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Although I never truly liked Ben Elton as a comedian, I must doff my cap to him for co-writing one of the funniest TV shows ever broadcast: Blackadder.

That is truly horrific. They both deserve to die a slow and painful death for this act of sacrilege!

Total agreement mate. Last week I forgot to take my headphones to the gym so I was forced to listen to the utter garbage that was playing on the PA and accompanying the videos on the large screens. I really felt sorry for today's kids knowing that this is the crap they are being force-fed by the record industry. One of the terrible things I saw/heard was a guy 'singing' (obviously auto-tuned... why do people actually think that sounds good!?) a dodgy version of The Banana-boat Song over the top of the backing track to Robin S's Show Me Love. It was painful to listen to. Can nobody come up with anything original any more!?

So if they don't like Athletico, and they don't like Bilbao, just what the hell do they call themselves!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swKhPHzPIoU

There is an awful lot of assumption on this thread, considering the cause of death is not yet known.

Drink it cold then!

Just say neigh

And herein is a large chunk of the point. Realistically, why should we be any better off than Albania? We are a relatively small island nation with precious little in the way of natural resources, and our standing in the world is solely due to our hegemonic past where we travelled the world oppressing and enslaving other nations in order to steal their resources.

Yeah, sorry that was kind of the point I was trying to make, but it obviously didn't come across through my righteous indignation! But you are sadly right. How do you tell people who have done well out of our f***ed-up economic system that they can't have their gas-guzzling 4x4 and other toys? The problem is that we in the privileged west have become so used to our affluent way of life that we have become addicted to it. We expect - no, demand - things like cheap clothes and readily-available food and water, but most people are blissfully unaware that the supply of these things often depends heavily on the exploitation of those who do not have the same opportunities that we take for granted. What is required is a paradigm shift in people's consciousness, but I fear that won't happen without some kind of cataclysmic event on a planet-wide scale.

CBS Action are repeating Star Trek TNG from the very beginning as of yesterday. Bejeesus! How dated does this look now? I remember when this was first aired on UK TV when I was at secondary school, and I thought it was the coolest thing EVER! But watching it again now it looks almost as dodgy, in terms of the sets and effects, as the original 60s series.

Can't disagree with anything you say. The global economic model is catastrophically flawed. There are enough resources on this planet (at the moment at least, but population growth is, perhaps, for a different discussion) to eliminate poverty completely, yet we still endeavour to support a system that leans so heavily in favour of an elite of less than one percent. It's f***ng grotesque. One thing is for certain though - it cannot continue as it is. Something will have to give eventually. If you haven't already, I recommend you have a read of George Monbiot's Age of consent, or have a look at the Global Justice Movement website.

I used to love Lilt when I was a kid. I bought a can recently as the shop I was in was extremely short on variety and my god was it awful. How the hell did I used to like it?

I don't have a routine because I am field based, so some days I might have to do a 2-hr drive to be on site at 8.30, and other times I may have a survey only half an hour away at 11am. I'm still pretty crappy at getting up though. I usually set my alarm for about 45 mins before i need to leave in the knowledge I can hit snooze twice and still have time to get a shower and breakfast before I go. But quite often I will have an extra snooze and blame the traffic if I am late getting to site.

If you are not even slightly moved by this then you have no heart...

A quick progress update for those who are interested (probably no-one but what the hell!)... I weighed myself at the gym yesterday for the first time since I started going and I have lost 6 kilos, and this evening I took my bike out on one of my favourite routes (15 miles around the Derwent Valley Reservoir) and I managed to shave a whole ten minutes off my previous best time

Fantastic. Featured on the soundtrack to one of my all-time favourite films.

Indeed. Conveniently for Rupert, it has ensured that all of tomorrow's headlines will focus on what they will inevitably describe as as "appaling attack on an elderly man" instead of the issue at hand, which is that he could not give one single direct answer to any of the questions put to him.

My money is on the latter.

Anyway, back to the point... From the short amount I saw, I didn't see either of the Murdoch's give a single direct answer to any of the committee's questions. All I saw was evasion and waffle. To be expected really, but it was almost cringeworthy.

The BBC keep repeating over and over the same clip where you can't actually see what happened. It appears the man put a custard pie in Murdoch's face. Perhaps he's the Phantom Flan Flinger form Tiswas?

Oh for ****s sake dune! Seriously. I really don't give a **** if i get banned or infracted for this, but you really are just such a f***ing insufferable pr1ck, you know that! HOW THE **** DO YOU KNOW THE MAN IS LEFT-WING!? And what the **** does it matter what his political leanings are.

Sorry mate, I can't see your logic here. Just because his dad has said previously that he thinks he should join Arsenal, doesn't mean that Alex himself actually wants to.

There's plenty more fish in the sea, but make sure you avoid the crabs.

Hang on, how the hell have we managed to allow dune to drag yet another thread into one of his left v right rants about UKIP? dune, seriously... change the f***ing record. It's getting a wee bit tiresome now.