I usually circumvent the irritation of “I’m good” (blame Ozzie soaps for that one) by asking “are you well?” it works.

I is well well innit.

Maybe this is not quite in keeping with the spirit of the thread, but never mind.

This photo is from a local press report of a school exchange visit to France. I am fourth from the right. The tall chap eighth from the left is Kevin McCloud, now presenter of Channel 4’s “Grand Designs”.

That counts!
The girl at the front 6th from right went on to design canards. Check out those spearpoints!

I wouldn’t go quite that far. They certainly look quite cheerful.

Oh…. you were being controversial.

My mistake.

It isn’t controversial, they have “That look”.

The thing is, once the red mist starts it is very hard to stop, especially if harm or mental harm has been done to ones offsprings. I know I could not stop if I caught somebody (Or knew later) doing harm to my loved ones.

Funny and very very true. Most sane and single middle aged women would agree. So I see no problem. The PC brigade are wrong, as usual.

Although I did think the “Star” was a bloke in drag, or the victim of a bad sex change.

I was just wondering, hearing interviews with desperate, starving, people how the hundreds of media and and NGO representatives are surviving.

Where is their shelter, food and water? And if they have it, why have they?

Shouldn’t every resource be focussed on the survivors, only? Apart from the US servicemen and logistics, isn’t there an argument for everyone else to leave the country until some order, food, water and sanitation is restored?

Exactly the same thought I had! Each reporter and crew will be knocking back 6 litres water per 24 hours. How many crews are there? Let’s go wild and assume about 75 of the 220 nations have put crew there. 75 * 2 = 150 * 6 = 900 litres per day and they’ve been there 8 days. 7,200 litres or 3,266 pounds in weight. That’s at least 2 air drops a week for the reporters. They all look clean too, but let us assume they are using wet-wipes or the dew off the morning grass to wash.

This do you ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAylkWkd4VA&feature=related

2 mins 25 of that was superb. Then it went Hendrixetwang, and he basically strummin.
I’ve escalated him from 100th to about 75th favourite Geetarist.
Did he ever play that live, or even twice?

I dug this up, as it’s appropriate.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5- year phase-in plan that would become known as “Euro-English”.

In the first year, “s” will replace the soft “c”. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard “c” will be dropped in favour of “k”. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome “ph” will be replaced with “f”. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent “e” in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as
replasing “th” with “z” and “w” with “v”.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary “o” kan be dropd from vords kontaining “ou” and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensi bl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.