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taper

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  1. very fishy.
  2. He has a better chance against wladimir. what do people reckon to Froch? new calzaghe, or alan minter?
  3. So in what ways is it like the Warsaw Ghetto? It's bad on its own terms, but it's nothing like the Warsaw Ghetto is it? That's just an egregious rhetorical trick to compare Israeli behaviour with that of the Nazis.
  4. Bad as it is, comparing what's happening in Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto betrays your own historical ignorance.
  5. Dawkins said he would have prefered "almost certainly no God", which accords more accurately with his teapot stance. "Probably" was indeed insisted upon by the ASA. But it still represents a sound philosophical basis for rationalists in so far as you remain open to the possibility that, if evidence of a deity is forthcoming, you will adapt your views accordingly.
  6. As a teapot agnostic, I donated to the campaign. But I was nearly run over by a bus this morning and wonder whether this is a sign I should hedge my bets a bit more.
  7. Yes, christ: nirvana must be the most overrated. Whereas Boston.... Cure underrated for sure. keef - iommi might be limited, but his armoury of riffs could flatten a small city, sparing only women, children etc. Sweetleaf begins with the sound of the fingertipless one coughing back bong smoke. That's very metal. Wearing a top hat isn't.
  8. The Clash did enough stuff for a decent best of album, but an awful lot of their stuff was very lame. I've always thought of them as a punk band people who don't like punk can like. I would also say the Beach Boys are overrated. They're good for sure, but not as good as is sometimes claimed. You got Pet Sounds you got the lot. And Slash isn't fit to change the water in Tony Iommi's bong.
  9. U2 The Clash Queen ACDC Guns and Roses and rock's my bag.
  10. taper

    The Viz

    The VIZ autobiography, "Rude Kids" is worth a read. Dr Poo was a fleeting favourite. But I love the adverts from "sh1t Things on Tic". The "Princess Diana Full English Breakfast Clock Plate of Hope" was a highlight
  11. In the "awful books, commonly thought to be good" category, i would put The Sportswriter by Richard Ford. Anything by Michael Chabon would go in there too. And probably a lot of Thomas Pynchon.
  12. Lennox Lewis will, i read, act as adviser and sparring partner to haye for this fight.
  13. haye's good, but too small and a glass jaw. he has a chance if he does what holyfield did and add some bulk. ps - valuev is useless. i'd back holyfield to win. pps - you've got to be joking about calzaghe. lacey, kessler, and a still dangerous hopkins . he's probably the best british boxer of the last twenty five years. only lewis runs him close.
  14. dark horse in camberwell is a 15 min walk from you; bottom of grove lane. vg food.
  15. Fusion at Peckham pulse are a disgrace. Their staff, particularly on the admin side, are spectacularly awful. Some of the swimming coaches are brilliant, but for some reason they either leave or are sacked and turnover is rapid.
  16. if you know a set of lights well, you'll know you have a period of grace when you can go through on red and not risk having an accident. buses do it a lot. saw one go through a light that was red this morning.
  17. 5% were unsatisfactory if you look at the report; so 95% satisfactory or above.
  18. Hugenot - Proper red light running, not at the cusp of the change from amber to red. Camberwell Green and two junctions on Blackfriars Road particular blackspots.
  19. On my cycle commute to work, I reckon I see a car go through a red about once every three minutes.
  20. Second world war, presumably. My grandad was at Arnhem and Nimegen.
  21. Refers to Hugeunot's post. Agree entirely with you
  22. People get attacked and sometimes killed in the UK because they are gay. Historically, people were put into concentration camps because they were gay. And even today 16 year old Iranian boys get hung in public because they are gay. Trying to equate this level of hate with schoolground fights is, in a competitive field, quite the most asinine comment i've seen on this forum.
  23. The fact that the state funds schools which are allowed to select according to the faith of a child's parents is an obsenity beyond anything else in the state system. That the state allows religion into schools, other than in anthroplogical study, is only slightly less so. Brighton's private schools saw an explosion in demand when the lottery system was introduced.
  24. The c4 programme proved nothing of the sort. A recent report in The Economist (no left wing screed that) showed that standards and attainment were higher in countries where children weren't separated into ability-based schools. So in comprehensive Finland, which has the highest levels of attainment in the world, the differences between schools are remarkably small compared with the UK. So why are they good? The teachers are excellent, and have the flexibility to be entreprenuerial and flexible in what they teach. Impossible to mimic Finland, for various reasons, but segregation according to ability does not lift overall educational levels.
  25. I love the London Wildlife Garden. Odd place to attack in your first post.
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