Brendan

I hear the mists of time are lovely this time of year.

The Daily Mash had this to say about 20-20 today, ??ECB officials soon realised the new format could deliver first class international victories as each game would be finished long before the traditional English test collapse.?

Well it could all have been a cover-up for the fact that Our Lord actually died in a freak accident involving a split cane basket a jar of goats butter and a brace of Samaritans.

Macaroons.

I prefer macaroons but it?s a bit of a push to expect Jesus to have been stoned to death with coconuts. Or should that be ?coconutted? to death? Or just nutted? Jesus was by all accounts a hippy though so stoned may be more apt. Actually up until the arrival of the Romans biblical folk seemed to prefer stoning as their preferred method of killing people. Perhaps there is even further significance in the crucifix in that it was a form of punishment imposed by the Romans when the proper local way to do it was to pelt people with coconuts. Or am I reading too much into things?

I think the image of the crucifixion was particularly important in the early Christian world. Crucifixion was a common method of execution and also one used by a colonising empire so it would have had all sorts of connotations to people at the time. The crucifix was a strong/shocking image that made a profound statement for a religion whose tenets include freedom from the oppression of this life through redemption in an afterlife all brought about by the martyrdom of one individual. Not sure what the native people of the new world and Africa must have thought when they encountered these people who carried the image of a dead man on a tree around with them and prayed to in their temples.

Good show. Next time you need us to win a world cup fro you just ask. It?s always a pleasure.

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I used to work with a Dr Pepper.

Your liberal western viewpoint may be superior David but go live in the Sudan with the tribesman for a few years first before you pass judgement on his opinions. And no he doesn?t speak for most saffas. The ability of most South Africans to almost wilfully close their minds and how it is belied by their intelligence and ingenuity in their fields of endeavour infuriates me more than that of my Anglo Saxon cousins. I?ve read that coalition document and it definitely doesn?t mention Irish, Israelis, Spanish and/or Sudanese

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What you?ve described there David is a common modern liberal conundrum but you?re still not getting it. Saying something is wrong, shouting it from the highest rooftops, campaigning against it or whatever, is very different to judging what a person (or people) whose world view and personal experience are wildly different to yours, thinks or feels about something.

I think the good people of Surrey probably do have some sort of rules against Republican tea. The countryside does have its upsides though. We don't have bullfights but there is a Donkey Derby on the green on Sunday which I think is going to give the Monaco Grand Prix a run for its money.

You?re still not getting what I?m saying. We all know lots about lots of things. Hindsight and objectivity are wonderful things and we can all form whatever opinions we want. But no matter how much we know about something we shouldn't tell someone else how they should feel about it especially if it is something that involves them directly.

I used to have all sorts of delusions about career fulfilment and satisfaction and stuff but I have been much happier since I to changed my priorities to having a nice place to have lunch and a comfortable chair. These things are more important than we give them credit for.

But that?s not the point. No it doesn?t change the truth. It?s the criticism of the Israeli?s (to use the example) opinion when you are quite clearly not in, and can?t fully understand their position that gets me. And you've never shown me your terrorist teapot.

I was pitching something (well pimping myself out) to some bigwigs at a new infrastructure project a couple of years back. Part of my pitch was a website that had CVs on it. I had asked the guy back at the office to enter the CV of our first applicant on the site as a demonstration. I hadn?t checked it, just linked to it directly from my presentation. So there I am in the glass walled meeting room, all wood-effect tables and those vertical blinds, you know the sort. I?m strutting my stuff, interfacing, flashing a smile, showing a bit of leg and powerpointing like a good?un. I clicked through to the CV website and after a few more minutes proactive corporate synergy I looked over my shoulder to see that the words MR P MYCOCK were emblazoned across the screen behind me. I probably could have got away with it too if I hadn?t started to giggle like a schoolgirl.

Well JuanMockney, apoplexy is all the rage* these days. It?s a bit like when people were getting all judgemental on the Spaniards for knifing cows. Personally I don?t like it (the knifing that is) but feel that?s it?s not for me to judge someone else?s tradition. Except it?s not cows it?s a hangover from oppression and discrimination and having some or other foreign army mucking about it their affairs for the better part of the last millennia. Actually come to think of it it?s nothing at all like the Spanish and their cows. Anyway I?m going wildly off topic here. Apologies Madam Chairman. *geddit?

The bag has a hole in the middle.

Both you guys are displaying the type of attitude that I had an apoplectic go at Bob and SimonM a while back about. English people seem to do this without even realising it or why it?s so wrong. You have every right to have your own opinions on things but you don?t, not for a second, have the right to tell someone else how they should feel/react to something. Although I should point out it?s not specifically an English thing. I just seems to be common amongst them. EDIT: To be less culturally offensive.

Formation change? Perhaps he?s considering a something like a Barbershop Quartet instead of a football team.

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That would be the Romans I believe.

Ramsbottom was actually quite nice although not for the evident reasons. Nice church.

I don?t think it has much to do with PC. More to do with the dismissive attitude towards them it displays.