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Ace42
02-22-2005, 11:18 AM
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4286633.stm
ms.peachy
02-22-2005, 11:35 AM
This whole thing is so absurd.
Ace42
02-22-2005, 11:37 AM
It is totally ridiculous. I suppose as a de facto Londoner, your media is even more frothy-mouthed than the national news? Do any of the Londoners around you even care? Or is it just usual "no-news week" space-filler?
ASsman
02-22-2005, 11:38 AM
I feel some racial tension.
Qdrop
02-22-2005, 11:45 AM
It is totally ridiculous. I suppose as a de facto Londoner, your media is even more frothy-mouthed than the national news? Do any of the Londoners around you even care? Or is it just usual "no-news week" space-filler?

first the Prince Harry thing....now this?

you brits are mega sensative to the Nazi statements, eh?
ASsman
02-22-2005, 11:47 AM
Yah, like in Europe they changed a telecommunication protocol from SSXXX to, err something that didn't have SS on it.
Ace42
02-22-2005, 11:51 AM
first the Prince Harry thing....now this?

you brits are mega sensative to the Nazi statements, eh?

I think it might be something to do with the rather buttoned down "prim and proper" tradition of the country, particularly in the musty and dusty realm of politics. In any other occupation, an extra-marrital affair would not be ground for dismissal. Despite politicians doing it all over the place, it always seems to create a stink. If it's not Boris Johnson getting the push, or his newspaper calling Liverpudlians self-pitying, it's Blunkett getting visas for his 'ho's nanny or Red Ken making what seems to be a legitimate comparison between two distinct types of cunt.

In the words of Private Eye - "The Media is to blame."
ms.peachy
02-22-2005, 02:19 PM
Or is it just usual "no-news week" space-filler?

I think that about sums it up, yeah.

Number of actual people (i.e., non-media) I have heard or overheard talking about this issue: approximately zero.
SobaViolence
02-22-2005, 04:02 PM
ps. The Absinthe was fucking grrrrrreat!

best thing i read all day.
Whois
02-22-2005, 05:51 PM
ps. The Absinthe was fucking grrrrrreat!

Which brand?
Ali
02-23-2005, 01:40 AM
I have no clue...I might recognize the label if I saw it. Man that shit is good....it fucks you up but it's not like any other kind of drunk I've experienced. Plus the sugar/fire ritual is fun. FIRE FIRE FIRE! Ask Van Gough about that stuff fukking you up! (you might have to shout...). The active ingredient is a cannabaloid, called Wormwood (http://www.ghorganics.com/Wormwood.html) (like in Revelations), which was once used as a pesticide (worming medicine). Absinthe is illegal in France, I didn't know you could get it in Holland. Was it the full-strength (70%) or the legal (50%) stuff... if you can't remember, then it was either the full strength stuff or you are a pussy :D

The best Absinthe in the world is found in Prague (http://nerve.fugacious.net/drf/archives/000239.html). As a close friend of your attorney, I suggest you go visit, but beware the gypsy girls and stay well away from Captain Nemo's!
discopants
03-02-2005, 03:58 AM
I live in Oldham and even I know that Ken Livinstone is a cunt, therefore that brings me to wonder why the hell the twat got voted in- perhaps democracy doesn't work.
Also, I don't think London have the right to complain about him- you voted him in, live with the consequences.
ms.peachy
03-02-2005, 04:09 AM
Also, I don't think London have the right to complain about him- you voted him in, live with the consequences.

who's complaining? I rather like Ken. Haven't agreed with every single thing he's done, but overall I dig the guy.
Ali
03-02-2005, 04:11 PM
I live in Oldham and even I know that Ken Livinstone is a cunt, therefore that brings me to wonder why the hell the twat got voted in- perhaps democracy doesn't work.
Also, I don't think London have the right to complain about him- you voted him in, live with the consequences.You decided to live near Machester, so live with the consequences, Chav!
discopants
03-03-2005, 03:56 AM
You decided to live near Machester, so live with the consequences, Chav!

Two points- I didn't decide to be born in Oldham it's just that I wanted to be near my mother at the time. Secondly, I fucking hate scallies and would like to hang them all from lamposts. By their bollocks.
While I'm at it, your're in Paris, a nice place but it's populated by the French.