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Hendrix did it better - with lighter fuel.

What a good Catholic bear you are.

Although he'd have no clue about this, Turkish has stumbled on an important and largely ignored issue. Religion in everyday life is not about belief but about ritual. Christmas trees and easter eggs, co-opted pagan symbols the pair of them, are ritual markers of faith. And it's in the comfort of rituals that people mostly profess their faith, not some existential argument about higher beings. This is where Dawkins gets it horribly wrong: his arguments are all, in the end, about the ways in which scientific method has rendered religious belief in a Deity redundant. No wonder he can't puzzle out why it nonetheless continues to exist.

Charles Dickens had more to do with Christmas trees and celebrations than 'Christianity'.

...but way too much religion.

Do you really have to sound like such an hysteric every time you post with someone you disagree with? Pap has done you the undeserved honour of replying civilly (although he used far too many syllables for you in doing so) - why don't you try out something similar in monosyllables? And I always come back to the BBC=lefty brigade with a simple question: which programme or news report are you suggesting is socialist in some way?

With its original title, this one, or a new and more appropriate one?

Legally, no. You would be hunted down.

Almost right. Coventry and Doncaster, plus that lot down the road liquidated.

You pay to subsidise the rest of us. On behalf of everyone, I thank you.

I preferred the other one. Much more po-mo.

You nicked the idea for this thread.

Perhaps this could be said to be it.

But did he really say much that a lot of skates would now disagree with?

Why? Australia is booming. You'd be lucky to see a job coming up in most European cities this side of next year.

Because it's just a far superior city to most, if not all, of the others. Melbourne is a great cultural city, with arts and music festivals, and, with its lovely Victorian and Edwardian architecture and efficient tram system, has the feel of a European metropolis. Also some of the best seafood restaurants I've ever eaten in - all lined up along the quay.

It's dull as ditchwater. It's also the second remotest city on the planet - so should be perfect.

There used to be a show on Southern called Bygones. This thread belongs there.

Quelle surprise!

I could imagine Cortese being interested - not in the football club itself, which will close, but in the right to put, in very small letters, 'incorporating Portsmouth FC' under the club logo. The only difference we'd notice is that St Mary's would be the only major football stadium in the country with two way ends.

Bien sur, mon ami.

But you'd have to draw an 8,000 mile circle around the UK to include to Falklands! Anyway, apparently you're heading for joint command with the French after Cameron's and Sarkozy's cosying up, so this tatty excuse or flag-waving may not be looked upon so favourably in the future. Presumably you'll be announcing your name change to Le Delljours?

Sun reader.

I'll give this an F, and not just for the 'creative' spelling.

-10 is fine for now. It's the hope that will kill them.