Same here Sir Nick, surprised me though :)

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Oooooohhh pushing it a little bit!

Happy yuletide Nick.

Close to being labeled as well balanced and normal, I'd say?

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The Kite Fliers

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Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet
belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes.

TMI after lunch.

India the new country for leprechauns

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Only a little less right wing :-) I would class myself as centre right.

Well according to politicalcompass.org i'm slightly left and slightly libertarian.
Specifically, here:


To get back on topic, anyone fancy a new swimming pool?
For sale: Bank vault with eight million coins

This genuine sale is perfect for anyone wanting to recreate Scrooge McDuck's cartoon money swimming pool.

Economic Left/Right: -9.12 Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

I'm almost off the map. No surprise. I'm like Ghandi me.

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Only a little less right wing :-) I would class myself as centre right.

Well according to politicalcompass.org i'm slightly left and slightly libertarian.
Specifically, here:


To get back on topic, anyone fancy a new swimming pool?
For sale: Bank vault with eight million coins

This genuine sale is perfect for anyone wanting to recreate Scrooge McDuck's cartoon money swimming pool.

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Only a little less right wing :-) I would class myself as centre right.

Seemingly one of the few men who's become less right-wing as he got older. :)

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

Blessed are those that finally see the light oh exalted one!

Well Uli, up until about 18 months ago I used to like the Mail, but the recession hit and it entered into a vicious circulation war with its main rival the Daily Express to survive. Since then it has degenerated into cheap trashy headlines to catch people unawares, and in the process lost a lot of journalistic integrity. Although it's website is still very good, and often has breaking news before the BBC.

...and there was me thinking that the scales had fallen from your eyes and you had realised that it had always been a vile rag of a newspaper.

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Laughing, she replied: "He does all the cooking. I can't complain about that. He's lovely." Asked if the aide describing her husband as a nightmare was "wrong", Ms Cooper said: "He is."

Either say that or get divorced ....

Ugh!

Hehehe the Daily Mail short of copy again.

Legend has it that on this day, the god Odin will be killed by the wolf Fenrir
The soil and the sky will be stained with poison and the sea will rear up
Prior to the apocalypse, three freezing winters would follow each other
The sound of the horn is supposed to call the sons of Odin to the battlefield, where Odin will ultimately be killed

That all sounds to me much like the Nostradamus quatrains. Written in such a way as to generally mean anything anyone wants them to mean.

The soil and the sky will be stained with poison - could refer to ground pollution by pesticides or GM crops. and CO2 climate change.

and the sea will rear up - We have tsunamis and always have done.

three freezing winters would follow each other - nothing unusual in world weather systems.

The sound of the horn is supposed to call the sons of Odin to the battlefield, where Odin will ultimately be killed - Odin or Wotan is the Norse God of war, this could refer to any military leader and his troops fighting a war and the leader being killed. Colonel H in the Falklands comes to mind, as does Osama Bin laden.

"Legend has it", says all you need to know.

I wasn't sure whether to post this here or in the "Thor" thread, but then I thought, as it's the first End Of The World prediction I've seen for 2014, it has to be silly..

Viking Apocalypse in 100 days

T.A.

They really do make everything in China; including, it would appear, Parises.

Paris In China: Tianducheng Is An Eerie, Abandoned City Of Lights Clone

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

What a load of old b**ls ...

Sigh ...

Ai yai yai, that's got to sting!

On the upside, with protests like that, it's unlikely he'll be spawning any descendants!

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Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge.

What a load of old b**ls ...

Sigh ...

In a joint statement Anija Dokter, from Cambridge Feminist Society, and Lauren Steele, Women's Officer at the Cambridge University Student's Union, said: "This is an example of immature, blind and irresponsible behaviour on the part of the Tab editors.

Since when, anywhere, have uni students ever been anything other than immature and irresponsible? It's what they are and what they do, and always will be. Then they moan they can't get a job after graduating. I live in a University town, so I have to live with it day by day. I'm not going down the route of the Womens Lib discussion, had my fingers burnt too often around here.

Students slammed for 'sexist' contest

Cambridge University students have been accused of sexism after students posed naked as part of a 'Rear of the Year' competition.

Five women and five men were photographed from behind for the competition, which is decided by their peers voting online.

They can be seen posing naked or scantily clad in campus locaions including a college laundry, on a lawn and in a study area.

One of the entrants, who asked not to be identified, said: "My bum is in its prime, it's only downhill from here. It was now or never really."

The pictures have been posted on student website The Tab alongside five nude male entrants, including one posing in the University library.

Organisers said all the entrants had "volunteered" their services and they had intentionally run a male competition alongside the women.

But the poll has been criticised by campaigners as "irresponsible".

In a joint statement Anija Dokter, from Cambridge Feminist Society, and Lauren Steele, Women's Officer at the Cambridge University Student's Union, said: "This is an example of immature, blind and irresponsible behaviour on the part of the Tab editors.

"I sincerely hope they will take responsibility for the harm caused, not only to the women depicted but also to the broader community, for reinforcing sexism and exclusion."

Now that is plain silly. How can something be sexist if there is an exactly even balance of genders (5 each). These people need to take a step back before opening their cake-holes.
I agree with gender equality, it's a very noble concept and should be encouraged, possibly with a bit of feminism thrown in to help redress the balance. But i fear femenists often do more harm than good by missing the point and turning shouty when there's very little worth shouting about, which isn't going to help their image.

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Well Simon, to be honest Dimbleby deserved it. A shame really because like his father Richard, he is one of the most respected broadcasters in the country. Soppy wotsit :-)

Newsnight has been accused of dumbing down recently after a number of similar stunts since former Guardian deputy editor Ian Katz took over in July.

Oh well, that explains that then, the open toed sandal, goatee beard, 1/2 of lager, pseudo intellectual brigade have taken over!