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[RANT] Quite so. (abb.) [/RANT] lol, that was a particularly long-winded rant, encompassing everything from people who vote without any sort of policy knowledge, to fat americans, to the price of crude, all the way through to the false premise of the ubiquitous terror threat and our government's agenda of complete and utter, vice-like, spirit-crushing totalitarianism. But I didn't want to bore you with any of that. Plus, Josco and Yeti did it better. [sEMI-RANT]Treasonable politicians? No, I don't think so. Certainly not those who seek to protect our civil liberty by opposing myopic and oppressive policy.[/sEMI-RANT] [QUASI-RANT] Mods, please close this thread. I'm drawn, moth/flame-like, to rally against the sort of hamptons who read The Sun and who blindly agree with whatever new dumbed-down, xenophobic bullsh1t Tony and George conspire to feed us. So please, for the sake of my sanity and to stop me repeatedly chomping on Charley Farley's poisoned bait, CLOSE THIS THREAD. Oh, and this thread's got nothing to do with DL whatsoever and belongs in a different forum entirely. Is that enough reason? Come on. [/QUASI-RANT] Oh dear, that's nearly as long as the rant was.

Remember, it's only a bad excuse if nobody believes it. Mr. Gadd's reasoning sounds plausible to me, much like the often-misinterpreted "detox spa" regime at Treblinka.

Me too. I also survived the Hindenburg disaster and the eruption of Krakatoa. "Next!"

Oh bollocks to it.....he goes to the same AA meetings as me if you must know. So that's not very Anonymous is it? He needed to go to AA. He was close to a breakdown.

Top idea! I just commenced a minor scuffle in my office involving a swivel chair, a hacky-sack and a glass of water. Not quite the Molotov cocktails, rubber bullets and water cannon you were hoping for, but it's a start. I'm hoping it will escalate into a full-scale car-burning public frenzy later this evening, should the weather remain clement... I'll keep you posted. Anything to help Tony out with his impending coronary

Haven't we heard this before? The wily old fox has been in and out of the psychiatric ward more times than H.M. Murdoch. Let's hope the Chilean authorities can pull their finger out and expedite his trial. I suspect my fellow DLers are as frustrated as I am by his tightrope act.

What has George Bush done right since he became U.S. President? Right? Right? Everything he does is right. Right-wing, anyway... I heard a rumour that he tied his own shoelaces correctly the other day. It's a start, at least. Give the guy a break, he's trying his best. Well, he's trying, anyway. Very trying. etc.

Aha! Case closed.

Creationism is clearly the way forward. Why bother disputing the evidence?

bicker, bicker, bicker... hands up if you're tired of the circular nature of this thread.

Invite some friends over for a hacky-sack session. That'll kill a few hours... This young chap has clearly been practicing. Don't attempt this at home, kids.

Yes. Unhappy about it. "Christmas" music, aka any old bloody music that's lying around, with the delightful "ching ching ching" sound of sleigh bells added. That sound, specifically, actually raises my pulse rate and not in a good way. rant rant rant rant rant. Bloody Christmas music. rant. Aaaggh. Sleigh Bells. AaAaagh... No, I don't believe in Santa. Nor does Charley Farley. But then, he doesn't believe in "Innocent Until Proven Guilty" or "Right To Legal Counsel" or "Right To Know The Charges Against You" or other such minor inconveniences like that, either. rant rant rant. He probably has sleigh bells as the ringtone on his mobile. rant.

Don't get my dander up this early in the morning. That's your final warning Charley.

Never having seen Mr. Moore eat any sort of confectionery, I'm not *the authority* on this, but I don't reckon he'd be into cake. I see him "Moore" as a traditional Christmas Pud type of chap. I certainly can't picture him tucking into a Black Forest Gateau (hun fodder) or even a Victoria Sponge/butter-cream sandwich cake. Maybe the odd fairy cake here or there with a cup of Earl Grey, but certainly not anything as extravagant as these. Perhaps he's "Moore" into his space cakes?

