Gunjaman5000
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Well done Ian, nice to see you back in the news again.
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Chin up Lardy, look after yourself.
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It also suggests that not overly ambitious Lang's rise was due to his marriage and other external influence (I don't want to spell it out but it's an anagram of ACI).Is this a view commonly held among the real Tony Blair's detractors or has Harris just plain spun another excellent yarn?
It's not uncommon to think "spook" about various people. I thought one or two ex-colleagues might be in the pay of one or other intelligence service. Hadn't come across this proposition - a great idea in a novel - because almost impossible to prove either way. But why would the CIA have needed Blair to tell it the UK's intelligence secrets when Bush could just pick up the phone? Also MI6 and the CIA are already co-operating to a strong degree.
On the other had if the recruitment had happened early, any involvement could have been a useful soft blackmail tool to keep Blair on side. Blair had enough power and influence to take his cabinet with him on the invasion of Iraq apart from one or two dispensable colleagues like Clair Short and Robin Cook.
I hadn't thought about it much before, what really stuck me was the list of controversial and unpopular decisions made by the 'Blair' character that seemingly had no one but America's best interests at heart. The list got very long very quickly, quite surprising from a neutralish observer's point of view.
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Rugby scrum: 1 man pushing 2 men's heads up 3 men's arses[pedantry] Traditionally there's eight players per team per scrum in Rugby Union. [/pedantry]
Why not start a Rugby League thread? It'd still be devilishly clever with the added bonus of being accurate too.
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Just finished and thoroughly enjoyed 'The Ghost' by Robert Harris. Adam Lang's got to be Tony Blair, so I have another question to ask of youse English Persons but I wouldn't want to spoil the plot twist at the end for anyone intending to read it.Anyone else read it yet?
Alright then, I'll take it that no one minds.
***CAUTION PLOT SPOILER FOLLOWS***
The book follows the fictitious 'Adam Lang' and his meteoric rise to the head of an unnamed but quite obviously left leaning politcial party. This is presented as being unusual as Lang was from a background with no strong political ties and showed no interest in politics during his time at Oxbridge. It also suggests that not overly ambitious Lang's rise was due to his marriage and other external influence (I don't want to spell it out but it's an anagram of ACI).
Is this a view commonly held amoung the real Tony Blair's detractors or has Harris just plain spun another excellent yarn?
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Just finished and thoroughly enjoyed 'The Ghost' by Robert Harris. Adam Lang's got to be Tony Blair, so I have another question to ask of youse English Persons but I wouldn't want to spoil the plot twist at the end for anyone intending to read it.
Anyone else read it yet?
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Ah, the old anonymous suggestions trick, eh?I think you're kind of missing the point. Deathlist should be about decent debate, humour, wit and bile. Most of those candidates are either on the list, have been on the list or, well, dull.
If Deathlist wants to beat records, then sure we could pool together 50 names with much better chance than the 50 that will be revealed on Jan 1st. I'm sure some of our members will put together much better lists than the final 50 as regards bums in hearses, but lets be honest about this...
Next year's list should be:4. Tony Snow who are ya?
9. Michael DeBakey who are ya?
11. Barbara Kent who are ya?
13. Anita Page who are ya?
19. Irena Sendler who are ya?
26. Sargent Shriver who are ya?
27. Boris Efimov who are ya?
31. Donna Fargo who are ya?
37. Isabel Peron who are ya?
49. Frederica Sagor Maaswho are ya?
50. Clive Dunn who are ...oh.
Hear, hear. There's nothing clever about a half century of centenarians, I'd like to see a Gazza type or someone else with reckless disregard for their own personal health and/or safety. There's already a good list of potentials here and another here.
On the other hand, don't leave Clive Dunn off for God's sake, he's waiting to be left off the list to die just to spite us.
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Anyone in the Aberdeen area with some spare time on their hands?I wonder if they take postal donations?
