Brendan

A horse, a chinaman and a vicar walk into a brothel.

Evens Quids comes up with some sort of gamblers explanation.

I thought people were living too long anyway.

PeckhamRose Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > So what's it actually like being fifty three? You don't get a seat on the bus but you don't really want it anyway because of the piles. I'd rather be Silver Rattles to be honest.

Crazy Pig? Silver Rattles? No idea what you?re on about (suffice to say that the world is just getting madder and madder) but they would both make good stage names.

I knew that with just a little bit of perseverance I could turn this into a thread about hair metal.

Those chicks look like guys.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Electric blue water in the fountain at PRP. What's > that all about? It looks ridiculous. Harrumph! It may not be intentional. It was a common schoolboy prank of ours to dye the water in the school fountain various colours. Gentian violet was good for purple.

Now you know how the Neanderthals must have felt when Cro-Magnon Man moved into Europe. And we all know what happened with that little situation don?t we. Well? Don?t we. Eh?

So you get a free place to stay but you have to go to church. Sounds a bit like going home for Christmas.

Wikipedia to the rescue once more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Orthodox_Church_of_Jerusalem

The Byzantines?

And all the while they?re getting smarter as we slip ever further into gibberish.

It's worse than I thought.

Someone should explain to him that it?s winter time.

Yes, they probably will develop music too given time.

Moos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You'll wake up one morning to find them leafing > through your Proust, and nodding sagely. If they want to take the water bill off my hands that's fine by me.

Great, super quick, highly intelligent, heightened sense of smell and now they?re going to develop specialised hearing too.

Miaoue? Peanut butter, chocolate, special mouse bait from the shops. All to no avail. My company obviously just attracts a more cerebral sort of mouse.

Mice are evolving, getting smarter, faster and more able to detect poisons, because of their cohabitation with humans. Urban mice are apparently significantly more intelligent than ones found in the wild. It?s all down to natural selection. The smart ones don?t end up in a trap the fast ones don?t end up inside a cat and the ones with a good sense of smell don?t eat poison. They also produce around 730 generations a century compared to our 4 or 5 so they can evolve around 180 times faster than us. Not only are they getting more and more difficult to catch but our efforts to exterminate them are creating a type of super mouse that may one day overtake us and end up being the dominant species in this little arrangement we have. We had one in our house about a year ago. Smart little bugger. I found the tracks with talc and put baited traps in the way. Nothing. When I checked for tracks again they just went around the traps and I?m sure they spelt out ?fuck you? in one area. Poison was similarly ignored. Eventually I was forced to set my wife on it. She cornered it in the living room and I trapped it in a lunchbox. So there we were, face to face with nothing but a few millimetres of transparent Tupperware separating us. The hominid and the rodent. Two players in a Darwinian game being spun out over millennia. As once the hominid had looked out of the cave at the sabre toothed cat, whose pitiable decedents are now confined to our zoos, so now did the rodent look at out me, and I in at it. ?Aww, cute ickle mousy, couldn?t possibly kill it.? Thought I. (looking cute is probably another of their wily evolutionary adaptations.) ?Mug.? Thought the mouse And, ?I hope he lets me out near a rich person?s house. I?m sick of eating his crap cereal.?

Is it necessarily necessary for member states to subordinate their local judiciary in order to enter into an agreement of common collective security?

I don?t get it. Most people in Manchester think Cumbria is somewhere in Germany anyway.

It?s true that alcohol is not physically addictive in the same way as nicotine in that only a few people will develop a physical addiction to alcohol but then the same is true for marijuana, ecstasy and LSD and there is no shortage of supply and demand for those. Getting back to the original point though. Taxing cheap alcohol is state interference specifically targeted a certain type of customer that a certain type of voter feels they can self-righteously vilify. That?s probably the political motivation. I would say that government doesn?t give two hoots about commercial and individual rights except for where the issues surrounding them can win votes. If this was being done in order to promote competition and protect the pub trade, as David suggested may be an outcome, then there would be some argument for it. Competition law has a place but it is a tricky thing and if economic conditions change it can suddenly end up stifling the competition it was meant to promote.

Hmmm?. So an international organisation aimed at preventing war through collective security. Now I?m sure another Afrikaner, perhaps slightly more eminent than me, had an idea like that once. It could work well if Britain and America don?t spend 80 years trying to undermine its various incarnations from within.

Good point but the government isn't going to just let us all quit our jobs now are they.