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I'd upgrade to a longer power cord.
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Congratulations everyone. PM me any god-parent requests for consideration.
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He was promoting his new book (The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution) on Real Time with Bill Maher last week. Pissed me off that he reduced the wars in the middle east to an entirely religious thing. As if enforcing secularism is a way to bring about world peace. I'm an atheist, and I'm all for ridiculing religion at every opportunity, but I'll respect anyone's right to be a fucking idiot. True enough it wouldnt bring about world peace, but I reckon if everyone was an atheist it would certainly help I don't think so. If we were all atheists then we'd still want their oil and they'd still want to break free of our opression. Just that we wouldn't be able to claim it was an act of christian kindness to set them free, and they wouldn't be able to tell the kids that blow themselves up they'd get their reward in heaven, it'd be restricted to what their family get on earth.
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Toon bid hopefuls backed by New York firm
Happy Face replied to Geordiejihad's topic in Newcastle Forum
You're almost there CT. Just one more step up the logic ladder and you'll reach the same conclusion most of us reached back in July when Llambias said 2 bids of over £100m had been received. EDIT: Sorry "more than 2 bids", the fucking divvy. -
Toon bid hopefuls backed by New York firm
Happy Face replied to Geordiejihad's topic in Newcastle Forum
I saw Bill Gates eating a Sausage and Bean melt outside the Blackie Boy yesterday afternoon. -
Toon bid hopefuls backed by New York firm
Happy Face replied to Geordiejihad's topic in Newcastle Forum
All I know for sure is that Moat sat with Ashley and Llambias at the match once a few months back and hasn't since. -
He was promoting his new book (The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution) on Real Time with Bill Maher last week. Pissed me off that he reduced the wars in the middle east to an entirely religious thing. As if enforcing secularism is a way to bring about world peace. I'm an atheist, and I'm all for ridiculing religion at every opportunity, but I'll respect anyone's right to be a fucking idiot.
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Noisettes - Wild Young Hearts - Nothing on the album that lives up to the single. Tanya Morgan - Brooklynati - If it was on in a bar while I was having a drink I'd enjoy it. Bit too bland for headphone listenage though. Bob Dylan -Christmas In The Heart - I might be biased, but this is absolute class. His gnarled, tobacco & whisky soaked croak singing the likes of "Here Comes Santa Clause, Here Comes Santa Clause, right down Santa Clause Lane" offsets the traditional cheesey sleigh bells, xylophones and choirs perfectly.
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The Simpsons Season 10
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War profiteering. war crimes, the decimation of Iraq.
Happy Face replied to Park Life's topic in General Chat
Funny to think I only posted that 2 or 3 hours before he got the Nobel Peace prize. -
He from Shields like? Fuck Me!
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Was gonna recommend here... http://www.thecranleigh.com/rooms/18.html Stayed there a few weeks back and it was lush. Guess I'm a bit late. If anyone else fancies it though, you won't regret it.
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Film/moving picture show you most recently watched
Happy Face replied to Jimbo's topic in General Chat
Animal House First time I've seen it. After 15 minutes I hadn't laughed once and was sure I'd seen too many of the more recent films that have ripped it off to get as much out of it as others seem to have. But then the bloke measured the dead horses upright legs and the door and I was in stitches, which continued for a good length of the rest of the film. Good stuff. -
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8298600.stm Love the shocked gasp as the announcement is made....and the old timer stood behind having a good old chuckle to himself.
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Fox's bitter report makes for a humourous read....It's just another unjust Bush slap....
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Dangerous loons.
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Any number of people. They might as well have given it to Bush for not invading Iran while he was in office. Maybe Mordechai Vanunu.
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Whoosh? When the past nominations were released it was discovered that Adolf Hitler was nominated in 1939 by Erik Brandt, a member of the Swedish Parliament. Brandt retracted the nomination after a few days.[8] Other infamous nominees included Joseph Stalin and Benito Mussolini. Says Wiki
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http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/200...bama/index.html
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It's normally awarded to people who've done something a bit more tangible. I doubt the Nobel committee have access to secret inter-governmental conversations in any case. Oh I don't doubt that. I'm just saying perhaps it will transpire that he deserves it? I agree, I just think it's premature like I said. Chez has a point too I suppose. I think they do tend to try and shape history rather than reflect it like. Yasser Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres got one each 15 years back didn't they. They gave Kissinger one during Vietnam too.
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Don't put yourself down Fish. The debate isn't above you. Credit where it's due. His talking to Iran has had a positive effect and is more than I'd have expected of Bush. But as I said, I'd have expected that much of ANYONE. Diplomacy should alwaysd be the first option. It was only Sherrif Bush who followed his gut and ordeered shock and awe.
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Not being Dubya presumably. I think its a bit unfair to dismiss his presidency so far as just this. If the Republicans / neo-cons had continued in power, we'd have been at war with Iran by now. Its not as if Obama has just not got aggressive (as per Dubya) with countries like Iran, he has actively sought out new ways of interacting across borders. That was the bare minimum expectation of what he would do anyway. He's gone back on several campaign promises on reversing Bush policy and in general continues to perpetuate every one of his mistakes. Seems strange to me he was supposed to be considering all the options for Afghanistan The president, another senior administration official said, "has embarked on a very, very serious review of all options." But withdrawl wasn't deemed to be one of them. ‘I don’t think we have the option to leave. That’s quite clear,’
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Finally, an entertaining game of womens football.