Rodders

noticeably scripted this week but still funny.

O'Leary. Meh. Started off well but got much worse. That's my diplomatic answer!

and the poll is after 18 months of DOL - pretty much exactly where it went all wrong - the decline in that second half was so frustrating.

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i hate hate hate catcher in the rye, proving Chindie's point. I only read it last year, rather than awhen I was precisely 15.4535 years old which may have been the problem. But yes, **** you salinger, how the **** do you get so many references in journalism from writing a 12 pages of schoolkid colloquialism.

Marillon - Afraid of Sunlight

really hoping something gets me back into the reading swing of things.

William Boyd

Voltaire

Candide

think i can see your problem .. sometimes you just have to switch your brian off and read a bit of trash , nobody reads Boyd for fun ..nobody :-)

really? ive nver read one of his before. Oh well! I may have to reread a douglas adams classic then.

i am having such a problem reading at the moment keep getting distracted. Had to go to the library to do some today. Got a book on Voltaire and some of his stories, started off with a shorty ' micromegas', quite amusing. I've stop/started on Candide a bit, so I might just go back to modern lit. I have a William Boyd book on the table really hoping something gets me back into the reading swing of things.

Homemade Olypics pt 1

The last one really had me in stitches

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - think it must be the fir first time ive ever heard the original version :oops:

You still haven't, Jeff Buckley's version isn't the original, it was written and originally performed by Leonard Cohen

you know, the minute I wrote that I was wondering, is it the original? ! Obviously not

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah - think it must be the fir first time ive ever heard the original version :oops:

General,

I hope the scoundrel who threw anything at the lino is banned for life.

just finished making my favourite biscuits - just had a nice hot one 8)

8oz plain flour

4oz margerine

3oz sugar

teaspoon ginger

teaspoon baking powder

4oz melted golden syrup

1. mix flour and marge up into bread crumby texture,

2. add the rest in - syrup last, mix to get doughy texture

3. roll into balls with a slight press of the finger in the middle of each on greased trays. Makes around 18-20.

4. Heat in oven 170C at 15-20 min

EAT

oh yes yes yes. I've had the greatest hits on recetly - the live version is awesome, but just been thoroughly enjoying Call Me The Breeze.

Feck - just opened an Aussie 14% chardonnay - drier than a 90 year old womans gash

:shock:

let's hope you haven't had actual experience to make such a comparison!

im drinking some local dry cider tonight.

16 and still not lost it..waiting for the special person to have first time with,

im one of the sad people that want it to be special, and have a relationship with who i lose it to.

im not a stereotype young person of today am i

Iwas like that at university - until i was offered sex on a plate and my principles swiftly changed

managed to do it to a decent soundtract - she was the big lynyrd skynyrd fan - and I was finishing it up midway through Free Bird. I also started at the beginning of Free Bird too iirc

20.

pretty old and late all told. It was just awful.

What do the letters D N A stand for

Nationa Dyslexic Association

and my favourite:

A dyslexic man walks into a bra

\o/

'Can I have some Irish Sausages, please?' asked the Irishman,

walking up to the counter.

The assistant looked at him and asked: 'Are you Irish?'

'If I had asked you for Italian sausage, would you ask me if I

was Italian?' demanded the Irishman indignantly. 'Or, if I asked

for German Bratwurst, would you ask me if I was German?'

Then, warming to his theme, he went on: 'Or if I asked you for a

Kosher hot dog, would you ask me if I was Jewish?' 'Or, if I asked you for

a taco, would you ask me if I was Mexican? ! Would Ya? Would Ya?'

The assistant said: 'Well, no.'

Suitably encouraged by the success of his logic, the Irishman

steps it up a gear.

'And if I asked you for frogs legs, would you ask me if I was

French?'

'What about Danish Bacon, would you ask me if I was Danish?'

'Well no, I probably wouldn't' conceded the assistant.

So, now bursting with righteous indignation, the Irishman says:'Well, all right then, why did you ask me if I'm Irish just because I asked for Irish sausages?'

The assistant replied: 'Because you're in f***ing Homebase'

Punchline over my American head..

irisih being tickos is a sterotpyical joke format. We do the there's a Englishman,Scottsman and and Irishman... and it's the latter who is generally the victim of stupidity.

no point ours being on tv anyway too.

heh im still at

kermode

fighting talk

the game

guardian news daily

the onion radio

the onion tv

the now show ( not on atm )

might try stephen fry's one though

4 red cards each, extra time followed by a limping owen scoring the winning penalty to make it 1-0 after 48 rounds of penalties please.

why is there a need for total distinction?

I want someone who'd be pragmatic, not someone who'd stick to some principle even when it's blatantly failing, then have to go through some ridiculous self-haranguing about 'changing the credo'.

I don't want uber left or uber right at all.

I wouldn't want a govt to tax everyone to death and waste it all, and I wouldn't want a party which isn't too far off this Not the nine o clock news pastiche: http://tinyurl.com/46n7y8

but Rodders why is the left very strong in the North, Scotland and Wales but not in the south where a large number of MP's are from

if we just had english elections the Tories in most times would always be top

they have no chance in scotland and Wales

the English are generally centre or just right of it

but the centre can now be considried right if that makes sense

varying socioeconomic factors there I guess. I might just be shooting out stereotypes here, but in Wales / Scotland, where there is plenty of patriotic sentiment, the tories will always flounder - being seen as the most english of english parties, and maybe it's to do with that, historically lots of the mines / docks etc, full of workers in these areas? shoot me down if im writing codswallop

and yes the centre has gravitated to the right imo I'm not sure if it's a temporary or a growing gradual cultural shift.

the problem with voting is most of the votes are rendered redundant in the fptp idea. So as I currently live in a tory safe seat there is afuck all point me voting Lib Dem even though I'd like to.

Do you actually live outside the city, then?

In which constituency do you live?

yes in a rural area

Worcestershire Mid. last election: turnout 67&

CONPeter Luff 51.5% 24,783

LD Margaret Rowley 20.4% 9796

Lib dems gained 1.6% more there

of course I'm sure I'll be moving elsewhere soon enough, when I finally find employment, but even so, it irks me that in places like this potential voters might be dissuaded because those votes are discarded essentially until the next election.

whats strange is how the Lib Dems have lurched to the right when there was a gap on the left

there is no doubt as muh as I dislike it but no left wing party would be voted in by the English

Blair identified this but now we saw what Captilism can do is the turning point close ?

generally i guess because many people feel "safer" voting with a party that isn't going to overhaul their cushty way of life hence polarising parties aren't going to ever take off spectacularly. The Lib Dems need to target the middle ground if they are to ever have aspirations of being a more credible visible force in politics, rather than a large fringe group acting in a glorified pressure group type role.