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If the Scots can make Leon win X Factor, they can make Chris Hoy win Sports Personality. I reckon it'll be him first, Hamilton second and Adlington third.

Given how instrumental Afghanistan was in the US plan to bankrupt the Soviet Union, I'd have tried the best I could to steer well clear. So you'd have just left the Taliban in charge and allowed them to continue training ad infinitum then? Or would you have just nuked Afghanistan to a glass wasteland? (this is exactly what I mean by Obama probably not being able to sort things out tbh) Insofar as no one ever can? Agreed.

Or as fucking freaky.

Wasn't the use of his arms was tortured out of him? He's like Cotton off King of The Hill. Speaking of which (or similar), this has some interesting parts. I can't comment on its accuracy. http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/233..._maverick/print

No I'm not. I'm just saying that, for all there may be some people saying he's going to come along and make everything right, the sense of optimism he engenders - whether rightly or wrongly - has more grounded origins than a vague sense of him being the right celebrity at the right time. Of course it could all go tits-up. Hell, if things had turned out differently in Florida in 2000 then we might be seeing Al Gore castigated as the worst president ever because of his handling of September 11th.

Living on the edge with your predictions as ever. I imagine most thinking Americans are just delighted at the prospect of having an articulate and intelligent man in charge of their country again. (Even if he's not "really" in charge - and hopefully he'll be intelligent enough not to be. After all, even Dubya knows the value of having a strong team around you.) And following his successful candidature, it's only natural that the sheer relief has snowballed into a degree of hyperbole over time. That said, Obama has taken a real chance with his fairly low-key, Kerry-esque campaign - relying on McCain screwing up enough (which I think he may have done, even if I'll lose a whole ten pounds at Paddy Power if he loses) to outweigh the obvious disadvantages of the way he's played things. If everything goes to the formbook tomorrow then Obama will win fairly comfortably, but the combination of voting scams and what I suppose we'd know as the "Shy Tory Factor" inevitably loom on the horizon. And there's still 24 hours or so for a new Bin Laden tape to materialise.

A fine question that has plagued me since my very first brushes with Internet dating. We'll probably be upstairs, we were last time. I'll PM you my mobile number, suggest you do the same and I'm sure we can figure it out from there.

How shit is Congo man? Extremely. It was on Film4 so I thought why not. Feel yourself lucky you didnt sit down and read the book. What the fuck was I thinking? It took me about five Crichtons to realise that they're all the bloody same. Fortunately they don't take long to plough through.

That'd be grand. Make it a regular thing and I'll even edit the thread title.

Yeah, I haven't much time for the man and his "we won" attitude, but I thought his reaction was reasonable enough.

You can buy them from Sweden. Proper ones. Flat-pack and everything. Look out for the BOMBA and KÄRNVAPEN product ranges at IKEA.

I'm free. Tidied that for you.

I'm in.

Bavarian pisses me off, as does Rheinhessisch.

Can you believe Brown made a statement about it? Actually I can. But ffs, we're heading into a recession and he's commenting on this Cameron stuck his oar in as well. Honestly man Yeah I saw that too, I thought it was going to be a joke, then I realised it was serious. I think they've all just found something that they can safely lay into to try and take other media pressure off them, so they are going at it like the Blair's in the Vatican. The Pope's probably Catholic too. Anyway, there's never a bad time to post this: http://www.holymoly.com/page/NewsDetail/0,...1434846,00.html

Stil not as embarrassing as having Russell Brand as your (grand)son, I expect.

Happy birthday sir. Hope you've planned a good party.

Snakes with tits, the lot of them.

I love her price scale. "Well, clean they're worth 20... so let's say 23 for worn... and 25 for sex-worn." Talk about imagination.

Oh noes! They will make my operating system obsolete! ....ah, wait.

Bastids. Looks like we're heading for the same place tonight if anyone fancies it. Slightly short notice, I realise.

I was going to say, looks like someone in the over-25s category on X Factor with a heartwrenching hard-luck story.

That's not his sister?

I don't know why, but this makes me