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    British rappers with US accents?

    Perhaps kids on the street were using US accents for MCing before grime made it accetpable for them to use uk ones? So not the UK Hip Hop scene, but the starndard UK kids into US hip hop.
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    Cookbooks that changed your life.

    Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian Cooking taught me to cook and to appreciate cooking...
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    Anyone heard the new Basement Jaxx?

    I like the Jaxx but I've neard next to nothing about this new one. Is it any good?
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    The board's appealing new look!

    I miss the locations...
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    Coming to Australia

    Veggie burger with egg? Not sure. But Brunswick St, Fitzroy is the place to go for good vege food and stuff. There's a nice takeaway fish and chip shop with an extensive vege menu at the bottom of Smith St too. Or you could join me and the missus on our monthly trip to by mock mat supplies from...
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    God

    As much of a committed atheist as I am, I'm pretty sure that the default position is to believe myself. I read an interview with a guy, Daniel C. Dennett, who was explaining the evolutionary usefullness of belief (he didn't himself) and it made for a compelling case. He wrote a book called...
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    Shall we close the "Breaking News" threads?

    What John said. They're useful enough as they are and I don't see them doing any harm.
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    The crappest part of your job

    I am currently sitting in a conference exhibition hall on the Gold Coast of Australia at an Agricultural Economics conference. It is a Sunday and this is the second day of the conference. I set up the booth yesterday between 6-8am. My job is as a publisher of academic journals for a major...
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    OK time to fess up

    I'm sure I've seen you listening to much worse music than that. I'm more or less over being embarased about any type of music i like. I'm 30 now and my taste is no ones but my own. But it was hard being super into a particular kind of music really heavily (US hardcore.straight edge stuff) and...
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    pretentiously inappropriate names for bars/ restaurants etc.

    I always thought that Pravda was a pretty stupid name for a business lunch place in Wellington (NZ)
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    DC Hardcore

    I was actually in the process of burning CDs to make a tough guy hardcore mix to lsiten to on the way to work tomorrow. Any recomendations? I've got some Cro-Mags, some Integrity, some Terror, some Ringworm, some AF.
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    DC Hardcore

    My secret shame is that I love that song 'kill yourself'. It's not funny as such, just really good. And surely AF's problem is that they're idiots? Anyone else read that MRR interview in the mid 80s where they talk about how "it's different in the UK, the NF are in a race war" despite the fact...
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    Hong Kong - Nanjing - Beijing

    So, I've got to go to these three cities for work in a week and a half. any advice? I suspect I'll have very little spare time anywhere except perhaps a half day in Beijing. I've spent quite a bit of time in Hong Kong, but not for years so if any one has any 'must see' suggestions, then let...
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    The Landmark Forum

    Hmmm. Actually, doing some looking, it appears I might have been a bit misinformed. IT's a very small one. Michael more or less nailed how I feel about it - the culty "now you bring a firend to get a discount at the next level of our fantastic courses you can't live without" stuff makes me feel...
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    The Landmark Forum

    It is a scientology spin off however and uses a lot of the same techniques.
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    I am a dad and I smoke weed...

    I said I'm both (dad and drugs) but I've only been a dad for 2 weeks and couldn't possibly imagine taking drugs at the moment. But I know lots of perfectly good parents who occasionally have terrible hangovers. I'm not sure it makes much difference if it's too much red wine or a cheeky pill.
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    Rodney P - reggae/dancehall live set this Friday @ Heatwave

    It's still a bit far. Maybe next year.
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    Rodney P - reggae/dancehall live set this Friday @ Heatwave

    It's just a piece of message board slang. It's usually "this thread is useless without pics" Don't worry about it, it all stems from "I wish I could go to heatwave, but I'm in australia with a 2 week old baby"-ness.
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    Rodney P - reggae/dancehall live set this Friday @ Heatwave

    I'm looking forward to the MP3 fo the night. I've got the others already!
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    Rodney P - reggae/dancehall live set this Friday @ Heatwave

    This thread is useless with out MP3s. :)
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