david_carnell

Just so we know what we are talking about the following is (I think) an exhaustive list of conflicts involving British troops in the last 100 years: # World War I (1914?1918) # Easter Rising (1916) # Russian Civil War (1918?1922) # Third Anglo-Afghan War (1919) # Irish War of Independence (1919?1921) # World War II (1939?1945) # Greek Civil War (1941?1949) # Malayan Emergency (1948?1960) # Korean War (1950?1953) # Mau Mau Uprising (1952?1960) # Cyprus Emergency (1955?1959) # Suez Crisis (1956) # Brunei Revolt (1962) # Dhofar Rebellion (1962?1975) # Indonesia-Malaysia confrontation (1962?1966) # Northern Ireland Troubles (1969-2007) # Cod War Confrontation (1975?1976) # Falklands War (1982) # The First Gulf War (1990?1991) # The Bosnian War (1995?1996) # The Kosovo War (1999) # Iraqi no-fly zones (1991-2003) # Sierra Leone Civil War (2000) I'm going away to think before confirming but I can spot more than one that falls outside the "just" parameters mentioned earlier.

Doh....how did I not get my own team. I forgot all about the Leeds vs Stuggart debacle followed by, somewhat OTT imo, a replay at the Nou Camp (and woe betide anyone who calls it Camp Nou). Ahhh....a Carl Shutt winner.

I'll have you know that seared tuna goes very nicely with a pint of Guinness. Now, where's that "Real Men" thread gone. I need to recommend a moisturiser.

Surely the "concept" of a bar is to get me drunk. And possibly you too. Anything else is marketing twaddle. I shall be there the day it opens.

On this Stoke ugly football argument I fall firmly in the pro-Stoke category. For all the arguments already espoused by Keef et al. And as for not being entertaining? Trust me, when you don't support one of the big 4 nothing is more entertaining than watching them struggle against such lowly opposition. All those millions spent and some long grass and a throw in cause havoc. Brilliant.

Notts Forest?

Rolo Tomasi Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Count back 9 months to see what your parents were > knocking boots too. See, this is just mean! As if True wasn't bad enough it appears I was conceived to either Come On Eileen or Eye of the Tiger... how could this happen to me? Although it may explain my love of 80s power ballads. Kill me now.

Oh cock! Spandeau Ballet - True That must have had a terrible effect on such a young mind. Who knows how much ill it caused.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > There's always the mnistry of justice Snorks. We'd > be fools not to get DC involved, perhaps defence. > How's about Huguenot in education? Defence, eh? Aye, go on then. But only if I get given the launch codes and a big red button to hover my fist over.

Brendan Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What does the colour of their skin have to do with > anything? I would imagine flipbrit is merely providing the oft-called for "description" of the wrongdoer so that as the citizens of east dulwich go about our business we can be on the look out and take the appropriate action. So... if you spot a black parking official... you know what to do. You do know, right?

Look I'm a politics graduate. Go and consult a medic if you want an accurate pictorial description of various nursing staff. Now leave me and the delectable Julia Goldsworthy MP in peace. And Brendan, she may not have a "lovely pear" but I believe she's raised eyebrows in Black Rod's office.

I've a sneaky feeling that next season Bendtner might be rather good. Adebayor though....pish. I suppose you'd have Eduardo back next season and that Vela kid looks good. Plus VP. Doesn't quite scare the opposition like Man Utd's front four though does it? And Rosicky might be back in the midfield. A holding player might be called for though. A Makelele or Carrick. A Viera! But they don't come cheap. Nor do centre backs like Ferdinand and Vidic. What were they? ?30 million for the pair. I don't think Arsenal have that sort of money to spend.

Oh I don't know... MP http://www.independent.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00052/Julia-Goldsworthy_52132s.jpg Student Nurse http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_zp0h1YAc0Co/SSxfo9-A3fI/AAAAAAAADY4/sFyvvmo0Hr0/s400/nurse1.jpg

But who is going to pay for this serviced apartment? The taxpayer. In central London, 600-odd managed apartments isn't going to come cheap. Out of my own ignorance, which MP tried to get a B&O TV?

The problem began because successive governments were too scared to say "actually, for a high pressure job, with little security and a large amounts of power we get paid less than a headmaster and it's not really on" and refrained from direct salary increases so they began abusing the expenses system as a means of topping up their salaries. I think it is entirely reasonable for MPs to receive a second-home allowance. I want my MP to be in London representing my views and not stuck in some provincial constituency. They are not student nurses and should not be made to sleep in some sort of dormitory where all the MPs live away from home. I mean, really?! What is clearly not acceptable, morally, is the duplicitousness in telling parliament one thing and the tax-man another in order to maximise income. However, the rest of these claims seem hardly to be in the realm of fantasy. 87p for a bath plug? And your problem is what? That MPs shouldn't wash? That 87p is too much for a bath plug? Or that such a paltry amount should just be absorbed by the MP personally? Where is the line drawn for that? ?1? ?2? ?10? The chances are it was submitted on a receipt for a load of home improvement stuff as opposed to a single purchase. Secondly, expenses are not means tested. Just because you, or in some cases your partner, happen to be stinking rich doesn't mean you are not entitled to, or should not claim, the due amount. How would you feel if your expenses claim involved seeing how much was in your current account that month? "Oh, sorry Mrs Jones, you've got more than ?500 in your account so you can pay for that hotel on a business trip yourself". Ridiculous. The system is broken but nothing is so pathetic to watch than the British public in one of its brief outbursts of moral indignation.

Cock! All back to Elland Road on Weds then. Glad I didn't bother going to the game after all.

But the lucky stars come from a separate machine/ball pit though, correct?

Mamora Man - surely you can't choose the same number twice (or you'd be bloody stupid to) so the second number can only be from 49 alternatives not 50 and so on and so on?

OK it's something like this: 50 (balls) divided by 5 (the number of balls you might have one of) and then so on, so: 50/5 x 49/4 x 48/3 x 47/2 x 46/1 = 10x12.25x16x23.5x46 = 2073680:1 chance But then you have the "lucky stars" balls too so the odds of getting both of those right are: 9/2 x 8/1 = 36:1chance So the odds of getting all 7 numbers are 36x2073680=74652480:1 chance or nearly 1 in 75 million. So very slightly better than your original statement. Edit: It appears, according to wiki that I've done something wrong, although I'm not sure what.

It's not that you have less chance of winning if more people enter, just that you'd have to share the prize and would lose any profit. Plus the logistical difficulties of buying 76million different lottery tickets makes the enterprise almost impossible. Although I do remember once seeing a tv programme about someone in the USA who did something similar.

It was supposed to be a bar complete downstairs, basement bit. There's another thread about it in the archives with building plans and everything. Try having a gander at those.

Scurrilous, brazen-nosed blatherskite.

But surely all the respectable, secular schools were teaching this already? Who is it aimed at? It seems to be an announcement that does nothing. Are there non faith schools that aren't currently teaching PSHE?

Woah there. I didn't make any further judgements on the man; merely I highlighted his record on homosexuality - which was good. Civil partnerships? Gay adoption? Workplace equality? All under Blair's Labour. I believe Ruth Kelly is the only devout member of the govt so this dithering is especially galling in the way it panders to religious interest groups.

It is at 3am... I think they're allowed to charge to stay open that late. Hamlets Bar normally show the fight nights.