I thought it said 'egg and spoon' donors. What-a-mistakea-to-makea!!!
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You're thinking of the Pork Piccolo there I fear.Not the pink Oboe?
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Happy Birthday Dylan O'Connor!How quickly a year goes by!
A belated Happy Birthday to Dylan O'Connor,
was probably a man and now is a gonner.
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A Squid Beak is not always what it seems.Good one AtJ. The camel toe images are eye-watering stuff. Lots of squid beak there.
Okay, so it is a tenious connection but seeing as it was in this thread that I learnt of the expression Camel toe (thanks ATJ et al.) I thought I'd post this little chanson here...
That's at least six years old that song. I remember as some clown at work was sent the file by a friend (2 or 3 megs back when that was a biggish size) and he decided to foward it around to a few other colleagues. He managed to send it to everyone. Everyone from the Chairman of the Board to the Mail-room toilers. I'm not sure what he's doing now.
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Slowly but surely, he ascends his own Golgotha.*(*Sorry about the flowery language, getting a bit bored of "dying".)
When he gets there he knows, if the stores are all closed...
...and he's buying a stairway to heaven.
I see your 'flowery language' and raise you 'maudlin teen angst'.
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I have the opposite problem. 90% of my work is outdoors in all weathers. In the depths of winter Im out in Thermals, tights and three jumpers, ready to take whatever the Fens throw at me. The problem occours when I have to go indoors to work and find the heating up on full.Not pleasant at all.
The great 'Is it better to be cold and warm up, or is it better to be hot and cool down?' debate rears it's ugly head again eh?. I'm on the 'cold and warm up' side of the fence. I do envy you working outdoors LFN, flourescent lighting and air conditioning ain't right I tells ya!
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It's been 24 years since we had our black lab Seamus put down due to the same crippling arthritis. I was a baby when Dad brought him home so "we wouldn't grow up scared of dogs". I smile when I think of 'Superdog' and how crap he must have looked in his cape, although he looked to me like he really could fly. I smile when I think of how his poor record was against the Christians for a lion (we had a brief Roman period in our house thanks to some armour gifted by a well meaning realative). I smile when I see my kids point him out in photos and talk about him as if they knew him.
Mum died of cancer five years ago, it's still a bit soon for wholesale smiling, but I smile when I think she gave me so much to remember and smile about.
I wish you well BHB, sad times ahead.
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BBC3 - the biggest waste of your taxes this side of Brenda’s mob of inbreds. It is my great misfortune to have to write synopses for some of the bilge BBC3 pumps out, from Dog Borstal to My Big Breasts and Me, from Help Me Anthea I’m Infested to Two Pints of Cunting Lager and a Packet of Motherfucking Crisps. It makes Channel Five's output resemble Shakespeare's Complete.Worse still, I have to deal with the halfwits that come up with, and then schedule, this crap – people who actually believe that their squalid little programmes are of major importance to mankind and who get all huffy when I make a little mockery/can’t be arsed to put the correct episode on a database.
(By way of compensation I also get to do BBC4, which is well-run and has a boatload of interesting stuff, including plenty of excellent music documentaries. OK, plug over).
I've wondered in the past wether you could make a claim as a workplace accident a loss of IQ points due to having to watch crap like this for a living. I once worked as a Presentation Director (or Transmission Suite Operator, I don't know what you'd call it over there) for a network targeted at the 18 -39's. Oscar Wilde would have walked out drooling like an idiot after being exposed to eight hours of the sh*t we put to air.
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A great world cup. South Africa deserved their win. But it was good to see England running them so close. I hope now that Argentina are let in to one of the big two annual competitions. Logic supports extending the tri-nations but what about them basing themselves in Barcelona in a Seven Nations competition? That'd make for a good weekend every two years.I always find the finals a bit disappointing, too defence oriented. One try in the last two finals isn't what I'd call good viewing. Not that I'd mind if New Zealand won three nil, but a showpiece for world rugby it wasn't, and rarely is.
