Monoclinic

Is it mandatory for every f'ucker on here to have been a lazy cnut student? No wonder we have so many Polish Plumbers and Lithuainian Alcoholics/Shoplifters labourers. What happened to the days of leaving School at 16 and learning a trade, usually a useful one ( not gerbil juggling, or summat ), and actually earning a living? The Conservatives, or shall we say the greengrocer's daughter? All a bit before my time current affairs wise. My major concerns would have been doing a million bounces on a Lolo ball, Pac-Man, Swingball, Dad fixing Cindy's head/arm/leg again after finding the elastic limit of Cindy in a demonstration of Hooke's law, that Rubiks puzzle - the one with the rings which everyone "boxed" i.e. forced it to go in a direction it shouldn't, you know that sort of thing. However, I digress, something tells me it is all her fault. Did she not cause the decline in proper apprenticeships? Was she responsible for introducing the YTS monkey exploitation scheme where you take a bunch of 16-17 year olds, teach them nothing and pay them peanuts? Then came along John Major's government who gave a charter to any two bit poly, giving them silly names but sticking university in the title somewhere. This then deluded your would be plumbers and navvies into some mickey mouse course in German peace studies from 1919 -1936 with Hebrew, golf management studies, surf science or outdoor activites with philosophy concurrently devaluing the degrees already in existence / lowering education standards / insert cliched argument in here. Faux artificial intelligence courses aside the joke must have somewhat backfired given the stories of Cambridge academics sidestepping into plumbing because well it paid a damn sight more. Snob, moi?

Oi (vey) NHS you're doing it wrong!

You-know you are going to have to throttle back a whole lot soon or say good-bye to your liver sometime in the next 10 years! Surely if you drink lots of vodka and then throw up, much of the vodka doesn't get to your liver. So I think you should revise that to 15 years. However paying a visit to Armitage Shanks might double your chances of gob cancer (Choice of press citation is in no means a form of stereotyping )

As long as you type at a snail's pace when you do your secondary search within the thread. That pink error box saying you've done too many searches (i.e. 2) within a certain period of time (i.e. 20 seconds!!) occurs rather too often. Imagine google being that bad. 'Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength'

No dead drummers or guitarists "playing quietly" here: Magic People, . The Voca, who do what you don't dare do people.

I am not a *piscephile* but I think you can get bent ones.

Well, what do you think! They might be one of those silent lurkers, or perhaps a dual personality. Could be St Peter, he'd have insider knowledge being The Gatekeeper and all.

If you know anybody with a pet parakeet, record the sound of the chirping bird. Then play the tape around your house. That would make it less quiet, and on top of that you don't have to feed it or clean it. Everyones a winner. But anyway - deepest sympathies... I am going to keep him around, he's currently in my freezer ready to be stuffed. There's a recession on: Chicken Parakeet Tagine with Apricots and Almonds yield: Makes 4 servings active time: 30 min total time: 1 1/2 hr Ingredients 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon ground ginger 1/2 teaspoon turmeric 1/2 teaspoon black pepper 1 1/4 teaspoons salt 3 tablespoons plus 1/4 cup olive oil 1 chicken parakeet, cut into 6 (how big is your little buddy?) pieces, wings and backbone discarded 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 medium red onion, halved, then sliced 1/4 inch thick 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped 5 fresh cilantro 5 sprigs fresh flat-leaf parsley 1 1/2 cups water 2 tablespoons mild honey 1 (3-inch) cinnamon stick 1/2 cup dried Turkish apricots, separated into halves 1/3 cup whole blanched almonds Special equipment: a 10- to 12-inch tagine or heavy skillet; kitchen string Preparation: Stir together ground cinnamon, ginger, turmeric, pepper, 1 teaspoon salt, and 2 tablespoons oil in a large bowl. Add chicken parakeet and turn to coat well. Heat butter and 1 tablespoon oil in base of tagine (or in skillet), uncovered, over moderate heat until hot but not smoking, then brown half of chicken parakeet, skin sides down, turning over once, 8 to 12 minutes. Transfer to a plate. Brown remaining chicken parakeet in same manner, adding any spice mixture left in bowl. Add onion and remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt to tagine and cook, uncovered, stirring frequently, until soft, about 8 minutes. Add garlic and cook, stirring occasionally, 3 minutes. Tie cilantro and parsley into a bundle with kitchen string and add to tagine along with 1/2 cup water, chicken, and any juices accumulated on plate. Reduce heat and simmer, covered, 30 minutes. While chicken parakeet cooks, bring honey, remaining cup water, cinnamon stick, and apricots to a boil in a 1- to 2-quart heavy saucepan, then reduce heat and simmer, uncovered, until apricots are very tender (add more water if necessary). Once apricots are tender, simmer until liquid is reduced to a glaze, 10 to 15 minutes. While apricots cook, heat remaining 1/4 cup oil in a small skillet over moderate heat and cook almonds, stirring occasionally, until just golden, 1 to 2 minutes. Transfer with a slotted spoon to paper towels to drain. Ten minutes before chicken parakeet is done, add apricot mixture to tagine. Discard herbs and cinnamon stick, then serve chicken sprinkled with almonds on top. Serve with Couscous leftover Trill.

