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If you could start a new thread about anything, absolutely anything, what would you start a new thread about?
Apart from fantastical daydreams.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:31, 163 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Space

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:36, Reply)
look
www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/03/asteroid_collision_pic/
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:36, Reply)
Excellent headline, there.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:38, Reply)
Thanks, I wrote it myself.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:42, Reply)
Space, and Obama being a bastard about it.
johnmoynes.com/2010/02/03/lunatic-stupidity/
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:38, Reply)
Yes because a city on the moon is far more important than starving babies in Africa.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:48, Reply)
Depends on your definition of important dunit.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:48, Reply)
My opinion is that a city on the moon is more important than starving children in africa.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:52, Reply)
I don't believe you.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:53, Reply)
Well it's true, the progress of the species is more important than peoples lives.
The idea that we can't do anything until all the worlds problems are sorted out is also a bit specious.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:58, Reply)
Racism!

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:01, Reply)
The moon landing was basically the start of the enviromental movement as well.
You can never tell what offshoots there will be from these massive events.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:03, Reply)
You're scaring me

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:06, Reply)
The earth won't last forever, we've eventually going to either have to move on or die.
edit: and I don't mean by the millions or billions, I mean everyone and everything gone.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:17, Reply)
When you say 'we', you're talking about people in the future
We'll all be dead anyway.
Things die. That's life.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:19, Reply)
Things die. That's life.
So who gives a fuck about dying babies eh?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:21, Reply)
Ha!

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:26, Reply)
I don't.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)
Try telling that to the woman whose baby is dying in her arms.
We should fix this place first before we go off looking for adventure.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:10, Reply)
See what you're doing here is thinking that it's a choice between the two.
It's not don't be stupid.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:15, Reply)
Of course it's a choice.
Don't YOU be stupid.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:21, Reply)
Yes those rocket scientists and material engineers should be farming crops in the desert.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:22, Reply)
I'm talking about the billions of dollars spent in funding the space missions.
Are you telling me this is spare money the government has lying around?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)
regardless of where the money is coming from
if they don't use it for space they aren't going to use it to solve the 3rd world's problems.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:30, Reply)
You can't just throw money at the problem,
once again don't be stupid.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:32, Reply)
It's not 'a problem' as you put it.
It's a fucking disaster.

If the governments used a tenth of the brain power and money that they throw at shiny metal toys then we'd be on the way to eradicating child poverty. I'm all for scientific discovery and invention but not at the expense of everything else.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:38, Reply)
Balls.
Fixing the problems of poverty in Africa could be done very simply.
The Western governments could choose to stop raping the African economy any time they chose to. It has nothing to do with the question of a CITY ON THE MOON.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:45, Reply)
And where do you think some of that money that the goverments take from the third world countries goes?

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:48, Reply)
Not to science and technology development
you retard.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:50, Reply)
How can you possibly know that for sure.
You pillock.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)
Why are you posting here while there are starving babies in Africa?

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:53, Reply)
I don't like the heat.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:55, Reply)
Moats for MPs.
To be serious it mainly goes into the pockets of shareholders of big companies.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:50, Reply)
The African people
rape them-fucking-selves*. They've huge natural resources but so many of their governments are crooked beyond belief these resources don't benefit the people. And don't give me the 'shit deals done with Westernn governments' shit either. Shit deals, done with their own shit crooked governments. Look at Rhodesia. CUNTS.



*and other people, such as charity workers. The FUCKING CUNTS.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:51, Reply)
Couldn't agree more.
The documentary I watched about Liberia the other night was reeling off a load of statistics, such as 80% unemployment rate etc. So, with that in mind, why don't some of the unemployed set about digging some fucking latrines instead of pulling their knickers down and shitting where they stand.

