Brendan

As an aside I recently saw an interview with Guillermo del Toro (bloke wot made Pan?s Labyrinth). He was approached to direct one of the Harry Potter films and turned it down. Apparently what he said to the producers was, ?When you are ready to start killing those kids off then ask me to direct Harry Potter.?

As someone who went to a private school I can confirm they do produce a disproportionately large percentage of wankers. Although I think it has more to do with the type of parent who sends their child to a private school than the actual school itself.

Words come and go and their meanings and uses change over time and sometimes end up significantly different to what they originally were. The important thing is what the intention of the person using the word is. Some common sense needs to be applied. We all know which words offend and which don?t. Some of their origins may have been relatively innocuous and some not but that doesn?t change what they mean to us today. Keef I think the dolls were called Golliwogs because they had a black face not the other way around.

My Mrs does. She reacently used it to describe my taste in furniture.

I was just being petulant Sean. I don?t disagree with the concept of government at all, just its implementation.

Well if we?re lowering the tone a similar expression could be; like a badly packed kebab.

I love the blue brick. The food is standard caf fare but with a real sort of honest, here?s what we just knocked up for you kinda feel. The best thing though is the completely unpretentious atmosphere.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > > y'see I'm the opposite - I assume my family/loved > ones are quite capable human beings regardless of > my existence. If my "estate" benefits a greater > good I would, assuming I was still capable of > thought in the afterlife, be quite pleased Greater good? I thought it went to the government.

I think there is actually a time scale on that. You can give you kids whatever you want while you are alive but if you then die within a certain number of years they will get taxed on it. Not sure what the amount of time is though. Or so I am led to believe but not having kids or very much to leave behind yet I have not really looked into it.

Give it to them before you die.

Commie!

What's so wrong with the flower beds? Which is exactly what I wrote on the consultation form.

Ted Max Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Some South Africans I know pronounce it: > "thatfukehnturncoatPieterson". lol. That's the fellow.

Except Mandela that is. I am more inclined to think the reason for it is ? Politics attracts wankers who would be corrupt anyway.

It all depends on the accent really PGC and more specifically whether the South African in question is English or Afrikaans. Although if we are being pedantic it is an Afrikaans name and therefore the Afrikaans version would be strictly correct. Although I pronounce it the English way. Anyway it looks like it has fallen on the IPL to exercise some common sense in the matter.* http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/cricket/7339289.stm *Not the mispronunciation of names that is. although considering the problem most of us have with Indian, Bangladeshi and especially Sri Lankan names someone should probably publish a book on it.

Personally I don?t really care what type of shop ends up there (I?m assuming if they change hands they will keep the old staff on) but just as an observation; Despite its reputation for being bargain-basement Co-op?s food is of a better quality and cheaper than Somerfields.

Bloody immigrants. You can?t order a beer without tripping over a sun-leathered pom in my home town. ;-)

Their involvement also makes it more difficult to sensibly address the issues.

I think you also have to examine your mood at the time. Think about why you are getting irritated. It may have more to do with you than the people around you. I normally don?t mind kids at all. I actually find it amusing watching them running around the pub one step ahead of a frantic parent. It?s a bit like watching a Road Runner cartoon. But sometimes I will find myself in a bad mood and the thing to do then is just to avoid places with kids. A few weeks ago I went into the Plough for lunch and there were these two little boys playing about. They were not in any way being obnoxious or misbehaved, just being kids. I was a bit stressed out from work and things and for some reason it really irritated me to the point where I rushed through my lunch and left all scowling. As I was walking back home I suddenly felt like a real dick. It was just that at that specific point I was in a bad mood and probably shouldn?t have gone out at all.

I don?t know if it was the same in the UK but growing up in SA the term ?Yummy Mummy? referred to a sexy attractive woman who happened to be pushing a pram around. These days in ED it seems to just refer to a woman with kids. Some of them are kinda attractive yeah but there isn?t any major ?whoarh? factor down the lane on a Saturday.

lozzyloz Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm sorry, but any political party that has the > following at the heart of their Mission Statement > has to be seriously suspect: > > "The British National Party exists to secure a > future for the indigenous peoples of these islands > in the North Atlantic which have been our homeland > for millennia. We use the term indigenous to > describe the people whose ancestors were the > earliest settlers here after the last great Ice > Age and which have been complemented by the > historic migrations from mainland Europe. The > migrations of the Celts, Anglo-Saxons, Danes, > Norse and closely related kindred peoples have > been, over the past few thousands years, > instrumental in defining the character of our > family of nations." This is the kind of twaddle that makes me support freedom of speech as it goes to show that it just gives an open gallows for idiots to hang themselves on. Now I?m not British but reading a statement like this as an outsider the first thought that springs to mind is: How can a party define British as being the indigenous white population of these islands? (I?m? not sure where they put the Irish in this whole thing) The international identity of Britain for at least the last 400 years has been one of an empire ruling over many different populations of people who were considered subject to the empire and therefore ?British? I can?t see how in any way Britishness can be reserved for the historically indigenous populations of these islands. Not considering the historical precedent.

I work around there and most of the people who work/live in the area tend to frequent the more off-the-beaten track places as those ones by the station don?t seem particularly inviting. If you go past them at about 6pm though they are normally full of groups of tourists.

snorky Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > Oh dear, some of my heritage is Norman - best > get > > me ticket. > > Normans were actually Ethnic Vikings, so dont > worry about that I have an Uncle Norman. Should I worry? I don?t think he is a BNP member or a Viking but he does have a moustache.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Incidentally, does anyone else wonder how those > restaurants at Victoria manage to stay open? I > don't think I've ever seen a punter in them. Which ones? The ones around outside the front of the station where the buses are? They seem to always be full of tourists during the day and then there is the pre/after theatre tourists too.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But to be fair most of us don't want educating - > given the largest access to information ever, and > beyond the wildest dreams of only a few > generations ago, most people seem happy to use the > internet for porn and slebri'ies Not so this very morning I used to learn 12 bar blues on the mouth organ. There?s something about me. I now know how to play 12 bar blues on the mouth organ. I also have a very bad beer and JD induced headache this morning. I can tell you that for free.