El Pibe

I have to say I rather like the forum for it's lack of social networking links and mechanisms for interjecting opinion or preference. T'Interweb is rather too awash with this sort of thing and the relative simplicity of the EDF is one of its strengths that seems to be standing the test of time as it fails to cast an envious eye at the showy widgets that aflict other sites. It forces people to opine/interact through language alone rather than recourse to the lazy ubuiquity of the +1, ▲, like, share or whatever else. There is always the (tu) or POTW I guess.

Sorry UDT, otta is far from having a siege mentality and has often been the first to criticise Liverpool or hold his hands up and say fair enough. It was you who decided to bring a number of Liverpool comparisons in this discussion on Balotelli. In this you are quite simply wrong. In the wider context of the discussion I can honestly say I can't give a flying toss. The histrionics of a bunch of overpaid idiots has ceased to have any relevance or interest to me.

Very good. There's some big update released yesterday for it on Xbox apparently. I'm quite enjoying Beat Sneak Bandit on the iPad at the moment.

Me and two friends got taunted on Paulenar a couple of years back when it was on a twoferone deal. All three of us had the hangovers form hell the next day. On the whale German beers are more forgiving the next day in my experience, but none of us have ever gone near a bottle of Paulener again!

Fair point about the battles, you were rather mentally hurrying him to the denoument! I do love stood bit of cyberpunk, I grew up with William Gibson. Am trying snowcrash. I've read some of Neal Stephenson's stuff, another chap with ideas everywhere but struggles with plot and pace. So far Cryptonomicon was his best novel that I've read. anathema was a bit clunking in its allegory but I enjoyed it nevertheless. I do like the fact that Snowcrash looks thin after his other tomes!

bah, missed.

...of course you don't need to know what you're talking about. In lieu of actual facts or deductive reasoning, I suggest one of these: http://infobeautiful2.s3.amazonaws.com/rhetological_fallacies.png

...yes, it was an inside job. In fact it my surprise you to know that admin wrote the Elders of Dulwich in original lizard.

...not really, and your issues with smugness/children/queues at butchers reveals more about your own inadequacies and failures than it does anything else.

I admire your stance razors, especially when you holiday in Spain and spurn the company of your fellow couintrymen and speak only Spanish (or whatever dialect or language they speak in the bit you go to). Good for you! Muy bien hecho.

?Que gilipollas es navajas!

...no they're not lower or more frequent, you're just grumpy this morning and noticing them more.

It was curry's MrBen, it was that or white. Suprisingly easy to clean, though you might want to discuss your feelings about scouring pads with the missus before the damage is done

David Mitchell draws plausible parallels between the heyday of amateur sport and today's obsession with talent shows. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/01/david-mitchell-past-sporting-heroes

...yes, absolutely that man alone in the park is a rapist/paedophile/terrorist/all three, you were right to phone 999 then point and scream with a deadened look in your eyes. Fourche on lordship lane does a nice line in Orla Keily pitchforks with a beautiful tiling detail on the reclaimed teak handle.

Unfortunate juxtaposition of sentences there D_C!!!!

Janner Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A deep fried bad apple! (tu)

...No, Waitrose will not be opening anything on Lordship Lane.

4/10

I got one from Currys for ?600 and it has served the test of time ths far. In fact it was the brushed steel version of this http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/kenwood-ck414-dual-fuel-range-cooker-stainless-steel-and-black-06273932-pdt.html 90cm dual fuel http://brain.pan.e-merchant.com/2/3/06273932/l_06273932.jpg

Finally finished Embassytown (I only get to read on my ten minute commute, assuming I don't bump into people, which is about 40% of the time) and have to disagree. I think, like City & the City, that he knew exactly where it was going. I thought it his best book yet, reminiscent of the golden age of sci-fi, all about ideas, his hints at the exotic and alien nature of the world far more effective than the modern hard-sf/space opera trend for explaining everything. I also like to think it's a book that people who'd ordinarily avoid SF could approach. The themes were very human, how and why do we communicate, how did language evolve, how vision and deceit are intertwined. It was also a great essay in societial reaction to existential threats, sketching impressions of Downfall Berlin but hinting at the ecological/end of fossil fuel stresses we face in future. But it was the thoughts about language that really stand out*. My jaw dropped when he was talking about the universailty of thatness in language as my two year old is expressing everything in those terms. Pibi?o expressing complex thoughts come out as *points* "pibi?o's this one, pibi?o's not this one" as he can understand much but fumbling toward the faculties necessary to express it, just like the ariekine on realising they share unspoken thought. Anyway I drivel on. Consider this one recommended. *admittedly he muses more towards the end and the pacing dropped a bit, perhaps that's why you thought he was doing his bas-lag meandering.

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lucky you went for the 'i' version. The 'a' version falls foul of the swearyfilter. Twonk is a forum favourite for that purpose.

You're just typing in symbols aren't you. I can tell as you can actually say naff if you want, as long as you pronounce off as orrrf in your head ;)

are trains ok?