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Ludovico Einaudi - Nightbook An album of modern instrumental piano music wouldn't normally be my cup of Earl Grey, but this is proper lovely. Atmospheric and moody and spot on for this time of year. Title track:

If you think that's racist, you should see what they say about us...

It deserves a line-by-line dissection, "Sk8er Boi"-style.

I wouldn't mind, but the fella in question was actually from Mainz. The plot thickens...

I'd love to help, but I realise that "study it at uni" and "go and live there for five years" aren't massively practical.

omg. Yes then.

I think you mean you were brain-washed about English history and literature by liberals who think you can learn everything from books.

Cool. Going to chase up the return/warranty thing via Amazon/the manufacturer now - just wanted to see if there was anything obvious I was missing first. I'll let yous know how it goes... Thanks all.

Catchy.

Yes this is true, the muslims that were deported from Karachi to Fenham are all doing very well and seem very well integrated (all praise be to Allah). Hopefully the next lot deported from Somalia will blend in nicely in Throckley omg. Another one. And from NO too. They are like buses, you can never get one then you get three come along all at once And when they do come they're full of immigrants.

"Burn-in" (or indeed "bum-in") was a bit of a misnomer, I suppose dead pixels is more the phrase I was looking for. Took this with my rubbish mobile but you get the idea. In fact, looking at this again it's clearly utterly fucked, isn't it?

Anyway, SE London must be part of a parallel universe because there's English flags all over the bloody place.

Aye, nobody does Shakespeare at school like.

The BBC is anti-British except when it's pro-British except when it's anti-British.

I've had a nifty little Samsung netbook since shortly before Christmas and it has made me a very happy bunny. On booting it up today, however, all of a sudden there's an ugly case of what I can only describe as "burn-in" - more specifically, there's an uneven band of 5-15 black pixels around the bottom and right-hand edges of the screen. For want of a better comparison, it looks like the effect you get when you burn a piece of paper for a few seconds. Not particularly useful from a tech support perspective, I know. But anyway: without expecting anyone to be able to solve my specific woes, when this kind of thing happens generally, is there any way of resolving it or am I looking at invoking the warranty ASAP?

A short distance behind Four Poofs And A Piano (he wishes) as the best argument for gassing 'em all.

Stand for no shit. Superb. Worked a treat too. You never see no Muslims around these days. Aye, they will jump on a boat to the UK instead. That's OK, we'll massacre them too. Nobody will mind and it'll definitely have no wider consequences.

The HRA has absolutely fuck all to do with immgration. Freedom of movement within the single market is down to the treaty of Maastricht. yet they are attracted here in such numbers. Ever wondered why ? I've asked my Swedish mother, my Pakistani doctor, my Irish colleagues, my Dominican personal trainer and the Vietnamese chap who sells me Belgian beer at the local corner shop, and they all say it's because Britain is a fundamentally liberal and tolerant society that would still be trading in dirt and rocks if it hadn't recognised the value of immigration over the decades, centuries and millennia. We're thinking of starting a political party called People Who Think Things Are Basically Pretty Decent But Get Incessantly Drowned Out By The Vocal Minority. It's not very catchy though. Anyone got any ideas for a better name? No problem with any of that little lot Meenzer, so long as they accept they live by British laws and traditions, respect the flag and those who uphold it at home and abroad, and don't think they can walk around with their faces covered and demand special treatment and threaten to blow us up if they don't get it. That's fortunate, since you could fit the number of people in our population of 60 million who fit that description into an average Metro carriage. Now if we could just blow that carriage up...

The HRA has absolutely fuck all to do with immgration. Freedom of movement within the single market is down to the treaty of Maastricht. yet they are attracted here in such numbers. Ever wondered why ? I've asked my Swedish mother, my Pakistani doctor, my Irish colleagues, my Dominican personal trainer and the Vietnamese chap who sells me Belgian beer at the local corner shop, and they all say it's because Britain is a fundamentally liberal and tolerant society that would still be trading in dirt and rocks if it hadn't recognised the value of immigration over the decades, centuries and millennia. We're thinking of starting a political party called People Who Think Things Are Basically Pretty Decent But Get Incessantly Drowned Out By The Vocal Minority. It's not very catchy though. Anyone got any ideas for a better name?

Stand for no shit. Superb. Worked a treat too. You never see no Muslims around these days.

Does this joker really think Iran is small?

Just been to a free Russian festival/music event down by the Thames this very afternoon. Cracking blinis, Grommitchik.

The one who thought he was using a typewriter but then it turned out he was just inCRED ibly short-sighted? Yes. Wasn't it StevieH who used to post in that style? Oh yeah. You may be right.

We'd have got 27 under Hall and Shepherd.

I presume the postponed match at Reading is the outstanding one, so it depends on when that gets rescheduled for... which in turn depends on what happens to them in the cup.