Ted Max

Are they legal?

There is fox hunting on the Forum? (Leaves tedious space for some tedious deadbeat to make the tediously obvious tedious "Dulwich Fox" tedious gag)

Serious "ideal world" answer: nothing that is legal should be banned, obvs. Semi-serious answer: I would ban businesses being able to ban discussion of themselves. BUT also, anyone persistently behaving like an outright cock towards a business (The now deleted Begging Bowl thread was a prime eg) would likewise be banned and the business in question sent a picture of that poster's severed head in a box, as recompense.

Sock puppets on the starboard bow, etc I wonder if their animator has a big whiteboard with all the characters' plotlines and characteristics mapped out on it. Keep it going, son, you've made a strong start.

"your 20s will always be the rose tinted period of your life when you look back at a time when you were free and your money was all yours to blow on yourself." Bit bleak, dude.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Beggars-Benison-Enlightenment-Scotland/dp/1862321345

What is the right amount of time to have on your hands?

I think you know the answer already. I hate this online diagnosis/advice thing and think you should always consult a doctor first and last, but going only by your post alone I think you have to consider it likely that this eczema does not have an external cause, or be due to an allergy. Your family history is a pretty good clue to that, as are your extensive efforts to isolate an allergen, without results. If it is hereditary then you are not looking for an allergy or another external reason - you are looking at managing the symptoms. You have said that the steroids helped a little, which seems to be more than anything else has done. So... Nobody can tell you what to do, but if it were me (and it has been) I'd go for the steroids to try and control the acute flare-ups, for the full period that the doctor prescribes. Plus find the best regimen you can on an ongoing basis with the help of your doctor - emollients, paraffin etc, whatever is age-appropriate and seems to work at maintaining some level of control. Yes, it will feel cyclical but you are at least providing periods of relief and control, with hopefully longer periods of calm building up in between. I think, also, that you may be more likely to get a referral to a dermatologist if you have been through the steroid treatments and things are still not working (again I don't know this to be officially the case, but it as been my experience).

"Singapore is world's least emotional country, poll finds." "if you look at everything that makes life worth living, they're not doing so well." Oh dear. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/21/singapore-least-emotional-country-poll

"has deliberately quoted the sunshades out of context for comic effect" This bit was probably the clue that you needed that a) I was already aware of the alternative usage on the awning. b) i was only pissing about.

If we're talking actual fear, then not much. Haven't had that spine-creeping, hair-up, "shitting-hell what was that" feeling for a long time. As a boy, when I was about 11 (so not tiny by any means) my family spent one half term holiday in a rental house. The holiday coincided with Halloween. The weather was terrible and we spent most of our time in the one room with any heat, a sitting room with fire. The rest of the house was properly freezing, with dark wood panelling on the walls, and stone stairs that had a half landing with a lead-framed window above the landing. You had to go upstairs for a piss, turning on the half-landing under the window. I left the sitting room after tea, about 6pm, stepping out from the warmth to the cold, from light to dark. I stood at the bottom of the stairs and I knew, just knew, that if I went up those stairs then something really, really terrible would happen. Not necessarily even to me, but just a sense that I was being told very strongly *not* to go up the stairs. There was no way on f*cking earth I would have gone up those stairs on my own that night. Stupid: of course there was nothing there and my fear was self-induced, but it *felt* real. When the kids ask me to turn lights on now and go ahead of them etc, the temptation is to tell them not to be so fecking stupid, but I get it - the tricks the mind plays and how, at the moment, this stuff is real. I shit on zombies, though.

I feel Coman is only telling half the story here and has deliberately quoted the sunshades out of context for comic effect. What a heartless b*stard. http://i45.tinypic.com/11t1uev.jpg

Mange tout, steveo, mange tout.

TF1 especially, you say? http://i46.tinypic.com/2cmm0jn.jpg

"I think his argument is more to do with how hell bent folk are to protect 'Auntie' regardless of circumstances." Well, yeah. Teeny weeny bit of a straw man, though. Can't actually see too many of those hell bent folk on here: apart from perhaps H, who is often only a keyboard away from shouting at passing traffic in any case.

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I am trying to organise a flashmob of low blood > sugar toddlers and 4X4 buggies to the Castle > during the Ireland game if you're up for it Ted Fuckyeah. I'm up for changing some nappies on the pool table if you take care of the "asking the shouty man at the bar to moderate his language" end of things. StraferJ can ask the nice lady to pop the butternut squash puree in the microwave for a few seconds.

What this thread needs is a really stout defence of shit parenting.

Hi, Quids. This may surprise you but obviously we have to declare this stuff now, I'm not in favour of turning a blind eye to child abuse and rape, or of broadcasting reports that wouldn't have got past a tutor of first year media studies. I'm also not in favour of nakedly opportunistic bandwagoneering from wherever it comes. My post was aimed at that, not at your arguments* - so I probably put it in the wrong place and deserved your cocked-and-primed counter punch, but I couldn't see a thread titled "Thread to call out nakedly opportunistic bandwagoneering from amnesiac enemies of publicly funded broadcaster", so I put it in here. Anyway, I'm not sure what facts you are after so I copied some of yours down instead. The BBC "stifles competition from elsewhere" and has a "top down monopoly on creativity": Yet a set quota, 25%, of all hours transmitted by BBC, must be provided by independent production houses. The BBC has a "massive monopoly on broadcast news". Nope. The 'progressive liberal left' ("tweet that lefties" etc.) won't criticise public institutions. It was Dan Sabbagh at The Guardian who destroyed, forensically, Newsnight's Meesham report. I agree with a lot of what else you say, by the way. Probably most of it. *EDIT: That's not 100% true is it? Some of it was aimed at your arguments, but generally I was just grandstanding a bit and not seeing it as a 1-2-1 argument with you. *EDIT 2: Actually, probably not "most" of it. Probably only "some" of it, but I was making a gesture, like.

FFS, the Beeb. Please see below for how news orgs with innovative business models and clear lines of command act when they are rightly accused of shit behaviour. Tap the phones of key MPs accusing you. Hire PIs to follow your accusers and dish up shit on them. Buy off the police that are investigating you. Sit and say nothing while one patsy "rogue reporter" goes to jail. Then rehire the rogue reporter on contract. Delete millions of emails and then deny you have. Perjure yourself as a result. Make retaining your stricken CEO your "only priority". When she resigns, give her millions. Only when all this has failed (and it will be years) do you sacrifice your brand, putting hundreds out of work. Then you relaunch it a few months later with a positively adjusted operational margin. That's your shareholder accountability, right there.

Cupping Therapy. http://i47.tinypic.com/293hjxi.jpg

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Kula Shaker.

Are we going to play numbers? Let's see who is shooting the most state skag into their ravaged veins? According to the ONS, it's us Londoners. Gawd love us. Hit me up, Gideon... http://i45.tinypic.com/34f00p0.jpg

I've never had a cat or a dog, mainly because I didn't know you could pick one up secondhand for a quid. I do now, though, thanks to the OP.

Robin Cook? Can't remember the exact timeline of his affair and opposition to Gulf War. But official reason was oppo to the war. "It is with regret I have today resigned from the cabinet. I can't accept collective responsibility for the decision to commit Britain now to military action in Iraq without international agreement or domestic support." AND THEY KILLED UP HIM A MOUNTAIN FOR IT!!!!