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Had mine since Christmas now and it's a fucking beauty like. One complaint is sometimes the Bluetooth locks in the off position still, even though they said it was sorted in the last update. A restart sorts it out though. And you save much more time with NFC tags than you lose with restarting once every few month.

With Google music you don't need to add it to Itunes, you just sync. Clunky this apple approach like innit

Book the open top bus. I'm sure the crowds will be out in force for this.

Pro It's a very smooth, user friendly, pretty, linked up solution. Cons 30% markup for the drawing of a bitten apple on the side Locked in for the rest of your life Very little personal modification Paid cloud music rather than free

Back soon. A couple of years ago Sloop recommended I watch The Century Of Self. It was an Adam Curtis series. At the time I watched the first episode and thought it was fascinating, but never got around to the other 3. Since then Curtis has had 'All watched over by Machines of loving grace' on the BBC too. I watched that at the time and raved about it on here but never linked it back to sloops recommendation. Over the weekend I was reading his blog (the most read blog on the BBC) which is as good as his films and I looked on YouTube and found Century of self again. I've been watching it from the start again and am struck at how much of an excellent companion it makes to Mad Men. It looks at the world of psychotherapy, how it started on returning war vets (like Don) and blossomed into an industry used by governments and corporations to control the masses. Having been stuck by the similarity of the stories they tell I googled "History of Self Mad men" and (inevitibly) was linked back to a very interesting article Curtis wrote about Madison avenue when mad Men first started. I'll not quote it because he deserves the hits on his blog and because there's video clips embedded that you should visit the site to see... http://www.bbc.co.uk...son_avenue.html And here is century of self.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7EwXmxpExw Cheers Sloop

Bit OTT that like, Statto.

Metacritic's combined list of critics top tens for 2012....now I know Downton Abbey is above Boardwalk Empire, but still a good guide on what you're missing.... http://www.metacritic.com/feature/top-ten-lists-best-tv-shows-of-2012 I only watch 10 out of 20...but 7 out of the top 10.

Dunno how she's managed to get embraced by the country community singing about atheism, weed and gays like. 21st century country music.

Cannit believe this never got a

It's slave labour for private companies. An absolute national disgrace.

Is there a link to any of the gloating on social networks? Stinks to me of a club trying to divert the negative press they've suffered.

Less than 60% of people that can vote actually voted for ANY of the 3 main parties....and that is up on the previous 2 elections because it was much closer in 2010. If that disaffected 40+% actually had a principled party to vote for things could be mighty different.

Sunken Apollo rocket engines raised http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21880147 Plants... obviously.

Google Keep just out. Simple notes app.

The global economy was nowt to do with labours economic failings. But the ONLY factor in the Tories failure to recover. Party political alligience over evidence disgusts me.

Accidental partridge

Waiting for the Man by Velvet Underground I'm....Callum Mcmanaman Dave Whelan's Dollars... in my hand Hacked Haidara, late to arrive Feeling sick and dirty, more dead than alive I'm....Callum Mcmanaman

What channel is the game on tomorrow night?

What he meant though, was it's always best to measure debt on the scale that makes them look least bad at that moment.

As you fail to make any sort of argument whatsoever as to why you have a staunch belief in current economic policy I assumed there must be other factors at play. It wasn't a dig at all, the vast majority vote based on their own interests, on past personal experience or historical allegiance. My dad was always a Tory, he worked for British Gas, but he wasn't laid off following privatisation or owt, he lost his job helping the other lads get off for a pint early on a Friday afternoon and clicking their cards for them. So he never blamed Maggie, he hugely appreciated though that when he was out of a job he could buy his council house...and that he got government help starting his own video van business. That sort of leg up saw him ignore the economic catastrophe that followed and saw Labour swept into power and hold it for so long. Throughout the Labour governments he would slate them for selling off the family gold and throwing money at unsustainable projects. At the last election he was still telling me how much of a shame it was people up here still would vote Labour, no matter what. He's pretty quiet now though, I think his affection was more for Maggie and the specific policies that helped him. He's totally disgusted by the lot of them now and I don't think he would give Cameron and Osbourne the 5 minutes it would take to tick a box. I assumed you must have a similar story....I assumed you must actually have even stronger personal bonds to the conservatives to continue the folly of supporting what has been such a catastrophic and universally ridiculed approach.

I can only imagine it was personal upward mobility getting confused with national prosperity that gives someone the impression that the last Tory government or this coalition have had any sort of economic success story to tell. You're often keen to say what a big job you had before. I just wondered if that informs your view of which party was best to you.

Do you look back on your pre taxi days with fond memories CT? And blame labour for putting you in there.

He had the guitar camera on when we saw him but I couldn't find owt on Youtube at the time. Good watch, cheers.

Playing the Sage July 14th Same day the baby is due. I'm being told I'm not allowed to get tickets It's started.