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So you will be voting Labour next election?

You surprise me.

Are you scared trousers? Are you?

I think the random chaos is MUCH more fun. If only we could combine it with a tube strike...

I'll vote no then.

Are you thinking of a Confederacy of Dunces?

Now Ed has won over the Lib Dems as well as Labour. More LibDem voters support him than Clegg. At this rate, it's going to be a very short march back to power. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/feedarticle/9453664

Why 'got sat'? Did your mummy plonk you down next to the nasty socialist as punishment? No wonder you were in a sulk.

Have we done the English language yet?

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He's the one with the fountain, right? Or is that dune?

Question mark?

Descartes?

Can you be a pedant and poorly informed? Surely you have to be right for the pedantry to be pedantry. Otherwise it's delldays.

Because in 'they are a couple', the 'are' agrees with 'they' (ie plural).

Is is right. Couple is a collective noun, and therefore singular.

Watch that trail of slime behind you.

Exactly. Death was the least he deserved. As someone who was not involved in the demo, and was filmed walking away with his hands in his pockets, I can see entirely that he was an enemy of the state. By the way, what exactly was Tomlinson told, and by whom?

I wonder whether there's something self-selecting in the way this forum attracts such a high percentage twisting loons from the right and far-right. Labour supporters (and liberals with a small 'l') are a small minority on here, and yet over 40% of the voting population now supports Labour. Football, a traditional working class sport, would, you might expect, attract more rather than fewer Labour supporters. The self-selection probably comes from anonymity and the opportunity to create an alternative identity. There are so many captains of industry on here I'm surprised Southampton isn't a serious rival to Hong Kong. But as Ricky Gervais said recently: window-cleaning isn't a business.

I think Deppo's point about experience was aimed at the dweebish, barely competent Gove, who I can't imagine entering an FE college without holding his nose. You of course are entitled to your opinion - although I'm surprised you're a taxpayer.

Hilarious. If China were to follow the behaviour of the British Raj in 1857 they would be razing all the capital cities of sub-Saharan Africa.

Or take medicine as an example. People should know how good a cranium can be as an echo chamber if it has no brain inside. There really is no bottom to the depths of your ignorance. Would you recommend studying the Raj from 1857?

The evidence of our own eyes. It's all a bit like those scenes in Inception, or watching polar ice shelves collapse into the sea - the whole country seems to be crumbling away in huge lumps.

Sourpuss

Ed triumphs over blue and yellow Tories in Oldham. Not a bad start.