Golden Glory

I like how Spurs fans generally think that constant twattish showers of condescension is 'banter'. All the bloody same.

How come? Not sure how Cook is at fault for our poor performance when he top scored. Met him once. Pompous knobhead.

Oh no, I really despise Cook. I actually do.

It's because Alastair Cook played.

I generally don't like the music that is shoved into your face via the media, artists that are promoted are as a rule of thumb, ones that I generally dislike. MySpace and YouTube are fairly decent ways of doing this, but often to find the best material you have to expose yourself to the work of an artist. I can understand that they're due money for the good that they have provided, but personally I see music and the music I download as a way of finding which artists I like and then trying to see them live or buying their CDs. If I download an album and love it, listen to it constantly I will go out and buy that album, it's more than likely I won't ever utilise the CD, but it's nice to have a physical manifestation of the music, sort of, to hold and keep. I'd say a quarter of music I download is listened to once and never listened to again, mainly on recommendation from others. I'd return the CD if I bought it. I see it a little bit like that. Try before you buy/see them live.

Well, if you're married/in a relationship and willing... who says others won't be?

Why does he relate everything to Chez's job? :| Although I personally would say that if for example all music albums were set at £1 each, I would buy every single album that I listen to, £8-£10 is too much for me personally to make a disposable purchase. Hence why I remove the risk of having money ill-spent and download it. I'd be more than happy to spend £15-20 a month in that way, than the odd £10 I do spend. I'd say that a lot more people would do this, and if your 80% figure Chez, is accurate and could be used as a ball-park figure for the entire market, the revenue would be similar, but I'd guess that there'd be a lot more purchase, from other untapped consumer-bases, they could make the same as they do now, but appease the consumer at the same time. Surely that's win-win, because they're never going to be able to successfull charge all extortionately as they do.

I paid nothing too. I don't have a credit/debit card or anything like that. I have limited cash and parents to plead with

Parky, what do you (and others) make of rumoured Atlantean and ancient Indian, Greek, Chinese and many other technologies, which sound rather more advanced than what we currently possess? See the link I posted for some examples with evidence that could be believed, maybe.

http://www.light1998.com/Vimanas/Vimanas.htm This link shows something about ancient aircraft, I don't think I can find the link now but it described 'Vimana handbooks' found in Tibet, that the Chinese seized and are trying to form a form spacecraft from. The instructions are clear, but the fundamental energy source is something that is seemingly inexplicable and isn't like anything found on earth anymore. A yellow substance, I think. But it's a possible energy source. Also - I would've thought aliens, to progress far (or not?) would have developed some sort of anti-gravity fuelled engine of sorts, but then that's imagination running at full pelt.

Interesting point. What kind of tech? I'm not entirely sure, but if we could be visited by aliens, some form of better aircraft, development of everyday use vehicles. I mean ffs, you don't use oil to power a spacecraft, what do these aliens use? Actually, this has reminded me of something fantastic. I'll have to find it though.

Yes, but if we've been visited and the big-wigs are prepared to disclose the matter, surely they'll have reached some sort of amicable conclusion with aliens. I mean, they wouldn't prepare to tell us that we have intergalactic bullies trying to get our lunch money, would they?

If there's some form of disclosure as well as there being frequent visits now, surely there would be some sorts of technological ramifications, space travel would be possible etc? If that's the case and disclosure can take place in a mere 2 years, why aren't we seeing huge leaps in commercial technology? Unless of course it's all developed and waiting for the 'go-ahead'.

We had a South African RS teacher a couple of years back, Miss Alexander. She said she was of Indian origin, I think, but I reckon it was Oompa Loompa. She was about 4 foot tall, fat and ugly. Not only this but she claimed she had a pet lion back at home, which was never substantiated with pictoral evidence. She also thinks she saw her friend get raped in a bush in Wimbledon, she said she did nothing about it either. Fucking loon. Those lessons weren't half fun though, hiding underneath desks. Spending whole lessons (the entire class) facing the opposite direction, murmurs of 'oompah loompah doopety doo' going around the class. And the probing questions when we covered sexual ethics. Great times.

Thing with this is though. I would never have heard much of 90% of the artists I listen to without having acquired it by less than legal means. I can't afford to buy music, I mean I buy a CD or two a month, I go to 7/8 gigs throughout a year, but I can't help but think stopping this would mean anything other than bad news. Personally, at least. Music is something I rely and depend on, if I could afford to buy music, I would, but I can't. But when I can afford to, I do often buy music and try to see artists I listen to a lot live, paying them in sorts in that way. Piracy gets it out there, I love piracy and how it's opened my eyes.

I disagree with that, I didn't think Dan Le Sac VS Scroobius Pip, their album at least, was cohesive at all. Some good tracks, but by no means a great album.

I'm nice really. I have a passionate dislike for some people that overspills sometimes. Gianluca Vialli, Marlon King, Lee Cook, Harry Redknapp, Kevin Phillips.... and some others.

Redknapp is fucking shite. Saggy-faced cunt. Whoever voted for him should be ashamed.

I really hope Laura wins. She is brilliant. I wouldn't be against fathering her children.

I want to read some Kafka soon too.

Seeing as I've sat at home for the last month and am going to be so for another month and a half; I've taken it upon myself to read lots hence why I'm currently flicking between 6 (yes, six, S-I-X) books. Harper Lee - To Kill A Mockingbird Tom Clancy - The Sum Of All Fears Ian McEwan - Atonement Peter Vardy and Julie Arliss - The Thinker's Guide To God Pat Barker - Regeneration Khaled Hosseini - The Kiterunner I'm at various stages of all. But already this summer I've read the following: George Orwell - Animal Farm Fred Forsyth - The Fist Of God Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Peter Vardy - The Puzzle Of God Joseph Heller - Catch 22 There's a few more I plan to read too: Albert Camus - The Outsider Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich John Steinbeck - Grapes Of Wrath E.M Forster - Passage To India Hanif Kureishi - Suburban Buddha Markus Zusak - The Book Thief I hope I get through them all by September, but for some reason... I doubt it.

What can I say?

You mentioned both in one sentence. Do you want helping loading a shotgun or something?

Le Tissier > Everyone ever. Fuck you. Le Tissier XI wins.

I wouldn't say the English in general, mainly the south. The rest are beyond shit, like.