El Pibe

LEt's hope this thread has more sucecss than the somewhat shortlived http://www.flickr.com/groups/32662743@N00/discuss/72157594418772691/ based on the hugely popular

I found a new grey hair today.

Yeah, Mary Poppins, Harry Potter (whatever my feelings on the matter) Peter Pan are hugely iconic internationally, fair game for sure. A massive Winnie the Pooh under a blue ballon would have melted me in fond nostalgia!! I dunno, that NHS bit was still a bit "Kazakhstan Kazakhstan number one exporter of potassium! Other countries have inferior potassium."

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I think the point is to throw the audience a bone, not stroke your own. So Queen (monarch and band), Bond, Bean (not Sean, but vaguely amazed his recent ubiquity didn't pop up), Chariots of Fire, industrial revolution, bucolic myths, rich cultural post war heritage, internet all tick a million boxes internationally (however polarising some of them may be for a domestic audience) and we have plenty more to choose from. Like Jeremy I think a lighter touch on the NHS might have been more appropriate, But hey, a minor quibble on what was after all a good thing that could have been the usual awful fare as Bob said.

Well of course France would bang on about all those battles they lost, obviously ;-)

I rather enjoyed it too. Intersting hearing a discussion in the office going on behind me this morning between a frenchie, iranian and kenyan(indian). all three are mostly agreed that they enjoyed it, that they were mystified by most of it and the NHS bit, word for word quote on consensus: - yeah, i get it, theyre proud of the NHS, but why would anyone else in the world give a shit? It's from the horses mouth and impossible to argue with, it was a bit navel gazing wasn't it.

I do like old Fisky, he's entertaing, often asks important questions and has often got straight to the heart of the matter as a campaigning journalist. When he went to Lokheed Martin with the clearly identifiable shrapnel of one of their missiles that had hit a lebanese ambulance full of civilians dead or wounded in Israel's hideous little war of collective punsihment, armed with photos of the dead young girl exposing the brutish reality of so-called push-button warm, that was as good as it gets. He is however possessed of enormous ego, a tendency to blustering rhetoric, often loses perspective and does himself no favours with weird inaccuracies and surreal claims. I have to say that article was defintely in the latter camp. Whilst torture was most certainly and shamefully outsourced that's hardly news, these things we already know (and yes I'd love to see somebody in the west answer for those crimes). There is as yet no evidence (that I know, happy to stand corrected) specifically linking rendition and black prisons with the Syrian regime; though I admit it's at least likely in the scheme of things, he shouldn't be presenting it as fact. Also Syria and the Assads have most assuredly never been 'our baby' far far from it in fact. I actually think this article is hugely insulting those who have bravely stood up against tyrants for freedom for that is what the civil war is about*. There is nothing about this war that is about Iran, it's about a people toppling a bloody dictator. But of course all intersted powers are factoring their relationships with other middle eastern states and the interests of the balance of power in the region into their responses to the war, (that's us, the US, the Russians, Chinese, French, Germans etc etc etc) they'd be idiots not to So ultimately he's saying the obvious, littering it with irrelevant rhetoric and adding innaccuracies into the bargain. 2/10 Robert. *though the longer it goes on the more it'll be about the Syria that comes after it, there is a danger that the more it becomes a target for salifists and wahabists that like Iran an autocratic theocracy will be born of an struggle for democracy I fear.

How funny!! More convincing that the Iranian boycott threat over the logo spelling Zion anyway!

"Still the world getting together horrible tribal nonsense...." ;-)

The Stripper and Coke olympics, now that's something to get excited about!!!

"that wasn't 24 billion knocking around waiting to be spent on other things. A lot of that only "exists" because of the olympics." You've really lost me there!!!!!! Are you suggesting that the olympic organisers are printing money (or plucking it from the money tree)?

It is a leeeetle bit more that the promised ?2billion. Had the final bill been known I think the bid would have been totally derailed and the electorate would have said a big fat no in the face of austerity/recession considering the cuts that have lost real jobs and badly affected real lives. ?24 billion is a lot of investment in our communities rather than in a legacy of white elephants. Hell it's another three aircraft carriers complete with aeroplanes if that sort of thing floats your boat.* *baddamtish

plus you know....twenty .... four .... billion ... pounds .... that's a lot from the money tree isn't it .......

I sure I've been pretty consistent from the start that I'll quite like (some of) the sport and there'll undoubtedly be some great moments (though I doubt they'll come from the 10 metre air pistol 2nd round qualifier). I think what people may resent is this sense of enforcedf jovilaity, that somehow if you're not incredibly excited about it then you're some awful curmudgeon spoiling the party for everyone else. Some people really don't like sport you know quids and are probably entitled to have a bit of a moan about their inability to get home from the theatre of an evening or somesuch. Weirdly I thought part of the spirit of the olympics is about acknowledging and experiencing the diversity we have in the world. I for one embrace all londoners, sports fans and curmudgeons alike in a show of love and unity, even the curmudgeons whinging about curmudgeons.

Ha ha, couldn't keep it to yourself then?

Dragons blood is probably responsible for my system's inability to cope so well with super heat these days. :(

Shito's not actually that pokey, it's just sort of deliciously weird. It's more of an oily accompaniement than a sauce really.

Gervais! Shut it.

I've managed to get shito hot in sainsbos too. A sort of oily chili fishy weirdness. It's fab!! SOmebody got me this I'll be honest, the bottle is still mostly full. I fear my bonkers sauce days are behind me these days.

You can get tailors in sainsbos as it goes.

errrrmmm....

Sorry...you did ask though. I seem to recall in my ancestral memory somewhere that it has happened, but there's nothing regularly organised. Incidentally whilst having a little dig I unearthed that philippe croizon became the first quadruple amputee to swim the channel in 2010. Blimey, now that's quite something!!!!

veryseriousgirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > We did 2 weeks in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize - > spent the first week climbing around Mayan ruins, > then a week on the beach sunning ourselves and > snorkling on Ambergris Caye. > > No, I'm not married to El Pibe. :) No way, how cool is that!! A couple of highlights http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3115/2919708298_96b5601f14_z.jpg http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3001/2859705361_e357a10d03_z.jpg

I'll remember to attach the drumroll_snare.wav file next time shall I? ;)