Okay, resistance is futile. It's not dead, it's just stunned.

I love $witz€r£and!

F'uck off with your truth about patterns in celebrity deaths, rubber ring. Most of us around here were born with a modicum of intelligence and scientific integrity not forgetting originality and diversity (I speak not for myself). I am downright fed up with the lists of names that you recant like some spandex-clad bingo caller. Bring back Banshees any day. At least he was a funny village idiot even if the laugh was usually aimed at rather than with him. I seriously have doubts as to whether the BC stands for Boston College, which I was led to believe by someone was a place of academic excellence. Perhaps your parents just made a substantial donation to the Jesuits or you rogered the vice chancellor (that's president to you) twice nightly leading up to your finals? You can stick your crack-pot theories about the regularity of deaths up your Bourneville Bloody (see above) Boulevard. Why not try swatting up on Gray's anatomy coupled with a bit of gaming mathematics and Hello! magazine. If you were to then stumble upon a formula relating a celebrity index to their aleatory death you might be considered for the DL Fields medal. Today I iz not tolerant.

I'll be on my annual pilgrimage beginning of September, so I guess I'll miss 3 weeks or so (unless I manage to get access to a computer) So I suppose August will be OK. Two cups sounds good as well. Mono, your place or mine? If you decide to take me up on my offer. I'll play away, if you like.

She done a cracking job in Planet of the Apes though. That's a bit rough to refer to Michael Jackson's Memorial concert and associated hangers-on/limelight stealers/perenial media whores as Planet of the Apes. Hear, hear honez, apes are such fascinating creatures, almost up there with the humble squid. My favouritist ape is the orangutan. I am sure others out there would disagree.

I don't understand any of this. Brains in my feet you know. You will see, it's your first season so it's quite right you've not understood. At the end of the season DWB does some jiggery pokery and the system sends out awards for best player, most assissts etc (finanical awards). Then all of your players have the skill altered based on this season's perfomance and with that the form is dropped back to neutral, so starting training now is futile as they won't finish before the reset. The boost is something to do with improving a lower down in the league team. Here is the results of the Belgian jury: If we have no takers, thus 10 teams, plus no objections I vote for a boost to Alpine Pirates. If the other teams below the Pirates find themselves with a manager then I propose that in fact eejit eagles gets a boost (with the Pirates to get one next season) and Bellend Rovers a complete makeover! Ocky restarted season 3 with a completely new team which has seen him well, I think as the Bellend Rovers was (mis)managed earlier on, that those who have come after just couldn't catch up. Maybe a new team nurtured from birth would appeal to someone? If we have only one taker perhaps the additional spare team could be open access this season where we could all try to manage it with training, making some cash replacing players to see if we can't make it more competitive. I say open access meaning just between us, obviously it can't be done by one person alone as they could tamper with the team before a crucial match. Maybe chinese whispers... each taking their turn and changing the password before passing it on. Okay, perhaps this is a silly idea but it would be a challenge for us all.

And of course your pride when you get whooped by a girl August is great by me. Will you be resetting before then... i.e. can I accept HCW's friendly or do I wait a few days for the update?

