chrisp65

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I think it's a good thing to be able to genuinely change your mind. To be convinced by another's argument, or simply to change your opinion due to your life experience or whatever. But unfortunately, Reckless hasn't had this experience. Just like his chum Carswell, they saw a means to an end, duped some people, and then bailed. Trouble is, the quality of voters in this country, some numbnut in some contstituency somewhere will still vote for them next time, whoever and whatever they stand for.

Mark Reckless has now resigned from UKIP and is an 'independent' that will vote with the tories in the Welsh Assembly. What a shower of opportunistic shits so many of these people reveal themselves to be.

Well I for one never imagined it would be this complicated.

tsk, Tony celebrating that other religious festival, Pass Off Over

I think maybe you're imposing a trendy metropolitan elite 2017 view of the world on somebody that lived 200 years ago.

I can listen to most stuff. But the entire genre leaves me pretty much cold. Grown men dressed up in leather and bandanas singing about elf wizards and sex pentagrams. My personal ridiculous prejudice, but I lump heavy metal fans in with adults that take Batman films seriously or still buy comics, or have an NFL team they support, or use facebook or have walked through a park looking for a pokemon. On one level, it makes no difference to me and everybody is free to enjoy whatever art they like and I really get on with everyone and I do see my own ridiculous life. But then, on another level, I will judge you quite harshly. Iced Honey by Lou Reed and Metallica is quite good.

Tigertailz or Bon Jovi?

Before the CofE bishops wade in with 'spitting on Cadbury grave' quotes, they might want to check whether the Quaker Mr Cadbury celebrated Easter. I wouldn't normally bash the bishop, but he's out of line on this one.

Home early, so testing the ability of the plaster on the walls to resist big sound waves...

Jaaaaysus! That Temptations album. When the weakest track on side A is 'heard it through the grapevine' you're on a winner. I even think I found a Primal Scream sample in there (as in PS sampled it, not the other way...you know what I mean). It's the 'love the life you live, live the life you love' thing which appears to be accepted as a 1970's Bob Marley quote, but this album is '69. Probably on craft cushions these days. Anyway, it's on Screamadelica, so I'm off on a proper tangent now. But back to Temptations, Cloud Nine. Now I know I quite like a bit of a rough cut chopped up out of focus Jamaican dub, recorded on rubbish equipment by people in a smoke haze. But bloody hell the production values on a 1969 Gordy / Motown album. Every instrument absolutely pin sharp and separable in your head. I've literally been playing side 1 over and over listening to drums, then bass, then vocals, then organ... Anyway, good album. But I'm streamin' a bit of Screamadelica now.

I was just trying to find my jolly jingo brexit mojo. Obviously, to conquer India quickly, we'll need to retake Suez.

We're trying to get India to make use of our fin tech services as part of a tariff free trade deal, but they want freedom of movement for their people. Time to send a few gun boats and remind them who's in charge.

Good old Michael Howard, keeping it real. Apparently we'd go to war with Spain to protect Gibraltar. Well, that escalated. Have we checked that the russians haven't put some weird new aggressive racist lsd in all the pensioners camp coffee, port and sanatogen? I give it two days before somebody aged over 65 suggests we bomb Dresden if the Germans sink any of our ships.

we should have an oasis thread

Ikutaro Kakehashi

just remember it's 3 feet to a metre and most of what you're doing will be fine whoever we end up teamed up with - I've worked with americans trying to both draw on the same drawing at different times of day. They'd leave instructions like 'can you increase the diameter of 'x' by seven tenths of a centimetre' but then they'd ask for something in decimal points of an inch. It was like trying to buy something in B&Q whilst on mushrooms.I bought a shelf in there once that was described on the sticky label as 3ft by 150mm. there was a bloke in Screwfix yesterday announcing 'thank **** we can get back to proper inches, I never did get to grips with millimeters' well, if you couldn't work out metric in over 40 years, that might say more about you than how complex ones, tens and hundreds are, you **** **** tard I never actually said that out loud, but I did stare at the back of his head for a,little while I wasn't claiming a direct link between sat nav and agent orange, just annoyed at a slightly crass couple of statements suggesting there might be a price worth paying, millions dead, ISIS, cold war, refugees and deformed babies, on the plus side - playing call of duty on the interweb . As it happens, I have had a drink - first one in several weeks - and now I'm off out to do corporate entertaining stuff so this is going to be a right mess

you must be reading the wrong newspapers or something 'Your money or your lives' was a scum headline from a day or two ago I'm sure the mail will have had something similar if they've got over the fact that women have legs the letter linked security with trade we have previously threatened to go down the low tax route and we've declined to offer EU citizens here any sureity of their continued stay yesterday they were mentioning how many Spanish jobs relied on a happy Gibraltar for a country that apparently won't reveal it's cards, we've seen some pretty unimpressive glimpses of how quickly T May will think getting nasty and threatening is a good tactic for all the incompetence and buffoonery of people like the disgraced Liam Fox or Boris Johnson, I have a horrible feeling May will be our weakest card

without getting all pedantic it was Derek Nimmo that played Spok, not George Takei

pain and sorrow? dead and deformed kids and destroyed families, tap Vietnam agent orange in to google and see if that was a good price for sat nav on your phone if we can only advance by letting 'defence' think up new ways of killing and poisoning then perhaps we need a bit of a **** rethink perhaps we can give out free d fens inspired night vision goggles to every squaddie with ptsd that's sleeping rough tonight? it's a tough call, but I can't help feeling investing 2% in renewable energy research or oceanography or havesting moon cheese for the last 70 years might also have driven innovation without being quite so killy

He was on Question Time last night and proudly declared he lives in Liverpool. So many open goals...I wondered which of the panel would deliver the killer line about addresses or Hillsborough or something else. Nothing, from nobody. The quality of our politics at the moment is shocking.