Heartland

Bankers are wankers now? Well, I couldn't afford my house without them, so I don't consider them wankers at all. Nor do the millions of people who benefit from the banking system. But then, when I bought my house I sat down with a calculator and figured out what I could afford. Walk into just about ...

I think I'm giving up on this place. When raping an animal becomes a question of debate, I really have to ask "is this a place I want to hang out?"

oh, I'll add Chopin on keyboards too

And that, My Liege, is how we know the world to be banana shaped...

Bet it doesn't cost 37p to get downtown on the Yorkshire Rider like it did back in my day

And what did the Romans ever do for us?

...so I'll be renting a video then

All in their prime (20s):

Hussey Guitar: Jimmy Page

Marx Guitar: John Paul Jones (not normally a guitarist, but playing a tune on one string can't be too hard? )

Bass: Peter Hook

Wouldn't mind trying Bonham too, if Doktor wasn't a requirement..

Stop the world right now, see if I care.

I think we all stopped caring about GD after THAT song.

You could do worse than check with Ramone... not that he would necessarily know about the Sisters, but Rosetta used to rip off the sound pretty well! (Yeah, I think Porl had a JC120)

I'm waiting, still waiting.... cinder rooooeeeoooaaddd....

its a witch! burn her!


very small stones.

Your ARSE is a mini black hole?

I thought they all came from the original 12 colonies? (No doubt stopping on the moon for a nice cuppa before disembarking)

I understood that the safety of this experiment was nothing to do with Hawking radiation The link in the first post contained the quote " they [mini black holes] would vanish almost instantaneously -- a phenomenon known as Hawking radiation. Anyone who says otherwise, KET says, doesn't complet...

Interesting... 1. Hawking radiation has never actually been proven or seen. 2. One of the reasons for building this thing was to prove the existence of Hawking radiation. 3. General relativity is just "wrong" at the quantum level. QED: The proposition that this thing is safe because of Haw...

Or, you know, used for their intended purpose: providing social housing at rents low enough for low-income people to afford. It creates a self fulfilling cycle of economic descent (tm). People who live in low-cost housing have less reason to aim-higher, and thus can never afford non-subsidized hous...

Geez, more nobub bait?Are you guys nodub fishin'? :D :D Actually, nothing much to disagree with here. Except council houses would have been better sold on a free market as and when they were free. Got to wonder how long this housing crash will last... the prices drops look bad, but when you take int...

(1) people who do find it offensive Exactly. I find the word offensive, and don't use it. Having somebody tell me I can't use it (*), is a different matter. (*) the exception being that if I'm a guest somewhere (like myheartland.co.uk), its up the moderators to decide whether they will accept such ...

Well, that's pretty different from what you initially said.

Sounds like I could say the N word quite safely (as you now say) in the context of this discussion, whilst saying people should 'go attack race X' (which contains no offensive words) would be illegal.

Now Palin's 17 (*) year old daughter is pregnant and is going to keep it.... wonder how that's gonna stir things up?

Hopefully not at all, if everyone has some decency...

(*) age of sexual consent is generally 18 in the USA

Because they would have lost support from some supporters of the new country, I guess. Fighting a war (somewhat) based on taxation is one thing, loosing your cheap labor force is something else. There were less 'southern states' at the time of Independence, but I think it would still have been an is...

And anybody who can tell me the link between my profile picutre, Thomas Jefferson and Christies wins a fat cigar

And I have access to Wikipedia!

Seriously, just google "George Washington slaves" or "Thomas Jefferson slaves". They may have treated them well, and spoken out against slavery, but they still owned slaves. I don't think you'll find a serious historian who will debate that.

Well alright, may be not most, but some. George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, for sure (and they're a couple of the important ones).