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Having finally scrapped My Family, the BBC's replacement is going to be a comedy about a gay couple... starring Robert Lindsay. Radical.

Oh well, nevermind. She's changed a lot since she was in utero. She's got a look in her eye that says RAPE MEEEE In her Heart Shaped Box? Kevin S. Assilleekunt will have his revenge on her asshole?

See, that's why they're not real Germans. Can't be trusted.

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Saw that on Twitter. Was just about to reciprocate your "hope things are OK" text from yesterday until I remembered the obvious flaw. Fingers crossed the people and places we both know in the city are fine, anyway. I don't think my bumbling boss is capable of surviving in the wild. The vegan Bavarian lass would probably happily take on all-comers armed with a plank of wood though.

Aye, fair point both of you. Maybe the free gift tokens from the bags sellotaped to the inside of a card, then.

Is that your sister, Fish? If his next birthday present from her is a multipack of Walkers, we'll have our answer.

There's loads more sirens out and about here tonight than last night, but no reports of any real trouble so far. Anyone might cautiously conclude that a visible police presence acts as some kind of deterrent to greedy little feral thugs.

I'm a bit the same too even though it'd mean the nearest town centre getting properly trashed. Strange times.

Because that's where you were with that post.

A Serbian friend of mine says she's seen plenty of riots in her time and she's adamant this whole thing is being organised and funded by foreign mafia. Someone needs a crash course in the "tinpot democracy vs. feral underclass" distinction.

A few weeks ago they were saying all over the news that Al Qaeda had attacked Norway. They'll repeat any old gubbins to fill the hour out. What do you think is guiding all these louts around the police to vunerable locations? 'The power of the people mannnnn' You need a rubber bullet firing up your arse; hippies are of no use during a crisis. What's remotely hippy about wanting to clarify the truth of a claim? I don't know why you'd doubt that technology allows these people to communicate and concentrate attacks better than if they didn't have it. It seems a pretty axiomatic conclusion. But no, "Hey mannnn, I aint buyin' your crap mr. polititian mannn, power to the peoplee." Blackberry messenger isn't really "social media" though is it? It's not as if the mainstream media are clued-in enough to know the difference though. I half expect the "information superhighway" to get blamed soon.

You're incorrigible.

Genius. Years supply. Agreed. Maybe they're planning on selling all the $10 Chinese electricals and investing the profits in gold.

"As far as..." without a closing "...is concerned" (or similar). I assume it's an Americanism as I always hear it in my head in a whiny Yank accent.

Genius.

Good on them, I say. Show these low life scum the true meaning of community. Our council's been in touch via the various cleanup Twitter feeds, blogs etc. to say "thanks, but we've already sorted everything overnight". I've never seen the bastards be so efficient.

Well, the first ones may have been. A lot of the places it spread to later in the night aren't. But that was likely just opportunism and copycat behaviour once daft kids saw (including on rolling TV news) that the police were massively overstretched and adopting a policy of controlling rather than clubbing them.

FYP. And no you're not. Though the Ladbrokes comment was all right.

Certainly. Actually reports just in. It involved 49 white people, 49 black people & two people of mixed race. You bloody racist! That means there was no majority participation by any one group, so the riot didn't actually happen. Win!

Reasonably willing to suggest the ethnic breakdown of that confrontation will be somewhat different, too.

Canny. I could have been telling you anything there.

Someone change this lad's location to "Holzweg".

Did they loot an off-licence and a branch of Schuh?