Happy Face

That's the difficulty. Previous decades were epitomised by movements. There was a narrow music press which dictated what could breakthrough beyond fanzines. So the 60s saw the birth of pop/rock, the 70s the birth of punk, 80s disco and 90s grunge. There's relatively few albums lauded as the pinnacle of a genre in its infancy. So there's standouts like Sgt Pepper, Never Mind the Bollocks, Thriller and Nevermind that are clearly pivotal. Throughout the decades there's been other underground acts that have been very popular but never taken the style mainstream, but now, thanks to the internet anything and everything is mainstream. Electronic, Hip-Hop, Elaine Paige karaoke, Garage, Grime, psychadelic jazz.... it all gets in the charts and you can't really rate the best of one genre as having as big an impact as any other.

The 2000s have been the best decade for music since the 60s.

Think that was number 11.

All the best.

Maddox? http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=episode3 Good lad. Cheers

What was that website in the early days of internet that was a blog (before the word was invented) of an angry bloke swearing and shouting about things. Ugly site it was, on a black screen with garish neon writing. Tore the new Star Wars films a new arsehole iirc

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8363726.stm

Nice little film that although it felt more like a side project than a proper movie. Aye, filmed in a week apparently.

You haven't seen Up I take it? It's a great film without the 3D, but the 3D didn't make it much worse.

Somers Town From the director of Dead Man's Shoes and This Is England, this is a far lighter short story of a runaway midlander making friends in London and getting away from it all. The way people had gone on (about the film being funded by Eurostar and featuring a colourised trip from London to Paris when the rest of the film is black and white) I was expecting horrific product placement on a par with Torque, but you would never guess where the funding came from. It's a funny, well made film. Though it might convince kids having a bad time to run away from home.

Life, the BBC nature series, had not stirred me up until last nights episode on insects. I missed the first three episodes and the fish and birds ones were same old, same old, but some of the images on the final episode were stunning. The slow motion Bee with a Sergio Leone landscape behind him looked incredible. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00nxks3/Life_Insects/

Aye but 3D porn where the lass reaches out the screen and gives you a hand job would do a roaring trade.

where is this thread, the search function doesn't seem to return it http://www.toontastic.net/board/index.php?...st&p=638700 The overpaid little shite Welsh crock still hasn't replied.

There's video of it too. http://www.queenconcerts.com/detail/live/6...wcastle-uk.html

I don't really understand the logic of this rule. Surely it's easier to serve one table of eight than four tables of two? One table of eight prefer being served altogether though. 4 tables of 2 are far easier to cater to one after the other without one of them going hungry/unwatered.

Should have gone in the hugely succesful 'letters to footballers' thread.

With my dad being a cabbie he's ingrained in me a strict over-tipping policy for cab drivers. Brierdene do a set price of £11 to or from town and I always give them £15 which is a 36% tip. Always round up haircuts to a tenner. Probably cheapest when it comes to restaurants...mainly because they expect it most. Never given a penny to a bin man or a postman. Don't get any papers or milk delivered or windows cleaned.

I wasn't, you'd already annswered that. So he can't win. No apology - he's scum. Apology - he's using a situation for political gain. We've apologised to many people and many nations for many misdeeds carried out going back centuries. All while perpetuating further misdeeds, as any moderately powerful nation does from time to time, and will do in future.

I do have an issue with the writer and the paper involved...but I only brought that up in one post. Elsewhere I've stuck to the content of this article. As prime minister he should apologise on behalf of the nation. A government voted in by living British citizens sent other citizens of it's own abroad to be used and abused as an exercise in cutting welfare costs. If you agree an apology is deserved, who should give it, if not the current PM? And where have you seen evidence of anyone whose thinking on Gordo has been changed following this apology? I've not seen one commentator fooled by this so-called 'masking' of other issues. sorry Happy but i think you're deliberatly missing my point. I've said on many previous occasions that the apology is deserved, and i agree with you that as PM Gordo is the man to make it on behalf of the nation. its just that, IMO, i believe he should apologise for his own mistakes 1st. so you admit its really just a masking exercise?? my work is done!! I think my work is done. You've gone from saying the article was "spot on" and he shouldn't apologise for this any more than he should apologise for pulling the wings off an insect when he was wee, to agreeing that an apology is entirely justified from Gordo himself. I don't see the sequence of his apologies as important, given these people have been waiting 22 years for this one. slight fudging of the dialogue there Happy. what i was asking in that instance is where do the apologies stop? i dont think i ever said the apology was unwarranted?? as to saying the apology is justified, fair enough, it is, but again, In my personal opinion, I believe he should own up to his own shortcomings/mistake, whatever you wish to call it, before he has a pop at someone else's. As Alex says. Given that he believes in the policies of his government and doesn't believe an apology is deserved for them. And given that he isn't going to perform a complete policy overhaul 8 months before a general election to satisfy the portion of the electorate that disagree, are you saying he should refuse to apologise for this? Would you congratulate him on his stance then?

"oh god no!" RIP Proper cock-end on the Wicker Man dvd commentary like. Almost as bad as Christopher Lee. One of the most entertaining commentaries i've heard.

I do have an issue with the writer and the paper involved...but I only brought that up in one post. Elsewhere I've stuck to the content of this article. As prime minister he should apologise on behalf of the nation. A government voted in by living British citizens sent other citizens of it's own abroad to be used and abused as an exercise in cutting welfare costs. If you agree an apology is deserved, who should give it, if not the current PM? And where have you seen evidence of anyone whose thinking on Gordo has been changed following this apology? I've not seen one commentator fooled by this so-called 'masking' of other issues. sorry Happy but i think you're deliberatly missing my point. I've said on many previous occasions that the apology is deserved, and i agree with you that as PM Gordo is the man to make it on behalf of the nation. its just that, IMO, i believe he should apologise for his own mistakes 1st. so you admit its really just a masking exercise?? my work is done!! I think my work is done. You've gone from saying the article was "spot on" and he shouldn't apologise for this any more than he should apologise for pulling the wings off an insect when he was wee, to agreeing that an apology is entirely justified from Gordo himself. I don't see the sequence of his apologies as important, given these people have been waiting 22 years for this one.

I do have an issue with the writer and the paper involved...but I only brought that up in one post. Elsewhere I've stuck to the content of this article. As prime minister he should apologise on behalf of the nation. A government voted in by living British citizens sent other citizens of it's own abroad to be used and abused as an exercise in cutting welfare costs. If you agree an apology is deserved, who should give it, if not the current PM? And where have you seen evidence of anyone whose thinking on Gordo has been changed following this apology? I've not seen one commentator fooled by this so-called 'masking' of other issues.

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=206...aODA&pos=11 I agree with the second half of that sentence. The question is, to what degree though? We do tolerate inequality, but the gap is widening. The average income for the 95th percentile has more than trebled from $60,000 to $200,000 since 1950 while the 20th percentile has only grown from just under $20,000 to just over $20,000... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:United_S...n_1947-2007.svg Well that's the 64,000 dollar question isn't it? I'd like more equality, particularly at the top end. I believe European systems achieve this better than the USA, probably Japan is better too. The most disappointing legacy of New Labour is they've been unable to adress these imbalances although I do believe they at least tried. The bold bit is the main point. When a Goldman Sachs employee says "we have to tolerate the inequality as a way to achieving greater prosperity and opportunity for all." he's using a broad market principle we can all agree with about wealth driving growth to defend the 60% increase in inequality and to advocate further increasing the income gap...driving millions into poverty. As you say, Labour did manage to level it off a tad, even lowering it for a period after the Tories created the greatest widening of the gap in the 80's, but it's back on the rise...