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El Pibe Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Whoa...cross post of the century, didn't even > think you ventured here!! I don't. It may have been pointed out to me by a concerned bystander.

Otta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Wigan pretty well summed up there to be honest. It's not often I venture onto this thread. In fact, never. But, DUDE! It's nice where Dave Whelan lives. Does rain a lot though. I wouldn't live there.

Why, Lord, WHY?

A hole in the wall dispensing self-awareness and a sense of irony

I would like a fleet of unicorn-drawn carriages, to carry the wary traveller safe on his road to that mystical land beyond the ED borders, where be dragons, and shoppes and hostelries and, yea verily, hairdresseren.

Don't do it, Admin!!!

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And on the point that homosexuals belittle women?

To then reduce the zeitgeist to ash in our embery hearths?

Heh, LadyD - I especially enjoyed the part about CWALD's dog being under her control!

Wait, what? You can build a robot out of your Transforma snacks? This is outstanding news.

No wait, really? Am sure I saw them still for 10p. Maybe 20..?

Ahem...: That last bit's my favourite.

I think posting online gives you licence, as Huguenot says, to debate more. I get irate when I debate with people who are idiots, on or offline, and worse, people I know not to be idiots but seem to be adopting idiotic positions. I never say anything on here that I wouldn't say to someone's face, but I know that I've upset people that I wouldn't in real life because the debate just wouldn't have evolved in the same way down the pub. In "real life" I'm an incorrigible flirt and take considerable delight in a good innuendo. I try to rein it in on here - not always successfully - because it's unbecoming to hint at your sexual proclivities to 20,000 people. And I'm hilarious. It's just you lot broke my funny bone. edited because I can't type for shit today.

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > fazer71 Wrote: > > > > The trolling crew??. > > monniemae RosieH El Pibe Otta Jeremy + > > Peckhamgatecrasher > > > > xxxxxxxx > > Eh?!?!?!?! I think Sue, that when Fazer called Kevin McCloud "a mincing gay" and suggested that because he's a mincing gay he hates women (like all mincing gays, we can only assume), and we suggested that was nonsensical and homophobic, we are somehow trolling. Rather than picking someone up on an appalling and bigoted world view. I can't work out if this is an elaborate trolling exercise in and of itself, or just the rantings of someone without the faintest trace of self-awareness. Edited because I can't spell, innit.

StraferJack Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I quite like accusations of sexism being backed up > by "who spends more time in the kitchen ? > Women..." Hahaha - yes, yes, yes - THIS! Also, fazer, I certainly wasn't trolling before, I was just flabbergasted at your blatant homophobia. I thought it was something people kept a dirty little secret these days, rather than paraded in full public view. But seeing as you've asked... What Pibe said!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is all very cryptic.

Oh you see, this makes up for all the times I come on here and can find nothing to get worked up about. And go away, disappointed, to eat out-of-date Space Raiders. My jaw actually dropped. That never happens. This is extravagant.

What monniemae said. Also, come on people, you've watched television. I love the way Kevin McCloud waxes lyrical about how life affirming great architecture is when he loves a project, but you know he'll have producers screaming "where's the jeopardy?" in his ear. He has to set up the potential pitfalls to build a sense of anticipation. Maybe the French dig schadenfreude less than us, but you only have to take the most cursory glance at our tabloids to see how much we love failure. You can't blame him for giving us what we crave. Obviously, when I say "we", I mean the Great British public - not us intellectually discerning EDFers.

I had this exact same question last year. I looked at Project, as well as a lot of way more expensive turntables. In the end, I went for aesthetics, and got me a mighty purtee early 70s Bang & Olufsen with cherry wood plinth. It required the additional purchase of a pre-amp (about ?80 from Richer Sounds, but there are cheaper ones). The pre-amp's only small, about 5x7" so doesn't take up much room, and then you can just plug your turntable into that, and then that into your usual stereo. D_C, am guessing the Project also requires a pre-amp?

Thanks both, but a little late in the day (appreciate I asked the question a little late in the day). Had awesome food at Green & Blue, then terrible drinks at Tippler instead. Now to find somewhere for takeaway breakfast...

Is there anywhere local that enables a disco-dance? Last minute request and I can't be arsed to haul my carcass into town. Know you used to be able to at Liquorish, but now... Nowt doing at Nun's Head either, from what I can see.

You could also Dropbox it (although you wouldn't be able to do 1000 songs at a time).

What the Dickens are you talking about Hughie? A 732 page "chapter"? Don't think so. As the OP says, these are dicrete stories. That's not what Dickens did.

Have you talked to any of them before you dismissed them, Quids? Because your post just comes across as an anti-leftie rant (the ubiquitous reference to Toynbee, really..?) Or maybe it's more that in your day, people did it properly: poll-tax riots n that. If you don't think this is the way to go about things, what would you suggest instead to get their voices heard? The pageant workers debacle was an absolute gift to the left - but only because it's SO appalling, so ridiculous, so extreme, and the poetic juxtaposition of the jobless under a bridge while the monarchy sails blithely by is what makes people who wouldn't ordinarily care take notice. The real people to be fucked off with here are the ones who are perpetrating this kind of diabolical action - not the ones who use it to make political hay to try to bring it to an end. People are right to be angry. People are right to protest. Thank fuck they are. Thank fuck not everyone's completely apathetic as all the world goes to hell in a handcart. I think a street party is a peculiarly British and witty riposte - more power to their cake making elbows I say.