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really well rounded album, Damon's work on the Monkey opera has helped his soundtracking no end
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:51,
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HD version on YouTube is fantastic.
Edit: Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs if anyone is interested :)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:16,
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Edit: Here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9vAOzYz-Qs if anyone is interested :)

And yeah, the album is quite good - listened to it from the Guardian's site :
www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/01/gorillaz-plastic-beach
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:53,
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www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/mar/01/gorillaz-plastic-beach

Gorgeous stuff
is the album actually any good then? I saw a tracklist and lots of "xxxxx (ft. xxxx)".
I try and avoid albums with open-bracket-feat-'name'-close-bracket track names.
edit: I am listening to it now. Hmm. 'trestin'.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:55,
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is the album actually any good then? I saw a tracklist and lots of "xxxxx (ft. xxxx)".
I try and avoid albums with open-bracket-feat-'name'-close-bracket track names.
edit: I am listening to it now. Hmm. 'trestin'.

Also, for an ace "feat." album, see Kaos: Anti Acoustic Warfare by Adam F. Featured albums can be ace ;)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:59,
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and so far it's bad. and not a 80s slang bad is good way. boring hip hop over world music.
shame. i was crazy into gorillaz back in 2001
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:09,
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shame. i was crazy into gorillaz back in 2001

I must admit, there were only three or four songs I liked on their debut album.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:12,
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and to be honest i haven't heard a song i like yet. (i'm at stylo now)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:15,
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More melodic for old fogies like me. Much like the newest one - lots of 80's vocoder action and rapping to make me feel like I'm young and hip again, rather than almost being 40 and bald.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:15,
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This could well be their best given time though.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:42,
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slightly iffy pacing in the video tho. lets pause on Bruce Willis for a loooooooooooooong time just so we all know it's him. smile for the camera bruce!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:56,
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i'm just listening through the album for the second time right now. it pretty much rules. superfast jellyfish is best.
ed: real shame there's no more del :(
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:56,
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ed: real shame there's no more del :(

Still waiting for my Iggy Pop cuddling Jim Morrison pic ;)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:59,
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The Album is great - I would purchase it on iTunes, but due to their cuntish and frankly ridiculous policy of not allowing you to use your purchased music freely, I shall aquire it elsewhere.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:03,
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Is this a new thing? The last music I bought from iTunes was in December 2009 and last night while restoring my iPod (AGAIN, YOU APPLE FUCKERS) I had to "authorise" my computer to play the music I had paid for. Cunts.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:12,
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I read they'd stopped doing protected AAC (.m4p) in April last year and they just do .m4a now
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:19,
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which were more expensive, better quality, DRM-free tracks.
Most tracks are Plus now.
It's still not as good as, say, 7Digital, who often offer FLAC (lossless) and MP3/AAC, with the option to re-download tracks if you manage to lose them somehow.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:24,
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Most tracks are Plus now.
It's still not as good as, say, 7Digital, who often offer FLAC (lossless) and MP3/AAC, with the option to re-download tracks if you manage to lose them somehow.

is that so it fits the challenge?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:49,
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I guessed Paul Gadd could not be seen as a hero
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:40,
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I went to see Blaine when he was up in that. What a tool. I think everyone who was watching up at him was saying the same thing
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41,
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I never trusted that Harold cunt. I mean look, the cunt's got a fucking tail! A FUCKING TAIL I TELL YOU!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:34,
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Difficult to tell, the bayeaux tapestry looks like it was cobbled together by five year olds.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:37,
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And you're right. The Bayeux tapestry is shite. Although, it is fucking impressive how big it is.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41,
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my favourite so far. Who knew "Wayne" was a Norman surname?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:34,
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'Aroldddd - Steptoe and Son
and
"Hooray for Harold Lloyd ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba ba etc"
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:39,
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and
"Hooray for Harold Lloyd ba ba, ba ba, ba ba ba ba etc"

How apt when I just read this:
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8551528.stm
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:24,
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news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8551528.stm

I actually had to double check I had posted the correct link :)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:29,
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*smashes pens against the wall*
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3d5ZdE4vY
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:30,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=4f3d5ZdE4vY

I merely thought that covered up nudey sculptures was a similarity on this occasion
;)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33,
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;)

Anyway, who cares. It gave me an excuse to post some television :D
www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA&feature=related
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:35,
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlbunmCbTBA&feature=related

And I did an actual lol at the vitriolic capitalisation of "YOU IDIOT"!
:D
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36,
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:D

Marguee Moon and Television albums are well worth buying.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:42,
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Carrying on from Tom's standing for parliament, anyone want to explain the tiers of power?
It's always puzzled me how the change over of parties actually happens. You couldn't empty Microsoft out of an office and completely replace it with Adobe staff who've never sat at the desks or know where the coffee machine is and expect it to carry on with Windows tech support and developing Operating Systems.
So how do people think changing political parties changes the actual running of the country which is clearly being taken care of by someone else.
It's something I've never really put much thought in to or asked for fear of looking stupid and it not really being anything I can change. but it's friday, what the heck, I'll look stupid.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:27,
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It's always puzzled me how the change over of parties actually happens. You couldn't empty Microsoft out of an office and completely replace it with Adobe staff who've never sat at the desks or know where the coffee machine is and expect it to carry on with Windows tech support and developing Operating Systems.
So how do people think changing political parties changes the actual running of the country which is clearly being taken care of by someone else.
It's something I've never really put much thought in to or asked for fear of looking stupid and it not really being anything I can change. but it's friday, what the heck, I'll look stupid.

