chrisp65

I haven't said that the bombing is to get rid of IS. I've suggested it's just the first stage to undermine them. If you'd quoted (or read) the top half of my post that you've omitted from the selective quoting, you'd see that. NOW LOOK - I'VE MISSED A **** GOAL!

Watched the Wilko film a couple of evenings ago, I thought it was close to perfection. If you liked the style of it, you should also take a look at 'Oil City Confidential' about the whole band.

You don't have to be a good singer to know when somebody else can't sing. Equally, you don't have to have a great plan yourself to know when someone else has a poor plan. My understanding at the moment (and I'm happy to be corrected) is that the current plan is something like this: We will continue to bomb Syria and Iraq to undermine IS. So far (figure for 01.12.15) there have been 8,500 air strikes, I guess we need quite a few more. British bombs are so accurate that if we get intel on baddies planning attacks on the Bull Ring, we will be able to target them and take them out. Which is something that couldn't have been done before Wednesday. Once IS are sufficiently disrupted, 70,000 good rebels will leave their positons in their home towns and march on IS to finish them off as a viable force. Whilst the 70,000 good rebels are mobilised away from home, Assad with agree to short term power sharing with a date set for him to stamd down. Nothing bad will be happening to the good rebel held areas during this period. Syria and Iraq and Libya will just start to operate as safe normalised states. Now, I don't have access to the latest briefings and info from the spooks, but I can see a problem with that plan. Ignoring the cost of bombs and satellites and what not, I very crudely estimate that we (the coalition) have so far spent £2 Billion on aviation fuel alone. I'd say we haven't had a very good return on our spending so far if the aim really is to get rid of IS. Given how flimsy our plan appears to be, I think it's ok for people to question it, without having the answer in a golden envelope themselves. But don't get me wrong, if it works, I will be happy and I will be happy to have been wrong. I just don't see it working. Unless success is going to be defined as perpetual war in faraway places with minimal manageable damage at home.

top rant, hippy

yeah, that's a low point there Tony a little drink later 49, that's rough.

Lee Scratch Perry Secret Laboratory Studio burns down He does have a little bit of form here. He deliberately burned down Black Arc Studio back in the day. Also, the last time I saw him, he accidentally set fire to his microphone and tossed it, still alight, back stage.

just gonna throw this out there, are we sure they aren't geese?

first chain driven manual operated bike: circa 1885 first independently propelled engined vehicle: Cugnot's steam tractor, 1769

yet again the 'standards' that people on VT wouldn't bang are ridiculous you must all be going out with super birds I'd **** a pigeon if it was good company and had interesting stories and opinions. coo! this one's got a tiny baseball cap.

unless you are seven, and also whooshing along the street with a plastic space ship in your hand

it absolutely is their fault, yes however, the picture is vegetarian in lycra, sat on his arse in the road with a bent bike and a middle aged guy with a Mercedes estate stood over him but yes, dickheads use all forms of transport and dickheads need to be controlled, by traffic calming, traffic separation etc..

jesus **** wept: bloke in the audience: 'the world is facing it's biggest crisis ever potentially' let's crank the number of dead up by a few tens of millions and nuke some cities before we start talking like that - people's sense of perspective is easily knocked off isn't it

Right decision for wobbly reasons is still a right decision. Hopefully, eventually, it will be accepted that all MP's should use their conscience not their pager on matters of war.

I'm not really anti cycling, it's just that there are no teachers posting at the moment. Your second point is what really really annoys and scares me. It's early December, it's dark at 6:00pm and it's raining. If a cyclist guesses wrong about me seeing him undertake me at a left turn then he is injured and apparently, as you've stated above, it's automatically my fault unless I can somehow prove otherwise. But yeah, I'm not really anti-bike. I'm just very anti bike-militant.

These narrow minded views that people are inflicting on others. The public in general is roughly 50 / 50 split on this (though with a strange lack of good opinion polls). The members that fund the Labour party are 75% against the extension of bombing. The majority of the PLP voted against, the party leader voted against. I'd suggest that the 67 MP's (if anyone) are inflicting a minority view on others in a 'supposed democracy'. If my MP that I directly funded didn't agree with me and the other funders and volunteers, I'd want a different representative. However, Labour unlike the Conservatives, made this a free vote. So I do actually think this labour 'split' was a positive thing. Incidentally, still nothing in the media on the 14 votes against and abstentions from tories defying a 3 line whip. I find that odd. Not in a conspiracy way, in a poor journalism looking to follow the pack sort of way.

This could be the QT where it finally kicks off. Bearded hipster shouting 'racist' clearly without even knowing what that means. Guy in the front row with a shaved head, a black shirt and a scowl. Unfortunately Diane Abbott might make this unwatchable.

Tony, I gave you a like, even though you omitted my fave, ride up the inside undertaking cars at junctions and then get shouty and righteous when the car is legitimately turning left. I rarely ride my bike to work, I find I have to get up too early to get from Cardiff to Swindon by 8:00am. I guess I need a job with the local planning department, swan in around 9:30, ignore my e-mails for a few hours, attend a seminar on bats then **** off home around about 4:00pm on my bicycle.

Well I've misunderstood the whole thing. I thought we were going after the terrorists and their support network at their base. I'd thought we were bombing Molenbeek in Belgium.

Yep, I nearly posted it as the Einstein thing but wanted a version without the word insanity on it, 'cos I'm nice. Then, a 2 minute google diversion suggested it might not even really be an Einstein original. Not that that really matters. It's got a basic common sense truth to it.

I'm just hoping that doing exactly what we've done time and time before yields a completely different result this time.

The Electric in Brixton next March, hmmm, I can get free parking literally 2 minutes up the road from there.... I shall enter that one in pencil for now, mind on other things.....

One of my current Clients is called Jesus. I'm spending most of my time looking for an opportunity in a meeting to say 'what would Jesus do?'

So some terrorists are different to other terrorists, depending on whether some politicians but not other politicians are prepared to deal with them as and when it suits them. That's cleared that up then. It's a bit like I suggested, not simple. Incidentally, I did separate the PKK and Peshmerga. It's the Pesh that have attacked British troops back in their history.