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He's a f------ of a c------ alright.

"This is not a Johnny Foreigner coming along to make a quick buck." Proper takeover bid tbh.

Now this could be interesting.

Pearl Jam - Daughter

slim pickins round these parts Have you seen Gemmill lately? Nowt slim about him or his post count.

I was thoroughly underwhelmed by Shaolin Soccer, but then I did watch it with a relentless football-hater, which probably didn't help.

This thread is was class. If you don't like it, clear off! It's alright like. A bit sixth-form-common-room though. About time we had a serious philosophical thread, and well you know it. If this is sixth form, what the hell are the other 99% of threads that rapidly descend into juvenile name calling and sniggering? Gay.

Aye-aye cap'n.

I wouldn't mind if he did, so long as he gets Christina Schäffner in the German department along the way. Not bitter at all, mind.

I'll second what Renton says (surely worth a in itself ) on this particular post. As has been stated or implied elsewhere in this thread - which has made for great reading, if I'm allowed to patronise every last one of you - the ultimate flaw in the religious approach to me is not the morals or principles involved, which both believers and atheists would surely be happy enough to classify under "basic human nature" at least to some extent, but the idea that we as a species and a planet are somehow special or different purely on the grounds of divine intervention. Anyone with the slightest inkling of our insignificant blue-green planet's place in the scheme of things - and you only have to hike out into the countryside and observe the night sky to see just how insignificant we are - would begin to have problems with that attitude, religion or no religion. Part of my problem, though, as someone who classifies himself as an open-minded non-believer, is that so many people are willing to get hung up on the details. As a gay man with a partner who grew up as a regular churchgoer and choirboy (albeit relatively untainted, other than being assaulted by a couple of mobile phone pics of the choirmaster's cock - hallelujah!), even I despair when I see otherwise perfectly reasonable gay commentators in the US resorting to provocative points like this: All very entertaining, obviously, but the point has been made that we're talking about a 2,000-year-old text cobbled together from various sources here. The factual basis for the Bible might be considered faintly laughable now, but if you compare it with the understanding of what we would call "science" two millennia ago... well, our beloved scientists weren't looking too clever either. So I suppose it all boils down to whether you agree that religion should be allowed the power of interpretation and evolution (irony?) or not, particularly compared with the corresponding "scientific" concepts. I wouldn't claim for a moment to know either way, but I'm quite happy to sit in the middle on this one, happy to be an atheist, fortunate to live in a country where there aren't enough religious fundamentalists to threaten my lifestyle, but equally grateful to be able to stare up at the aforementioned night sky and feel suitably humbled, for whatever reason. Maybe it's a cop-out, but it works for me.

I was going to say, "your ignorant" in itself is a fantastic bit of irony. If that's even the right word for it.

... Yeuch? ...quoi? Perfectly acceptable Beano-/Dandy-style expression of disgust. Surely your vocabulary isn't that limited?

Well it'd be a new experience for both of us. I hope...

Bugger me, a lecture from J69 about prejudice.

As well as writing his fan club newsletters in the Journal every other day, Luke Edwards must be scripting Dyer's press quotes too. Yeuch.

1. Only after a few drinks 2. You can play games on it 3. Fuck no 4. Fuck yeah 5. No, we get Gemmill to threaten to sit on them and that generally scares them off

Sufjan Stevens - Songs For Christmas It only just arrived.

He's avaricious for not waving back? Think you may have tried to use the wrong long word there, Brock... Must be applying for the vacant Deputy Editor slot at the Fish Newspaper Group. bog off Europhile Jealous of my ability to misuse long words in four different languages?

That's just daft. Surely you entered into some kind of binding agreement with them by virtue of purchasing the original ticket? Mind, I'm sure there'll be small print somewhere telling you that you'll have to mortgage your soul prior to going through security, etc. I'll give credit to that Swedish low-fare mob who mucked me around a while back, at least they had the good grace to reply to my letter and offer me an open ticket for any date in the next year instead of the unusable outgoing flight that they changed. Admittedly, the likelihood of me wanting to go to Gothenburg again in the next 12 months is highly minimal, but it's closer to customer service than you tend to get from Stelios's merry orange gang or those cheeky Oirish thieves...

Can't you still hang for that in Utah?

He's avaricious for not waving back? Think you may have tried to use the wrong long word there, Brock... Must be applying for the vacant Deputy Editor slot at the Fish Newspaper Group.

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Speak for yourself, but I'm English. And British.

Got up on time this morning, then promptly fell asleep on the sofa. I shall be working flat-out* until close of business today. *for values of "flat-out" including "while surfing the Internet incessantly"

My eyes hurt. God, English is a stupid language sometimes.