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I wasn't breast-fed and neither were either of my kids. We're already pretty intelligent, so I can only assume that if key women had got their norks out at key times, we'd be even smarter and would have invented a warp drive or something. That's two people that won't be getting Mother's Day cards next year. Should have gotten the tits out for the babs.

They'll be called Diego or Garcia, I imagine

I'm the complete opposite. I like finding out what posters look like. I know what Turkish, Bucks, VFTT, Verbal, Tim, UJ, Dr Who?, Coxford Lou, unionhotel, Channon's Windmill, KRG and irishsaint83 look like in real life.

Doubt it. Simple fact is, we've been led to believe that the monarch's powers are ceremonial. They aren't. http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/jan/14/secret-papers-royals-veto-bills

People report I'm much the same I wouldn't disagree with that. A liar's biggest problem is remembering which lie was told to which person. Similar can be said of constructing a forum persona that isn't reflective of what you're like in real life. You'll only ever end up getting found out....

I used to think this. These days, hearing reports of vetoes, etc, I am not so sure.

And not at all patronising to a woman in her mid 30s. Just like this post wasn't sarcastic.

Remember the dude in Wayne's World that used to say "I love you, man!"? If the recipient said "I love you too", it could go on for ages. Wayne and Garth would quickly advise people to say "thank you", the only known code word to end the exchange. Perhaps Sarnia's input is a bit like that bloke. All we have to do is say "nah, actually, there isn't a problem with America. You were right all along, Sarns, me ol' fruit and nut". And then it's over....

Bassett Green Infants Aldermoor Bassett Green Middle School Cantell Tauntons Southampton Technical College LJMU Taunton's didn't really suit me at the time. I'd love to say that I dropped out because I was ill that year (and I was), but the reality is I was resting on my laurels.

This is Parking Like a Twát In Liverpool. https://www.facebook.com/PLATinliverpool?fref=photo Once you strip away the professionals parking their service vehicles wherever the fúck they like, nice motors feature in some of the more outrageous parking incidents.

Cameron doesn't give a f**k. Never did. Check out the career of Jeremy Hunt, Media Secretary during the BSkyB merger, now Secretary of State for Health, another post where his skills (basically amounting to railroading the agenda through) are going to be very useful, judging from the contracts. Let's not stop there. Andy Coulson, former Press Secretary to the PM, then suspected of being involved in phone hacking, later convicted, sentenced to eighteen months and did less than five. Patrick Rock, one of Cameron's aides, turns up in a police paedophilia investigation. He got a week to get his affairs in order before the OB got involved. Cameron doesn't need competent people with the best interests of the country at heart. He needs people to help him asset strip the country. A liar and a bully like Shapps is perfect.

Stop having a go at Jamie's function. He is, in fact, the Royal Navy's super-secret bestest weapon. They bung in him the water with a laptop. He makes a lot of noise and clogs up electronic systems. It's extremely important work.

Passport forms will be huge, with twelve pages devoted to an OCR-friendly surname field.

It was, at its best, an elegant game. The problem was "outs". Last person to touch it is normally out, but if someone just stands there and makes no effort to stop an outgoing ball, they were out instead. At its worst, it was a prelude to bigger arguments

Don't know if you played it the same way, but it was the classic upgrade on hide and seek. Not enough to go hide; you gotta get back and say "nine nine in" without getting caught.

British Bulldog was a favourite at Bassett Green Middle School, especially the back playground. One of the things you learn when you move around the country is that beyond the big games, names for a lot of these games are very local. Used to play a variant of hide and seek called "nine nine in", the catching game where only one person was "it" was called "it", while the one where the caught would start chasing other people along with who caught them was called Scatty. One game we played that I've never seen played anywhere else was "all in", a game played in a square with a ball, with the object to keep the ball in the square using only one touch at a time.

Mods; can we get the title sorted out? Two spelling mistakes. We're looking like Paulsgrove here.

Well, there's the oft-quoted statement that if MPs had to live on an average salary, social changes would come thick and fast. The sad thing is that in reality, all it is likely to achieve is create MPs that are already loaded and don't need the pittance of an average salary. And a pittance it is. 26K a year is just over two grand a month before tax. Sort of acceptable for a single person, but no wage to be raising a family on, and that's the average. Many earn even less.

I'm not that bothered, but then my surname is Taylor, so it's not like there aren't others to take up the charge should the missus fail to change it (she would). Not really a fan of double-barrelled names myself. Not only are they a bit wánky, but imagine that sentiment applied a few generations down the line, when people who perhaps already have double-barrelled names get married. Are people going to go around with names like Too-Bloody-Long-To-Fit-On-Most-Forms? The absolute no no is taking your wife's name. The missus' brother did this when he got married. It's like she owns him, which I guess is the traditional problem with primacy of male surnames.

Harry Enfield used to be a milkman before he made the big time. Used to deliver all over, across the class spectrum, from sink estate to manor house to everything in between. Said he loved the people from the council estates and the rich old boys of old money, but he found the nouveau riche to be the worst of the lot. Closer to home, the old man used to run pubs going back say ten, fifteen years. He started off running a pub on a council estate in Oxfordshire, ended up taking a couple of big pubs on the Isle of Man. I'll never forget the way he described the difference in clientele. Working class people generally very polite, saying please and thankyou, etc. Richer folk not even deigning to speak to the help. Just rattling the ice in their glasses loudly at the end of the bar.

So that's good cop/bad cop then. You offer gentle words of encouragement. I administer soap and sock beatings to the abdominal area.

I'm reading Churchill's History of the English Speaking Peoples. Ok, ok. We all know Churchill's views are somewhat biased, and there's a lot of evidence in this work already that speaks to that, but it's a good read and Winston is one funny f**ker when the fancy takes him. I've let rip with a few unexpected chuckles in the man cave. What you get is a very well written and engaging account of this nation's history. What you have to put up with is the primacy of Churchill's Christian faith throughout. It informs a lot of his work when describing the struggles between the converted Saxons and the heathen Danes, and at times, you get the sense that Winston feels history is divinely ordained, but I can't help enjoying myself regardless. We've had some excellent characters wander up and down these lands over the millennia. Can't help feeling that the entire series would make an excellent framework for a long-running anthology TV series. We've delved bits into our past before, but there's nowt that covers us from start to finish in the way that Churchill's work attempted. I'd definitely recommend the incorporation of more sources into such a work, tho

Interesting question. Answer is "sometimes". Really depends on the person and their attitude toward money. It clearly doesn't affect everyone; quite a few of the world's richest have altruistic projects on the go. Ricky Tomlinson, a local example, famously didn't move out of his area for years after hitting the big time and still campaigns for social issues. Money is definitely a differentiator though, and I think it's a worry for everyone. You're either worried about getting it or worried about keeping it. However, I think it's a lot like alcohol in the respect that some people can still be alright on it, but others turn into complete f**kers.

I would love to see KRG make an appearance, but like most people, and especially after last time (where loads said they would come and didn't), I cannot abide the fúcking about. It's a harsh but fair stance, I feel.