When did Halloween get so big? I drink a load and stay up late for twenty years, then I have kids and suddenly you can see Halloween from outer space. What's wrong with everyone going to the burns unit on November the 5th being the Autumnal highlight?
I hate Halloween as well. A load of imported American crap. I ain't that keen on Bonfire Night, either. It's two weeks of idiots trying to set things on fire. Ruins my tea drinking and snooker playing.
As me owl feller used to say, for 51 weeks of the year you tell the kids about the dangers of playing with fire and for one week we tell them to get as many combustible items as possible and then build them higher than the next street.
They locked the door of the pub to stop him getting in.....he must be a BIG lad for an entire pub to be scared of him. Why didn't someone just kick him in the nuts?
Amazingly the early 90's male bouffant hairstyle which seemed to be a requirement to go on the show in the early series is now back in style with many of the youth of today.
You know you are getting old when you see a hairstyle go out of fashion and then back in many years later.
I hate Halloween as well. A load of imported American crap. I ain't that keen on Bonfire Night, either. It's two weeks of idiots trying to set things on fire. Ruins my tea drinking and snooker playing.
Well, you could also say that the mass ownership of cars is another American import. Each year in the UK maybe 2 or 3 thousand people are killed by cars and a multiple of that seriously damaged.
Thanks for the birthday wishes of yesterday. It was a good evening! (Mike asked about the claret: Cos d'Estournel 1995 and Gruaud Larose 1982, both in excellent condition. Plus some other good stuff...)
On topic: Yes, 1/8 is far too short. I'd say fair odds were more like 1/3, just to take account of the inevitable uncertainties with a year to go.
Freddie Mercury bought the house where I was born. That is all.
Are you... (no, surely not)... possibly... (no, you can't be, surely)... suggesting that that - that! - trumps seeing them - AT LIVE AID????
Did you push his lawyer's briefcase in a fish pond?
Oh, well. If you'd mentioned that... the fish pond thing... well, of course. Pushing a lawyer's briefcase into a fish pond or SEEING QUEEN AT LIVE AID... no contest, obv.
And on that note off to bed to mourn life's missed opportunities.
From what I can read it is about Karie Murphy`s(the candidate who has withdrawn) son being registered as a Labour party member.So the new scandal is about one member being registered.
Daily Mail plumbing to new depths of reporting inconsequential news as sensational.I used to buy the Mail at times.Not anymore.Idiots.
I rather like the Scots referendum. It's a real one off in polling.
Every person voting has been bathed in a culture where there's this odd myth/legend/theme (whatever) whereby freedom from the English yoke is the great cause. Every Scots-persons grandparents have espoused this too. I think though that not only will todays Scots vote no to independence, but their grand-parents would have done so too.
I hope so anyway. Great Britain will be a lot less great without the Scots, and Scotland will find it hard (at least in the short term) to find its place in the world.
Perhaps once again (whatever the outcome) we may hear Scots voices of inspiration rather than disputation.
Freddie Mercury bought the house where I was born. That is all.
Are you... (no, surely not)... possibly... (no, you can't be, surely)... suggesting that that - that! - trumps seeing them - AT LIVE AID????
Did you push his lawyer's briefcase in a fish pond?
Oh, well. If you'd mentioned that... the fish pond thing... well, of course. Pushing a lawyer's briefcase into a fish pond or SEEING QUEEN AT LIVE AID... no contest, obv.
And on that note off to bed to mourn life's missed opportunities.
Laughing with Freddie while his lawyer tried to fish it out without getting his trousers wet?
Every person voting has been bathed in a culture where there's this odd myth/legend/theme (whatever) whereby freedom from the English yoke is the great cause. Every Scots-persons grandparents have espoused this too.
Taking a long flight doesn't move Belfast closer to Eire, that's not how it works
I guess the physics of the thing says it probably moves them very marginally further away too. Of course if you went the long way around the globe then you would very marginally help to bring them together.
Of course if Charles in in fact a balloon pilot then these notions are so much hot air (quite appropriately!)
"When do the English, Welsh and Northern Irish get to vote whether they want to be in a union with Scotland or not?
My view is the English would vote against any union with Scotland"
Around 18 months after they elect an nationalist administration that campaigns on having a referendum on the subject. England can leave the UK whenever it wants.
If England is badly governed, then it's the fault of the English, no one else. The WLQ can be answered by the English taking charge of their own affairs at any time.
I fly several hundred miles each day. Floors is "near" Stirling.
Taking a long flight doesn't move Belfast closer to Eire, that's not how it works
Course it does, its a matter of perspective. Its all relative. If you live in your little bubble and are closed-minded then its a big distance. Ask someone from Texas and they'd wonder what all the fuss is. Of course perspective matters.
Although some might say I suppose that you might fall under one of those categories.
Seems Lady Ashton has confounded her critics on this occasion.
What happens if the other member states want her to stay on for another term? Does Cameron refuse to nominate her and send a Tory to be Commissioner for Paperclips instead?
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I hate Halloween as well. A load of imported American crap. I ain't that keen on Bonfire Night, either. It's two weeks of idiots trying to set things on fire. Ruins my tea drinking and snooker playing.
http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/Man-horrified-onlookers-doing-naked-star-jumps/story-20169400-detail/story.html
http://www.youtube.com/user/DynamiteHeaddy/search?query=crystal+maze
@SueNix: #BBCNews at Ten tonight with @maitlis A nuclear deal with Iran breaking a ten year deadlock. Plus new developments in the Co-op controversy
You know you are getting old when you see a hairstyle go out of fashion and then back in many years later.
Now take a look at the rest of Ireland's WC record - there's a lot more 'plucky defeats' than wins against major teams.
On topic: Yes, 1/8 is far too short. I'd say fair odds were more like 1/3, just to take account of the inevitable uncertainties with a year to go.
We could give them the royal family for, say, the state of Massachusetts.
Oh.
I. Hate. You.
@PaulyBentley: In tomorrow's Daily Mail, Labour hit by new Falkirk vote-rigging storm http://t.co/bXbSXWCPC2
And on that note off to bed to mourn life's missed opportunities.
Daily Mail plumbing to new depths of reporting inconsequential news as sensational.I used to buy the Mail at times.Not anymore.Idiots.
Plebgate: Officer to be Charged
Another one our friends on the left got wrong....to the extent that some of them think the PM should have interfered in a police investigation!
Every person voting has been bathed in a culture where there's this odd myth/legend/theme (whatever) whereby freedom from the English yoke is the great cause. Every Scots-persons grandparents have espoused this too. I think though that not only will todays Scots vote no to independence, but their grand-parents would have done so too.
I hope so anyway. Great Britain will be a lot less great without the Scots, and Scotland will find it hard (at least in the short term) to find its place in the world.
Perhaps once again (whatever the outcome) we may hear Scots voices of inspiration rather than disputation.
(I was 4 at the time, but who cares)
No offence.
You really should PYDSUASWYM.
(Pull your damn socks up and say what you mean)
Of course if Charles in in fact a balloon pilot then these notions are so much hot air (quite appropriately!)
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10471476/Labour-Party-cashed-in-on-cheap-loans-from-Co-op.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/24/iran-nuclear-deal-hotel-charity-concert
Seems Lady Ashton has confounded her critics on this occasion.
My view is the English would vote against any union with Scotland"
Around 18 months after they elect an nationalist administration that campaigns on having a referendum on the subject. England can leave the UK whenever it wants.
If England is badly governed, then it's the fault of the English, no one else. The WLQ can be answered by the English taking charge of their own affairs at any time.
Although some might say I suppose that you might fall under one of those categories.