Huguenot

Did you ever work for Athena? (That's a multi-level quip).

Easties, whilst you have all my love and support, you quite clearly implied that Dance Music is a time delimited franchise established in 1997. That in itself is both snooty and pretentious. I can assure you with all the support of my peers that dance music is a genre of music in all eras that prompts one to dance. That means we had Dance Music in the eighties, seventies, sixties etc. They were all called Dance Music, and they all had people who believed that their Dance Music was the only Dance Music.

I don't think anyone's disagreeing with you FO :)

I don't see a reason why drugs shouldn't be treated like any other commodity, and in that sense I think that you guys are taking too local a perspective. If we can legislate against Blood Diamonds, we can legislate against Blood Snort. You'll struggle to encounter a nipper on the street who would fight for Blood Diamonds, but they'll be oh so keen to glam it up with their mates to show off a talc moustache. In that sense I concur with Mockney on education, but consider social care and treatment to be regressive policies that are self-perpetuating. You're treating the symptoms, not the disease.

All fair points, the straw man allusion was only an attempt to highlight that an organic food debate shouldn't start and end with a scientific study into 'health benefits'. As a heterodyne empiricist, I believe that all elements should be considered, and their contribution proven. Nero highlighted a couple of other angles, and Mellors noted an essential element of humanity in terms of investment and reward.

Yay! JamesG is back! I knew a Drawing Room would suck him in! Apologies for offtopication and unruly behaviour. I do, of course, ask all combatants to recognise the straw man in action.

I remember being offered my first 'e' to Yazz and the Plastic Population. That was '88. Thoroughly Thatcher and not even ironic. Do you know she's almost 50 now?

Exactly cs, and there's many more in the "Famous people in ED" thread

It's great! computedshorty, may I ask that you differentiate between your own views and those you've quoted - it will all aid a terrific history! It's worth considering how impactful these events were, when the same number of people were killed in Iran and Iraq in the last 15 years of various conflicts. If you ever doubt the context, please remember that there will be 10 year olds today, who quote similar memories in 60 years time. Remember, we did this when we sat on a plastic chair.

They were changing the locks and stole the house keys? I'm confused. Which house keys did they steal? It happens a lot? How often? Every day? Twice a day? Ten times a Day?

Stop Crying Your Heart Out, Go Let It Out. If nothing else Cigarettes and Alcohol. D'You Know What I Mean? Acquiesce. Don't Look Back in Anger. You'll Live Forever. What A Bundle Of Tosh. The last was from their yet unreleased album, entitled "I was always selling out, it's just pretence".

Awesome

You know West Ham was playing in Beijing last night? Where one Huguenot goes, another Hugenot follows. We will rule I tell you. I bet you never thought there was two people with such similar names? Back to the OP. Yep, they were fun for a while, but it's no surprise to have bands comparing themselves with the Beatles, or God, or me.

To clarify, I'm in 'first blowjob' territory. Or Marmite. Actually, the combination. Or whatever your tastes.

And 'died' is also fired. I'm clearly being trivial. :))

From Hona. Memo To Cammo From Andy Coulsono Just some thoughts on some risque words/phrases you might want to drop into various media opportunities. See what you think. 'Knob Jockey' - Loose Women. 'Fellatrix' - Today, John Humphrys. 'Jizz bucket' - The One Show. 'C*ntbollox' - Top Gear, this could be risky but it's massive so chance it. 'C*ntbollox' - That new show of Richard & Judy's, safe enough I reckon. 'Spunk Monkey' - GMTV. 'Filthy Whores' - BBC Breakfast. 'Wankel Rotary Engine' - This Morning. 'Completely Shagged Out' - Bargain Hunt Celebrity Tat Find. Hope these meet with your approval DC. And once again may I thank you for taking me on as your as your publicity maven. Me and the family are so grateful. What with the 'other lot' not having a great time with a former hack with the initials 'AC'. Ando My, I'm in such a good mood today!

I can't remember who said it in the vocalist thread, but I've never come across a chat that has given me so much pleasure. Absolutely extraordinary. I studied all that poetry shite and it kind of left me less enamoured, but the vocalist thread has given me so much happiness I feel I have to share it with you! If you haven't done it (and I never would, it's like that 'listening to...' thread, full of bollocks etc.) please, please do go and look up some of the names on that thread and turn up the volume. Wow. You're all idiots sometimes (;-)), but whatever my small minded tinkering with debate, you've genuinely changed my life from 8,000 miles away. Thank you. Anyone else had similar change your life moments? Anyone who says 'baby' is fired.

Your coal nevertheless highlights a bead of sweat on the 'Max' brow within which the entire scene is caught once more.

Well said MacRoban. No-one said that 'organic' was a treatment for cancer, so it's unworthy of discussion. It's more probably fodder for the wierdos in the League of Gentleman. I'm not sure how the Camberwell Conservatives fit into this ;-) Having said that, 'peak food' is already an issue - because we're at it, notwithstanding distribution issues - and we're growing still. 6bn is already an afterthought, we're probably at 7bn and nearing 8bn. We were at 2bn in 1950. In that sense the 'phosphorous' issue is out of the 1950s pocket. We don't increase production as a consequence of phosphorous, but as a consequence of a vast swathe of agricultural practices. Whether people view this as organic or not is kind of by-the-by. Your children will be under threat mainly for any nutrition.

Hey Shorty. Good ambitions all. I'm not sure how your request differs from the general threads? No-one has to give their name and address anyway?

You could hit them with the heel of your shoe - they'd go off like a grenade.

I stand corrected. There was indeed an official campaign called 'The Four Pests'. The sparrows appear to have been the only one targeted in the end, but not so much through pan banging as nesting and egg stealing. It only last two years from '58 to '60, when a consequent plague of locusts highlighted the folly of this unilateral extermination strategy. One of the four pests was also the mosquitos, but again, the execution of the campaign wasn't through hand clapping, but the employment of strategies still used in Singapore - the eradication of stagnant water. Did you know in Singapore you're only allowed to keep flowers in water for a maximum for two days? Before anyone looks too steeply down their nose at the Chinese, I'd refer our earnest readers to the dustbowl of the USA in the 30s, the current over salination and desertification of southern Australia and the catastrophic breakdown in the UK's biodiversity cause by hedgerow removal between 1920 and the Hedgerows act of '97. We could look at the introduction of rabbits to Australia, or even quite simply the destruction of the Great Barrier Reef. All of these acts of mass self-destruction were caused, and continue to be caused by millions of people who get some really stupid ideas and refuse to let them go!

Hmm, possibly d_c, but it also packs in an awful lot of cliches about the Chinese into one short tale.... It characterises them as innumerable uneducated, shortsighted, primeval, dogmatic automatons. I know that would correspond with the prevailing ambitions of the local leadership of the time: the sacrifice and application of people power in a low technology world was really the only thing they had to run on. So if it is an apocryphal tale, it could have been written by either side! I shall investigate further!

I'm afraid that your Biology teacher was having you on about the Chinese. There is a fabulous piper available for hire, but beware his credit terms are somewhat onerous.

Caught short looking for a public convenience in a Cotswold village, she finally had to 'go' behind a hedge. Wyre Piddle? Well, too much fortified wine I guess.