All we need is a few soft focussed shots of babies with flies on their face, heart strings tugged? Farting strings plugged, more like it.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:07, Reply)
Realistically though
without first eradicating corruption which is obviously inherent in many African governments, it'd be impossible to eradicate child poverty.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:46, Reply)
the only way to eradicate corruption in Africa
is to eradicate Africans in Africa.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:25, Reply)
We spend far more on overseas aid
than we do on any government backed science and technology
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:47, Reply)
So we give up and go to the moon then?
All I'm saying is that Obama seems to have his priorities in the right order which is about time for an American president.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)
That may be what you're saying now,
it wasn't what you were saying at the start of the argument.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:54, Reply)
I was trying to make it simple for you to understand.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:57, Reply)
Yes, because I'm very ignorant of how the world works,
as proven in this thread.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)
I know how the world works.
I'm saying it works incorrectly.

You're saying this is how the world works and there's nothing we can do about it so let's all just enjoy ourselves with a trip to the moon.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:00, Reply)
They'll get custard on their shoes

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)
Well played.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:31, Reply)
Damn you, beat me to it

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:44, Reply)
I wish I could tell on my phone
What this is responding to...
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:13, Reply)
PsychoChomp, 13.22.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:21, Reply)
You make it sound like
a verse from the Bible of Chomp
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:52, Reply)
it's not a choice in the slightest
they are two different choices, and the governments of the world are already choosing not to help the starving babies in Africa, so they may as well decide to build a city on the moon.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:24, Reply)
Yes, because this is an either/or situation.
America can only do one thing at a time.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:15, Reply)
Tend to agree
Not the Moon-City as such, but what it represents/is part of. The drive to look to the future and plan ahead to take the human race places it has never been, to boldly go...

not that people dying here/now isn't important, but it's a symptom of many, many fucked up aspects of politics, how people react to their fellow man and shit like that, it would, in my uneducated opinion take massive amounts to fix properly, and actually a Moon-City is probably easier and in the long run more important.

Plus, Moon-Cities are like way cool and stuff.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)
Yes. I'd like a city on the moon and no starving babies in Africa.
You want no city on the moon, and no food for African babies.
You swine.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:08, Reply)
We're doomed.
news.uk.msn.com/uk/articles.aspx?cp-documentid=152003743
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:46, Reply)
I'm not.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:47, Reply)
It made feel low....

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:49, Reply)
Yes you are.
The scientists say so.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:49, Reply)
CITY ON THE MOON

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:08, Reply)
best retort ever

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:25, Reply)
The film "Aliens"
I fucking love that film
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:52, Reply)
I watched the 'Special Edition'
Imagine my disappointment when it wasn't about mongs with pulse rifles.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:55, Reply)
bey boastly cumb bout at night
boastly
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:57, Reply)
HAHAHAHA shurrup and have a Cheesy Puff

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:58, Reply)
In space - no one can hear you drool.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:59, Reply)
Haha

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:00, Reply)
Let's rock!

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:56, Reply)
Hudson run a bypass!

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:58, Reply)
Hey Vasquez!
Ever been mistaken for a man?

No. Have you?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:01, Reply)
Look into my eye

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:26, Reply)
I say we take off and nuke the site from orbit
it's the only way to be sure.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:01, Reply)
Me too.
It's where my love for Sigourney Weaver started.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:56, Reply)
What about Alien Resurrection...
...with Winona 'big brown beaver' Ryder?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:58, Reply)
I would.
Even if she was a robot.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 12:59, Reply)
Yeah.
Easily turned on.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:04, Reply)
*high fives*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:22, Reply)
alright vipros

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:25, Reply)
been better
you?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:26, Reply)
Been worse.
Sup?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:28, Reply)
meeting yesterday at work
turns out our division is doing really shit, and redundancies are a real possibility if things don't turn around in the next couple of months.

not good. means I need to spend less time fucking about and more time winning work.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:29, Reply)
Arse.
Is it a bit gay that I'd noticed you weren't here today?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:32, Reply)
did you notice I wasn't here?

