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I definitely think it'll have that effect in the short term, both on ourselves and the wider world. Whether it's sustainable, well, who knows. For some reason I'm reminded of the temporary "softening" of the country after Diana's death, although obviously this is far less mawkish than that, being a feel-good factor rather than a wallowing-in-feeling-bad factor. I think what the whole thing has done is make it quite clear that Britain enjoys more goodwill and respect in the world than we sometimes afford ourselves, given our tendency towards the cynical and self-critical (albeit with a dose of humour attached).

On point 4, the Olympic Village will no doubt become the usual overpriced cardboard commuter cages (with some minimal percentage set aside as "affordable housing", a horrible weasel phrase that's prevented the house price bubble from bursting like it ought to), but having spent a bit of time on the Park itself over the last few weeks, I'm reasonably confident it'll become a decent facility for locals as well as a destination in its own right. It's a nicely landscaped facility already and the plans for its development between now and the official (re)opening next year look good, plus it's close enough to the high-traffic Westfield centre that it shouldn't become a white elephant or anything. Shame they've felt the need to name it after the Queen, but hey, business as usual I guess. Not convinced the benefit will particularly spread to the rest of the East End in any more tangible a way than the inevitable process of yummy-mummification would ensure anyway.

But you do think it's pointless.

He just wanted to see your sassy ass wiggle outta here.

So basically there's no point in knowledge, or striving to obtain knowledge. Leazes was right

'sapointathisthen?

I voted BrummieMag. He'd let me bring my namby pamby buddies with me.

They're the aircraft warning lights on the top of massive radio masts.

I'd say the number of homicides and the level of media coverage are both excessive.

Guns don't kill people, bullets do.

I'm watching Wizards of Waverly Place on Disney. I'm now starting to think they might not actually be wizards.

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Sounds reasonable to me. I rank it alongside "United" when it comes to football-related speech crime.

Don't worry, the EPL is starting again soon

OK, I have to say that was a masterful move. Bravo.

http://mofarahrunningawayfromthings.tumblr.com/

And an upstairs bit. Or is that only open when they can be bothered? I haven't been in for a couple of years mind.

http://www.die.net/earth/ The URL contains the word "die". They're even spelling out the conspiracy for us right there.

Ah, but is it the ball that's rotating around the pole or the pole that's rotating around the ball?

THEY want you to be looking at the skies so you don't notice THEM installing a radio transmitter in your back yard.

Back in the early 1990s, THEY kidded a generation of horny teenagers into believing in the existence of Red Hot Dutch.

From the Germans man. Tell them Poland wants Klose and Podolksi's World Cup goals back then.

The xx would have been hilarious like. The ultimate "fuck you" to the party vibe.