El Pibe

I'm not googling, so could be wrong, but I thought Ireland was part of the British Isles, hence why they initally objected to 'Great Britain' at the time of the union, because that implied just the greater island not the little island(s). But this could be from a fogged memory. I guess they object now because GB has coopted use of the term british as an exclusive political entity despite the fact that it predates the romans as an inclusive one.

Louis, surely that's the exception that proves the rule. A few thousand on an outcrop doesn't negate the other 65 million on the big rocks.

He was a terrible Chancellor. Obsessed with his own targets he cooked the books, funnelling too much into desperately terrible ppp/ppi deals we're stuck with for the next 20 years and once this was all brought on balance sheet absolutely shattering his spending targets. Basically he looked good because he presided over the good times and still managed to end up in the red. Decent man, I think so, decent Chancellor, no way.

they gave kim kardashian woman of the year, i can only think it was an exercise in irony.

Fog in Channel: Continent cut off

inflation plus promotion and an end to mismanagement hopefully, seems ok to me. And the football is twice as good as at stevenage for half the price...bargain!!!

oh im way less Spanish than british/english, as i said i feel more british than english, and feel a bit sad that that may be lost now. Though if i had to pick one it's obviosuly be english as you point out Otta; despite my mums side all being scotch type people, well them and the boche and yanks and stuff.

> I still get to be Irish, right? Thinking about it, I definitely feel British despite being an immigrant, I could probably describe myself as English as certainly that's where I've lived ahuge chunk of my life, where my opinions were formed, where I was mostly schooled. But I don't think I'd ever think of myself as Irish no matter how long I live here, and that seems to accord with how people feel about immigrants here.

works better than it should, GWAR do Billy Ocean

They Might be Giants do Tub Thumping

Major was nice. Although bonking Edwina must surely count as unstable.

You can be whatever you want to be SJ.

That's not to say Wales won't be independent again of course, i can see that happening. They may be overwhelmingly against the idea now, but historical momentum has a habit of being, well, momentous, or should that be moving?

What do we call ourselves once they do the frank? British as opposed to Britons was really coined for that union. A lot of people who considerd themselves British may struggle to think of themselves as English, especially if you're Welsh or Irish, neither of which are really full nations in the Union, the 'kingdom' of Ireland left ages ago and wales, well, that was conquered and absorbed 800years ago so never really feautured as part of the union anymore than say, shropshire. British was an idea, English smacks of that exclusivity thing, more easily defined and 'defended' by kippers, EDLers and the like. Ukish "Youkish"? rUKan?

"Do you have to Zonderlinger" :)

2tb would be plenty, I've hundreds ripped to lossless and it's about half a tb.

"but all these eastern European what are coming in....where are they flocking from" ermmmmm, is this QI, is Eastern Europe too obvious? If you're not paranoid and they really are out to get you then the cryptoPhone 500, a snip at three and a half k. http://www.popsci.com/article/technology/mysterious-phony-cell-towers-could-be-intercepting-your-calls

oh dear, vortexbox looked interesting but i've ruled them out for use of COMIC SANS GGRRRR AAAARRGGHHH!!!!!!

correct score % everton chelsea 0.0 newcastle palace 0.0 WHU southampton 0.22 man city stoke 0.22 (goddammit i almost went with that too!!) burnley man u 0.45 swansea w brom 1.32 qpr sunderland 5.74 villa hull 21.94 a pretty bad week for all!!!

squeezedbox another great alternative, seconded. bit pricier than Jongo A2, but bioth great for connecting up your existing equipment.

FT poll of polls interesting, there's almost a rhythm to it http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2a5bdce0-c4a4-11e3-b2fb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3CA3ctbpi

in fact if you give me the schema model i'll be happy to write it for you

is there a script you could run which effectively does that for any user that hasn't logged in for, say, 1 month, 6 months or something?

Strictly speaking nationalism is all about unifying a nation, its just that these days we're rather more aware at what cost that comes and how narrow or exclusive the concept of nation can be. Whats interesting here is that neither British nor Scottish nationalism is mutually exclusive, but I rather feel the brand that the SNP is peddling, is!!

quick look, yougov certainly narrowing as of the last couple of weeks!! some others less strident or even other way, but yep, certainly looking that way.