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Yeah, it's shít, KRG. Can't be helped I'm afraid. I'm unwilling to.

Let's go for 2 inches below average height. For men, that's 5"10'. At 5"4', I definitely qualify. As for your revelations:- [video=youtube;SRW0DXOd-pM]

Send them to the fkn Trafford Centre then. Let them declare independence there! Think it's about loads more than that. It's about a country that doesn't feel as if its government represents its interests, and perhaps thinking they can make a better stab of it. It's not just about finance.

Not to pick on you specifically, OldNick - but I have to say that stories like these are really depressing. Not so much because John Lewis may put up prices, or Standard Life may do the offs. Mainly because people thing that these things are actually important. We're discussing the break-up of a country and people are worried about knowingly paying more than the English for John Lewis tat. Like I said, depressing.

Babylon and Rome say hello.

LG g3 looks a great phone. Was a consideration during my upgrade review. The only pick-up it got was viewing angle. It's a phone. You look directly at it. Who cares?

Somewhat diminishes the achievement of getting to 1707 as a coherent civilisation. Many didn't. Many weren't even born then.

And yet, according to the "is your ring finger bigger than your index finger" test, I am Testosteronous Rex, or at the very least, a Testopiraptor.* * insert testicle related joke for guaranteed hilarity.

It's an interesting point. Should we blindly accept the authority of nation states? Do they carry authority in perpetuity on account of being nation states, or democracies? I'd argue not. Our political system is largely redundant in the information age, unnecessarily divisive and spectacularly unaccountable. Representative democracy was supposed to be the protection from the potential mob rule of direct democracy, but its adherents have abused their roles. That's why we haven't had a referendum on Europe for 40 years, or meaningful debate on any other of the untouchables, be it foreign policy, drug policy, our status as a nuclear player, ownership of our industries. Our representatives aren't representin' I don't know what the long term solution is, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't involve a load of inexperienced political idealists swinging the pendulum the other way at great cost to the British public every time there's a change of government or a particularly vicious Twitter campaign. Government shouldn't be hard; defend the realm, build a society in which people get their basic Four Freedoms, and allow people to get on with it. We're in a situation where state handouts are propping up full time dual income families and the government is borrowing to support that. Surely that's the alarm bell that everyone should heed. That your basic British family can't get by without help, and that it's very possible that we've a hugely imbalanced economy. As an Englishman, I've got to question the legitimacy of a system that has allowed that to happen, and red or blue, through PFI or outright privatisation, is allowing more of it to happen. This £9K a year tuition fee is a discount rate. Bit by bit, we'll ascend to the lucrative heights of the £40Kpa Ivy League. Unfortunately, as a resident of England, I don't really have that choice. The Scots do, and whatever happens now, it looks like they're on for a win. I know Batman is pronouncing "holy disaster", but I've never bought the idea that they won't be able to run things on their own. I'm sure it'll be made bloody hard for them, but if I was ever putting dosh on a group of people to turn around, say "fúck yis", and do it all (with great difficulty) anyway, it would be them. The deep-fried Mars bar stereotypes burn deep, but there is a long history of Scottish ingenuity and industry.

Wasn't aware of the distinction, but they are fascinating. Did the Myers Briggs one too and it's uncanny. Friendships, employee traits (at various levels) - even parenthood - all down to a tee, warts and all. Clever beings, we humans. Or alternatively, a bit uniform. Maybe both.

Take two. To the tune of AC/DC's Highway to Hell. Toby Alderweireld! ..... Alderweireld! Rinse and repeat. I claim my Cortese memorial spoon in presentation box.

Quite right. It should be free for everyone. Sentiments like these fuel the revolution, comrade

ENFP. Someone's gotta do it.

If I were a new country with limited cash and a hostile ex, I'd be thinking very seriously about whether NATO is worth the money or the aggravation. Staying out could be a powerful statement in a time when NATO is bunging its weight about in its EU-acquired "buffer zone".

Quite the opposite. It's set in a future dystopia in which kids aren't being born.

Know who this guy is? Of course you don't. It's Tim Dunigan, the original Faceman from the A-Team pilot. Fired for being too tall, specifically making B.A. Baracus look weedier than the show-makers wanted! (rest of A-Team were midgets, yo!) Happy ending for Tim Dunigan though. He never went bald. Whereas Mr T was both short and (mostly) bald. We all know what an angry bastard he is.

Children of Men, surely?

That's it then. The public have immense respect for what corporations want. Yes campaign over Cameron doing well tho'. Seems like a real person.

Or not, as the case may be http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10823649/Shorter-men-live-longer-scientists-find.html

Alright. I was hoping to have full blown narcissistic personality disorder by now. It's just self-deprecation, humility and admitting fault that's holding me back, KRG

I know. Terrible people, we are. Just didn't put the effort into growing. Send us down. SEND US ALL DOWN!

A tall mate of mine reckons the world is designed for short people. He cites stairs, seating as examples.

Sadly bloody true. I had to develop a fúcking personality!

Neither. Mate of mine wore Cuban heels; only thing anyone ever talked about when he was out of the office. Wigs are ridiculous for male pattern baldness.

Get into your containers, slaves. It's all you deserve. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2450762/Shipping-containers-rented-London-homes.html