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:35, Reply)
My life is empty when you're not around.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:36, Reply)
I thought as much
Here have a hug to get you through the rest of the day as I won't be around much
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:44, Reply)
*absorbs*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:47, Reply)
yeah, reckon I'll be reducing my b3ta time significantly
I've been lax, and need to maintain my position.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:45, Reply)
that made me do a laugh AND a sad

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:50, Reply)
^ me too.
How are you anyway, old boy?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:52, Reply)
hiya mate
sup?
EDIT: ^ Oh :(
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:30, Reply)
IN YOUR EYEBROW FACE

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:33, Reply)
You're gonna lose teeth in a minute son

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:36, Reply)
The shock that I agree with Monty about something.
Celery.

What a cunt.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:23, Reply)
BGB's decision to move to Africa

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:38, Reply)
I was thinking of India.
I love a good curry.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:40, Reply)
THERE ARE STARVING BABIES IN AFRICA AND HERE YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT CURRY >:(

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:46, Reply)
I was going to give the starving babies in India some of my curry.
Innit.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:54, Reply)
I was going to
make a curry out of starving African babies and feed it to the Indian ones.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:56, Reply)
Good idea.
Then chompy can use the Indian babies as rocket fuel to get to the moon.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:59, Reply)
Slumdog Astronaut

A feel good movie by Big Girls Boyle
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:01, Reply)
what about the starving babies in Africa?
And China?
And Mexico?
HUH?!
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:11, Reply)
Thingy-cage-fighter-bloke and large-breasted-not-good-for-much-bird have got married!
Lets all send them our best wishes (and get odds on a divorce by the end of the year)
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:49, Reply)
If I find out you've been discussing 'celebrity gossip' on here
I'll have you horsewhipped, you bounder.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)
Oooooooh whips!
I like whips.

Also, as it was on the BBC News website can I claim that it is in fact a newsworthy event and not mere celebrity gossip?

I quite like this story as well; news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/8495630.stm It made me chuckle.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:59, Reply)
I really resisted the urge to comment hahahaha

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:00, Reply)
What made me laugh even more
is that they refuse to be specific as to the animal that created the semen. Which leads me to speculate as to where the man got his non-human 'samples' from - is he just wanking his dog off into a test tube every night, or is he going to great lengths to acquire walrus semen?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:12, Reply)
I honestly can't speak
I just, I mean, well, it takes all sorts...
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:14, Reply)
"All sorts," eh?
Well, there's "Ranger Rob's animal experience" in Prestwich. Perhaps we should ask Ranger Rob if his animals have been looking particularly relaxed over the last couple of weeks...
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Oh good lord no...

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:29, Reply)
I wonder if he has a walrus...

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:33, Reply)
The fact that you recognise it as being so...
...makes you a total 'shirter-in-denial'.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:05, Reply)
She'll have another flaming kid first

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:58, Reply)

wishes anthrax
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:59, Reply)
+small

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 13:59, Reply)
this is
fucked up
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:01, Reply)
It's probably a lie.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:05, Reply)
well
it is in the Daily Mail...
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:06, Reply)
Kid's name is Lee Glitter.
Trufax.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:06, Reply)
TruLIES
everyone knows Glitter prefers 7 and under
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:14, Reply)
Nuh-uuh!
Not only does the mother hold the record for the youngest to give birth*, but she also beat the previous best gestation period by 19 months.

*not strioctly true now that I read the article.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:18, Reply)
not only is she not the youngest to give birst ever,
she's not even the youngest in that article
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:20, Reply)
Probably would have birst too
if it wasn't for the Caesarean.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Waahey!

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:28, Reply)
Yeah bloody Chinese government trying to get in first with everything

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:10, Reply)
you've got to love daily mail readers
"Well at least in China, the father wil hang for it.

Here, they'd be given a council house and lifetime of benefits."

