I heard the news today, oh boy..

[Huguenot]

Bluewater? You can lob petrol bombs and fireworks out of the window when you drive through New Cross

[Brendan]

This tickled me: http://www.mg.co.za/zapiro/all/

[Brendan]

Here is a well known fact, to those who know it well, that nevertheless is rarely acknowledged in the mainstream media.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/tomserviceblog/2008/oct/31/heavy-metal-mozart-salzburg

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I say, Roy Wood is looking a bit haggard these days.

[Brendan]

That?s what a life of hardcore partying with the ELO will do to yah.

[Brendan]

sanctus carnero batman

[*Bob*]

Brendan Wrote:

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> sanctus carnero batman

"Professor Mary Beard of Cambridge University said it was the linguistic equivalent of ethnic cleansing"

Unfortunate comparison.

Unfortunate name.

[Brendan]

Quite poignant considering the manic British interest in American politics http://www.mg.co.za/article/2008-11-04-the-art-of-lying (this may have also been published in the Guardian but I can?t be bothered to look)

[Ant]

Haven't seen that much that I've liked in the Onion for a while, but this made me chuckle: http://www.theonion.com/content/news_briefs/black_man_given_nations

[mockney piers]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/mps-seek-to-censor-the-media-1006607.html

Seeing as the Al Yamamah investigation was stopped 'for reasons of security' it doesn't take much of a leap of imagination to think that labour would have suppressed the story had this legislation been in place.

And this is cross party, so I can't even blame labour.

God I hope this goes no further.

[Brendan]

It?s for our protection Mockney.

And remember, if you aren?t doing anything wrong you won?t have anything to fear.

[Ted Max]

Talking of things being banned in the name of national security...

Miriam Makeba - recently Hovised in Naples. What trooper, though.

[Ted Max]

+ a

[Ted Max]

- trooper. + trouper.

Oh, why bother? I'm going back to work.

[Brendan]

Don?t worry we know what you mean.

As an aside though you have just highlighted the very reason why I am always so outspoken, fanatical even about civil liberties. It?s because I grew up in a country where they were restricted. Even when I was in primary school it pissed me off.

[SeanMacGabhann]

A favourite line in Dead Set last week was when the producer of Big Brother shouted at someone and was told to treat people properly, he barked "yeah alright Shami Chakrabarti..." - it just reflected how many people hold civil liberties in low regard

There is a a lot of consent being manufactured in recent years it has to be said - so no surprise to hear I'm with Brendan, Piers et al on this one...

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

whoops

[Brendan]

Troubadour?

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I'm in love with Paul Weller.

[Huguenot]

Erm... WTF?

[Huguenot]

Would you Adam and Eve it?

[Ted Max]

There's never a precision-guided stealth bomb handy when you need one, is there?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/food_and_drink/article5139964.ece

It?s like they don?t give a shit, they do whatever they like, but, somehow, they know everyone will love it.

It could be with an envious eye that an outsider might look upon this charmed gang, not only talented and connected, but assisted and enabled by a company of similarly talented and connected friends. Bistrotheque is their Algonquin...

Grand looned around in her Balenciaga dress, Vuitton shoes and her prize, a big hairy wolf mask. They may be stars now, but they still roll in the old East End style.

[Moos]

If you can be bothered

Exciting news from the indifferent, the bored and the shruggers of the shoulder!

[HonaloochieB]

Well done Moos, I heard this on R4 this morning but due to a hangover the size of Brazil, I couldn't remember the damn thing.

On hearing the news Larry David is reported to have said "So what".

[Moos]

And in a complete change of mood Citigroup to shed 75,000 jobs.