*Bob*

See 'animal cruelty' thread, Michael ----------------- Gray Pays an' Baycun

Chinese pine nuts. I should have known. So not only do I have China to thank for the paucity of quality ecstasy tablets of late, they've also been messing about with the pine nuts. Sometimes, I wonder why 'The Chinese' don't just come round my house, creep up the bedroom, squat over the bed , curl one down onto my pillow - and have done with it.

Doesn't everyone have a Magimix? Apart from those in Sydenham, of course. I expect they have to be content with a Bamix.

MrBen Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm glad that you have brought this to attention > *Bob*. Long thin rounded feckers that look more > like capsules than proper seed shaped nuts we're > all used to sprinkling on our salads. YES. That's them. Weird, spindly ones. Not right. They don't even taste like pine nuts. You might as well be dropping toenail clippings in with the basil - and then guffing on top of the magimix bowl.

That's all they're good for.

What the DROKK is going on with pine nuts these days?! I remember when a bag of pine nuts was a bag of pine nuts. Normal, regular, ordinary pine nuts. But no more. Weird, freaky pine nuts have infested the shelves of grocers up and down the land. Packaged and sold, quite simply as 'pine nuts'. Pine nuts my ass!

Everyone's needs to fare-dodge once in a while when the need arises - and I can confirm that the 12 is a breeze in this respect. Still, it doesn't compare to the glory days of The Great Travelcard Glitch of 1999, when any daily travelcard dated 1998 worked over the whole tube network for nearly the whole of 1999. Happy days.

A proper twist should be right at the end of the film, followed immediately by the rolling of the credits - preferably in near-silence. Therefore, the king of all 'twist' flicks is 'Planet of the Apes' (the good version)

Excellent news, Keef. 'Loose Women' awaits..

I'm sure his new-found idiotTube celebrity and an outing on television will do him the world of good. It's usually the best cure for mental illness, I find. He'll be right as rain before you know it.

I'm sure Local News will make a fine fist of highlighting these important issues in a well-rounded fashion. You've definitely made the right decision in sending this footage of some poor nutcase in to the meeja. I still think you've got a better chance with ITV though. Their requirements - to frame such behaviour within an acceptable moral framework in order to get it shown - are considerably lower.

Have you thought of sending it here? It would fit nicely in between 'kitten is surprised' and 'painful snooker'. You could title it 'man with suspected mental health issues gets filmed on a mobile phone for a laugh on the P37'

I suggest a melodramatic voiceover introduction from Alistair Stewart, accompanied by pulsing techno beats - blended with a wash of emergency-service sirens.

So that a million other rubberneckers can gawp at it - under the dubious guise of 'public interest'.

Does Jack Nicholson do anything apart from play.. Jack Nicholson? Anyway, he played Jack Nicholson really well in Cuckoo's Nest. It's right up there with him portrayal of Jack Nicholson in The Shining and a world away from the slightly dopey, boss-eyed version of Jack Nicholson he played in Prizzi's Honour. (See also Clint Eastwood, Tom Cruise, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Nic Cage.. Arnie.. )

I must have popped-out for a wee when the Turkish stuff happened in the film. Will keep an eye out for it next time though. Did the film have any impact on package holidays to Lanzarote at all?

Like Amadeus, it's one of those gong-bagging films where the distributors have managed to limit how often it's shown in order to preserve cachet (and protect DVD re-releases). But it's more of a melodrama with a touch of panto rather than some kind of hard-hitting documentorial expos? of mental institutions of the time. It pretends to be a bit more serious than it is. ECT etc was controversial but I don't think there was anything controversial about the film itself. Great flick though.

Still single then, Daizie?

KalamityKel Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- is there really such a great demand (in addition > to other neighbouring bars open to the early > hours) to justify their request? If you build it, they will come. Unfortunately.

Can we have Inside72 back as well please? (with an extra toilet) Indeed, good post and fair enough. I'd hate it too. Then I'd move - and sell the house to someone who considers a close proximity of late bars to be an absolute boon. That way they can slash up their own wall on the way home.

edanna Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- not to > mention that it costs tens of thousands of pounds. Fortunately, their houses have doubled in value in the last decade - due in no small part to the proliferation of the very things that attract the unpleasant element. That should help-out with the move to Quietsville. Why do people seem to assume it's some kind of unwritten law that things will always stay the same? Half the time they've forgotten that they aren't even the same as the person who bought the house two decades prior. Things get better, things get worse, circumstances change, you weigh it up and make a decision. But if you've owned a house in ED for a long time at least you've got more options than most.

The genie has been staggering drunkenly out of the vomit-lined bottle for some time now, looking for someone who might have spilled his pint.

Crushed by a toppling freestanding DVD display unit.. so I heard.

I think I've been to LL twice on a Friday / Saturday night, in all the years I've been here - in the same way that I avoid all sorts of other places on Fridays and Saturdays - and always have done. It's always been like that, now it's just more like that. And before that it was doubtless just as unpleasant, only a different sort of unpleasant. If you think it's a sudden and recent development you must have been strolling around with a lampshade on your head for the last ten years. It's not the drink and the drugs.. it's the people. Welcome to England 'on the weekend'.. appearing in your local high street since I can remember being old enough to get into a pub.

Depends on whether or not you get a knee-trembler in the Co-Op car park afterwards.