I wonder if expanding the tri-nations or the six nations is a good idea. I can't speak for the European competition but the tri-nations is getting harder and harder to get excited about. I'd rather see it go the way football has with a European Cup competition every other year. As it stands it'd make more sense for the Japies to join the six nations, at least they're in a suitable time zone. I'd also like to see the revival of the old style tours, it was great when the Lions were here. It gives the teams the opportunity to introduce new players without having to field a 'B' team in a test match, it gives the local players and crowds a chance to see the big names (my under 21 team invited the 1988 Wales team around for a booze up and half of them turned up, I couldn't imagine that happening now) and most of all the tours create a broader interest in the game than an whimsical competition based on viewing figures.That'll never happen though, not enough money in it I guess.
Congratulations South Africa, well done England. See you in 2011 in Auckland where according to at least one esteemed member...
Ah well, only 4 more years until the next World Cup that you're bound to win, again.f*****g well better had do...
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I trust everyone is aware that "Banshees Scream" is just part of a psychological experiment being carried out by the hosts of this website.Godot is a very sophisticated poster
I bet you say that to all the letter boxes. I've gone bright red.
That's the kind of morbidity I've come to expect from a warm milk drinking scholar such as yourself Godot.
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According to this site, [deathlist] "reaches approximately 6,195 U.S. monthly uniques. The site appeals to a slightly more male than female, primarily older, more affluent crowd."Personally I'm a lot more male than female.
I'm not sure what I'm meant to be older or more affluent than, but I probably am, according to my young butler.
Just quietly, I'm not that surprised. I'd always picked you for an older Asian male earning more than $140 grand Honez.
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Gunjy and our other antipodean chums, given your countries natural, and quite understandable antipathy towards England, will you really be able to go as far as to support the vile South Africans against us on Saturday?Absolutely. I would support the Devil Himself, coached by Hitler and sponsored by Pol Pot if they were up against England.
I don't know about support, but I'd like to see England win. I want England to win because I don't want South Africa to win.
For starters I'd like to see this mother freaker eat his words.
Even South Africa’s team manager, Zola Yeye, was dismissive of England’s chances. “What we did to England, 36-0, we will inflict the same punishment on them again,” he said after watching his team beat Argentina. “Some people say I am overconfident, but we are playing in the final a team we have already beaten.”Arrogant bloody cake stacker, you haven't won yet. Anyone who engages in this sort of carry-on deserves to lose, and lose badly.
Next I want England to win because the South Africans are dirty, cheating mongrels. To prove this one only has to look at their international record since the introduction of neutral referees. A preternaturally good home record pre-1992 one could say.
Then I want England to win because I don't like the South African accent. "Haar, haar wee woun ageen", urgh.
After that I want England to win because, because just because!
The teams are fairly evenly matched, all England have to do is play their own game and they should get there.
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The Argies were great, but were boys against some very nasty looking, ugly men ( who could play a bit).And pretty Percy Montgomery.
The thing is that England have gone much further than most people, including themselves, believed they would. There will be no disgrace to lose to South Africa. The question is whether they will want to win it enough. They couldn't afford to make any mistakes. But of course LFN it's possible. It's just that the press will be bigging them up unrealistically so much this week. I just hope they make a good fight of it.
If I could be bothered trawlling back throught the thread to find my original post, I'd be crowing about how I've always said England could do it...
No need for the press to 'big them up' me old mukka; England's scrum is as good if not better than South Africa's, England's lineout is the equal of South Africa's (by equal I mean as good as, not better, they shouldn't have trouble winning their own throws-in is what I mean), and if Wonder Johnny stays fit they'll have the best kicker on the field. If they stick to their game and not try to play some other team's game, they'll be fine. If they go mad and try to throw the ball around and be ahead by 4 tries at half-time they will lose.
