I heard the news today, oh boy..

[mockney piers]

Great news as head of ETA captured http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7732678.stm

Mind you if he hadn't been a criminal, that mullet sure as hell was!!

[Brendan]

Don't worry some people are still being positive.

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=284&storycode=3127683&c=1

[Moos]

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Great news as head of ETA captured

> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7732678.st

> m

> Mind you if he hadn't been a criminal, that mullet

> sure as hell was!!

Good Lord, he looks as though he's come straight from auditions for a Wham! tribute band.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

I was thinking how old I must be when the terrorists look younger than policemen.

[Huguenot]

You never had it so good...

[*Bob*]

A very sad day indeed.

[mockney piers]

Does that mean Peter Madleson can step into replace him and fulfil his life's ambition.

Imagine, head of the Bilderburg Group SMERSH AND Strictly Come Dancing champion?!?

[ratty]

Ouch

[Keef]

Bloody hell, a horror film writer would be proud of that one!

[DaveR]

Prima donna cabinet minister

also reported in the Times, where the condition is described as "Mariah Careyensis"

[Brendan]

Weren't we having a fight a while back about the relative benefits of urban trees?

Anyway they're a good thing. Here's more proof: https://www.agronomy.org/press/releases/2008/1117/221/

[Ted Max]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/nov/21/baby-development-buggies-sutton-trust

The study suggests that old-fashioned buggies, which allow babies to lie down and look up at their parent, give babies the best start in life. A recent wave of hi-tech, adaptable, parent-facing buggies - such as the Bugaboo Cameleon and the Stokke Xplory - can help, but they are often expensive, the researchers say.

Just saying, like.

[Brendan]

I remember suggesting this as a joke a while back.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7743000/7743388.stm

Anyway why are they complaining about the All Blacks being too aggressive? It?s rugby for gods? sake. Perhaps they also need their mums on the sideline to kiss their owies better when they go boom.

[david_carnell]

That haka and subsequent stand-off in the NZ v Wales game at the weekend was awesome. I can't believe anyone would suggest abolishing it.

What is this....football? For girls? In pink?

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44236000/jpg/_44236114_mathieu300.jpg

Oh, apparantly it is.

[Brendan]

Isn?t that the Dulwich Hamlet strip?

[Moos]

News In Good News Shocker

[Keef]

Heard about that this morning on the radio. Very good news IMO! :))

[Brendan]

This is very very interesting. How an Animal Photosynthesises http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16124

Well if you're interested in that sort of thing. Personaly I've always wished I had green hair that could photosythesise so that I didn't have to bother eating if I didn't want to.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

harmless pursuit?

[EDOldie]

It seems the jury at the inquest into the death of De Menezes will not be able to return a verdict of unlawful killing.

'Sir Michael Wright (the Coroner) said that having heard all the evidence, a verdict of unlawful killing was "not justified"

Well thank god for the great british system of justice. What is the point of a jury if so directed, by a specially appointed, coroner? This has always looked like the Establishment closing ranks, it's a disgrace.

[Jah Lush]

There's certainly no justice for the De Menezes family in this. Bloody whitewash is what it is.

[mockney piers]

We?re just receiving a report of an incident at a farm in Sussex

Where a number of people have been arrested in connection with annoying the nation

It is believed the owner of the farm, a Mr Hibbert, has been co-operating with police and government officials in a plot code named operation ?Less Pricks? and kindly granted permission for the use of his 17th century tithe-barn as a temporary holding place for those arrested

Although not confirmed we are led to understand that those already charged include

* Bus drivers who don?t wait for people to sit down before pulling away from the bus stop

* Taxi drivers who use their horns instead of knocking on the door

* People who moan at the council about the streets being full of litter not stopping to think that it is people who drop litter not the council

* A room full of drama teachers listening to Bjork

* Grown men with replica shirts worn over their jumpers who stand up and stretch out their arms when the opposing team fail to hit the target

* An assortment of scriptwriters, novelists and playwrights who own agas but don?t know how to use them

* A musical equipment reviewer responsible for an article titled ?microphone of the month?

* A woman who described herself as, ?a little bit Bridget, a little bit Ally, a little bit Sex in the City?, and chose to call her baby boy Fred as a childishly rebellious attempt at a clever reaction to those that might have expected her to call him Julian or Rupert. Bit of advice, call him Rupert. It fits and besides it?s a good name. Don?t be calling him Fred or Archie with all its cheeky but loveable scamp working class connotations unless you do really have plans for him to spend his life in William Hill?s waiting for them to weigh in at Newton-Abbott

* Also being held is a whole wall full of teenagers spitting needlessly

* An amateur thug in camouflage trousers whose Japanese fighting dog had run amok on a Swindon council estate

* A man from the record company who said that George Michael continues to challenge social taboos through his music

* Lisa Riley

* Continuity announcers introducing comedy shows

* A pub band that get uppity when everyone goes to the bar during a song they?ve written themselves

* A group of football fans referred to as ?commodores? as in once, twice, three times a season, who feed sugar-lumps to police horses at cup finals

* An artist who said his next album will be more song based

* A man who informs people that he gets up at 6am every morning and seemed to want a medal

* People who say they speak as they find and are somehow proud of it

* Journalists who try and spell an interviewees laugh

* An organisation that declared and awareness week for awareness weeks

* And a council worker who dropped litter

[Moos]

*people who get all snippy about grammar

FEWER, not LESS.

[georgia]

How Thoughtful

Might see if I can get some to make walking home from the EDT easier....:-S

[david_carnell]

Not exactly footweat for December is it?