Depends on your view on 'significant' - JP2 and RR were expected, so I wouldn'd class them as significant deaths. MJ's certainly wasn't expected, and I wold probably class that one as significant. Three Four significants in one post. Howzat Mono? Jade Goody, now that's what I call significant. A significant improvement to the gene pool? Let's hope for the sake of her kids nurture over nature works eh?

... and we can all breathe a sigh of relief as the crisis is averted and normal order is resumed. Congrats DWB. Could you tell us when you are resetting as I need to send my boys on their end of season training trip, so before or after?

Just saying what exactly? I'd hate for there to be any ambiguity around your post once the results are known. Do spell it out CR -- are you predicting a 2-1 win to the Poms? Maybe you are suggesting that 4 men with rucksacks will cause havoc to the London transport network. Then 4 others will try to copy them but fail miserably sueing Blue Peter for a poor design and bad preparation. Not forgetting the finale, a special forces manoeuvre resulting in a dead Brazilian and vilification in the press. Or a devastating hurricane wipes out ca. 1,000 poor people in the US to the delight dismay of its president, who jumps straight into action on the rescue mission. Or that Lance Armstrong will win le Tour before retiring (again)

Perhaps you could go on holiday somewhere less polleny. What's the pollen count like in Fraserburgh? I don't think we've sent Scotland the blueprints for photosynthesis yet, they're still figuring out the ones for the wheel and fire we sent them last year. Some student is working on them in Aberdeen but apparently the funds have run out and he's waiting for a wire from Norwich.

I saw this shinanigins on the early evening news tonight. The usual "arty farty" explainations came trotting out, Mr Gormley going as far as to say "it will be like opening up a Pandora's box of ideas". I think thats overstating it a bit. The usual day release patients, wannabies and Britains got talent rejects will be spending their hour hogging the limelight with little talent but much crappola. Im quite looking forward to reading about the poor deluded sap who gets the 3am slot being found, still in his Batman costume ( originality is sooo important ) head shoved tightly up his own arse, sticking out of a bin outside Mr Slimeballs bookshop in Wardour St......or summat. I think, dear Godot, I lack the knackers, the will and the sheer enthusiasm to have a bash. Calling Banshees Scream, your moment has come! Perhaps that is the late friday night slot, Pandora opening her box. As an aside, I spent a rather eventful night on Nelson's column having missed the last train "home" to um Reading it was at the time, all is fun in the folly of our youth, or summat. If I'd known ten years ago there was a fourth plinth then maybe I could have stolen his thunder, though quite frankly knowing to keep an eye on the time and a check on the imbibement level might have been more useful. Oh well, at least I now know how to spot a mountain dwelling Mexican.

You've probably found the most relevant thread on the right subforum (proof if need be there are so many random threads in random places) if a little late, I wouldn't know, I ignore the DL gestapo, however on the subject of etiquette could you turn it down a little? Please. Of course feel free to ignore me like I ignore the other 57 anal bastards around here. I like a rebel, except of course when they choose to use comic sans or support southampton What's wrong with Southampton? Bugger, nothing (well apart from the heartbreakingly obvious). That should have read P'ortsmouth.

You've probably found the most relevant thread on the right subforum (proof if need be there are so many random threads in random places) if a little late, I wouldn't know, I ignore the DL gestapo, however on the subject of etiquette could you turn it down a little? Please. Of course feel free to ignore me like I ignore the other 57 anal bastards around here. I like a rebel, except of course when they choose to use comic sans or support southampton

You must be using IE 8, Mono. F12 is an IE hotkey to the IE developer tools window. Sorry, but it won't break The Internetz, but if you follow the white rabbit, it does give access to a Matrix Telephone, in case you want to bug out to the real world for a while. What is this real world you talk about? Is it like Disneyworld, Cadburyworld or World of Leather? Does the lapin blanc have champignons? I might follow him down the channel tunnel *next days* for a few weeks. Is that the real world?

What d'ya mean you are not Irish like the rest of them? I looked up the Ozarks, are you from here by any chance? By the way does anybody know what the deathlist developer page is, or something like that. I accidentally pressed a key whilst hitting reply and came up with that page which had a line of code on it and I think you could type on it but I closed it before I broke the internet! On investigation it was F12

Mono, he was probably an actor rehearsing a part in a Beckett play. In fact that was probably the whole play. However Jean Claude Van Damme is the only Belgian actor and he didn't have the "moules" to be him!