El Pibe

I'm a faceless keyboard warrior and so is my wife (who is an imaginary construct)

And spurs losing mwah hah hah.

Ya think?

Can we have woodrot do this http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iyLiTmERxvM/UAOs-_yA3uI/AAAAAAAAAGw/RkxZsvW3vvE/s1600/ernst_stavro_blofeld_copy_jpg-magnum.jpg

Anyway, the whole historical responsibility thing aside, surely the crux is that we generally alleviate want and poverty specifically where the government does neglect its responsibility. I'm sure there were many BITE types in the mid 80s farting on about how it wasnt our responsibility to do anything when Ethiopia had among the highest military spend as a proportion of GDP in the world. Technically they may well have been right but they'd have also been cunts. Nothings different if you ask me.

Not to mention it wasn't perfectly legal. The Chinese authorities specifically banned us from selling it, so we killed lots of their folk, blew shit up and forced a one sided humiliating treaty on them allowing us to sell them opium and ravage their society with destructive addiction as long as we stopped killing them and blowing shit up. I suppose you could call that technically legal, it I think a modern court might deem that coercion.

Or upload your photo to a dedicated hosting site like Flickr, and use the links to different sizes it provides rather than clog up the EDF sever?

You're right, two more of them, a Zim, an Irishman and the occasional kiwi generally helps.

This landed on my hydrangea this weekend, I took a snap as it took to the air, it was roughly the size of a london bus

I dipped a stem ginger cookie in my cup of tea and, on finishing the cuppa, have ended up with a mouthful of soggy crumbs, a strangely ambivalent sensation.

I guess now that it's all over we can get back to derisioning http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/society/legacy-launched-as-a-verb-2012081037869* *for everyone but strafer

Tulip Inn (3 star hotel) does apartments as well as rooms and is located at the top of zeedijk, handy for the centraal station and you're right in the heart of town. http://www.goldentulip.com/EN/hotels/Netherlands/Amsterdam/TI-amsterdam-centre-hotel-booking-room.aspx If you can break the bank the Pullitzer is lovely. http://www.pulitzeramsterdam.com/?PS=EAME_aa_Starwood_NWE-100_Google%20UK_pulitzer%20amsterdam_07/25/11

wonderfully bad taste, Hipster Hitler

Didn't someone try "Number Twenty Two Bus Depot" or somesuch?

I beg to differ, Pottas Bar Town FC won the Spartan South Midlands Football League and the Herts Senior County League in recent years.

This has been discussed before. It's not really commercially viable, but if someone is willing to put the time I too would appreciate it. I guess it also depends on how much functionality is done via externally accessible APIs. Admin?

Tell us again about Cleverly's reluctance to give the ball away, I'm on tenterhooks.

I think you may have taken my spittle flecked rant a little too seriously RD. I was, as in most things in life, being flippant. And yes, obviously it's not down to the intrinsic nature of a given sport and I think it's an accepted truism money has changed football. The IOC is a pretty unlikeable beast with billions swilling in the trough, hence why many, including myself, found the shameless jackbooted sponsorship enforcement left a somewhat bitter taste in the mouth, until those wholesome guys and gals who deigned to interact with Joe Public and looked like the person next door (because genreally they were, not holed up in some millionaires row) actually started winning stuff and we all momentarily lost our cynicsm. I'd actually argue that football's current success is a direct result of the loss of connection you describe. Glamour has to differentiate itself from the rest of us in order to be attractive, and I think it's the soap opera nature of it all that keeps the whole thing going. Funnily enough watching the handball final it's obvious that there are a million and one sports that can be nailbiting, get people passionate and come close to causing serious cardiac issues for the team coaches, but I realised that not all of them see billions of people poring over the minutea of those sports in the same way they do football over, as you say, 9 long months a year, and even discuss the sexual mores/antics of the players on the same par as the strategy and incidents on the playing field itself. You need something beyond that to keep the interest levels up, otherwise you might as well go down champion hill and discuss footie in the dry, knowleadgeable but soul achingly tedious manner of our mutual friend.

speaking of cockfests the first UDT u-turn, high handed dismissal and autofellation all in one post, outstanding work sir.

It is admittedly difficult to get enthused about the annual cockfest after seeing such wonderful examples of what can be achieved without agents or feigning injury every five seconds. Ask me in a few weeks when, for want of anything else to pointlessly avoid acknowledgement of the futility of existence with, I'll get sucked back in despite my better judgement, x-factor stylee.

wasn't there a breastcancer awareness thingy that was a bit like this?

http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php/103741-hey-guys!!-I-am-a-Newbie James is on the same site SJ

Is this some bizarre new meme?

I happily gave up on it after the milling about section. Funnily enough after the collective WTF from the rest of the world about the rather good, if self indulgent, opening ceremony, this time the world seems to have gone "spice girls, monty python and queen, brillliannnnnnt". Whizzing through FB this morning it seems to be about half and half between make-it-stop and it-keeps-getting-better, though the latter seems to be weighted heavily toward old school friend types I last saw bopping to Adamski at the Hermitage Ballroom in a bygone life.

To be honest, athletes meandering and generally having a chat seems to work quite well.