RosieH

Ha, karter, you want me to reveal my musical tastes for mass-mockery? It's this. Some very excellent tunes that I cannae find elsewhere.

Does anyone know if there's any way to put a copy protected CD onto itunes? I have a mac, and it's driving me bonkers that one of my favourite CDs is copy-protected, and isn't available anywhere to download either. Bloody infuriating.

I don't own a car and have no problem at all getting to Sainsbury's. If you're not up to walking there, it's very well served by buses, and if you're doing a "big shop" and can't carry everything back on the bus, it's a few quid for a Greyhound Car back. Pretty easy really.

Peanuts - hell to the yeah, but no ta on the Guinness. It's Cider With Rosie, d'you see?

Mick, one day, when we finally meet, you will learn that I am a little ray of sunshine.

Ah, thank you HoneyBee, can always rely on you. they IZ some hataz isn't it though?

STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT STOP IT See this man, he's ace. And you lot, well you're all miserable bastards.

apart from citizenED, you can all fuck off, you bunch of cunts !

With a few (notable for their exceptionalism) exceptions.

What a strange and slightly nasty thread: Women we despise, please list. And I'd say the same about a male equivalent. Suddenly I understand the what is it with the moaning and cheer up threads. Ye gads.

All women are magnificent.

Yes. I have to be honest, I don't know the ins and outs of this case, so I've no idea why it wasn't better publicised. It could have been because the police and media are institutionally racist, or it might have been because it wasn't in the best interests of the missing girl, or it might have been because resources meant they had to prioritise the highest risk cases. Nobody else on here knows either, and the knee-jerk leap to racism, even when utterly unproven, makes me uncomfortable.

An allegation she was found innocent of David, so why do you still choose to think of her as racist?

David / Davina is a massive girl!

He mighty purty. No talky though David, no talky.

Fabricio, I think that's a WHOLE HEAP of supposition on your part, and frankly, pretty fucking offensive. Do you actually know whether the police wanted a lid keeping on it and were doing their job, or are you just guessing, and pandering to your own prejudices?

PR, et tu Brute? Going for a lie down before my head explodes.

Ah, I thought you were unusually vehement in your rebuttal. That's not what I was insisting at all, but that the word lady signifies an awful lot more than simply 'female', and the connotations that the word carries can help propagate prejudice. Like the word 'hoodie' implies more than just someone who wears a hooded top. Anyway, as to this question, I really don't think it was racism. The two cases were completely different, as Huguenot pointed out. I do worry that we're so sensitive to racism (a fear of recognising prejudice within ourselves perhaps?) that we cry foul at the drop of a hat. I'm put in mind of Cheryl Cole putting one black and one mixed race girl through to the X Factor finals and being decried as racist. I just don't think the facts stack up.

Why on earth should anyone want to boycott Iceland?

Sure thing. I'll see you next Tuesday.

Then what in the name of all that is holy are you doing prattling on with your blatantly made-up stories on here? As they used to say on the tellybox, Why don't you..?

Oh my god, I hadn't seen the post above. Hilarious, the lady friend stories. How could I have forgotten? Any of these ladies a wee bit younger than you Simonet, and look up to you no end, and any of them your cleaner? Absolutely corking. Priceless.

Not remotely tetchy, just don't believe a word of any of your fabricated tales.

It was the M8 wot did it.

I think Simonet is mad at women, because no one will take his virginity.