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Mine is on nature.

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In 1950 Labour got 51% and lost. The present system looks unfair I'd agree but I have grave reservations about PR even though it sounds fairer at face value. For example I think it can lead to minorities like the Irish parties (and potentially the BNP) having power out of proportion with their mandate. I also don't like the idea of transferring votes based on a preference order - the Tories aren't my Nth choice they're my beyond infinity choice. The German system isn't bad - half directly elected ("first past the post") with the rest topped up to reflect the proportional national vote (and no "single transferable vote"-style "next best evil" votes as described in your last paragraph). So if you're an extremist party, you have to get a pretty decent share of the mainstream vote to be represented in parliament - unless your candidate is elected directly in a given constituency, in which case you're in. I doubt we'll ever have anything but first-past-the-post in this country, though - if we can't contemplate the idea of a currency without the Queen's head on it, we're never going to accept impenetrable foreign muck like balanced PR.

Highlights an interesting point from another thread though - if Rhys Jones is a "schoolboy", why isn't Jimmy Mizen? Every indication from the thoroughly dignified interviews with his family in the local press here suggests that they saw him as a normal, thoroughly decent lad and want everyone else to do no more and no less, but there has to be some kind of label attached to him, so the media decides to bestow on him the halo of "former altar boy" instead.

If an absolute majority were in any way relevant, nothing would have happened in this country since 1931.

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Mr Brain's Pork Faggots @ St James' Park Gaydium

Way to remind me, fuckface.

Mr. Rahman Replace The Zip In Trouser, Shirt And Jeans @ St. James' Park Stadium

Did those poor Malaysians ever find the way out of it? Anyway, the Malaysian tourist board could probably be interested in buying the name rights: Malaysians@St James' Park Stadium Sounds like a Ryanair airport.

Last seen fuelling a Weapon of Mass Destruction somewhere near Baghdad

They're my favourite dishes though, where you can hoy (within reason) what you like in and you have to be a moron to really fuck it up. Bolognese is the same. Actually, I wouldn't say no if anyone's got any bolognese/lasagna sauce tips - the recipes I've tried have been decent but lacking something and I'm buggered if I know what.

The recipe I use involves cinnamon sticks and Worcester sauce and god knows what else. It's remarkable how many permutations there are when you consider the end result is just a load of spicy mush with some beans in it.

What's that whooshing sound that just keeps on going? Quite aside from that, it's not like it's illegal to make the same point as someone else rather than ejaculating "Oh yes Kid Dynamite, I agree with everything you say, let me lick the winnits from your bumcrack". Only someone who desperately needs affirmation would get riled about that. You have sex with men tbh Magma'd.

Aye. You put it in instead of a bit of sugar. All you want is a couple of squares of high cocoa content stuff. I can't be doing with recipes that smugly say "use a little [ridiculously obscure ingredient] from your store cupboard", but 85% Green & Black's is something I can do. Will give it a bash next time round.

Maybe they were fat bastards and it actually stood for "bulky couple".

If they do go out of the CL then they're probably nailed on for top 4 in the league. Whether Benitez will be at the helm or not is another matter, obviously.

What's that whooshing sound that just keeps on going? Quite aside from that, it's not like it's illegal to make the same point as someone else rather than ejaculating "Oh yes Kid Dynamite, I agree with everything you say, let me lick the winnits from your bumcrack". Only someone who desperately needs affirmation would get riled about that.

Thats 3 people who havent read my comment and 1 who hasnt read the article properly Like shooting fish in a barrel.

It says a lot that they see it as a type of insult.

That's one thing that Britain does do well, free museums/galleries and the like.

Well it would obviously come from tax revenue so 'free public transport' is a misnomer anyway. Although the Metro practically is free anyway given the lack of barriers, inspectors and low fines. There's some logic to what is one of Parky all-time favourite subjects like. I've never really understood the logic behind the Metro at all. Either pay the money to install Oyster-style barriers throughout, even at street-level stations, or pay the money to employ a shitload of inspectors. Doing neither is just baffling.

And who's going to make for the services? Maybe they could get companies to sponsor the stops? They did that with the bus stops in Mainz. Overnight, Höfchen became "Höfchen - Listmann" and Elbestraße was happily announced as "Elbestraße - Kentucky Frait Tschickn".

Just happened to me. I foolishly assumed that, since I was moving house just round the corner and comfortably within the same borough, they'd keep my direct debit going. They didn't. Cue angry letters in red and black type.

There'll be plenty of banks of empty seats for them to choose from.