I heard the news today, oh boy..

[mockney piers]

Ooh, i got filmed by these people twice in our area, I made sure I stuck two fingers up the whole time, so let's see if I made it!!

[Ted Max]

Impending RTA captured on camera.

[mockney piers]

Ha ha, do you read El Reg? It's an obsession with them.

Sadly it's bright and busy, then suspiciously clouded and quiet where I'd be swearing, then bright and busy again.

My colleague tells me they photograph everywhere and have software to help them filter out possible issues like swearing idiots, bloodied corpses under buses etc.

[Brendan]

Has anyone else noticed this?

[Mark]

An 18-year-old has secretly painted a 60ft drawing of a phallus on the roof of his parents' ?1million mansion in Berkshire. It was there for a year before his parents found out. They say he'll have to scrub it off when he gets back from travelling.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/hi/newsbeat/newsid_7961000/7961224.stm

[mockney piers]

The inevitable Brown backlash finally begins, and not before time.

Has any one actually seen Matthew Norman and Marmora Man in the same room?

[mockney piers]

like we need more financial bad news

Not surprising mind

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

What credit crunch?

[charliecharlie]

?195 per kilo... for cherries... an April fool day article?

I hope, or the world has finally gone mad!

[charliecharlie]

worth a read....

police don't seem to going through a good patch at the mo...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/brian-paddick-police-leaders-must-regain-control-of-their-subordinates-1667277.html

[Brendan]

It?s official, long hair makes you better at writing heavy metal.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2009/apr/09/long-hair-makes-good-metal

I know some of you will appreciate this.

Ok probably just Keef.

[Keef]

That'll be why I haven't written a song in about 4 years!

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Oh no, Francis Rossi recently cut off his ponytail. No more classics then.

[Huguenot]

Nazi Super Cows

Great headline.

[louisiana]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Oh no, Francis Rossi recently cut off his

> ponytail. No more classics then.

If Rossi were to shoot himself in the head and bury himself, we'd all be so much better off.

And he can do the same to Bono while he's at it.

[Brendan]

Weren?t we having a discussion/argument about alternative fuel sources recently? Anyway clicky clicky.

Gas power plants could be cheaply retrofitted to generate hydrogen as well as power

[Brendan]

This is for all those of you who enjoy a good fight about science vs belief.

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227081.100-the-science-of-voodoo-when-mind-attacks-body.html?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=mg20227081.100

[Brendan]

Often actual scientists are more open-minded about these things* than those who just ?believe? in science.

*and their scientific basis and application of course.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Is nothing sacrosanct?

[RosieH]

Holy moly, Shane, say it isn't so...

[RosieH]

You can always count on the Catholic church to know the exact mot juste

Big up the Archbishop of Westminster for not overlooking the many good works the paedophile rapists may have committed over the years.

[annaj]

Speechless.

The Archbishop actually sounds like he wants us to feel sorry for, or even proud of, people who have abused their position of trust and power, in the worst possible way, for decades, becuase it takes "courage" to face what they've done.

It's.... I'm.... but.... I mean.....

Nope, too appalled to form a sentence.

[????]

That is staggering.....It is such an obscenity I almost can't belive he could have said it.....

[RosieH]

I feel sad that it no longer surprises me, that this is what we have come to expect

Except, except... don't these people have advisors, pr people, friends for Christ's sake, who say, "no, don't say that; despicable enough that you should think it, but don't say it out loud, where people can hear" ?

[Brendan]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/20/redundancy-benefits-welfare-state

Grrrrr!