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I often just get up and make speeches at normal social events, I don't need the excuse of a wedding to start clearing my throat and tapping a glass.

Call him, you cant negotiate on email.

Brooks walks free, Coulson found guilty. The ginger snake.

You take it to the management and calmly ask him/her it he thinks your friends should be made to pay out their own pockets for their mistake. Guest who stay will drink and eat more and purchase more extras so they will make some of the cost of their mistake that way. Keep asking him if he thinks its fair that your guests should pay for their mistake. If he says there is nothing he can do about it, say no problem, who is your boss. Keep asking the same question, do you think that is fair. When they admit its not, you will get a deal.

They're all going to die due to a global environmental apocalypse anyway so just stick with the seat-belt method.

'Fiorucci made me hardcore' Mark Leckey's short film about (elemennts of) the history of dance music. He won the Turner prize in 2008 but dont let that put you off.

I'm very ambivalent about live hip-hop but that does look mint on the video.

Fuck the tourist shit, go out and get wankered with New Yorkers. If i was there this weekend, i'd be going to this. http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?607917

Take a shirt off the hanger, raise an eyebrow, then throw the shirt at them asking 'what the fuck do you call that?'

Not far off the 2007 one to be fair.

Well done that man! Is the plan to do a couple of those per week? One at the weekend, one during the week and you'll be flying in no time.

CT?

1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34 years old? Happy birthday!

Quite happy with my draw.

I cant read mine

In the draw.

I assumed that mackem was just off his tits and being a bit wacky. Reminds me of the sort of antics the wearsiders I used to knock about with would get up to at 8.30 on a Sunday morning after a particularly heavy session. Daft lads just being daft.

It was our eldest's 4th on Monday Fister, sounds like we both got lucky on the same night.

Dont worry, stuff your face with big steaks, cheese, wine, milk etc. They are all 'wholefoods' so you should be fine. People never got fat in history, fatness was invented in a Nestle laboratory in Geneva in 1971.

Is that common sense which made you claim factually incorrect details about transfats? I was questioning your view that spreads are worse for you than butter which you based on the existence of transfats. As this was not actually true, i was merely highlighting this to demonstrate the propensity of people to spout off about things. I eat butter for the record and i dont need lessons about diet. Its also not just 'common sense'. Does one glass of red wine a day harm or help you? Is it less than that or more than that? and for whom? how much red meat is fine per week? what overall outcomes are your criteria for determining acceptable quantities? on what basis? how would you observe the outcomes to justify the guidance? How would you control for red meat consumption with other dietary elements in your dataset? How much milk and cheese makes you fat and how much is good for you? How would you turn this into guidance for working parents of large young families? Common sense tells you that these things might not be bad for you in moderation but what is moderation and how do you know that its not too little or too much?

There are loads of modern spreads with cholesterol benefits with no transfats in them at all. The old 'margarines' were ming ba ding but olive oil based spreads and all that jazz arent based on the old technologies that were apparently quite harmful. I dont know for sure but i'd say there will be spreads on the market which are better for your health than butter. Bringing up transfats in that discussion would indicate to me a lack of knowledge on this specific question. Which brings me to my main point, there is very little clear evidence on dietary issues because randomised studies are difficult to design and run. We are left with sub-standard research and observational datasets. Therefore be suspicious of anyone who declares something definitively in this area. The reason we have experts to help us in these things is because its complicated. The reasons why real experts are cautiously conservative is because anything else in a complicated field dominated by weak evidence is intellectually dishonest. Having said that, i buy whatever it is that Wolfy is selling.

Wasn't the plan to use the warm up matches to practice playing a slow game?

I was once criticised for saying that half of football fans are below average intelligence.