En Passant

I'd put Lemmy as a major death Hmm, isn't this is always a bit subjective? Is there set of qualification criteria for "Major"? What is a major death to one person possibly isn't to another. I've seen Motorhead live and not seen Bowie for example, however I would still argue that the former is a niche market (heavy metal maybe but without wishing to get into a specific genre argument ) where the latter is more generally popular. I'd warrant a larger proportion of the world can hum Space Oddity to themselves than Ace of Spades. My mum wouldn't know a tune if it smashed her on the head, but she knows who David Bowie is was and wouldn't have a clue about Lemmy.

Demis Roussos, any man whose wardrobe choice of a morning is which tent to wear has no competition in this thread. NB. Probably not terribly pc of me. Ah well.

Passed on with no wish to get into a debate with any possible NRA members. Mostly to see if I finally learned how to post a pic. (yes, i gave up and rtfm)

My favourite part of all this is the studied understatement of the Bomb Disposal Expert a Mr Dave Welch..... as reported in the original bbc item “The idea that if one item goes ‘bang’ then everything will is, I think, pretty unlikely,” he says. “Unless you’ve got intimate contact between two munitions subsurface, you’ll rarely cause the other to detonate, because water is a very good mitigator. If you’ve got a 1,000lb bomb two metres from another 1,000lb bomb, the other one won’t go bang. I know that for a fact – I did it last Tuesday." His Tuesdays are more entertaining than mine by some margin.

Mugabe, and yes, i know he's not on this list, but he was on most or all of them last year so I'm unilaterally re-instating him. I also realise it's not a wish list - sue me. Ok, Crowe.

Aha! And thanks. Oh well my excuse is that I never go to that page, but bear in mind that's from a bloke that still can't figure out how you put pix on this site, the one time I spent oooh 20 seconds trying to it wouldn't accept a jpg linky, and then there's apparently the alternative of posting pix from your media library included here somewhere, which after a whole 'nother 20 seconds of effort I couldn't find either and I even went to my profile and everything. Handy that this is in rants....

Needs a telltale on the outside for who's in there, if it's zorders and phantom i can put the popcorn machine on. If on the other hand it's some boring fart with nothing new to say such as myself, I can give it a miss, well, were it not for the logical inconsistency I could anyway. NB I don't actually have a popcorn machine, but might consider investing given the correct incentive.

"Non-lead" actors. Or the person playing 2nd villain who you think is quite good, while the camera spends all its time focusing on someone like Tom Cruise. I fucking hate Tom Cruise. He is a massive cunt. Nah, if you want to piss him off, he's a tiny cunt .....

I do both. It's getting better here, not fast enough, but better. And sure, any regular cyclist is probably aware of those kind of hazards. but as ever it's those that are not regular/experienced that constitute a large proportion of the deaths. I recall reading somewhere that of cyclists killed in London one recent year over half were cyclist/HGV and mostly could have been avoided had the cyclist better appreciated their visibility (or lack thereof) from a Lorry cab.

I tried cycling in London once in the early 1990s. I obviously survived the experience, but it was a frightening one. Perhaps perversely I find provincial A roads far more terrifying. The average speed in London is now something like 8 mph. So long as one has learned to avoid certain well known suicidal manoeuvres* it's probably not as bad as it first appears. *Passing on the inside of a lorry that's about to turn left, particularly if there are railings... that kind of thing.

Liking your own posts should be a capital offence.

I went to a positive thinking class today. It was half empty....

But John Hurt is Doctor Who Doh, I'm a buffoon, I actually don't watch much (read any) Broadcast tv, so my information on the current incarnation is clearly woefully out of date. Ignore me if you weren't already.

Eh? It's posted because the names are amusing, you did bring it up by pointing out in caps that you didn't know somebody with a funny name, and the Mr American simply carries on from the previous poster, you can call me Mr Englishman and trust me, it isn't going to offend me. /charlie brown Good Grief! /cb

Normally try to shy away from spelling lames, guilty of plenty myself. As they say, it's not big, it's not clever and it impresses absolutely nobody. But what? Covered in Branston Pickle and compromised perhaps? Hardly surprising, you definitely would be if anyone saw you. I assume it's "released on compassionate grounds" but hard to say for sure :S.

Well, 6 people 'liked' your post, meaning there are seven damned fools (and counting) in our membership. SC Scrolled back up to add a like. Calling people fools because they have a different opinion to yourself is.....oh nevermind I got bored already.

Interesting about Cilla, I had a vague recollection when her death was reported.... about her doing something I found pretty distasteful with regard to her son when he ran over and killed a motorcyclist (using her celebrity to try and change the court case or summat), so have always had a nagging doubt the woman was not quite the face she put in front of the camera, but couldn't find anything so shelved the idea of repeating it here unsubstantiated. On looking again I see the mirror has something about it from yesterday but not the part I was looking for. That popbitch site of yours has a link to a facebook page about trolly dolly celeb encounters both good and bad, Cilla does not come out of that well either. It's here

Yeah Mr American with for example Yogi Berra, Babe Ruth and Dick Trickle amongst your actual famous sports stars we never heard of, Neville Neville is sensible. Actually lets be fair though, he wasn't actually a sports star here either and no it really isn't sensible, some parents simply should not be allowed to name their own children. Also you can pull me on naming 3 sports stars "we never heard of" that clearly I at least, have.

Cough, whatever their relative merits neither Doctor Who nor wrestling are John Hurt, cough.

Having had cause to try a proxy server (to watch something on pbs that is IP restricted) I took the opportunity to look at the National Enquirer site having seen here that you can't access it from the UK, I hastily disengaged the proxy and decided I don't mind being excluded from some places.

Actually football bores me rigid but I've learned not to tell anyone because it only incites a lecture. oops....

Price you pay for pond hopping. I personally cringe every time I hear "aluminum".

Interact with people when not on a PC. Having been told on numerous occasions to "get a life" and stop "sitting at the pc all the time" I determined to make friends out in the real world instead of on-line. To that end I took the principles I have learned from Facebook and Twitter out into the local neighbourhood. Every day I walk down the street and tell passers-by what I have eaten, how I feel, what I did the night before and what I will do for the rest of the day. I give them pictures of my wife, my daughter and my dog, and of me gardening and on holiday doing things such as spending time by the pool. I also listen to their conversations, tell them I "like" them and give them my opinion on ever subject that interests me....whether it interests them or not. And it works! I already have four people following me: two police officers, a social worker and a psychiatrist.