Brendan

People always say ?if it?s too loud you?re too old? Well bollocks to that! Even when I was 19 I didn?t like stupidly loud music in pubs (or at parties or in cars). I like music very much but if I want it so loud I can?t talk then I will go to a bloody nightclub.

What? The reinforcement of stereotypes! You mean stereotypes like overly sensitive militant feminists? (I?m being very tongue in cheek here Asset ;-) )

White bread toast with butter and strawberry jam and washed down with a cup of white instant coffee with 2 sugars. That is exactly what I used to have a snack to get me through 'til dinner after getting home from waterpolo or football in the afternoons when I was a schoolboy. I still can't think about it without my mouth watering. It makes a latte and croissant with preserves pale by comparison.

The anglicising of traditional of African names by marketing companies. ?Redbush? tea indeed.

Ditto, ditto, ditto and ditto.

Diego Garcia, just another example of the fact that while individuals may not be above the law our government certainly is. Now if we lived in some despotic African fiasco this would be expected but in Britain we continually convince ourselves that our, increasingly unrepresentative, government is obliged to act legally. Then when they break the law or behave in a criminal fashion we just gloss over it or pretend it didn?t happen or was ?for the best?.

The thing with the Falklands is that most it their population see themselves as British and would rather be British than Argentinean. This does lend a little credence to the maintenance of British rule.* But then surely the UK has responsibility to intervene in Zimbabwe as it was only 50 odd years ago that these people we considered ?subjects of her majesty?. * Although I?m sure Britain wouldn?t go to war exclusively over the welfare of a few hundred farmers. A lot of it has to do international strategy and also arrogance (see Northern Ireland).

And the tabasco sauce.

You know what. You are going to feel rotten no matter what until your body fights the virus off so you may as well open a bottle of booze and a slab of chocolate (or whatever you poison is) It will make you feel better for a while at least. Just remember to rehydrate yourself.

Something Mockney pointed out. Another legacy of the Blair Years: Management Consultants. There are entire towns in surrey populated by them.

ratty Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Texture Like Sun Lol!

Jah Lush Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Please, never the Tories again. Better the devil > you know. Although it's possible I'll be voting > Green next time round or Monster Raving Loony > Party. Go monster raving looney. I am a card carrying member myself.

Big fat bald man. I don?t know so much. I reckon you are probably a stoner student with too much time on her hands and ?ideas? about the world that don?t necessarily wash with the bleeding heart brigade down the union.

The sad thing about the state of our world is that you don?t get to the top in politics by being a ?good man? so you will never end up with one at the helm.

So we have established that everyone here with a bread maker, except Alan, finds it useful.

Or Clarkson: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3137533.ece

Like I said. that dystopian future much loved if Sci-Fi novelits is upon us.

Lets be honest Supercasinos are not going to make an impact on British society. They are just a distraction to deter from the real issues. I refer you to Mockneys earlier post: ?the pointless league tables? the unmitigated failure to achieve anything, the subjugation of our foreign policy to a bunch of fascists in washington, the warmongering, the riding roughshod over national opinion, the erosion of personal liberties?

My folks got a soda stream in 1987. We used it all the way through my childhood and they still use it now. (good for making the soda water to go with the brandy you see) 20 years use isn?t bad I would say. Even though the handle fell off years ago and was replaced by a piece aluminum pipe that my dad bolted on. Oh and it is a bit temperamental. You have to know how to use it or it explodes on you.

I find most pizza expresses have those loud, echoy acoustics. They do serve a purpose though. i.e. When you are out in town, need a drunken feed and the girls you are with wont stoop to Burger King.

Do you ever get the feeling that we are living in a dystopian future?

I would recomend what Jah says. And add a dash a cayene pepper. It give it a nice spicy warming flavour. I also pop a rooibos tea bag in for a while.

Sickening! At least it was reported and is going to court. I dount it will get reported in the Chinese media though. Now if only someone made public ever woman that is raped in Africa (this is happening to a number of people as we speak) because the men think it is their right. Every young girl killed in the Middle East for falling pregnant out of wedlock because ?the law? demands it. Every innocent person lynched and burnt as a witch because someone with influence had a grudge and was able to pay a witchdoctor to declare them as one. And the list goes on. It is indeed a very, very fucked up world we live in Keef.

Nah I was a scrawny spotty-faced 15 year old.

I read somewhere the smoothie makers were the appliance most likely to never be used. Although I use mine quite a lot. Not for smoothies however more for soup and curry and stuff like that. I quite like the idea of making my own bread. Not sure I would stick with it though so I may as well cut my cost and just get a bread tin.