*Bob*

I wouldn't disagree with a lot of Snorky's post, but it would be unfair not to add that a lot of people do drugs because they just like doing them. I do. I don't see them as filling some sort of vacuous hole. I just like them.

Maurice.. I will take your objection at face value. This is the quote you're talking about.. Snorky wrote: "legalisation isnt the same as promotion- just as legalising homosexuality wasnt promoting it" "Legalisation isn't the same as promotion." Do you disagree with this? "Legalising homosexuality wasn't promoting it." Do you disagree with this?

Don't play the fool, Moz - it's unconvincing.

Maurice, I think you're reading something into The Snorks post which isn't there. His point is simply that: legalising homosexuality did not lead to an increase in the number of homosexuals. You're either going to do it or you aren't, regardless of the law. The same is true of drugs. There isn't a supply issue, because drugs are everywhere. Sooner or later the option will be there, and you're either going to do them or you aren't. I've been offered every drug there is. Availability didn't mean I wanted to do them all.

'middle class recreational drug use' What is this exactly? Every week, up and down the length and breadth of the country, millions - many millions - of people: old, young, poor, rich, short, tall, gay, straight, professional, unemployed, black or white - pick and choose what drugs they want to take for that night out, night in, trip to a nightclub, wedding, barbeque - according to what they want/can afford/can get. I can only think of one or two people out of the hundred I know reasonably well who don't (and never have).

Only if there were three pound coins baked into each loaf

Just as soon as I've found the cars keys, when we've remembered to put the tent poles in, when Mrs *Bob* has unpacked her hairdryer, and.. and.. WILL YOU SHUT UP IN THE BACK

Sydney's not for me.. Melbourne, definitely. I would have thought you were more of a Perth man, Alan.

Maximay, would you be happier, or less happy, if your son's current situation were to be exchanged with Chav's right now?

Yes Keef... if only the papers didn't dredge-up these boring old drug mule/prostitution/heroin addict/prison stories about candidates standing for public office.

Lets all go. What can possibly go wrong?

Yes.. I can't really 'recommend' a trip to the Maldives, as such. It was everything I ought to have expected, only less. The only really memorable part was having my credit card declined as I was settling up at the end of one of the weeks stays.. seaplane revving engines ready to depart.. all the other passengers on board.. and me, red-faced, having to make a $200 phone call to my bank to ask what the problem was. It has been (to date) my only incursion in the dubious territory of the 'all inclusive' - though there is another looming large (thanks to a group of friends who have already booked). I'm looking forward to doing some UK camping once *Bob* Junior is a leetle older. It will be a debacle, of course, but I think it will be fun.

Hee Hee As a matter of fact I have been the Maldives - some time ago. Although unusually my (then) girlfriend and myself just booked a flight there and sorted something out when we arrived. It was a terrible shame, seeing little portions of the resorts slowly disappearing under the Indian Ocean as the sea level rose a metre or two. We did wonder what could have been causing it - as we jetted home.

Never trust a holiday where you are required to wear a fluorescent wristband at all time.

I still think counting the bricks and multiplying by 14 would work. Perhaps with a sliding scale based on how far from Nelson's Column the property in question is.

Why don't more people go on holiday in the UK? Is it because it costs too much? Because no-one knows where anything good is? Because of the weather? Because it doesn't feel like a proper holiday?

Isn't 'Donna' a bit of an odd name for a man with a beard?

Which one? I was laughing at Snorky's (Penned from his giant uber-bedder on ****o**** **o** whilst sitting in a high-backed armchair in front of a roaring fire)

Any Scottish Independence freaks in the house? The (fair-sized) Scottish contingent in my group of friends is woefully split on the matter but leans towards continuation of the Union. The other side blame English lies, myths and propaganda.. as usual.

It's time for a cull.

Muttley Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Excuse my ignorance, but who was that boy Mohammed > named after? I think he was named after another Teddy Bear. That's what I heard anyway.

Lots of people (still) want to live here, but ED is geographically small. High demand, low supply. Nothing too drastic will happen to prices round here, not that I would really give too hoots if it did.

Yes Jeremy - 'overpriced' is bandied around like it actually means something, which it clearly doesn't. You don't count the bricks and multiply by 14 to get the value, do you?

Lozzy, your sibling wasn't the manservant who (allegedly) gave Charles a blower, was he?

That's no way to talk about Tim Spall, Mockney.