but I believe that what it is is that the politicians are just policy makers, and they essentially dictate what Civil servants do isn't it?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:33,
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so they can get their brain-addled schemes on the statute books
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:34,
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do they have like a teacher training day?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36,
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:40,
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"Do your best to not fuck this shit up you bunch of shitcunts!" published by the Department for Cunts and Warthogs, available fior download at www.shitcunts.gov.uk/suckonthisfucknugget.php
Or something like that ;)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41,
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Or something like that ;)

Watch Yes, Minsiter. It's all there.
It got me my politics A Level
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:51,
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It got me my politics A Level

The Government, the executive 'think' and formulate policy which Parliament (the legislature) vote on.
The Civil Service then 'do' and put these policies in action.
It's a lot murkier than that though, and I haven't even mentioned the Lords.
When one Government gets kicked out they will bring in a team of advisers etc but it's not like a big office move - most people i.e the civil service stay where they are.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:35,
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The Civil Service then 'do' and put these policies in action.
It's a lot murkier than that though, and I haven't even mentioned the Lords.
When one Government gets kicked out they will bring in a team of advisers etc but it's not like a big office move - most people i.e the civil service stay where they are.

You would never build a new house on fucked foundations, yet every single time....
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:39,
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Most governments (world-wide) don't have the balls to make radical changes.
Look at how Obama is getting butt-fucked over MediCare etc.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:42,
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Look at how Obama is getting butt-fucked over MediCare etc.

the system in America works very differently from ours doesn't it?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:48,
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Lots of money greasing the wheels of power. The President actually has very little power without support from the
2 legislatures there - he can make war without their initial support though.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:10,
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2 legislatures there - he can make war without their initial support though.

and continue to fuck everything up for us cos his mates have asked him to
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:41,
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it sort of answers this, and is excellent and worth watching anyway.
relevant bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oOW_TNJqnQ
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:36,
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relevant bit: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oOW_TNJqnQ

the party in power comes in with ideas that are then turned into plans with schedules. there may even be targets. they will bring in a few cronies from industry or university dorm-room days to put a bit of stick about. but the same civil servants then get told they have to implement the vision and come up with feasibility studies, budgets, review periods and success criteria.
it's a little bit like NCOs and other ranks in the forces - the bedrock of the executive - vs. commissioned officers, the temporary direction-givers.
oh and I just made all that up out of whole cloth.
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it's a little bit like NCOs and other ranks in the forces - the bedrock of the executive - vs. commissioned officers, the temporary direction-givers.
oh and I just made all that up out of whole cloth.

pfft really
EDIT: so has the date been announced, or is it still the worst kept secret in history?

Too busy lying to the Chilcott enquiry, probably.
/cynical old bastard blog
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:14,
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/cynical old bastard blog

If that helps. When the General Election comes, I shall be voting for me, so there.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 15:45,
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start as you mean to go on eh?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:45,
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My sister met him and when she said she'd just got back from the Himalayas he replied, "Ah, the Himalayas, eh? Understand its bloody cold there, eh?" Marvellous
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:52,
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In the Violent Apathy Group (VAG) we're about not caring so hard you burst a blood vessel.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:50,
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Are you affiliated to the Campaign for Unilateral Nuclear Terror, or CUNT if you will?
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:51,
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Funny story, I got an email back from the Government rejecting my petition to rename Michael Aspel "Nuclear Terror Bastard" :(
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:58,
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Hmmm, whereabouts? Bongo Bongo land? Or one of those cheese eating smelly types from across the channel eh? Ha ha ha! jolly good show!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:54,
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:05,
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... BUT I AM REALLY INCENSED ABOUT THE BINS.... THE BIIIINS.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:50,
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*life of a Parish councillor blog*
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:52,
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Without fail each one starts with...
"While I am NOT the kind of person who likes to complain. I feel it is my DUTY to point out the disgraceful state of THE BINS! The bins are a shocking mess, they disgust sane minded people and terrify small children, not to mention the Rats and Badgers!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:06,
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"While I am NOT the kind of person who likes to complain. I feel it is my DUTY to point out the disgraceful state of THE BINS! The bins are a shocking mess, they disgust sane minded people and terrify small children, not to mention the Rats and Badgers!

It must be bad if even the Rats and Badgers are terrified!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:16,
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...because they are incensed.
Or something.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:03,
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Or something.

