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next time i will bite my tongue ;) (as she said etc.) funnily enough - although he was no Sloane and i doubt voted Tory - i did once, in hindsight, say a glaring double entendre to some old boy stood next to me as we both had a tinkle in the urinals at this pub. in seriousness, Stoke Central...

yeah, it's kinda semantics/ six of one, half dozen the other. i read in today's London Times that here obviously i am just making observations here but it seems the nationality is the added juice here (i realise i sound blase discussing the issue in such stark terms, but, it is what it is)...

very true. and on my personal hobby horse (one i know a few Dissensians share), there's realistically nothing that David Davis or whoever couldn't have done to immigration and asylum that Blunkett/Reid/Clarke etc didn't... ...incidentally, re a topic mentioned upthread, i am traditional right of...

under US law, Dubya brought it in, no? so, not that long.

i hope Craner see this ;)

tbf the comparison between the fairly minor - when you brass tack it - sport of rugby, and the most popular spectator sport on the planet by a veldt mile, w the attendant large differences in incoming spectators, cachet, etc is a fairly big leap. tbc, i'll just re-clarify, we're all on the...

Oliver Kay on Messi in general here; opening w a Messi/Maradona analogy - of course i'm sure Messi himself could shy away from them, but it's an interesting piece overall nonetheless, even if you find his closing sentence irksome.

we can all rightly cite chapter and verse on the legacy of colonialism (which is obviously to African history bigger than history itself, the entire 'super-fact' in many ways, far vaster than Lennon's bluesy chair), structural injustice, and how best to frame all these fundamental issues wrt the...

yes i love it when Taggart goes off on one, at least, like Maradona or Jose (or Arsene when discussing spouses), he gives good copy. typical Germans indeed, SAF, a Frenchman involved in the tussles, goals from a Dutchman and a Croat, and managed by a Dutchman.

i used to think that (disclaimer: The Wire is perhaps my fave show ever), then i watched a few back to back from the start and quite got into it, idk the show Moonlighting admittedly; it's getting up there w any of the greats of contemporary American drama IMO. even to put it in the same...

awh thanks! nitric acid does feel more appropriate sometimes, then i look at my brother's temperamental Sony Vaio Acer thing - irritatingly skittish keyboard for one - and realise i'm lucky...

yeah i proper wanna check out Treme. w actors from The Wire and H:LOTS appearing it's like D Simon up to 11 :D

i have a white Apple laptop. re dark smudges on the body of the mac, or a dirty screen, any particular cleaning fluids or anything anybody knows of that are suitable? (i don't know if warm, soapy water is supposed to be a good idea.) just wondering, thanks in advance for any help.

yep, thanks for that Sectionfive, what Sloane said. unbelievable.

yeah, of course, to your first part. and the second part is the question, agreed. culture wars, fear & loathing, etc. (presumably?) no doubt there are big tomes about it all, but, in a nutshell...

my bad Vim, i remember you demolishing that argument in the thread the night Obama got in.

worth quoting normblog (let me roughly outline two common responses to normblog that we would expect to encounter on a lesser board, but thankfully, this board i know sh/wouldn't entertain such juvenile claptrap: 'he's a prissy or precious writer who annoys me so i am not minded to take anything...

you clearly know more on this than i, care to expand? cheers.

rumble: if we can just take this paragraph (an analysis i can well support, incidentally, though i don't think all Obama's followers are as happy w WoT abuses/excesses as much as Bush's could revel in them, which you discuss below; true, he has managed to normalise some things for many, as you...

except it is an aesthetic disaster, and, partly, an ideological disaster (certainly wrt those parts that constitute the wilder fringes of the Tea Party). come now. overt racism, physical violence, assassination threats against POTUS well up from his predecessor, and nutbar libertarianism are...