RosieH

Selfridges, that's what we need. And maybe a Land of Leather, Space NK, Asda, Tie Rack...

I have drunk Pepsi at Chicken Cottage, rum and coke at any number of seedy dives, cider in beer gardens, port in various gastropubs, the tasting flight at several michelin starred joints and even on occasion (well once) a 1945 Chateau Mouton Rothschild in a very swanky pants restaurant. And I bloody well like The Palmerston. And I don't even work there. Now PLEASE will someone bring me my chateaubriand.

Works well for me and I get good customer service.

Aha, the new-fangled meaning of mentalist (as in Derren Brown) - to me it will always mean someone not of sound mind - I wasn't suggesting for a second that an armed and dangerous Paul Daniels is a bad thing. Although, thinking about it... Keef, I hear your pain, but I'd question what is there to debate? Does it make me furious? Yes. Does it make anyone-for whom-I-would-have-an-ounce-of-respect furious? I should bloody well hope so. That pro-life is a hideous oxymoron with these people hardly needs saying, but I think Mockney summed it up nicely. The fact is that they are looking for something to hate and something to rail against and I firmly believe that it's got f*ck all to do with religion - the bible's just an easy excuse to justify their criminal behaviour. If they were really Christian, then I think the whole he who is without sin casting the first stone thing might hold some sway. It doesn't seem to. By and large you won't find me coming out in favour of eugenics, but in this instance I'm beginning to see its appeal.

Oh my god HAL9000, you've totally f*cked with my head. This is brilliant, hurrah.

Nah just blackberrying with extremely small type and spelt mentalists wrong. I don't think all Christians are mental, and I most certainly don't think they're all extremists (which frankly someone prepared to murder for their religious / ethical beliefs clearly is).

That blacker than black paint looks brilliant - I'm gonna get some for my bedroom.

Well I thought this about light and the spectrum of colours, but then you get into metallics and fluorescents, and they don't exist in the spectrum, I don't think, do they? Maybe they do. Or maybe they're not officially colours. MM, you're quite right about New Scientist - I should have thought of it before (although to be fair, while I have been contemplating this for a while, it's never been with any real ferocity). I shall send them a missive toot sweet.

Sounds like a rocking party Moos - they were just jealous they hadn't been invited I reckon!

So this is something I have been pondering for a while, but wouldn't know how to prove one way or the other. Do you think it's possible to manufacture a colour that doesn't exist in nature? I used to think yes, but now I suspect no and don't know how to come to a satisfactory (though inevitably not definitive) conclusion.

Widespread (legal) availability of guns is a bad thing with extremist mentalists around.

What do they put salad cream on? I've never had salad cream in there, only vinaigrette

What, calling them nice guys? Yeah, that'll have them running for the hills

Oh for heaven's sake. Mike was a big boy, he was quite capable of making his own decisions

Well I quite like your humour (even when bordering on the homoerotic).

I think *Bob* expressed it well with his favourite colour post. I had been toying with a "most boring thing you've ever done" thread but his version was considerably funnier - that people replied in earnest sums up the current state of the forum for me. As for the slightly addled man-on-man banter, I refer you fellows back to my suggestion some months ago that you all get naked and wrestle in mud to prove just who is cock of the walk. We could make it a feature of the next forum drinks. Or, you know, PM it. BBW, I don't think this is so much about people not being able to take the piss out of themselves as not having anything to add. It's very difficult to add wit and repartee to a debate about your favourite X, or when you last did Y (fill in the blanks as appropriate).

Holy shit! Really, really? I like orange but not triangles. So you know, Doritos are a problem for me. *Bob* you are a god amongst men

Holy shit! Really, really? I like orange but not triangles. So you know, Doritos are a problem for me. *Bob* you are a god amongst men

*sneaks in - is it here?* *ah, there it is, nudging out from under the chaise longue* *picks it up, thinks about it for a second* *slips it in pocket - maybe tomorrow* *closes door quietly behind her*

I'm down with the whole citizen journalism thing - why only last year I did a whole story on it (some years after the fact). However, what I can't get away from the is the sense of repugnance I feel at someone's stopping to take several pictures of a car crash and posting them online for others' sport. Similarly a post commenting on the rubber necking of passers-by, followed by a commendation for the posting of crash pictures online. It isn't the future, it's human nature. Just an ugly part that I'd just as soon have no dealings with. Hence I will leave you folks to your ghoulishness and seek entertainment elsewhere.

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Please to share the clearly very amusing quip...

Cut to the quick Michael, cut to the quick.

Mike, have you been avoiding me?

I agree. I would imagine that they also form part of a bigger campaign