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Agree, the first 2 albums were fantastic, and I much preferred Oasis to Blur's mockney estuarine accented pretension, might have something to do with living at this end of the country. After Morning Glory they went all 'look at us, we're important rock stars', and completely lost their edge, but I do think 'The Importance of Being Idle' was a brilliant swansong.

"Married with Children" or "Half a World Away"

Nothing with Yorkshire on the label will ever get into my larder, let alone my cups. Generally for me it's PG, with the occasional Roibus & green tea varieties.

They have banned it under a 2004 law barring the sale of foods with added vitamins - so it is also impossible to buy Ovaltine, Horlicks, Vegemite, Farley's rusks, and most Kelloggs cereals.

If a person of Asian descent describes himself as a 'Paki' is it racist ? If you do, it most certainly is. The harm is in the intent, not the word itself. If I had wanted to vent my spleen I would have described Prince Philip as an 'overprivileged, xenophobic, bigoted, leech', but I didn't, I used an entirely appropriate descriptive term for somebody of mixed heritage, who dropped lucky.

Because I don't have to. You are trying to prove a point that is not there.

It's not an original concept : http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/welcome-to-the-mongrel-nation-667933.html ...................................... http://thinkofengland.blogspot.com/2006/11/100-mongrel.html "One gentleman, in for a larger surprise than most, was convinced that he was 100 per cent English. His definition of what he meant by that? All of his relatives had been born here, for at least 12 generations. When pressed, he admitted he did not know this for sure, but was certain that it must be the case. I presented Dr Thomas with this criterion as a measure of Englishness and asked him, using it as a guide, how many 'English' people currently lived in England. The scientist thought about it. 'At a rough guess? Er, zero.' Such a thing would only have been possible if a particular social group, isolated from the rest of society, had inbred for centuries. When all this was explained to our participant, he took the point and was ultimately rather relieved to learn that he was anything but English, according to his own, original standards. 'I guess we're all mongrels,' was his phlegmatic response to the results of his gene test - which showed, in fact, that much of his genetic make-up pointed to origins in Russia and Eurasia." ...................................... http://www.outlineproductions.co.uk/catalogue_detail.aspx?program=191 Eddie Izzard's Mongrel Nation There is no such thing as pure Englishness. The Cross of St. George is merely a flag of convenience for an array of other nationalities and races who have combined in a two millennia-old melting pot to create the country in which we live. Whether it’s genetic and genealogical heritage, language, place names, buildings, culture, food, money, commerce, Christian and surnames, key institutions, humour, religion, art, events – practically all the components of our national heritage and identity come from abroad. In three hours of television, Eddie Izzard demonstrates how all of these cornerstones of the English way of life are foreign in their origin. In three hour long programmes, he examines how England became the Mongrel Nation.

Unlike you, I wouldn't cross the road to avoid them.

"To his credit, the not-really-Greek-after-all Phil (it turns out he’s a blue-blood mongrel mix of Danish, Russian and German with probably a little Croat on the side) made it abundantly clear he had no time for the toadying Titchmarsh’s smarm offensive." Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/tv/reviews/864218-prince-philip-at-90-had-the-posh-and-posher-falling-over-themselves#ixzz1NMWQpt3Y

I am also English ( predominantly ), with some Scots and Welsh, and am quite happy to refer to myself as a mongrel - so yah boo sucks to you and dunce ! And as for the President of the USofA, to call him a mongrel is more accurate than his claim to be Irish !

I am glad that you have acknowledged my superiority ! As for mongrel - "A cross between different breeds, groups, or varieties,", so an accurate adjective in this case. Not derogatory, merely appropriate.

An impoverished, exiled, mongrel mix of Danish, Greek, and German who marrried well.

I cannot suggest that you go to Twitter Search and type in 'footballer TSE', as in doing so you might find out something that has an injunction against it.

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Apparently the lawyers for the other premiership player with an injunction, who can only be referred to as TSE, claimed that is was necessary because, if the news of his affair were published, "It would have a devastating effect on his wife and family". Should have thought about that before putting it where it shouldn't have been.

As long as you're careful in selecting videos with decent sound quality.

But some of us didn't have far to go

Work will be hell tomorrow - loads of glum faces @ Bloomfield Rd and also in my wife's class.

I love the way that free market capitalism can thrive even in the face of Armageddon : http://eternal-earthbound-pets.com/

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Been thinking about this whole 'if God exists why does he let sh!t happen' line of argument, and I have new set of theories.: (1) God really does exist, and the pinnacle of His ( or Her ) creation was in fact the dinsoaurs. However, after 350 million years of that He ( or She ) got bored and moved off to supervise another set of dimensions in the mulitiverse, leaving the Earth to settle into the standard chaos any managed system falls into without a housekeeper to tidy it and keep it clean. (2) Alternatively, in accordance with the theory of relativity, 'time' is relative to the observer., and slows down relatively as you approach the velocity of a photon. As God is 'the way, the truth, and the light', His ( or Her ) time compared to what we observe means that a human lifetime is just a blink of an eye to the celestial deity, so He ( or She ) wouldn't notice wars, floods, etc. (3) God gave us Abraham, Moses, and all the other Old Testament Prophets. He then offered us John the Baptist, and finally His own son. As humanity still didn't seem to 'get the message', ( as Bill & Ted put it - 'Be excellent to each other' ), He ( or She ) has given up trying. As any parent knows, you can only tell the children so many times to stop misbehaving or somebody will get hurt. After a while you just stop trying and watch them fall over, bang their heads, etc. (4) He ( or She ) has simply got bored with the Earth, and so He ( or She ) has moved on to some other galaxy, ( far far away ), and is busy trying an improved recipe.

If the alternative is to be you then I am happy being a spambot. ( This message was brought to you by a room filled with an infinite number of monkeys typing randomly on computer keyboards and purely by chance, once in a while, generating a comprehensible string of characters ).

God will let the scientists 'discover' exactly what He wants them to discover ! The moment you prove God exists you destroy religion, faith, and society. You cannot, however, ever definitively disprove a deity - the argument simply shifts to He ( or She ) does not want to be found.

Are we ? How do you KNOW you exist ? How do you KNOW I exist ? You, and anybody else that apparently posts on this forum, may just be a figment of an overactive imagination. Also, if God exists, explain Skatesmouth.