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most of them it's at least a couple of weeks before you go. Lots of info here http://www.nathnac.org/ds/c_pages/country_page_IN.htm

You can't kill Gaston!! unless it's the aformentioned invader btw, the article suggests fixing a stocking o yoiur nozzle with a rubber band, then hoovering them up into that rather than the hoover itself, as a humane way of removing them

Were they bollarded by Antony Gormley?

In fact 'a' and 'an' are correct in this instance. I'm do feel tha 'an' is a bit pompous though, and agree it only sounds ok if you're dropping that aitch.

The new pikmin in for the wiioo or whatever it's called got fab reviews.

having 'popped in' to Ikea the other day I can testify to it being exactly like I imagine purgatory to be. I didn't bother with the quiz, I'm still too traumatised.

lovely http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome

So on the one hand you're telling me that I'm a hypocrite trotting stuff out for my credibility, and on the other I'm (tellingly) taking it personally. You're funny quids.

I received no grants.

It's kind of like the smoking gives you cancer thing isn't it. You've the extreme denialists who say it's a conspiracy by gov't/scientists to hike up taxes and so they can tell you what to do. There's the 'my grandad had 30 a day and never go it' denialists, who may or may not get cancer but if they don't are statistically exceptional. There's those that just don't think about the future and consequences at all And of course there's those who are just too addicted to give it up. The world mostly falls into the latter camp. Is the world better or worse off for some people trying to force the use of expensive electronic cigarettes that just about sate an addiction, but can't really fix things, yet don't pollute the system as much (yeah my analogy is stretching thin here), or should we all just puff madly until we're dead telling anyone trying to give up that they're fools?

I didn't say it was easy but I do believe that spending money to do something about it while we have the chance is infintely preferable to going 'ooh look at me, I'm pragmatic, noone else is doing anything and it costs money so we shouldn't do anything' Nice of you to be so condescending to anyone who actually thinks doing something is desirable by dismissing them out of hand as 'left', 'liberal' and/or 'right on' all equally derogatory terms doubtless. I still can't work you out as you're a clever well informed chap. I know you like to have a bit of an alterego on here, but this one's too consistent to be artifice. So, either you're a climate change denier, which makes you an idiot, or you know full well it's true, but you think that spending money on it isn't worth doing which makes you selfish, or you beleive that somehow living hypocritically whilst trying to do what one can to overcome this huge inertia is actually a greater sin than not doing anything about it, which makes you dangerously solipsitic. For the record no flights for a while, and yes in building a house we've spent about triple the budget for a standard build of an equivalent property on eco right-on elements to the house such as air tightness, insulation and solar thermal, pv and biomass energy. So yes I've put my money (to the tune of hundreds of thousands) where my mouth is, what are you doing about it apart from campaigning to leave the financial burden in increased energy costs/investment and huge food price rises, as the climate wipes out crops with increasing ferocity, to our grandchildren. Have you been drinking the denial juice with the Cuadrilla folk again?

mcg was an oddbod. actually a nice enough fella who could contribute to a debate, but a short fuse, terrible bass youtube uploads, and some very big shoulder-based chips were his undoing. ...that and the concerted campaign enlisting hackers to break the forum with DoS attacks and the like....

So screw the 22nd century climate for the sake of the 21st centruy economy? Nice. Baby boomer debt will have nothing on the debt we leave future generations then. Those Amazonian loggers gotta make a living too you know!!!

lots of water, pooh* and wanting to die usually does it for me. *the verb, obviously not the noun. stay away from fruit and have dull carbs (bread and rice) once you can stomach it, no flavour. No miracle cure I'm afraid, that said people bang on about nettle tea as helping somehow.

my bad, I thought you were being snippy, not getting in the spirit of things :) knee jerk reaction to 7 years of overly sensitive folk with green ink!!! (cripes has it been that long!?!?!)

katanita, we probably need a crib sheet page of forum in jokes..... http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?5,279511,279511#msg-279511

"What's with the Stars & Stripes and fist salute?" My first thought was Black Panthers ironically.

What bawdy-nan said. Love or hate any art it'll brighten up your hum-drum existence even if it just gives you something to grumble about. There is of course no right answer artwise, one man's pipe isn't necessarily another man's pipe.

The dangers of social media http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/what-happened-when-ryanair-boss-michael-oleary-went-on-twitter-for-live-qa-he-crashlanded-spectacularly-8895204.html personal favourite: "?Tried to send you a question on Twitter but it ended up on Facebook instead. Still, by your standards that?s close enough.?"

Just in case people were wondering

I've always wanted to head south.

terrible run-out attempts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JsIJ2JNvBQA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PARnWE1JZVU

Perhaps they changed their policy after my telling them what I though of them ;) This was their technical engineers btw

wot otta said. As per article I many snatches of mobile play. Currently doing cutesy tower defense(sic) Kingdom Rush and old skool RPGer Avernum on iPad

like anything there'll be contention at certain times of the day, down to about 6-7Mbit at peak times, but I regularly get 30-45 at other times of the day. As long as it's working well then no probs, though the customer service leaves a bit to be desired when it's not so hot. We were two wekks without it after they did some work in the area as they don't do weekends!!