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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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So, it looks as thoiugh the dead spy in a bag thing is over, and there was nothing dodgy in the case. Do you believe this? Do you think the government is covering up something? Do you trust the buggers? Are you bothering to vote tomorrow?
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If it was that dodgy the Government would have issued a 'D notice' at the time of his death to prevent any media reports.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 10:55,
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POLICE OFFICER NO GIVE ME PRODUCER(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:01,
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Just give us what we want - the real sensimania(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:05,
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A mate of mine interviewed him onceat his house in Surrey. Apparently he had a stack of gold bars in his sitting room.
When my pal went to leave, he nearly took out his gatepost, Smiley was concerned but my pal, quick as a flash, said 'don't worry, 'me is an expert dri-varrr'. Many lols were had.
The End.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:09,
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Your mate interviewed John Le Carre's fictional character George Smiley? Good skills.
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Nothing dodgy? He locked himself in that bag? FFS. What a bunch of lying cunts.
I shall be voting tomorrow as should everyone. Voting should be compulsory.
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Let's have a vote on it!(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:03,
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You should have stood as a candidate for election.Representing the Spacker Mong Cowlick Shandy-drinking Homo Party.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 10:57,
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The only party you could give your vote to.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 2 May 2012, 10:58,
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He's just upset that he can't reach the ballot boxes.(
Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:12,
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Naked Ape votes using his head dobber. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:19,
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I couldn't care less.It wouldn't surprise me if the Government covered up many things, but the majority of conspiracy theorists are quite clearly retarded.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 2 May 2012, 10:57,
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It depends what you class as a "conspiracy theorist", someone who doesn't trust the buggers as far as they can spit, doesn't sound that mad to me.
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I mean people that believe David Icke speaks senseSensing something a bit fishy is one thing, going all out to claim it's a 'conspiracy' and that people should 'wake up' to it are two ways that instantly make me think you're mentally lacking.
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Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:10,
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I've got no person to vote for.Elections in Luton are determined by spitting competions.
Of course the government are covering up something. I don't know what is though, as they are doing a splendid job.
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Bartleby A dead man on vacation, Wed 2 May 2012, 10:59,
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The bloke was a tranny chutney with form for bondage.(
Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:02,
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There was a dead spy in the case.That's fairly dodgy.
We don't have elections tomorrow, so I will probably not vote. I may go and stand outside the usual polling office and ask people who they will vote for, though. That could be fun for five minutes.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:03,
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A spy of such high importance, it took them 7 days to realise he hadn't come into work.(, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:06, Reply)
Well, no. Not at all.The pathologist has said she cannot consider an unlawful killing verdict. Because there's not a shred of evidence showing that.
Doesn't mean nothing dodgy happened. Just means the job of a coroner is not to wildly speculate. Unlike the fucktards in the press. Or that twat of a fucking lawyer the bloke's family are using. "killed by someone praciced in the dark arts?" this isn't harry cunting potter. The bloke should be disbarred for being a sensationalist moron.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:03,
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no, it's not.It's the press, yet again, not having the faintest fucking idea how these things work but writing SENSATIONAL EXCLUSIVE SHIT AGAIN.
Cunts should be thrown in bear bit.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:22,
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What are your thoughts on this?www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/may/01/open-free-access-academic-research
If you get past the political posturing, it's a solid idea that should have happened years ago.
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It's a good ideaBut the problem is the highest-rated journals are not open access. RCUK have put in a rule now that any funding they pay for (which is a large amount of UK scientific reseach) must be published in open access journals by next year I think. But things like Nature aren't open access, and the quality of the journal you publish in affects firstly my career and secondly how much money my uni gets for me from other sources.
It needs to happen but it's cart before horse right now. The top journals have to be forced to be open access somehow.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:21,
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Isn't the ultimate point of research, usually, to monetise it at a later date? Doesn't sharing the research then make this more difficult to be first?
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no, not really.That's the ultimate point of most of my research, which gets me in trouble becuase I don't publish a lot of the stuff I do, I patent it instead. But a lot of academics just do blue sky stuff for "the knowledge expansion" so they just publish all the time, if it has no commerical worth.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:27,
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Fair enough. Whilst noble and raising us further away from the rest of God's creation, I would prefer to see the taxpayer turning a profit on state funded research. There's a recession on you know.
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Take his pension, Stunned!(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:32,
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I think you'll find that's my area of expertise.(
b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:37,
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You always do see a profit.It attracts inward investment and strengthens the economy, plus high reseach impact attracts overseas students and academics who also contribute financially. Only a fucking idiot reduces scientific research funding in a recession. Or Osborne. Oh, no, wait, I covered him the first time.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:35,
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That article said govt investment on research had been protected for the life of the Parliamant? (, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:38, Reply)
The article was written by David Willets.He's a Tory politician.