In my book South Africa's got little to offer, big fowards to smash the opposition off the ball and fast, fast wingers for chasing kicks and intercepting passes. You cannot rely on a game plan based around something as opportunistic as an intercept pass, take away the two scored today and you'd have to say the Japies should be beating Argentina by a lot more than what they did. Keep giving Wilkinson the ball to kick for territory, don't throw miracle passes for Habana to intercept, maul the ball up the field and drag in the South African loose fowards, then finally give the ball to Wilkinson to kick for territory/penalty/glory.
Come on England, I've always said...
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I'm sort of with Godot here. The DL has a tendency to run eccentrics or attention-seekers out of town (Lady Clarissa Richmond, for example). Consequently, the list then becomes a bit dull.Banshee's English is hopeless, his thinking, at its best, is tangential and his put-downs are accessible only to himself. Yet his work has a compelling delusional grandeur. I always look for his contributions and will miss him if he opts to barricade himself into the redneck fortress of fantasy that is BS world.
Am I alone?
I disagree Pooka, LCR is/was an exception to the rule. Most 'novelty' posters only hang around to visit and or annoy for a short time, the unusual thing about LCR was that she hung around long enough for her annoyanceness to get to the point where members felt some help was needed to point out which direction in which she should fcuk off.
On the other hand I would say whoever is behind Banshees is a genius. The 'Banshees' character is extraordinarily consistent, his "pseudo-cabalistic clap-trap" (as Notapotato once splendidly put it) is as indecipherable as ever. The marginal improvement of his spelling is a subtle indicator of the fraud, although lately Banshees has added xenophobia to his arsenal, which has provided another tiny chink in the facade. Offensive enough to provoke reply, but not enough to necessitate banishment. The only thing worse than being talked about behind your back...
I'm starting to think Banshees has the same writers as Ken Barlow, as the consistency of his character over such a long period is nothing short of astonishing.
Hail Banshees, King of Trolls!!!
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France v England, world cup semi-final: I'm so wound up about this match I'm almost peeing my pants.I know this is incredibly disloyal but I think this could be France's day. England can't possibly repeat their form against Australia can they? Then again, Jonny hasn't found his kicking boots yet and the backs have still to show us how well they can play.
I feel bad for casting doubt. Like the contrite French-speaking prawn with the waiter's moustache in Finding Nemo, "I am ashamed."
Swwweeeing low, sweeeet charrrriot, cumming four two carrymeeee eeey'ome........
Bloody hell Godot, England scored a try! Why change the plan at this late stage?
Good game though, good game.
Good game for a neutral perhaps. It's killing me.
Holy crap, what an absorbing last twenty minutes. The 'new' high tackle law is a joke though, it would have been a shame had France lost on that call. Good stuff England, see you next week.
Go Argies!!!
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Wasn't it Michael Barrymore who said "The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"?
Ignore him, thats what im doing.Well done LFN! Please stop adding fuel to the fire, our poor demented colleague will be loving all this attention.
Edit: Here's the PM I got twenty minutes later. Make sense to anyone?
Fire never burning out, Today, 09:24 PM
Gunjy
In life everybody has a different perspective and everybody has a different genius so - to speak. Everybody has different standards and everybody has been affected differently by concepts of the world and our nature. The bottom line is I I post stupidity and I post like a schmuck, when people deserve to be treated that way. That is what it comes down too, I just can't sit back and let people antagonize me who are just plain wrong to begin with.
I've sent out several PM's today to members who I feel need to hear it.
Attention is not the issue, it's the bullshit people dictate. Take that scum bag 'Fellatio Nelson' for example
I hope you get the picture. It's just a forum that I spend my spare time in, but when I'm here I'll lay down the law.
Enjoy
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Do You Believe In Ghosts?
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A nasty bunch of bullying arseholes preying on the gullible lonely. "Did anyone here have a... a mother? Yes, a mother, I'm strongly feeling someone's mum."
That said it makes for great telly.