Brendan

What does that actually mean? ?Working class?, that is, not ?Tony Blair?

Both versions of Wave of Mutilation are completely necessary. The fast one is off Doolittle and the UK Surf Version (the slow one) was used in the introspective wnky bit of Pump up the Volume. Sweet lord in heaven did you spend the 90?s asleep?

There was so much wanting to come out between those lines I?m actually impressed you kept it that clean.

Work? Maybe.

Oo er.

Do organic rugs taste any better than non-organic?

I like the quote from the OGC spokesman, ??it is not inappropriate to an organisation that?s looking to have a firm grip on Government spend.?

Is this the punk rock thread? Can I ruin it with bands you?ve never heard of and probably won?t like?

For obvious reasons

did you know that Holsten Pils is: 5% Vol Best Served When Chilled Best Before Sea Bass

Listen here mate, we have migrated to SE and SW London in our droves on the assumption that there is NO MORRIS DANCING South of the Thames. Please tell me I?m correct or I will have to give the secret codeword and we?ll all pull up stumps and head for that cave in Siberia that we?ve been renovating for the holidays.

It is very true and a very difficult question. I have a good friend who is a catholic priest. He is an intelligent well educated man but, because of his belief (or indoctrination) he swears blind that no matter how many people are produced, the world can support them because god said it will be so. To the rational mind this is obviously rubbish but it gives those who choose to believe it a convenient little happy place to go to when they don?t want to face up to the really difficult questions. Anyway, basically it leaves the rest of us asking, would we rather die out as a species or live in a world where everything is so controlled that even every one of our sperm have to be accounted for? Hopefully neither will happen and there will just be a population peak followed by a crash with a new, hopefully better, society emerging from the other side. Or maybe we?re all fucked.

word bruv!

There?s a difference between ?responsibility? when you?re looking at getting a great big wodge of wonga from a deal and ?responsibility? when what you?re trying to do is put a roof over your family?s head. But then again that may require a smidgen of empathy which as I?ve noted, from my not uneducated observation of the British political landscape, is a trait not attainable by the type of person who generally gives active support to the conservative party. Christ I?m being some sort of irrational tory hating freak at the moment. I realise this, but unfortunately I?m having to deal, on a daily basis, with a bunch of highly unscrupulous individuals wnking over the conference in Manchester and its outcomes like a bunch of spoilt schoolboys who just found their first porno. It?s nauseating. Support for the labour party is delusional and stupid but support for the conservatives seems more and more to me like a financially sanctioned form of antisocial behaviour.

Yeah it would be terribly rude. We could actually just go to the pub and speak face to face. I think I remember what that was like.

Yeah but that?s just my point Steve, in order to make sure the amount of money owed to them each year was growing exponential the banks, specifically in Britain and America, were not properly calculating how much would be an affordable amount to lend to people. This created the bubble. In many country where the banks are more closely regulated (hellfire and communism I know) there are very strict rules on how much you can lend and the interest you can charge. This controls the property market and doesn?t let prices go skyrocketing and then crash.

Oh well, at least they haven't learnt when to use capitals yet.

the bastards. the utter, utter bastards.

We couldn't actually do that. Could we?

You would think so woldn't you but its not really what has just happened in the recent past. What?s happened is that prices have been directly related to how much banks are willing to lend people to buy them, which in turn leads to banks owning more dept and therefore thinking themselves richer for it and by making more and more money available unnaturally inflating the price of houses until it all predictably went bang. And that was one of the main reasons for Le Credit Crunch, put very simply.

bombtrack - rage against the machine

Timebomb - Rancid

Sorry, a brace means two. I don't know anywhere where you can buy a scooter thingy for ?2 unfortunately.

about time - odd numbers

The forum is amateur like the Olympics, it is what makes it great.