Huguenot

Apparently: St. George is the patron saint of Aragon, Catalonia, England, Ethiopia, Georgia, Greece, Lithuania, Palestine, Portugal, and Russia, as well as the cities of Amersfoort, Beirut, Bteghrine, C?ceres, Ferrara, Freiburg, Genoa, Ljubljana, Gozo, Pomorie, Qormi, Lod and Moscow, Scouting, as well as a wide range of professions, organizations and disease sufferers As with England, he'd probably never been to any of those places either. Silly choice.

Well, much as I dislike pedantry, and so rarely indulge, ST and SMG are not in fact on the money with this one. We're drinking more than ever (detailed report attached)... litres of alcohol per head per year: 1960 - 5.57 1970 - 7.00 1980 - 9.25 1990 - 9.28 2000 - 10.18 2004 - 11.20 I'm sure that Pubs could get extra money by offering a slightly more for non-drinkers, but we are drinking more and more.

To clarify, I thought I was being flippant in referring to it as an excellent tale. It's far more important than that!

Mbeki went to the University of Sussex, he clearly didn't receive an education.

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You'll need to get it right first! ::o A whole host of currencies are available.

Nazi Super Cows Great headline.

Norseman Lager, and $10 to anyone who can tell me where I bought it and when.

It's like a Bring-and-Buy sale where everyone has brought hat pegs.

There's nothing better than surprise aircon on a warm summers day.

Bring a monkey wrench and a screwdriver. Also Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI Crowley was a prat though.

You won't mind, of course, if I draw parallels between Thabo Mbeki, Matthias Rath, Anthony Brink, and climate change denial.

"Chlling testament to the danger of elevating cranks by engaging with them" copyright Ben Goldacre.

Actually, I'm being flippant. I'm sure that some guys might interpret some of my postings as being 'angry', but they're not, of course. Generally they're intellectual brigandry. I'm exploring ideas ;-) This issue (Matthias Rath and vitamins) makes me really angry. I become verbally incompetent. This kind of dishonorable behaviour (touting snake oil) is genocidal, and it takes a particular kind of psychopath to pull it off. Waterboarding is not good enough. It is not reasonable to lay the blame for embracing thse ideas at the door of Africa. If you haven't been there it would be difficult to explain the desperation and lack of education that these guys face in making everyday decisions. It was characterised to me once as 'these guys will follow a guy running down the street shaking a chicken', and whilst essentially a belittling generalisation, it says a lot about Rath. He was a guy running down the street shaking a chicken. Nevertheless, he had the knowledge and insight to recognise the error in his ways, and dismissed it when he chased his ego. And then he killed millions. Many more than Reinhard Heydrich. It's right under our noses. I share the frustration with mega-pharma that feeds his followers, but lemon juice is not the solution.

Good for you BN5. It's an excellent tale.

If someone wants Politics 101 I've got it too. Somewhere in it, it points out that we don't just issue laws because people think they're attractive. ;-)

As Asset mentioned dc, some guys start in that way. There must be a bizarre list of crimes somewhere, that one would choose to get away with if "you're not caught". There is a group of witless individuals for whom that list includes insulting people online. Mainly I think it's sad.

I should add that Red Routes such as OKR are outside of this regulation. 60% of Southwark's roads are already 20mph

The flatulent Kari Brydon from Mythbusters

Miss the irony me Moos? Not at all, it's just about how you use it. ;-)

*shakes head sadly*

I'm sure you're old enough to recognise the difference between talking about 'margins' and calling me a thick xxxx. You then follow up in that post with another direct attack associating me with female genitalia. Your language is aggressive, offensive and unnecessary. Quite out of proportion with the context. I have no problem with you disagreeing with me, nor teasing me as I have you. More power to you. You should however be ashamed that you feel free to behave in such an unpleasant manner. I once more suggest that you go back and edit those two posts, as they say more about you than they do me.

Well I can see why, it's about people and gigs, not about ED ;-) It's also a promotional post for commercial events... so possibly Admin was being quite lenient. Don't worry too much Sue, as the Lounge actually gets more visitors more often than the ED section. You're better off in here. I think it's a fine idea by the way!

And there's HB in all sorts of hot water: "you could of, if things'd of worked out differently" It shouldn't be 'of' of course, but 'have', or an artfuly placed apostrophe to denote missing letters and generate 'could've'. As in "I have done something in my trousers" or "I could have done something in my trousers" or "I could've made a message there..."

I'm not sure that the language used by thebeard is reasonable. I'd respectfully ask him to edit his post bearing in mind that we have youngsters on the forum too, and we'd hope to set a better example? thebeard may be unaware that by posting the comment "WHY stick your nose into other peoples business?" he is by definition interfering with someone else's business... ;-)