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    English pastoral / countryside / stately homes in film

    Gosford Park is almost exactly like my family, only with less incest.
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    "NME Top 50 Albums of the Noughties" or "black music scares us"

    Letting Off The Happiness. He's better before his voice broke.
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    Non-Prescription Drugs

    I had a bunch of this shit the other weekend. Probably explains why I was still getting headrushes a week later :eek:
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    giving up coffee

    Monglians can really wrestle. I got magnificently pulverised by a couple of guys over there. I was like a lego man in the hands of a gorilla when we were standing up. Challenged them to a match with BJJ rules & went 1:1. I don't think the altitude helped either though ... you get out of...
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    giving up coffee

    Ah, yeah, I got it for Christmas - s'great!
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    BNP on Question Time

    It's difficult to watch stuff like this. I think a lot of it comes down to whether you believe bigotry & hatred are like kinks or knots in the natural channels of goodness that flow through people's brains & that reason & dialogue can smooth them away. Or, whether such beliefs are a can of...
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    Beer And Beer Drinking

    Nah, they were just worried that everyone ordering it would start feeling like Vivienne Leigh. Which is a weird thing to feel like when you're having a pint :eek:
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    The (lack of the) Mysterious

    I'm funding an expedition to Allied Carpets next year to investigate sightings.
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    Does it matter if species become extinct?

    I really REALLY want to see that film ...
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    The (lack of the) Mysterious

    I'm just in the process of renaming my band & - no kidding - 'The Bloop' is right at the top of my list :D :D
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    The (lack of the) Mysterious

    I dunno, it's a bit self-indulgent, but ta :D
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    The (lack of the) Mysterious

    I think it's interesting that the more your try & nail down what's possible, the more it seems to squirm & twist away in the form of monsters, wonders, prodigies & anomalies. The interesting thing about actively searching for the anomalous, is you find it everywhere. People see strange things...
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    Does it matter if species become extinct?

    I stared square into the eyes of a leopard in Singapore. About three feet from my face. Singapore Zoo, night safari. He walked up, stared me right in the eyes & just stood there. The concentrated ferocity coming off him was electric. He was beyond charisma. Just unbelievable. & huge -...
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    Does it matter if species become extinct?

    C'mon ... leopards? If every other large predator becomes extinct, leopards will still be lurking about somewhere, picking us off when we get lazy. In South Africa, all these gated blacks-out compounds with giant electric fences, state-of-the-art security, lights, cameras, & fierce guard dogs...
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    giving up coffee

    The guy was amazing. Basically, the whole of Sumatra has this legend of a weird village in the mountains where everyone is a weretiger, & we found them, & it's true, they think they're descended from tigers that left the jungle & they have tainted 'wild' blood & every year their shaman turns...
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    giving up coffee

    Mistersloane is the coolest guy on this board. I dunno, I started doing this because I wanted to do the kind of things that I thought adults got up to when I was a child but when I got older, I realised that the crushing banality of conventional institutions sortof sucks the wonder out of...
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    giving up coffee

    I don't work for a uni no, I'm part of a three-man expedition team of a cryptozoology centre. They raise money for expeditions & then my team gets sent out to the middle of nowhere to hunt for monsters & weird stuff. The other guys are full time & so live in abject poverty. I'm a science...
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    Bo Diddley RIP

    EVERYONE will have seen this, but just in a case they haven't, & also because you can NEVER EVER see it too many times ... <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value=""></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess"...
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    giving up coffee

    The Gobi is more of a dead flat, rock-hard stony plain than a Sahara-like sea of dunes, although there are a few sandy bits. There's one particular bit called the 'singing desert' where if you climb up one of the dunes (which around about 100m high or something - they're enormous) & slide down...
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    Clothes

    Brooks Brothers stuff is just beautiful. I've been dying to dress like that since I first listened to 'Don't Stand Me Don't by Dexy's Midnight Runners. But the prices ... :eek:
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