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    Swiss new minaret ban

    i'm pretty sure Spain has not done anything too radical in this regard (Zapatero seems like a decent bloke after all), although w a vocal conservative opposition and doubtless - you would have to imagine - surely some elements of the Catholic hierarchy ready to start stirring it wrt 'Islam', you...
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    Rolling Rugby Thread

    oh dear Oliver i am sorry :o very inept the Welsh there watching Ireland do it in a busy Irish pub was the dog testes (one screen tuned to that, the other Setanta to United at Pompey - proper Irish pub)
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    Do Brits make the best breakfasts in the world?

    autumnal bump to note recent good fry-up venues as i have been enjoying everyone's lists of caffs earlier in the thread full English at the Rosy Lea caff by Morden station - excellent bubble here, it really was nice. great, doorstep toast, very tasty, and a good brew, just under a fiver...
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    Amazing taco website plug

    cheers Peter! cola marinades - the gift that keeps on giving. speaking of cola, a midweek European futbol match introduced me to the Turkish pop, Cola Turka. w that and the fairtrade Ubuntu Cola recently piquing my interest i am suddenly minded to go on a cola hunt! anyway thought i'd share...
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    Swiss new minaret ban

    looks like it's passed. deep, wounding shame toward our European neighbours. it's a good thing they're not members of the EU as this is expelling material. (mind you, Italy should have been kicked out ages ago for their attitude to migrants, and the prior Greek govt were smilarly disgusting.)...
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    Blogs worth a look

    i absolutely <3 Geeta and her lovely, patient, thoughtful writing. anybody read her book? the Eno one? i will get it when it comes out in the UK.
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    Rolling John Lydon is a cock thread

    what was that docu where he went round South Central or Compton or such and tried to minimise problems there by bringing up tales of his own working class or lower middle class upbringing somewhere in London (or wherever)? 'look it's not that bad round here they've got palm trees and it's...
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    you'll have a job there, eh? a job there, eh. i say, you'll have a job there. eh! eh? geddit?? geddit? eh! eh?! oh nevermind.
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    can't you just do something normal Tea, like obsess about her boobs?
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    Iranian democracy

    forceful piece on our chum Kaveh Afrasiabi here
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    Iraq - Still, In Fact, Going On

    i hear ya but i must be honest the only reason i posted was i'm interested in what Visser says wrt PG in general, for me the money quote up above is - this is certainly a line you can associate w PG. so just flagging up a (appropriate) dig at PG here, but, please, you have at other matters if...
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    Roiling football blather

    yup. also well looking forward to the last day permutations for Groups A, C and F, and curious to see who winds up second behind Utd. P.S. an Evertonian mate of mine had a great day yday, fitba-wise. not only those two pieces of blue-nose news&events, but he was born and raised in north...
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    Roiling football blather

    given the trend for ever-sicker reality TV they'd probably do a PPV to see live coverage of Clive Tyldesley (or Paddy Crerand, at a pinch) topping himself. he could jump off a tall building in central Manchester, Sunlight House would be quite appropriate, it's already supposed to be haunted.
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    Keylo from San Francisco

    Souls of Mischief mentions in the whosampled.com thread got me thinking of another Bay Area name i used to quite like this '95 LP back then tracks like 'Fresh out of Folsom' and such, but he seemingly sank w out trace after it. (AMG list a presumably self-published * album afterward, w out...
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    Iraq - Still, In Fact, Going On

    nice one, P. elsewhere, Reidar Visser and Peter Galbraith won't be exchanging cards this holiday, i fear. (1) (2)
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    The Road

    w hindsight think my message above a bit lukewarm & unfair to the guy, esp given i adored Blood Meridian, a remarkable book. and it is the only one of his i've read, though there again i knew it was the one to check out first (in a dip in and out, headline-grabbing way).
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    The Road

    that writer sounds like he thinks soft-pedaling occurred just down to the Nick Cave score not being used as nimbly as it might (!) still, good looking cast, G Pearce and M K. Williams as well as those already mentioned by the NYT i read the excellent Blood Meridian off the back of some shouts...
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    Borders UK facing administration...?

    from the wiki on her, i must say, she had an impressive gang of pals.
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    Borders UK facing administration...?

    :mad: Foyles has the piranha tank, too..
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    Beer And Beer Drinking

    this site may (or may not) be of use, the shop they mention in Twickenham sells a Cantillon gueuze for £4.20, which is not disastrous i suppose. think i'm repeating myself from earlier in the thread here, but i really like Drie Fonteinen oude gueuze
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