Meenzer

Bollocks man, I'd just finished reading the last 15 pages and was about to post something monstrously witty.

I bet the kid in the middle actually said "More Magnus".

Totally logical.

Mind, sometimes they can be quite inclusive when it comes to black culture.

Went to an event at the library as part of the Lewisham Literary Festival tonight. Nothing much to say about it really (err... it was good), it's just the very concept of a Lewisham Literary Festival that amuses me.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/20...nazionale-inter Not directly related, but might as well stick it in here.

Back Garden Hog Roast: ACTIVATE!

FYP

Yea, yea and thrice yea. Plus it's the only reason to visit Lübeck.

I think even I'd make an exception for Scarlett. Which I'm sure she'll be delighted to learn.

Shit.

Forget it. It's just a silly phase he's going through.

I've just read that the Norwegian equivalent of the YMCA (as in the organisation, not the song) is called KFUK-KFUM. Catchy.

New site clearly needs a "Wanker of the Week" function.

Márton Fülöp

Ring Of Fire is too obvious. Soooo...

It's mid-2003 at a translation company somewhere in the Rhineland. Everything is as quiet and dull as usual. Suddenly the door flies open and our boss marches in, stops dead in the middle of the room and proclaims "Everybody! They've got Uday and Qusay Hussein!".

;)

A fair question. There are a lot of Energy from Waste plants in production across the UK but the only way these are getting built is through major local political and commercial incentivisation, provision of add on infrasturcture to 'compensate' for the facilities' presence. Which of course tax payers foot the bill. Incinerators still have a bad reputation, despite the fact that modern filtration techniques can mean the air coming out of the facilities is purer than that drawn in. Sympathetic construction and design techniques also mean they are no longer eyesores but fundamentally trucks and trucks full of garbage will have to go somewhere, driven past someone's house. Basically despite everyone buying as much shit as they can muster, no-one wants to have to even think about the waste once their latest consumption is completed, much less have it burned in their own back yard. Similarly people object to wind generators 'because it spoils their view' when ironically they spend much of their time indoors watching their 50" plasma tv. Withdraw Nimby*'s services I say - object to electricity production in your area? Go live in a cave then you selfish, short sighted, narrow minded fuckwits. *Not In My Backyard blyme* *Better Lug Your Mess Elsewhere

Decent summary that, like. They've got a long way to go with black people in particular. You still get greetings cards in Germany with cartoons of huge-lipped tribesmen with bones through their noses and all (no further context - the image itself is "funny").

Poor old Germany. Their national cuisine already consisted of slabs of meat in various forms, then they got the immigrants - Turks, Yugoslavs - whose cuisine also consists of slabs of meat in various forms. Meanwhile, we got the herbs, spices and flavours.

In case you happen to have a few minutes free on a lazy Monday.