Monoclinic

You mean to say that you, a poor and destitute student, had a £5 note on you?! How dare you spend the fruits of my labour! I want it back NOW, you little f'ucker!!! I paid my own fees this year. You are no longer sponsoring this native Scot. And the purchase - a bottle of juice and a chocolate sweetie. This means I shall have to find something else to get indignant about. You have let me down Winny!! You've always got the Labour Government that England didn't vote for? I do, however, fear that the tables will have turned on that one in 2010. That's okay as by then we will probably have a weasily smarmy twat that we will have unfortunately elected to run the mad house along with his bunch of toffs. Have I ever mentioned that I think most politicians are a crock of sh*t?

You mean to say that you, a poor and destitute student, had a £5 note on you?! How dare you spend the fruits of my labour! I want it back NOW, you little f'ucker!!! The question that's on all of our lips is what precisely were you trying to buy? Anybody care to guess Windy's £1.50 non-purchase? I'll go for a long shot, a copy of Asian babes.

Nobody at NG would have chosen comic sans to annotate their diagrams Ssshhh there's a cover pic "out there" of my work with comic sans annotations. In my defence I didn't do the artwork, another co-author did who has an unfortunate penchant for the sans. He sometimes wears clothes with Disney characters on, I think that says enough but don't get me wrong he's ok. This diagram's made me realise another reason why I detest the sans. It is exactly how primary school teachers, notably my mother, used to write so all the kids could read it, if you understand my meaning.

Why? He is Brazilian and Rio de Janeiro got the games. He should be happy! Maybe he suffers a joyfull heart attack? I think it was this Juan who MH must have seen on the TV the other day supporting Madrid's bid. Taxi!

That's ten minutes of my life lost to Paint forever, and higher taxations wouldn't annoy me, the salaries are lower in France so net it's even stevens but she can still bugger off.

You forgot to add that one must be dressed in ones pyjamas.

I had my Fellowship of the Ukranian Cement Kiln Exothermic Reactions Society stripped away from me owing to a slight yet fundamental disagreement with a keynote speaker at the International Conference on Concrete Technology 2001 in Swindon over the fumed silica content in blue circle cement. Would this go against me should I decide to apply?

Tell you what TH, if you actually make the meet I shall walk from London to Dover, WALK across the English Channel, crawl on my hands and knees all the way to the Vatican City, knock on the doors of the Papal Apartments and offer to suck the Pope off. For f'ucks sake dont turn up....... Can you actually afford that much time off? Rumour has it Windy hasn't quite finished with his studies and he needs you the humble English taxpayer to give him a hand. Besides, isn't walking/crawling to the Vatican just demonstating the SCO1 gene deficiency syndrome, the inability to part with money. I believe Ryanair have an offer on at the moment and you can't be too far from Stansted. Come on Harry come to England so the pope can come too. Bon appetit LFN!

Looks like he did have that skin disease after all, who'd have bet on that then. BBC version.

I'd much prefer it if he followed (up on) his Electric dreams

Passwords. Bear with me here, I know they are essential but they are down right annoying for two reasons: 1) Websites that wouldn't ordinarily need security but you sign up in case you win that holiday (my folks have won transatlantic flights so I don't knock the ebookers et al comps) though essentially it is a ploy to get you on their mailing list. Here I have a variety of passwords I cycle around but I don't mind getting wrong if it blocks it's no major shakes which leads me nicely onto 2. 2) Banking or more precisely never being able to remember which password goes with which account (you have to have them all different otherwise it sort of defeats the point doesn't it, although you do end up writing them down or storing that email, again defeating the point). Hands up if you've managed to block an account and then the Robbie Coltrane oh so convenient in your pants becomes an on hold to an outserviced call centre. I've done this on more than one occasion as guess what, even though I've written them down if I can't lay may hands on it within 5 seconds I go with the oh I can guess it no problems...oh b*llocks, how do you say good morning in Gujarati again? This is why I am a great fan of the new algorithm type digibox thing where you type in a pin and it gives you another number to type on t'internet or you even insert your card and type. I just want my credit cards to have the same technology as my bank accounts. I hate that extra verification by VISA step that has crept in as guarenteed I have to reset my password everytime, (I guess I need to write it down). It creeps up on you by surprise as you are not logging into a bank account merely trying to purchase a book, flight, whatever. VIVA The Magic Calculator! (That can go in room lovely!)

