El Pibe

I take it it didn't happen like this in the end?

only a smidgeon over ?6-12 then huh?

FUnny, i have another friend who said the same thing Otta. He just suddenly realised what an utterly loathsome character Peter was and couldn't watch it any more. I love it, and Brian was a particular favourite, but apparently the writing team have been reinvigorated by the possibilities of shaking it all up a bit more, so hopefully it'll all be for the best. Sue.....he's not real!!!!

bah, i would indeed be in the lead :(

Anyone playing Terraria? Basically 2D minecraft meets diablo (though I'm only playing solo at the mo) As usual one's own paltry efforts are rubbish compared to everyone else on t'interweb http://www.naughtynathan.co.uk/images/TerrariaCastleDouble.jpg (that's everyone else, not one's own obviously) http://www.kokorogames.com/2012/11/terraria-from-duh-to-awesomeness.html

yes alice, hence why the west end had 1900 crimes per 1000 population. I'm not sure that's skewing the figures though is it? It does give the absolute figures too, which are also absurdly high even if it's less residential.

I do love them, but not at those prices. Good luck to them I say, Jones' comment made me chuckle and it wouldn't surprise me if it was true. I doubt any of them are especially minted from their endeavours. Apart from Palin and all those travel books....

and vaguely reassured by your England's Slow Starts post http://datacollator.blogspot.co.uk/2013/03/englands-dodgy-starts.html

fascinating stuff

In fairness it's been marginally more singingy and marginally less patomimey the last couple of years, but that still a 1:5 ratio!!

great, if i hadn't had the scores not saving week I reckon I'd be within a whisker of the lead. bah humbug etc.

Did Tessa Jowell have nothing to do with Yellow Cake too? I reiterate, Yellow Cake for dirty bombs and TESSA JOWEL have nothing to do with each other apparently, YELLOW CAKE, TESSA JOWELL. nothing to do with each other

There are fish door to door salesmen, I used to get a regular supply from them at my old gaff

oh how lovely, am at work so will have to wait til i get home

Oooh, just got circular saying Mary Hampton playing the Ivy House, I take it that's your doing sue/goose?

:D

In truth taper i was just pursuing a philosophical point. Though blatantly ignoring red lights and zebra crosses does make me see red (baddam-tish) there are of course in reality pragmatic strategies for self preservation that bend rules. Pre-empting seems entirely sensible to me. Again with the pavements/danger thing, god knows I've actually had to take a step back when waiting to cross a road thanks to bus mirrors actually overhanging the pavement, so I can see why you'd get the hell out of the way of danger. Some bus drivers are lunatics and are a peril to all other road users!!

I'm not victim blaming, quite the opposite. The theory put forward was that it was the mavericks who are surviving, so in fact I was blaming the mavericks, not the victims, who by implication are obeying the rules of the road. I hold cycling mavericks and drivers who drive selfishly, aggressively and dangerously with equal contempt, though from a legal standpoint, punishment should certainly be worse for those in cars as they're the ones who'll end up killing people.

"The idea that red light jumping by cycling can be blamed for agressive driving is abhorrent" I've no idea why, seems blindingly obvious. "The rules on the highway are designed to restrict the movement of heavy and dangerous vehicles, not cyclists." And there we have the classic quibble, they're not meant for me so I won't obey, and then you find abhorrence when not everyone agrees with you. My dad thought that satrean rationalism meant that sex outside of marriage was prefectly acceptable as long as love wan't involved, then was staggered when my mum had enough of his philandering and divorced him. 20 years later he's still bemused by her behaviour because he's right. People's ability to justify their own behaviour with indignation never ceases to amaze me.

Maybe, maybe not. Not everyone is killed by an aggressive/careless driver, but there are more aggressive/careless drivers out there, some of them will be so as a result of cyclists. there was a great post on it at the beeb a while back by a psychologsist from Sheffield University. Cyclists offend the moral order "Now cyclists reading this might think ?but the rules aren?t made for us ? we?re more vulnerable, discriminated against, we shouldn?t have to follow the rules.? Perhaps true, but irrelevant when other road-users see you breaking rules they have to keep." Just because you find a truth offensive doesn't make it less true. Negating the rules that are there for everyone cause a downward spiral whether you like it or not. They make society worse. Those rules are there to promote order across the board, if a section of society decides they don't apply to them then that order suffers entropy which means more chaos as a result. So yes, anyone who disobeys the laws of the highway contributes to the fall out.

we've miserably failed there then, a whole thread in their honour!!

Entirely plausible, thing is they're the ones causing all the anger and resentment and making some drivers behave more aggressively and other's more carelessly, whilst yet others are now ignoring zebra crossings and the like completely. If so, their safety is at the cost of injuries and lives of others.

and there you have it, the troll as the (self-defined) brave outcast upsetting the cosy status quo.

Waterford airport used to have that arrangement ianjm. Very useful for the whole liquids nonsense at airport security. You simply handed your half finished coffee to the staff in the airport foyer side and they gave it back to you in the departure lounge. In fact thinking about it old Southend airport used to do it too (if you asked very very nicely).

I like the sound of that. Ernest Cline likes it apparently so I'm sold.