'Spare' sort of translated in my mind as extra (as in bonus). I suspect I need more coffee to aid my comprehension in such things.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:17,
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as soon as I saw it I thought, Canabalt, fo sho
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:02,
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After his masterclass on QT last night.
And as for that bloody nazi Carol fecking Vorderman.... grrrrrr
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:00,
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And as for that bloody nazi Carol fecking Vorderman.... grrrrrr

"hello, the elderly, I'm carol vorderman, off of countdown, you know me, you know I'm good with numbers, sell us your house and rent it back from us, CAW CAW, let me pick the flesh off your bones, CAW CAW!"
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:04,
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And yes, Vorderman is a cunt. As my dad said last night, "she sounds like a fucking working class fish wife! Stupid cow!"
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:17,
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So I missed the very start of the show. I had no idea she was such a slavering Daily Fail type. When La Dimbleby later mentioned she was there 'representing the Tory party' all become horribly clear.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:25,
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Well, what credibility one can garner from being a televisual calculator for 20 years.
"I'm Carol Vorderman LOOK AT MY FUCKING L33T MATHS SKILLS! HA! HA! HA! POLITICS! HA! HA! HA! VOTE CAMERON! HA! HA! HA!"
It also fucks me off that she was introduced as a "Broadcaster & Columnist". She's a fucking columnist as much as Coleen Nolan is a fucking political commentator. Bunch of fucking cunts.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:28,
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"I'm Carol Vorderman LOOK AT MY FUCKING L33T MATHS SKILLS! HA! HA! HA! POLITICS! HA! HA! HA! VOTE CAMERON! HA! HA! HA!"
It also fucks me off that she was introduced as a "Broadcaster & Columnist". She's a fucking columnist as much as Coleen Nolan is a fucking political commentator. Bunch of fucking cunts.

I went to the National the other day for the first time in 15 years or so. It was wonderful! But not as wonderful as perving on the Twiggy photos in the National Portrait next door ;)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:40,
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the Beatles to Bowie exhibit though :(
I think, for other than pervy reasons, this was my favourite pic in the NPG: www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=ap&title=&npgno=&set=&eDate=&lDate=&medium=painting&ra=restrict&subj=&submitSearchTerm%5Fx=37&submitSearchTerm%5Fy=9&page=2&rNo=11
I still can't quite believe that it is a painting and not a photo!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:45,
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I think, for other than pervy reasons, this was my favourite pic in the NPG: www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/largerimage.php?search=ap&title=&npgno=&set=&eDate=&lDate=&medium=painting&ra=restrict&subj=&submitSearchTerm%5Fx=37&submitSearchTerm%5Fy=9&page=2&rNo=11
I still can't quite believe that it is a painting and not a photo!


.... *sobs to himself in the corner of his bedsit whilst no dayshifter wishes him a happy candleday. The tears stain his eviction notice as he looks at a picture of his family taken the day before the fatal accident. The Polish family upstairs continue to argue and he feels that if only HE had someone to shout at him... maybe he wouldn't be so lonely?

I suppose that eventually, I'll break, load it into my font editor and fix it.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:39,
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what a job!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:17,
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better act F.A.S.T
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:24,
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( , Fri 5 Mar 2010, 14:09, archived)

got there in the end though :D
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:10,
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:(
ps: 'I like this'
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:49,
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ps: 'I like this'

you being from a land where you can air most parts with little legal comeback ;D
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:50,
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*wanders off to buy new foon*
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:50,
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now it's enjoying a strawberry milkshake
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:32,
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I did not Air my Foon and he is really suffering withdrawal symptoms from synth based French pop music.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:35,
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![Challenge Entry: Superheroes in History [challenge entry]](/images/board_posticon_c.gif)

I was watching an episode of Lazy Town the other day, and Robbie Rotten dressed up as Sportacus, and there was a whole
"I'm Sportacus."
"No, I'm Sportacus!" thing going on.
I LOLed.

...oh sorry Robin, looks like your walking.
Woo!
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:39,
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Woo!

he looked as though he was about 6 foot 4 without them
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:43,
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:49,
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The woman by the way is a character called Lana
www.harrington-artwerkes.com/Lana.htm (Link may be a liiitle NSFW)

Click for bigger (275 kb)
I little messy in places but I'm rusty.
Don't like her gun hand. Really can't crack drawing fingers...
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 11:58,
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www.harrington-artwerkes.com/Lana.htm (Link may be a liiitle NSFW)

Click for bigger (275 kb)
I little messy in places but I'm rusty.
Don't like her gun hand. Really can't crack drawing fingers...

why does everyone missread what I type?! :D
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 11:54,
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It is every Giant Ape's democratic right to be a Viking if he (or she) wishes.
Stop saying that he (or she) can't.
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:20,
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Stop saying that he (or she) can't.

as the pub that isn't there any more, then you've missed your turning
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:26,
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it takes ages to get served
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 12:33,
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And completely failed to buy a pint almost immediately.
You are obviously getting confused and wandering into Wetherspoons.
(An easy mistake to make)
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Fri 5 Mar 2010, 13:00,
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You are obviously getting confused and wandering into Wetherspoons.
(An easy mistake to make)
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