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It is amazing like and it's only for a relatively short period of time too I think (in Cosmic terms) because the Moon's gradually moving away from the Earth. It's also worth mentioning that the Moon has been important to the development of life on Earth because, due to its size and proximity to Earth, (I think anyway) it's allowed the Earth maintain a very steady orbit around the Sun thus not subjecting the planet to extremes in temperature. Also, I think I read / heard a theory that the Earth and Moon were formed after the collision of two other planetary bodies. Isn't it possible that we're finding these coincidences and attributing more value to them, simply because we like for there to be reason and order to the nature of things? It's like the people who try to "decode" the Bible and find that if you take every 173rd letter, the sentence reads "People who stand to wipe are basically inviting carnage"? All I'm saying is that it's amazing. Hard to argue with that. I'm not really of the opinion there is any great cosmic truth to the Universe or whatever or that this is proof of it. You'll always get people who'll think x,y or z is down to God or whatever though. It has made me think I should try and see a total eclipse before I kick the bucket however. Bound to be cloudy if I do make the effort like. *inserts obvious comment about smoking things that shouldn't be smoked etc.*

Aye, you know that bit in religionity where God knows all? Probably covers that tbh.

I'm not sure what's more worrying tbh, the fact that a prominent member of a "western" religion could make such comments or the fact that an awful lot of people in this country would agree with him.

I might have liked Aintree but it was full of housing estates.

Just behind reserve defender Steve Irwin and his legendary attempt to keep it tight at the back:

Somewhere along the way you must've been the cause of my new-found fondness of cammomile tea. You call it that now, but I believe "granddad's piss" was your previous description of choice. And deviant though my preferences may be, they've never stretched quite that far.

That's no way to speak to someone who spent years trying to groom you.

To be fair, half of them are me trying to groom him.

I don't know whether to be happy that they've lost a load of cash or sad that it's all gone to ITV viewers.

she's OK. How's your husband That's "civil partner". The church gets terribly irate about such things.

at least half the middle east Expensive date that. Doubt it, they grow them over there.

That really is a problem. Everyone knows eyeballs go with cream of tomato.

You can't say that on here man, the sitters and the standers will go all jihad on each other's shitty arses!

Bastid. Had a Shakhtar, Real, Chelsea, Bayern, Arsenal and Milan combo all lined up, would have been 6/1 or so, then chickened out and went for trebles instead. Still not too bad a night's work...

The other week a lass in the Tesco's near me ended an argument with a friend - successfully - by pulling a sour face and shrieking "Is it?". They like to think they're middle-class around here, but...

Could come from an unexpected source, too: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13...e-mortgage.html

Watch the video youtube soft shite "Soft shite" is right for that video. Nowt happened.

This is where the "rock and a hard place" logic kicks in though - whatever the electoral mechanics of the situation may have allowed, the Lib Dems would have been just have fucked if they (and the necessary others) had propped up a Brown government for x years. And they could hardly say "we'll support a minority coalition government with Labour as long as the PM isn't Brown" as 97% of the voting public would cry foul because they think they're voting on Brown/Cameron/Clegg etc. and not their local MP.

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Fits the George Osborne model of government by undeveloped foetus, I suppose.

Rock and a hard place, I suppose - show any kind of reluctance to cooperate (even at the level of "we'll back your evil ploys, but would you please stop making Danny Alexander read them out to camera?") and you can be sure the Tory press would immediately spin it into "LIB DEMS HATE BRITAIN AND WANT YOUR GOVERNMENT TO FAIL". That said, I suspect you're right about their electoral prospects. And on a local level, Labour have every chance of getting back control of Newcastle council next time too.

Aye, no argument here.

"Broken Britain" is such a joke of a phrase. The kind of patronising guff that could only escape the lips of Tories and/or Little Englanders who've never actually met anyone lower-class or been in any kind of peril. On a related note, it's been posted before and it'll be posted again, but this is still fantastic: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12...-drunkards.html Still, the olden days were better...