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Boo hoo... Calls to a U.K. bullying helpline have almost doubled in a year.

No he's a total one in real life too. He wants total freedom to sell whatever formulation of weedkiller he chooses using whatever doses and ingredients he chooses. He wants us out of the EU and for tax to be reduced, but for subsidies for farmers to buy weedkiller and paid from tax to go up (although of course that in no way makes him dependent on the state) . He's one of those twonks, like Viscount Ridley, who thinks everything should be deregulated, especially environmental and employment protection - but, like Ridley, too dogma driven and frankly too blinkered to see what the consequences of his actions would be - essentially getting his ass sued off into bankruptcy.

You're such a twonk, but luckily very easy to debunk. I would say 'try harder', but I really do think these are your best efforts. Crispin Tickell was appointed Ambassador to Mexico and Ambassador to the UN by that well known lefty Margaret Thatcher. David Attenborough has never shown any political affiliation, although he did once advise Anthony Eden the conservative PM. You're making the elemental mistake of confusing him with his Labour leaning brother. They may be idiots for this idea, but lefty doesnt come into it.

But it is the most persistent. Methane breaks down after about 20 years.

The trouble with fracking is the unknowns. People are naturally nervous about injecting chemicals contaminating water supplies, and about subsidence in areas previously mined. Shale gas is certainly better for the climate than coal, but whether or not better in other dimensions remains to be seen. Also experience in the US has shown its not that cheap. Pumping water, sand and release agents a long way underground for not that much gas may well not be economic in many places.

Garden Path Sentences. They are all grammatical, but because of ambiguity we find them difficult to understand (yeah I know, I lifted this off the net). Fat people eat accumulates. The cotton clothing is usually made of grows in Mississippi. The girl told the story cried. I convinced her children are noisy. I know the words to that song about the queen don't rhyme.

Does look odd. Almost as though it was part of a longer piece which was chopped out by the sub-editors, except they missed a bit.

Is it going as well as you hoped Bletch?

'Matt Ridley' - actually Viscount Ridley of Blagton Hall - has been banging the same drum for decades - a totally 'free' market, no government regulation, especially financial and environmental regulation. He was architect of the Northern Rock fiasco - where he was the Chairman. Ridley is a totally busted flush with no credibility whatsoever, its like being lectured on good business practice by Fred Goodwin who ruined RBS. The Man who wants to Northern Rock the Planet Matt Ridley’s irrational theories remain unchanged by his own disastrous experiment. Brass neck doesn’t begin to describe it. Matt Ridley used to make his living partly by writing state-bashing columns in the Daily Telegraph. The government, he complained, is “a self-seeking flea on the backs of the more productive people of this world … governments do not run countries, they parasitise them.”(1) Taxes, bail-outs, regulations, subsidies, intervention of any kind, he argued, are an unwarranted restraint on market freedom. Then he became chairman of Northern Rock, where he was able to put his free market principles into practice. Under his chairmanship, the bank pursued what the Treasury select committee later described as a “high-risk, reckless business strategy”(2). It was able to do so because the government agency which oversees the banks “systematically failed in its regulatory duty”(3). On 16th August 2007, Dr Ridley rang an agent of the detested state to explore the possibility of a bail-out. The self-seeking fleas agreed to his request, and in September the government opened a support facility for the floundering bank. The taxpayer eventually bailed out Northern Rock to the tune of £27bn. When news of the crisis leaked, it caused the first run on a bank in this country since 1878. The parasitic state had to intervene a second time: the run was halted only when the government guaranteed the depositors’ money. Eventually the government was obliged to nationalise the bank. Investors, knowing that their money would now be safe as it was protected by the state, began to return. http://www.monbiot.com/2010/06/01/the-man-who-wants-to-northern-rock-the-planet/ Northern Rock chairman quits after criticism from lawmakers http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/19/business/worldbusiness/19iht-rock.4.7965470.html?_r=0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7052828.stm

Ambition hasn't got much to do with it. In the past 10 years every year the three or four automatic CL places have been occupied by the same five clubs, with just one exception for Spurs in 2011. Dreaming a bit harder wont change that, only hundreds of millions.

It is to her

Any more 'not looking quite as good lately pics?

It all looks very professional and credible, excellent. I didn't know you still smoked.

I enjoyed the BBC report of the match. "Oxford United lost further ground on the automatic promotion places in League Two after being held to a goalless draw by lowly Portsmouth. " Not sleeping giants after all then, well behind the mighty Oxford in lg2.

Thats a line up for a 8-6 game against Man U.

Things change. Players improve Spurs flop Gareth could Bale out in January as Birmingham boss Alex McLeish eyes £3m defender http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1221871/Spurs-flop-Gareth-Bale-January-Birmingham-boss-Alex-McLeish-eyes-3m-defender.html

On Sunday am going to the Le Corsaire, ballet in London at my 9 nine year old daughters request - which will be odd since Ive never seen the ballet or opera before. To gain quiet acceptance we haven't mentioned the dancing to my son, just "its a show about pirates".

Im tempted to say August 13th, but recollections can be hazy.

I dont know Bearsy. Im still pretty cut up about my experience with Clubs in the 1980s. I'd find if diffiicult to fully trust another baked goods purveyor again.

Fascinating new information. Club used to be really chocolatey, they even had an ad about it. Then they stopped bothering with all that tiresome quality product carp so I stopped buying them. Im sad to learn I could have had a good alternative in Rockys all these years.

Inbred is very popular in some families

I don't like Sweetbreads.

So if you include the lower league clubs, Tyro league and pub teams you can prove our setup is bigger than most clubs. Well done. Meanwhile the actual point was about clubs we are in competition with.

Its a tweet by Kris Temple at Radio Solent which, as Ron reported, simply says their intentions are unclear. Usual kneejerk reactions.

You'll be glad to know its common for Hamster's eyes to get a bit gammy and stick shut. You just dab it with a wet cotton bud. £70 up the swanny