I'd been a DL watcher for a while, but I decided to join after reading this one-liner by Anubis in the Patrick Moore thread. I'm not employing hyperbole when I tell you that I very nearly vomited, so hard was I laughing. My abdominal muscles actually ached for days afterwards, kind of like a DL version of this workout. Being a fan of Patrick Moore (politics aside) I enjoyed reading the whole thread. Some of it is pure class, but the jackal's spontaneous post in reference to Patrick's duck egg incident had me in tears. Schoolboy humour, yes, but so, so funny. So far, nothing's topped that for me, although some of the Pete Doherty thread rants were worth their weight in comedy gold. Oh, and Elspeth Entropy's swift and correct rebuttals of any misguided criticism, I thoroughly enjoy them too.

Rag 'n' Bone Man: "Any old iron? Any old iron?" Alois Brunner : "How about my Iron Cross?" weak post. weak. succumbed to temptation. tsk tsk...

ditto. AND I also used to live in Dennistoun! (not that that's anything to be ashamed of)

I heartily concur, on both counts. It'd be a bonus to reform the penal system in EG, but not before Thatcher has done the porridge he so justly deserves.

The more I think about it, the less tolerable Black Beach seems. The name makes it sound more like an open prison, you know, satellite TV, private bathrooms, warm towel rails, that sort of thing. "Easiest time he'll ever do," I thought, "not exactly Shawshank, is it?" On reflection, however, it does seem a rather harsh regime. Makes "the Bar-L" look like Butlins. Perhaps Mr. Du Toit won't fare so well after all. Oh well, you play with matches...

A hybrid, surely? Think Oliver Kahn with a René Higuita mullet doing a scorpion-kick save. (OK, he's columbian, I know, but, well...) I reckon the one-time super-stunner starlet deserves a place on the DL.

It's mostly because of the way creationists abuse the second law of thermodynamics in some of their more idiotic attempts to "prove" that evolution can't possibly be true. I've got so fed up with pointing out that life itself breaks that law if the law really says that entropy always increases under all circumstances (and therefore the law can't actually say that and hence the creationist objection is a straw-man caricature, not that creationists seem to care), that it just seemed appropriate. If lifeforms are temporary islands of reduced entropy, then a whole lot of entropy happens when things die. Am I the only one with a crush on Elspeth? I'm a sucker for a clear, well-reasoned, logical argument. Entropy indeed... makes my User Name sound like a seven-year-old picked it.

Well crafted, Sir...

I gather that the Black Beach prison is no cakewalk, but they tend to "look after" their inmates sufficiently well to ensure that full-term sentences are carried out, especially in the case of foreigners. Suicide is particularly frowned upon by the screws, so I reckon Nick Du Twat stands a good chance of survival for at least the next 10 years. Should have been Thatcher in his place, let's face it, we all wish it had been. Sorry Nick, wrong place, wrong time, wrong bedfellow, welcome to Black Beach. Cold showers once a week, breakfast is served at 0600. If you must try and pass yourself off as someone from a Frederick Forsyth novel, at least choose a paymaster who's not completely and utterly inept. Lesson learned?

Come on people, don't get my hopes up. I read "David Blunkett RIP", I think "Ah, some justice at last", and then I read the thread and find out it's just another job shuffle for the lying, conniving c*nt. Can we close this thread until he actually dies, please?

Elvis Presley? Dead, you say? Pull the other one. Someone had better call Forbes Magazine and let them know there's a fraud afoot. Elvis is alive and well. He lives in Britain under the alias Aaron Fanelli. He runs my local kebab shop. Here's a photo I took of him recently whilst he was describing how "finger-lickin' good" his new Spicy Chicken Doner Strips are. As the snow flies/ On a cold and grey Chicago morning a poor little baby child is born/ In the ghetto/ And his mother cries/ 'Cos if there's one thing that she don't need it's another hungry mouth to feed/ In the ghetto/ "Don't you worry yo' pretty little head 'bout nuthin, darlin', I can get yo' kiddy fed." says Aaron, "At £3.50 per portion (chilli sauce or mayo included) they go down a treat and can't be beat, and that's as good as money, honey, and you can take that to the bank, Frank, uh-huh-huh! Thankyou very much, and God bless y'all, and goodnight."