Brendan

Nothing Man - Pearl Jam

Going nowhere slow - Bloodhound Gang

Up town on the underground ? Scabby Annie

bugger!

Oh I know I wasn?t disagreeing with you Mick. The ?pfft? was just onomatopoeia for my snigger at the phrase, ?The Scots invented the hole??

That?s Afrikaans not Dutch and therefore veld not veldt or indeeed velt. But then again one wouldn?t expect the British to break from tradition and actually learn their history correctly before forming their cultural prejudices.

pffft?

SimonM Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > And then there's the Scottish invention of golf... Actually the game developed simultaneously in Holland and Scotland. They had a shared maritime culture at the time. I could be wrong on this but I think the Dutch were the first to actually produce clubs.

A few people may have made it Huey but the important thing is, I made it.

Like a bathroom suite from Ikea?

What's crotch dancing?

Bastards.

Just got back from Wales and contrary to common belief (and google maps) there weren?t any dragons. Lots of sheep and a horse but no dragons. I was hopeful one day when I bought a dragon sausage inna bun but the man said it was actually made out of pig.

Think I actually just need a drink. May just go down for lucky 7s tonight too.

I?ve been in a right mood the last 2 days. I suspect it?s because everyone?s a cunt.

What I got - Sublime

Don?t NHS staff have a higher likelihood of being sick in the first place as a lot of them are in contact with sick people as part of their jobs? Makes sense they would have more sickies.

How long before we get onto the right to arm bears?

And you didn?t run him over? Sheesh, people just won?t go out of their way for the benefit of others anymore will they? No wonder he got elected.

I just read this from the New Scientist. The mind boggles it truly does. ??IN A more rational parallel universe, the debate about healthcare in the US could have focused on quality-adjusted life years and the extent to which it is helpful for insurers to cover heroic, almost invariably futile - and immensely profitable - attempts to extend life. Instead, we got what students of the rhetoric surrounding science might appreciate as a startling case study: the transformation of the UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) into "The Death Panel" - because it entertains just such a discussion. Feedback was most puzzled, though, by the now-notorious intervention of Investor's Business Daily, which concluded that "scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the UK, where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man... is essentially worthless". How did they work that one out? Could it be, we first wondered, that they had read Hawking's book A Brief History of Time to the end? The book's argument hinges on the notion of imaginary time - normal time (we paraphrase) multiplied by the square root of -1. David Jeffery came across a publication entitled Emigrating Abroad in the bookseller W. H. Smith. He wants to know whether there is a sister book for people who emigrate somewhere else And the NHS is beset by time: government targets for waiting time, treatment time, appointment time... You can see how its administration could go into angry meltdown when confronted by Hawkins's notion. But it seems not. In Washington DC to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Hawking said - through his famous voice synthesiser - that "I wouldn't be here today if it were not for the NHS". How did the IBD website respond? Wading past its plugs for courses in special methods for trading stocks and shares, we find that the notorious quote is missing, replaced with: "This version corrects the original editorial which implied that physicist Stephen Hawking, a professor at the University of Cambridge, did not live in the UK." Clearly technology is to blame. They had assumed Hawking was a US citizen, safe from the horrors of socialised medicine. The whole hoo-ha arose, we confidently surmise, because of his voice synthesiser's accent.?

Oi! Watchit. I know where you drink.

Should we perhaps have a separate room for threads about the Drawing Room?

I know! If people would just take a little time to think about those around them the world would be a much more pleasant place.

People who want to sit on the seat next to me on the train which I like to use for my bag, coffee, sunglasses, comic book etc in the mornings. Bastards! They?ll probably just end up turning the page when I?m halfway through an article in their paper.

When I?m reading an article in someone else?s paper on the train and they turn the page. Baastards!