunteering-in-cambodia/

Yeah, the gumpf in the google play/istore update will probably say, "vastly improved performance, now you can do x with y like never before" when what it should really read is "now your app will be littered with spam and it is now almost impossible to scroll without accidentally requesting a spam mail or liking something you wouldn't touch with a barge poll much to your friends' amusement"

I'm amazed anyone curious enough to check their klout is capable of having a score of one, I thought you should probably get more than one ust for trying as a sort of metabonus. I reckon try your off button, if you have one you're probably not real, and in a bit of a bind getting yourself turned on, especially if you are in fact the mainframe that runs this artificial construct we call existence; on second thoughts fageddaboutit and get yourself something nice on amazon, then review th vendor, that should double your score right there.

Mick Mack, it probably means you haven't updated your facebook app. Don't!!!

In all fairness bob is right, there's a tendency among most facebook users to accept all friend requests in order not to look rude, even if they're simply old colleagues, people at school you never even talked to then or that bloke down the pub with a wooden leg. I did a bit of a cull but most of them refriendrequested? (meaning of course I HAD offended them in so doing). The strealthy way of doing it is to edit the updates you're interested in from that person. I'm now untroubled by all those awful mawkish pictures of babies with freakish ailments or youtube clips of music I don't like (same can't be said of those damn corporate likes ads though). Weirdly enough some of those people I didn't like at school have turned out to be really interesting grown ups, and I'm sure there are plenty of them who have muted my incessant bleating about the fluff from my navel. Of course with the ignore button gone on here you lot are screwed....mwa hah ha haHAAHAHAHAH

I guess if we're talking cultural deprecation then the gender specific taxonomic aspects are irrelevant, and gentleman should go the way of Asset's lady. I would never describe myself as a 'gentleman' that would be patently absurd, not to mention utterly pretentious, like putting esquire after your name. However as a polite term of reference in the third person in a semi formal situation such as 2 service employees within earshot of a customer "can you serve the gentleman/lady", I think it's actually better than the rather functional man/woman and infinitely preferable to sir, which I do object to and have to try hard not to do the old schtick about 'that's what my teacher blah blah'. Asset's opinion is perfectly acceptable but I don't think it's really something worth getting worked up about from any direction.

"Guys, there is a god. I pray to him continuously." Perfect example of begging the question, I'll remember that next time I need to explain the term.

It was BBW's humour that got him a long stay of execution several times and meant he was indulged with many alter egos against the rules. He'd always blow it though and come out with something utterly offensive, he just couldn't help himself. *the above text is held on a moderator access online dropbox for fucking tediously repetitious easy reproduction. Let it lie for god's sake.

I don't think it'll go under. Jamie gets rental income from the flats above. I guess it just doesn't get enough revenue in the week. I think it's a great proper local, but I'm just as responsible as I rarely get to go out during the week. As long as it's still there for a pint of a weekend and during the six nations I'm still happy. I'm thinking of doing a one night a week restaurant in Ireland in a couple of years, that way you can have a go at something you enjoy without letting the business take over your life, so perhaps it just suits their lifestyle.

Man is one of our old saxon/norse imports. See also Old Swedish, Dutch, Old High German 'man', German 'Mann', Old Norse 'ma?r', Danish 'mand', Goth 'manna'. It was a universal term for a person, and I quote: "Sense of "adult male" is late (c.1000); Old English used 'wer' and 'wif'* to distinguish the sexes, but wer began to disappear late 13c. and was replaced by man." *whence we get wife.