It hasn't. Believe me, it hasn't.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:00,
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for journals (or magazines) like Natureare you allowed to publish a longer form follow-up paper elsewhere? I thought this was the case with letter journals.
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Possibly, it would rather dependbut that's not really the point. It's not just Nature. Anything with an impact rating worth bothering with currently isn't open access.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:30,
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Yes, indeedI think researchers could make their work very accessible to the public while still publishing in high impact journals. Unfortunately it would require a lot of extra work and wouldn't really do anything for their h-index or future job prospects so there is a lack of incentive there.
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It's nothing to do with your second sentenceYou can't publish in more than one place because it breaches copyright and breaches several scientific ethics codes.
And most of us deliberately keep our stuff out of the mainstream press when we can becuase idiot journalists/press offices misrepresent what we say.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:02,
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I was amused by the guy whose job was to try to lock himself into a bag and climb into a bathJust to see if it was possible.
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tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:04,
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The BBC say they used "Bag Experts" for thatI'm thinking of changing career, does anyone know what kind of qualification one needs to become a bag expert?
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Peej, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:06,
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For some reason I'm registered for a postal vote even though I never remember asking for oneso I voted last week. A couple of dozen times I expect.
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I got a letter from that bent cunt Johnson asking me to register for a postal vote.(, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:28, Reply)
meh. on the one hand, that bent Tory cunt Johnsonon the other, slimy wifebeating serial liar and trot cunt Livingston.
I'm amazed anyone in London can degrade themselves enough to vote for either, really.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:32,
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With Wiff Waff as the national sport. I will be voting for the trot cunt.
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The sole redeeming feature people seem to find in Boris, poltically I meanis that he "isn't really as much of a buffoon as he appears"
Only given the current witless state of fucking humanity could that be considered an actual reason to give someone control of London. It's like appointing a childminder on the ground that "they haven't actually raped as many children as it looks like"
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:40,
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And the really scary thing is that he is actually that much of a buffoonit's just since he got into office he has refused to discuss anything he does other than at carefully arranged press releases. He never takes questions or engages in debate, because when he does, he comes across as a witless tosser.
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And yet, if you held a gun to my wife's head and actually forced me to make decisionI'd still probably take him. He's a twat, and Tory twat at that.
But Livingston is actually a genuinely nasty piece of work.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:46,
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He may be, but so is Boris. Which is why the whole mayoral system is pretty fucking ridiculous as it's coming down to personality over what they are actually doing.(, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:49, Reply)
Neither of them are in any way suitable to run a global economic centre.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:57,
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Yeah but isn't this true of all politicsI know you're supposed to vote for the party and for the ideals and manifesto etc, but look at what happened when Gordon Brown became the leader of the Labour party.
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Boris is great.1) wiff waff speech
2) getting rid of tube drivers
3) wrote a great book on Ancient Rome
VOTE WINNERS, ALL.
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Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:36,
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This is the problem when you try and do it on personalitybut given that Johnson's record is of massive overspends on every project he's been involved in and no new ideas during his term, voting for Ken at least puts someone with ideas in office.
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaaa*dies fucking laughing*
Ahem, overspends? GLC in the eighties? yeah. Ken's solid fucking economic gold, mate.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:41,
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Monty's mothers got a penis(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:43,
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Greater London Council.How London used to be run before it collapesed in massive overspend, very obvious fraud and Livingston and others being incredibly lucky to avoid arrest and prosecution
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:45,
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allegedly.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:54,
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The two achievements he talks about are the bikes and the new routemaster.Both were massively more expensive than claimed, and with the buses, they were a fucking pointless vanity project instead of just improving an existing bus design.
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not arguing for a single second with you on that.The idea that a man who masterminded the epic financial fraud/clusterfuck that was the GLC would be better, however, is the best bit of comedy I've heard in AGES. Thanks ;)
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:44,
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But he was better. His record in office is better than Boris'.Under Boris fares have actually risen above inflation, under Kens they stayed about the same as inflation.
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That has absolutely cock all to do with mayoral policy I suspectand everything to do with the state of the economy and investment in projects.
I'm not defending Boris. I just think it's funny that anyone can defend Ken on economic or financial management grounds
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:53,
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You might just as well arguethat while Boris overspends, at least he hasn't been repeatedly and very obviously guilty of massive levels of fraud and cover-ups.
I don't really care about personality. They are both very obviously fucking awful and shouldn't be in charge of a lemonade stall let alone the capital.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:43,
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He's been tarred with several throughout his careerThe Jasper stuff, coupld of overseas deals when he was mayor, plus all the money GLC lost.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:52,
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I'm voting to have your account deleted and for you to be killed, sozHe seems to have been a dirty bummer who liked being suffocated, I bet someone locked him in and then was too busy exploring Darths innards with their cock that they forgot about him.
