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I can't believe they showed an ad for them during Countdown. Most teachers I know actively encourage Countdown...

I watched Narcos. Excellent series, quite depressing though but it totally justifies the case for all the high tech surveillance we have now

Surely the pirate ship has some peg-legs and eye-patches?

I went to a Catholic Midnight mass years ago. I was a sober teenager and the church was packed with drunks and prams. On leaving there was a set of false teeth on the floor (I bet his/her Xmas lunch was tricky). I was going to go to the old St. Barnabas one some years later and mentioned this to someone who launched into a massive tirade about people who never go to church during the year and then take all the spaces on Christmas Eve....so I did not go- went to the Clockhouse instead, (before Tessa and her ridiculous music license stopped the carols there) and have been using the pubs ever since.

second childhood?

Jim the chin is right about the behaviourial aspects- the Smoky Joe's at my school was where all the 'cool' kids hung out- it's where I had my first fag and there was a certain camaraderie around handing out fags, giving a light....not helped by '50s films and subsequent advertising. I saw my first vaping ad yesterday and was taken aback... who could resist http://vaping360.com/uk-shows-first-vaping-adverts-tv/

What's the difference between a nun and a woman in the bath? One of them has a soul full of hope, the other has a .....

Reading Private Eye is the way to go.....

The man single-handedly ruined English football.....

People who buy a fancy 'prestigious' car, park it in the road and then moan when something is stolen off it, or it is damaged. Don't they take the cost of these 'inconveniences' into account? I know I do- living around here

Try this one then....http://www.livestrong.com/article/192268-the-effects-of-nicotine-on-the-cardiovascular-system/ It might explain why a relative had to have his legs amputated due to smoking, and another relative who brought the wrath of a gynaecologist down on her when her baby was born small for dates because a quarter of her uterus blood supply was severely compromised. It was shown many years ago that nicotine is as addictive as heroin http://www.nytimes.com/1987/03/29/magazine/nicotine-harder-to-kickthan-heroin.html?pagewanted=all I personally have great sympathy with people trying to give up. E-cigs are less harmful as they contain about 90% less carcinogens that have been found in ordinary fags but should not be advertised at all for the reasons that the OP said. Smoking related diseases cost the NHS billions and in the 70s 80s and 90s there was a massive drive in junior and secondary schools to deter smoking. However, judging by the smoking habits of the Poles and spaniards that I know, this education did not extend much beyond these shores, and our efforts may be wiped out in the NHS.

Lowlander- did you not read this bit...First, each time new nicotine arrives in our brain it causes the body to activate its fight or flight stress defenses. This in turn causes the immediate release of stored fats into the bloodstream, fats intended to be used to provide the instant energy needed to either fight or flee the saber tooth tiger. But there is no tiger The extra food we consumed during our big meals each day was converted to fat and stored. It was then pumped back into our bloodstream with each new puff of nicotine. It's how we were able to skip meals and what causes many of us to experience wild blood sugar swings when trying to quit. In fact, many of the symptoms of withdrawal - like an inability to concentrate - are due to nicotine no longer feeding us while we continue to skip meals.

To balance out my ma-in-law who had 4 girls and 1 boy...Wahl is good

I bet it's got nothing on the screaming kids you get in junior school playgrounds these days- I swear we weren't allowed to scream at the top of our lungs back in the day

I was coming back on a 185 and a bunch of Spaniards were trying to get off the crowded bus and ended up climbing over the people on the seats.....no-one seemed to notice.

This link explains the effect of nicotine itself. http://whyquit.com/whyquit/LinksJBlood.html

I think I meant the 12 bus now

I get the 176 bus to Selfridges and get a NY authentic there and bring it back

I'm the same- I think it's because all the madness starts on the 1st of November and I shut it out of my mind. I get a pud early on and then end up getting whatever meat is around 2 days before.

Yes but most right minded people today in the UK do not live by that shyte or legislate to enforce it

I don't think they find cartoons only 'offensive'. http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/quran/016-insulters-islam.htm And in Poland you can be jailed under article 196 of their Penal Code for public calumny of religious objects. Humanity will never move on and get out of the mire of state sanctioned persecution of atheism at this rate

Charlie Hebdo has poked fun at Judaism and Christianity as well- the Pope has particularly been hard hit and France is a catholic country -in fact ever since I can remember there have been jokes poking fun at religion...primarily because it is a load of twaddle designed to control people and deserves to be ridiculed at every opportunity... I'm not surprised that a quarter of Brits (in fact I'm surprised it isn't more people)agree with Trump's views on this. And exactly who compared the cartoons to Jews in cartoons before the war?...the caricatures of everyone are well known- everyone is lampooned and it is funny...comparing Islam to the Spanish Inquisition would not be far from the truth.

I saw the years of the links I put up and so what? Stuff just gets pushed out of sight- doesn't mean it's gone away. The fact that it was there in the first place is very disturbing. I don't think anyone can be accused of xenophobia - phobia is a very strong word, the type of rhetoric used by the left to gag the masses, like the word 'racist', designed to make people who are suspicious, or careful, think there is something wrong with them...well I for one am extremely suspicious of an 'organisation', 'cult' or whatever , that has set up what is effectively a parallel society and made it abundantly clear that they think the way of life of the 'infidel' is inferior (and has been unashamedly courted by politicians of almost all persuasions). Even some members the Muslim Council of GB, when asked for its opinion of the Charlie Hebdo murders, said they deplored the murders, but added the proviso that Charlie Hebdo shouldn't take the piss out of the prophet, or words to that effect.

The lamp post stickers were in Leyton http://mylondondiary.co.uk/2011/07/jul.htm There was a Channel 4 documentary later on where an undercover reporter entered Sharia 'court' in a backroom of a shop in Leyton. But there was this http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/dec/06/muslim-vigilantes-jailed-sharia-law-attacks-london There is hope

Maybe the Lambo owner is doing it and he owns a 'Chips-away' or similar, franchise?