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What's he moaning about? He gets a free submarine.

Last instalment was 2006.

Quite. If you leave aside the technical details of why the building collapsed, and suppose that it was brought down as a result of the American government's making a deliberate decision to demolish it (along with the two towers), then you're left with a conspiracy so colossal that there is no way SOMEONE, among the many thousands who'd have had to be in on it, wouldn't have blurted out the 'truth'.

I'm not sure this counts. I worked once for Island Records. My job was to apologise - all the time. The demand for apologies peeked with the release of a Wailers album many copies of which were so warped they only had any use as ash trays. Endless handwritten mea culpas were sent out to upset customers from an office next to Island's warehouse. Everyone working there seemed to be smoking something or other - to such an extent that I think they discouraged the forklift drivers from driving in the afternoons. Our office was effectively a ventilation shaft for the warehouse. That's all I remember.

Burley's second season. In pre-season, Alps went on and on about how poor-to-non-existent our centre backs were. He was certainly right then.

What's it really like for reporters when they talk to British politicians? Here's an appalling little insight. http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/jul/01/ed-miliband-interviewer-shame-strike-soundbites This may be extreme, but such a level of control and manipulation is by no means unusual.

That would be bankrupted and bailed-out tax-free work haven in the sun.

Ah, the give-away, triumphant swagger of someone who's utterly, foolishly wrong. Read the link in Bath Saint's post as a starting point for exposing the absurdities of Plimer's arguments. Not only is he not a climate scientist - it seems he can't even add up. As for volcanoes causing more CO2 emissions than humans 'in four days', climate scientists are still picking themselves up from the floor laughing at that one.

You can base your arguments on facts and they (arguments) will still be opinions. The question is: what are facts? Unfortunately this requires speed-reading everything from Plato to Wittgenstein before coming up with pithy one-liner on here that will then be instantly dismissed by dune based on what he sees out of his bedroom window.

Hypo must be doing cartwheels.

Diploma please. Or any evidence that you didn't flunk your chemistry GCSE.

hypo joking is about as close to oxymoronic as you can get.

I hate to break it to you, but... Now, back on topic, can you post your chemistry diploma on here?

Where exactly are all these 'communes', Sergei? And name ONE teacher who believes in and teaches 'marxist ideology'. Meanwhile, back on earth (and back to the thread)...

Is this news just in from dr dune the atmospheric chemist?

4.5 days?! Evidence, I think, that there are actually three sectors. The private sector, that thinks it makes all the money, the public sector that's supposed to sponge off the private sector, and the banking sector that goes spectacularly and stupidly bust and so sponges off both the other sectors.

Good grief trousers. How not busy are you at work?

Rhetorical questions come a close second to reverse psychology.

Bugger. I've just bought a house by the Thames.

I'm confused. Are you shouting at your wife again?

Fifty-one and counting. Give it a rest hypo. Even Lord Tender thinks you're wrong.

Great! ...although I do wonder how safe facts are in the hands of a journalist who can't spell 'reliably'.

Why would I bite with my private-sector, index-linked, final-salary pension? Trebles all round!

I'd be surprised if you'd made less than fifty - which all amount to the same thing. It's irrelevant to anyone else whether you 'understand' deppo's humour; I really don't think anyone cares what you do or do not understand. You reacted to his banning with gloating and spiteful posts on this thread, and previously with complaints to the mods and that absurd little PM campaign you admitted to. Unlike you, I don't wish a 'lifetime ban' on anyone. But in my opinion the forum, and this part of it in particular, is worse for deppo's absence and your presence.

So you admit you have been crushed by the liberal elite.