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Strange - I don't think we've done that bad but will still be happy with less than six.

Probably true - I guess I'm showing my inverted snobbery by defining the whole thing by the last night.

A good friend of mine who defines middle classness and whose upbringing proves to me I'll never be anything but working class no matter what argues that The Proms were invented to give the plebs the chance to appreciate the finer things in life. I accept that that might be their origin but now they epitomise everything I despise about the worst excesses of what passes for patriotism in this country - especially the last night with the flag waving bullshit.

Off into town for pre-holiday haircut and clothes buying - great mood.

Pisser for the bloke but acts of sheer stupidity like this (see also harassing Doreen Lawrence) are "good" things for me as they chip away at the respect the sheep have for the police and the establishement. I'd love to meet the cretin (even if it was May or Cameron) who ordered this and basically just point and laugh at them.

Reviewed the thread and I said this on page one - proving this universe is a bit of a Moebius loop (or I'm senile).

I find the idea that dreams are jumps into other versions of the multiverse to be appealing - I've had loads of dreams where I'm me but my life is different and I've been parachuted in and have to figure out the differences and who people are.

Had one the other night where I was in a bar in Germany and there was bother brewing which I defused by buying a few locals a pint - I came to pay and used a cheque drawn on a currency which wasn't Euros or Marks (maybe ECUs?) which then meant I was given a cheque as change in Euros which was when I realised it was one of my time travel dreams and this was the 70s and due to some exchange rate weirdness the change cheque was for 700m and all of this had been a scam I'd ran to get rich. However when I got back to the present I found that I was being pursued by the Germans who'd followed me and they chased me over the Tyne bridge into Gateshead. Then it shifted to me having fiddled time somehow which had made me a super hacker and I'd completely switched off the internet but this became public knowledge so everyone and his dog was chasing me like in a zombie type film, ending up on the Gateshead flyover. Then I announced I hadn't switched it off but had used every computer on the planet to apply the pre-quantum theory that given enough computational power you can predict the future and I'd emailed everyone a "fortune" based on the prediction but when I tried to read mine it was written in weird biblical/riddle like format - "the snow leopard will lie down with the lion" type stuff.

So apppointing Walter Mitty has been the utter failure we all predicted.

Just an hour and a quarter to go in my last day in the office for three weeks. I have two days training tomorrow and Wednesday then two and a half weeks off including my week in Cyprus from next Wednesday. Yipee.

I tried watching SOTD but switched it off as it reminded me of a shit sitcom - didn't bother with Hot Fuzz. I liked Paul though.

Bad news for you, excellent news for him. I think I've said before I had it when I was 32 and it was a nightmare.

Roeder was a cultured fucker rather than just a lump like.

Agree to an extent but BP is a definte yes.

Since its return with Ecclestone its been okay after going to shit post Tom Baker. I'd watch it every week if Capaldi played it as sweary as The thick of it.

Manners. Liverpool st was full of foreign tourists this morning and fuck me they're ignorant on a huge scale.

Worryingly sensible I'd call it.

It was the first for years - thing is I knew to stop it from happening again I needed to go back on Allopurinol but couldn't do that until it subsided - a double pisser. Hope Sandoval out of Mazzy Star.

Well a year ago I was in the middle of an 8 week gout attack which was fucking agony so happier.

I've been looking out for the "been fiddling the LIBOR?" one with no luck so far.

Well he does say sorry at the end.

The higher echelons including mps will be fawning twats eager to please. One example is how he got his way over chelsea barracks.

I agree the uk is pretty decent in those terms - I do however think it could be a lot better. Also capitalism needed a huge piece of state intervention five years ago to prevent its demise so I think its overrated personally.

You can think its important without insisting every new building has to be Georgian.

By the way my new royal fact for this year is that legally the queen owns every piece of land in England. We are granted "estates" which are actually licences to notionally buy and sell the land but if she wanted to she could revoke the estate at any time with no legal comebacks. Now I dont think for one second its likely but its another example of shit that's still in place that's just accepted.