- Symone, London, 2/2/2010 11:52

1562 people rated this up.
ONE THOUSAND AND SIXTY TWO PEOPLE THINK THIS IS A GOOD COMMENT
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:09, Reply)
I can't help but think
that's more fucked up than the original story.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:12, Reply)
Yep, and what if the father is a 10 year old?
I bet they'd still be baying for blood.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:14, Reply)
I know I am.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:17, Reply)
Well, I suppose it combines two subjects guaranteed to stir up the passions of Mail readers
"Bring back hanging" and "Spending my fucking taxes on those benefit scroungers." If the father had been an immigrant I think Melanie Phillips would have come.

To be honest, I suspect the people who rated that a good comment would have been calling for Alfie Moon to be hanged, before he could start claiming benefits.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:18, Reply)
AND THE OTHER FIVE HUNDRED
Accidentally clicked while flailing around with their mong hands?
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:20, Reply)
this is
more so: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lina_Medina
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:10, Reply)
Football
It doesn't automatically make you big and clever to smugly announce that you don't care for it.

/heresy
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:10, Reply)
Football's alright

Footballers are wankers
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:12, Reply)
Obsessive football fans are King of the Wankers.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:15, Reply)
I hate people who like things too.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:18, Reply)
I like people who hate things.
We should form some kind of club.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:19, Reply)
I hate clubs.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I like this.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:26, Reply)
I like breasts

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:58, Reply)
I like big
Butts and I cannot lie
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:48, Reply)
I dont care for football
*big, clever and smug*
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:13, Reply)
True enough
It simply makes you rational (if you are older than about 12).
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:18, Reply)
Or a cunt.
If your name is Monty.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:20, Reply)
That's not what makes me a cunt.
Not that on its own, anyway. Slanderer.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:21, Reply)
I just resent your healthy ways.

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:22, Reply)

*limbers up*


*has an aneurism*
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:26, Reply)
*searches pockets for drugs and cash*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:28, Reply)

*finds plenty of one and fuck all of the other*
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:30, Reply)
*leaves charity eigth*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:52, Reply)
*steals eighth*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:56, Reply)
*cries like a beeyotch*

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:57, Reply)
*feels guilty*
*hands back a gram and a fiver*
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:03, Reply)

rational predictable
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:23, Reply)
Eh?
Surely liking football is hugely predictable?

It's not exactly a specialist minority interest is it?

Every knuckle-dragging halfwit and mongoloid manual worker the length and breadth of the land spends half their waking hours discussing at length vapid nonsense about how 'we (we?) should have played *insert name of overpaid oleagenous ponce* up front' etc etc
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:30, Reply)
Re: "We"
Whilst I could have a diatribe about the silliness of this, Mitchell and Webb put it better than I ever could. I'm prepared to follow the progress of my favoured team, but I refuse to claim to be a member of it...
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:36, Reply)
Predictable on here though
And university professors can like football. Marketing Consultants. Graphic Designers. Award winning novelists. Nobel Prize winners.

It's terrible bigotry to try and paint it as the sole province of the knuckle-dragging mouth-breather.

That's obviously American Football. /bill bait
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:14, Reply)
It's snowing
Quite heavily

I'm bored of snow :0(
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:47, Reply)
What! i fucking love the snow

Where are you? You snow hating bastard!!
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 14:58, Reply)
Mid Cheshire
In the bit next to where all the posh people and footballers live.
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:06, Reply)
There are no posh people in the North, fact

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:30, Reply)
Not Necessarily
I'm from the Posh bit of Skelmersdale, so that's a start?

haha
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:35, Reply)
Depends on your definition of posh, really
mine involves private eductaion and old money.

EDIT: from wikipedia about skelmsbleugh "consisting predominantly of housing estates" Sorry!
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:39, Reply)
I know
I was joking.

The place is a complete shithole. Could be worse though.

Could be Bollington
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:50, Reply)
Or Scotland

*shudders*
(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:52, Reply)
At least it's not rusty...

(, Wed 3 Feb 2010, 15:12, Reply)

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