*Bob*

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Because he's very very clever... ;-) I think it's like in 'Superman'.. it is forbidden for him to interfere with human history.

Hitler cats are so 2011 2012 is all about breaded cats

You are John Parker, fearless rasta soldier, and this is your last stand! The Man has come to destroy your humble herb field and you must stop him! You have mounted a 20mm machine gun atop your 1969 VW microbus and will blow the hell out of anyone or anything, that tries to kill you or your herb. Stand strong against an army of facists with only the rastafarian god Jah at your side. Declare war on the war!!!

At 8 - I was doing the seemingly impossible; generating simple greetings and the names of oil giants.. using only an ordinary household calculator, turned upside down.

Undisputedtruth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I don't think so Bob, I've written a similar > program like yours when I was 13. That is amazing - for a thirteen year-old. I guess I was a prodigy - at 7 on my VIC20.

Undisputedtruth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Looks like BASIC with the program in an infinite > loop, Bob. You're SO WRONG

10 PRINT "HELLO" 20 GOTO 10

sky+ ?

Undisputedtruth Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm always looking for new projects so at some > point I'll start a project to kick Hugo's ass. If I could suggest the houses of parliament out of matchsticks? That would be the real sucker punch.

It's a cult thing, isn't it? You have to be able to recite all the stations, stop by stop, on all lines, one way then the other, blindfold, whilst being waterboarded. You must memorise all the possible permutations of signalling and line switching. You immerse yourself in the history of the underground from origins to present day. Then comes a myriad of theory and detail behind the engineering; studying the schematics.. hydraulics, electrics, mechanics. It is only when these challenges have been overcome that are you finally allowed to push the stop and go buttons and open and close the doors.

Sitting in a metal box, alone, at unsociable hours, staring down a dirty hole, with only two buttons for company and the potential 'thrill' of an track suicide to look forward to? I'm sure they are enough mentalists to fill any vacancies, but good god.. who in their right mind would want to do that after the initial novelty has worn-off? It's better paid because it combines brain-numbing monotony with serious consequences if something goes wrong. All the challenge of stuffing envelopes.. only potentially 800 people don't get hurt if you accidentally put two green ones in instead of one red and one blue. Only ?45k?! Not worth it. I'd rather pick fruit.

So everyone's agreed: Bent to become the first serving Darren at number ten. General public to conveniently forget the leading part they played in global financial meltdown and meander aimlessly with glazed expressions mumbling "the bankers.. the bankers.." Tube drivers to get continually lambasted for getting paid for a job which very few people - if they thought about it for more than two minutes properly - would actually want to do. Hester to roll eyes and quietly collect massive pay packet during an extended Argos sale.

It's a culture of rewarding a race to the bottom, that's what it is.

You can launder them in your machine at home, but some areas of the clown - such as the pocket - are notoriously difficult to get really clean.

I'd like to see Darren Bent try his hand at PM. Whoever he is.

That's just crazy talk, Pibe. A twenty year-old footballer is worth every penny and fully deserves his lifestyle to be maintained without complaint or thought by the banker-moaning masses by their season tickets and Sky subscriptions. This is in direct contrast to some landed-on-his-feet fifty year-old banker who just happened to spend most of his professional life working his way to the top of the career tree - the lucky sod.

I for one do not want any more money. And if someone tries to get some for me (without involving too much of an effort on my part) I shall certainly be refusing to accept it - for the greater good of the country. And I sure that most people in Britain agree with me.

Why do these people want more money anyway?! It's downright disgraceful! It's not like the rest of us want more money and would love to get our chiseling hands on it if only the opportunity were to present itself; especially if someone else offered to do the dirty work and get it on our behalf.

Aslef, NUT, whatever. Commies, the lorravem.

Surely when there are more passengers on board - as there will be during the Olympics - this will make the trains slightly heavier, thus requiring our valiant drivers to push on the stick with slightly increased pressure? Seems only right they be compensated fairly for this.

I was in a(nother) proper pub before Christmas in the Midlands, and this Sikh dude walked in with a delivery - and one of the grizzled regulars asked him of he kept curry sandwiches under his turban!!!! It was all in jest, of course, and crashingly brilliant - and I was reminded of how brilliant proper pubs were. Someone talked about cliques earlier on.. well that's what these places are. A territorial clique. When you're in, you're ok - and it's all a bit of a laugh. You probably don't really even notice - and you cut old wotsit loads of slack because he doesn't mean any harm and all that. I like proper pubs, a bit of non-threatening lairyness is fine and even the occasional nutter helps things along. The difference is that most of the good proper pubs are more full, and being full smooths over the rough edges. But when it gets down a few core people with one or two who basically aren't particularly nice (unless you've decided to cut them loads of slack because you they're alright innit and don't mean any harm etc) who treat a pub like and extension of their front room - well that's when new people who pop in don't tend to come back - and suddenly the place has died on its arse.

Did strangers walking into the EDT used to get called poofs as well then? Back when it was a 'proper pub', I mean?

Ahh.. the eternal Mac/PC mouth-off. I can't resist! Apple has given the people what they think they need (and clearly want) - and turned itself into the technology business story of the era. What's not to admire? The only non-work Apple thing I ever bought was an iPod - the very first one. I handed it to anyone who was interested, with no instruction - didn't even tell them what it was. In two minutes everyone knew exactly how it worked, loved it and wanted one. That's not marketing bullshit - that's great design.

Marriage does not suit everybody. Civil partnership does not suit everybody. Personally I believe marriage and civil partnership should be options available to all - as they are in some other enlightened countries (where the fabric of society has yet to crumble). But no - because conservative Britain is afraid of equality. It fears that marriage will be undermined by equality. It won't of course.. it would just reveal the facts as they stand: how - like in France - millions of people would gladly give marriage the heave-ho in favour of something else which gave them the same rights, were it to be offered.

Divorce rates are certainly at a low.. for the moment. As a marriage rates, of course. Are you against civil partnerships for hetero couples, MM?