From a Saints POV, Pompey are having a perfect season, losing all these matches has never been done before in the history of the Premiership. Unfortunately obeying Hansen's 2nd law of hard luck, Saints are having an equally perfect season for those south of the M275.

No, I think she cut out her womb to spite her personal sperm bank depositers.

If you can't see in the box how do you know if you haven't got a scatty cat? Nine out of ten cats prefer scat.

No thought to mention chemistry and geology, engineering or even history in your disourse on bricks. I am not impressed. Without chemistry and geology there would be no brick, now how minimalist is that? Without engineering there would be no use for the brick, except conceptually on the architects drawing pad. Without history there'd be no cool dudes from geophys to examine where bricks once were. Luckily for you guys you've stumbled upon my domain, solid state chemistry basically means I can bore you to death (again) about the fundamentals of bricks should there be any danger of arty farty overload on the simple brick.

We've just recently acquired the WHO "How to handwash" poster, pinned up in every toilet by stealth. We are not sure by who (no pun intended) but interestingly there has never been any soap in the dispenser so we've had to put our own in and likewise no single use paper towels but a hand drier and a cotton towel for all to use. In other words all the powers that be have done is waste paper, toner, blue-tac, electricity and man hours.

Putting on my random guessing language hat, I'd go for keelhauling which if I am not mistaken is dragging a wrongdoer underneath the ship from the keel. I'm off to Groningen in a couple of days, perhaps I'll conduct a survey but I am sure you must have had your own pirates too. Nice place. If getting utterly slaughtered on Belgian beer in cosy little bars is right up your alley then 't Paard van Troje is certainly up an alley. Hein reccommended it to me. Enough said. Doesn't somebody on DL live in Groningen? Thanks NAP, I shall bear it in mind even if it is a little like leaving Newcastle in search of some coal! I am sure we will also be entertained with clogs, windmills and tulips to even it up. It's usually the way at these things.

When you've had a tough week at work, been called back in to cover for absentee staff on Friday night after working all day, got out of work after 1 am, got to bed at 2am, then been woken up at 8:15 on Saturday morning by ingorant fking bastar'd builders (who are working on a conversion that all the neighbours objected to) using whatever power tools they can get their hands on. I am living in a festival which has taken over town, as it does every year, for 5 days. The music stops at 4 am (it's a mix from different speakers and stages from thrash to dance and back again) the people dissipate and it gets quieter around 5 then about 30 minutes later some noisy cleaning machines come around. The music restarts at 10. Couple this with the effects of copious amounts of Peket, I think I'd kill for the sound of loud talking or a few power tools over my lack of sleep just right now. It's fun, however those people that live away from the centre appreciate it A LOT more.

Alanis Morisette? Oh sorry, that'd be she-horse. Où est ma veste?

Avast landlubber ahoy! Abandon all hope ye who dare enter this thread and wage war on us Somalis! Is you a racialist? We shall get ye by the keilhalen sonny Jimlad.

Didn't they have Dutch pirates? By the way, what is kielhalen translated in English? Putting on my random guessing language hat, I'd go for keelhauling which if I am not mistaken is dragging a wrongdoer underneath the ship from the keel. I'm off to Groningen in a couple of days, perhaps I'll conduct a survey but I am sure you must have had your own pirates too.

À L'ABORDAGE!!!!!!! La bataille commence en Belgique... et juste pour Capitaine Vaagy, Piraats.

I see your erektus and raise (sN-word) you an Inka Pearl advert I saw in a Swiss train station (sorry about quality couldn't be bothered to find original)