Chindie

I don't think we're out of it by any means. Horrible way to go behind though. Reckon a daw might be on the cards.

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Spread a few small bets on it. Reckon it's going to be a draw but I've got that sinking feeling that we might just lose by a couple of goals thats nagging me. Regardless, come on Villa. Get at Fulop and we should have some joy. And please let Young Milner and Big John be up for it, please.

If you're nice and very very good, Uncle Fergie might let you have him and some money for Modric.

I'm sure I've seen that picture before...

'kin hell he's looking old.

I was looking at a HTC before picking up my N97. Lack of decent camera turned me off. But the wya they are going I think I'll be picking up one when this contract is done.

I knew it , Chindie is Gordon Brown .. *shakes fist*

That's just natural selection though. Albeit driven by us. Families (or loners as the case may be) go for the dogs with those characteristics. Then those pets, more than the other ones, survive and breed. Eventually the big eye/head gene is prevalent. Unless you're saying that dogs go around trying to widen their eyes as much as possible while thinking "I'm well cute like this, mustn't blink". Not quite. Apparently the genes for tameness, especially in dogs, also affect genes controlling appearance. As the animals, over generations, have become tamer for our own needs, it seems they unwittingly also become more and more 'cute'. It's been suggested this is because tameness is something associated with juveniles, who also have the same 'cute' appearance, and that there is a connection in the genes for these 2 attributes. This has then, just from this simple appearance trait alone, essentially put them in competition with children, as they stopped being solely effectively a tool and more of an emotional bond. In our endeavours for natural selection of tameness, we initially unwittingly ended up making dogs look cuter, and as we then adapted them into companions rather workers, we started to exagerrate the offshoot of 'cuteness' more and more.

Don't get me wrong I've got no problem with people having their partners stay the night and whatnot, that's blatently cool. The problem is this bloke pretty lives here. When he isn't off at lectures or something, I presume, he's here. Stops every night. Uses the bathroom, cooks, wanders through the house in a towel. He's basically a resident, but he isn't paying rent. I assume he's got his own place, but he doesn't seem to spend much time there. The tenancy agreement basically says this is a bit of a no-no. Put it like this... I'd estimate theres been a period of, over the entire year, about 3 weeks this bloke hasn't stopped here. The antisocial door slamming and whatnot today just topped off the annoyance people are having at having a lodger effectively. It annoys my mates girlfriend the most because they're a rather noisy couple apparently and she's annoyed she's effectively subsidising somone elses boyfriend while hers is paying his own way in the room next door. I was just annoyed because the doorslamming is taking the piss. The accusing my mate of hacking his computer put a tin hat on it. He's cracked.

Got that essay done at 6.30 this morning, last uni essay, woohoo. Unfortunately given the 9am seminar I had to do for it, that means I've had no sleep. It's also disgracefully bad. On a mildly related note, all damn day someone in the house has been slamming doors and banging and going mental and after trying to have a nap it finally pissed me off enough to investigate. Turns out the house lodger has been doing it. The lodger is one of our housemates boyfriends. He's around here a lot. That I wouldn't normally mind but when I say, alot... he basically lives here. He stops every night, uses the facilities, etc etc, and isn't paying rent. Which is annoying. So I went to have a word with him, basically saying he was taking the piss with the door slamming and banging around all day especially when he's essentially breaking the tenancy agreement and isn't a resident so shouldn't even be here. Turns out his having laptop problems and tried to justify to me his staying here by saying he was also a student, he takes out the rubbish sometimes, and it's his girlfriends place. A while later he's just accused my mate of telling to piss off effectively and suggeested that my mate had infected his laptop with a virus, when no-ones been near his laptop and no-one in the house is a good enough with a computer to specifically hack his computer and infect it with a virus. I think he's cracked. Weird bloke. Hopefully he'll piss off.

It's a Mandarin curse that he's nicked. Also used by sexy Morena Baccarin in "Firefly". Pratchett uses it in his book 'Interesting Times', which essentially parodies 'Oriental' stereotypes and the like, amongst other things, so it does kinda make sense. And it is indeed applicable here... regardless of what happens, the rest of the year post election is going to be very interesting indeed. But most likely not in a good way.

I went though a load of journals and what not earlier taking notes, found a couple of things I was keen on, took notes from them, forgot to take the sources. Cannot for the life of me now find where I got the bits from.

Having had a quick mooch it's surprising quite how much Vodafone sponsor. They're in nearly everything it seems.

Never got the point of putting sex scenes in games.

Finishing my dissertation the other week had me absolutely relieved. I don't envy you having it ahead of you. I hope the topic has a lot written on it specifically, unlike mine, or you're gonna have a helluva lot more reading ahead of you than you might otherwise.

Is their round ale less edgy?

I don't think anyone aside from Drat has said she's a bigot. She's flown close to it I think. Might have been better to say she's ill-informed. Still you don't say things like that when you're flustered. ...shit I'm getting involved again.

Even if they are sending money back home surely you'd need to look at how much they've net added to the economy? My understanding in the time following the ascension of the Eastern European countries to the EU is that the countries allowing them free movement, without restriction, saw the greatest economic gains. Ireland could trace a quarter of it's economic growth one year to migrant labour IIRC.

Having read that transcript I feel somewhat sorry for him. I also get the impression the woman..er.. isn't the sharpest. Like Drat I read that she appeared to be blaming immigration for claimants and Britain aparently going down the pan.

In fact, here's an apposite quotation from the old feller: "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter". He was right. Worryingly. :|

I actually spelt it with the e in the first place and thought it was wrong. Woe is me.

What account of the 'nation' and 'nationalism' is put forward in the thinking of this individual/party? The essay may choose to adress some or all of the following questions: - What are the origins of the nationalist mobilisation or nationalist sentiment? - How is the nation or the national identity defined? - Who composes the nation? - What are the long term aims of nation-building? - How is the nation invented/imagined? Why the **** did I pick this module? Why did I think doing the Likud Party would be easy? **** moron. The last thing of anything is always a pig isn't it? Last uni essay, and it's a bitch. Dispair. :|

I joined up with a graduate job site a while ago, they send an email a couple of times a week with vacancies about to end soon that they think you should look at. Todays one has 3 Midlands based ones. There really is **** all out there. ...shit.

That gaffe is about the last thing Brown needed. However, I think you might need to see what else she'd said, before the C4 site's clip starts, to see what he felt was bigotted. Apparently she had a problem with Eastern European immigration, depending on what she said, the context etc etc, she could well have flown close to the wing of bigotry.