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Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:10,
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I wish people would be nicer to the gayers.They do seem to cop a lot more shit than the rest of us.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:23,
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dirty boys.oh, and as you're probably aware, TTJ.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:28,
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Rejected early draft for the sermon on the mount.(
tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:26,
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is cop some english colloquialism for 'stab' that i'm not aware of?(, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:26, Reply)
i genuinely hate the welshtheir accent is stupid, their language is shit, as far as i can see they're not a country and they have never contributed anything to the world, ever
except imogen thomas, thanks for that guys
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I like the accent, I like the languagebut every Welshman I have ever met has been a racist, chip-shouldered prick.
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Kroney, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:35,
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the welsh accent is like brummie or west countryas soon as i hear it i assume the person i am talking to is EXTREMELY stupid
the language is just english with a shitload of unnecessary consonants shat all over the place like pricks. 'ambilaans'? pricks
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They don't have a lot of modern words in their language.So they've used ours modified for their phonetics. Ambwlans. Am-boo-lans
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Kroney, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:38,
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its a shit prick languagehave you ever tried writing to someone in wales? you start typing the address and you're like
1 gocviawvavv,
klwicvovlawero
qwohvnsebep
cymru
PR1 CK5
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How very dare you!I'm a porridge wog, thank you very much.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:36,
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I'm like Kenny Dalgleish.Exactly the same facial expression for a 1-0 defeat as for a 3-0 victory.
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b3th Not shit. Not mod., Wed 2 May 2012, 11:52,
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inintelligable could be like inflammableas in extremely unintelligible
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Well if they're going to stick their willy up another blokes bot-bot, that's bound to happen.(, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:27, Reply)
Because they are deviants WHO CONDUCT UNNATURAL ACTS ON OTHER SODOMITES.(
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:30,
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i fucken love the gaysunless they're really camp and queenie, that can fuck off
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Battered, the Scrappy-Do of /OTThis makes Monty Shaggy and Stunned Scoobs.
I'm totally Fred.
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Kroney, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:36,
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i always assumedscooby doo was kind of VERY loosely based on the famous five?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:54,
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I never thought of that. You'll be telling me that Top Cat was based on The Phil Silvers Show.
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And Dangermouse was based on The Open University Physics syllabus. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:04,
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i don't knowi haven't bothered expounding the theory, not even on google. but you know, 2 guys, 2 girls, 1 dog, solving mysteries...
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:05,
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Fred couldn't be more obviously gayif he had a flat leather cap, chaps and a moustache.
Daphne's his beard because her father abused her in childhood so she can't bring herself to have a sexual relationship with anyone but loves the attention
Velma goes like a belt sander.
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the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:06,
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you've put a lot of thought into this, haven't you darling?a bit TOO much, if you know what i mean.
also, what did shaggy do wrong?!
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:07,
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he's too stoned to get it up.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:07,
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the film was on channel 5 on sundayVelma was 60000% more attractvie than sarah michelle gellar
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as date for pizza is now looking like tue 29can you come to that, you unutterable slagfest?
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rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:47,
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I am free on the 29th May. I will take the matter under advisement.
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I have consulted the private secretary responsible for my diary. I am available. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:57,
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Not in the way that you do, you freakishly tall nonce. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:50,
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talk postyed something about the FHM top 100and i looked it up, i don't read that magazine, never have and i've never paid any attnetion to lists of 'yeah i'd fuck that, in this order'
but looking at their list, what the fuck is wrong with them? Tulisa? Jessie J? Miley Fucking Cyrus?
get to fuck
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I know. Some of the most vacuous wastes of blood and organs to grace the planet.
Miley Cyrus would get it though.
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Isn't Miley Cyrus getting a bit old now for /talk? She must be legal now. (
Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 11:59,
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I dislike "lifestyle" magazines on principle, They're for twatwits without the capacity for independent thought, and far too much cash to waste.
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I disagreebut I dont know why she is
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sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:02,
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It's all about the munty, munty, munty(
sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:05,
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i wish you'd stop being wrong, it upsets mejessie j is a skinny man with a plasticene nose and a mystic meg wig
fuck off jessie j
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and cher fucking lloydthats a child in a tracksuit, FHM you fucking perverts
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If you like Croydon chic, maybe.(
the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:10,
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Elocution lessons are easily bought.Rosie Jones at number 4 gets a thumbs up from me. I respect the vote a bit more.
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G.R.I.M.There really is something quite wrong with you.
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Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Wed 2 May 2012, 12:08,
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She only lobs one tit out on it tooFucking amateur
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