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I never knew that GM was part of the Overt Ignore Brigade. Personally, I haven't ignored anyone on this site ever. It's an admission of defeat. Even if you say nowt about it (Covert Ignore Brigade) it's that. The Overt Ignore Brigade are far, far worse, basically on account of the fact that they announce their cowardice and expect people to be bothered or impressed.

Come now. Guided Missile has demonstrated the qualities he needs to survive. Either 1) Ignore them 2) Run away when scared Or 3) Combination of the above

Being charitable, a longer distance means you're "event committed". I pretty much had my whole day planned and set off to achieve it, whereas I often duck out of stuff closer to home.

I'll miss the attention, obviously. I'll just have to go to the Global Warming thread and watch someone else hand your arse to you. I'm quite busy on here anyways. Delegation is important

....and was predicated on you being funny in the first place Look to Joe Beasley and Cheeky Monkey for humour tips. A serious upgrade.

Season Four is the best. I still haven't seen the final season though, so bear that in mind.

Ah, I see. You're equating a group of terrorists that seem to be doing their level best to drag Islam through the mud with the overall tenets of the faith. That'll work. Thing is, if the picture you're trying to paint was in any way accurate, I wouldn't be here to write this post. The whole family would have been killed as apostates when my nan secretly spirited all of my grandad's kids off to get christened CofE. That never happened. I'd have thought the old dear would have been honour-killed the moment she hooked up with my dad, too. Oh, and the gay people in my family would all have been put to death too. We're all still here. But hey. Don't let my reality mess with your fantasy

The scariest thing I've seen as a parent is interactions with other people. Grooming is obviously going to be anyone's biggest worry, although with the recent vigilante honey trap efforts, I think a lot of that will be curtailed. Basic stranger danger stuff works there. Cyber-bullying is a much more common phenomenon, and I feel somewhat sorry for kids these days. It doesn't matter if you have a Facebook account or not. While a load of bullying does go on there, non-participation on social networks like Facebook doesn't stop it. I have heard of girls setting up "Gossip Girl" columns, or even delightful tumblr's dedicated to the school's slags. We got to switch off when we were younger. If you had a problem with someone at school, it was normally confined to that environment. Kids are on 24/7 these days, and I wonder if we're ready for it.

Is that what happens in Islamic confession then? Do they have a kind of guillotine arrangement?

This is an encouraging write-up, Lou - especially the part about having a super-cool daughter. That didn't happen by accident, y'know. It took years of being a total smart-arse around her, cloying and embarrassing parenting from 12-14, which led to the independent and rebellious traits you saw yesterday. As for your description of me, I was naturally hoping for something more along the lines of "pap is a giant redwood of a man, and at times, I wondered if he was genetically engineered to provide maximum entertainment for the fairer sex", if only to see how good you are at utter bullsh!t.

Same principle applies for most Protestants I've met. They just see going to church as the cleansing act, rather than confession. Still, as a business, confession is great, isn't it?

That's my experience with most self-labelling Christians. Act like a bloody hellion all week, but it's okay, God'll forgive you on Sunday.

I wasn't a big fan of Sunshine. So much initial promise devolving into an utter mess by film's end.

You meet just as many weirdos when out and about, doing "normal" stuff. Was sat in a bar in NC, minding my own business, when the bloke next to me picks up on my accent and starts talking to me. The dude is black, seventy years old, and obviously lived through some interesting times in the Deep South. Even so, spider-sense was going off. He had a load of jewellery on his sleeves, which he kept touching. He was really trying to present himself as a respectable member of the community, AND he invited me to his house for dinner. I finished my drink and meal quick-smart and left both him and the bar. Something felt very wrong. Anyways, I ask my buddy later on if he knows this dude. Turns out that the chap I was talking to had done a stretch for murder, and was pulled up on charges for three more; the court case fell apart on those due to a lack of evidence. I Google'd him, and not only did I find out that my buddy was telling the truth, but the most surprising thing was that this dude turned up more in Google searches alongside VIPs, such as senators and Presidents than he did for his imfamy. Evidently, he'd started some charity during his first stretch in prison which opened certain doors. Even worse, I got back to the Marriott with a message on my answerphone, from the chap in question, asking me again if I'd like to go for his house to dinner. All he had to go on was my name! That, my friends, is "weird" and that is right out of real-life, no internet required. Apparently, his schtick is murdering homeless people.

It's got bugger all to do with randoms; quite the opposite, in fact. You want random? Try meeting people in the normal, non-Internet way. You have very little knowledge and no expectation of what that person is going to be like. That's random. Contrast that with Internet forums, where people do have expectations, mostly off the back of what has been written on said forums. It's potentially a mild version of Catfish, isn't it? People bigging themselves up on the Internet, suddenly forced to make good on the bigger version of themselves. That's not random; it's entirely predictable.

The story wasn't as widely reported in other media. When searching for the article last night, the Indy was the only major UK newspaper covering it.

Code of Honor (sic) is often spoken of as the worst episode of Trek. It's borderline, if not over the line racist, and features some of the worst acting Trek has seen. This is the episode in which Yar gets accidentally betrothed to a flora-wearing black dude that while ostensibly leader of a planet, also looked and sometimes acted like a racial stereotype. Most TNG actors reckon its their least favourite when interviewed. Gotta have loomed large in Denise Crosby's subsequent career decision.

Not impressed tonight. Saw two clearish chances go begging. Mind you, most of the team seems allergic to shots at the moment.

Well, the one thing that I think we've all learned is that while there is much talk on the forum, there is very little action. Three people. Three f**king people. And I know, I know. Someone is going to bash out the much-anticipated "meeting people off the Internet in a pub is weird". Thing is, /not/ meeting people you interact with is actually weirder. I know this from my transatlantic travels. Lot of benefit to actually meeting people; 99% of them are forever sound thereafter. Thanks to Bucks and Lou for your company. We may have been the only three people from the forum, but it was cool having a drink with the pair of you.

Can report that Lou is a real girl.

I am out front if anyone fancies saying hello.

I'm sure, like many on the right, you'd like to see something, anything that makes you feel less bad about the effects of all those ideas that sounded spectacular in soundbite form. Our own trousers was doing something very similar earlier on. So instead of acknowledging the problem, the natural reaction is to assume some sort of journalistic malfeasance on the part of the Guardian.

Three Muslims shot dead in NC. The perpetrator allegedly posted loads of anti-Islamic stuff online before doing the deed. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/chapel-hill-shooting-three-young-muslims-gunned-down-in-north-carolina-at-their-family-home-10037734.html Fair play to the Indy for covering it.

He hits his troll mark at just the right level, I think. I mean, he has no problem comparing himself with Arsene Wenger, but he's not brave enough to put himself in the company of true visionaries, such as Tony Pulis, or Nigel Adkins in a Tony Pulis mask and outfit.

Difficult game tonight. We're dealing with the self-proclaimed most sophisticated boss in the League. http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/31394625