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will give it a go. sometimes the guardian is fucked up, sometimes the level is quite reasonable i find.

that looks great! quatermass and the pit is one of my all time favourite series. thinking about renaming this so it's a general 'classic british tv' thread, if that works. edit: don't think it can be done. never mind. feel free to digress further though.

i like the way the press officer has subtly introduced a note of ambiguity, such that one might almost believe the whole affair had been a spontaneous subversion of the shoot, magically captured on film. i mean, i guess that makes them look marginally less like repulsive cavemen. as opposed to...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards i only heard about this series recently, but it's amazing. if you can't get into it because 99% of the characters are tories, then that's silly to be honest. ian richardson is great in it. and i like the arc of the viewer's relationship with francis...

pretty impressed by that! never done a private eye, might try one. guess it's some big setters on a day off, taking the opportunity to be a bit more risque :) there was a good themed one in the guardian the other week, all tennis stuff but you didn't need to know about tennis to get them...

lhf! as i would have thought you'd point out :) "Metalheadz 01-50 are quite possibly the most influential tracks that I own..."

the whisper song is so so good. a modern classic. dunno if it's hard though, it's so slinky it's almost devoid of physicality.

i'm pretty sure it normally means you can get the outer sleeves in! but it usually means that leaves you no space to flick through, unless it's one with a fold-down front. which i find really annoying. i've got a rucksack that's just about the right dimensions, a jansport one i think. the front...

recently i've got really into cryptic crosswords. (they're a form of literature, don't argue.) i had to get a book to learn how to do them, but they're wicked fun once you've got a bit of an idea. anyone else into it, got any tips, favourite papers for it etc? still haven't completed a...

complementary squirt of cologne and a cigarette on the way out? sold!

agree! what bits and bobs i've picked up suggests he doesn't have what some of you would consider 'good' taste in music. it seems his taste is very catholic i don't see any reason to think he's being cynical rather than sincere as ever. plus it's hardly the first time he's done a record i...

hahaha that's amazing. i can't think of specific examples, but i seem to remember lots of that going on at school with lyrics.

Pretty fuckin' deep, son

i wouldn't dispute that. but they didn't seem to think there was any need for bicycles to have their own special lanes, free of cars driving and parking in them. nor did they find it especially important that there should be any margin of distance between bikes and cars. someone almost hit me...

sad, i did cherish the idea that odb was apt to think of himself in terms of a baby seal. certainly bitches. porno flick pictures is an egregious pleonasm so i hardly think odb would have wrote it.

i had always believed and continue to want to believe that on 'shame on a nigga' by the wu tang clan, odb has the lyric 'i go deep like a baby seal'. then someone informed me they thought that he refers to a navy s.e.a.l. would anyone care to clear this up or express an opinion? thanks.

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/07/express-british-national-party least favourite headline. can't believe they used 'ethnics' as a noun.

hmm i dunno about central-ish london being that bad. like people have said, the more bikes on the road the better it gets, and i think that's happening to some extent. the bus drivers are by and large pretty sound as well. cycled through ilford the other day for instance, didn't see any other...

er i meant i was in favour of pushbikes in bus lanes, makes total sense to me :) and they are very much allowed. what i don't like is the men on big motorbikes and the crazy teenagers on mopeds buzzing me when i'm cycling. that's been allowed much more recently. sorry wasn't being clear.

hmm years ago when i lived near cambridge they tried a similar scheme there. the stock of bikes lasted a matter of weeks as i remember before they all got trashed, abandoned or lost and the council gave up. i fear us english people might just be dicks at the end of the day. then again maybe...