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David Kelly did a few pages back. Can you do one please? And break it down into genres..thanks.

DK's list is pretty comprehensive but there was quite a few i'd not heard. I'm still wading though 2006/7. I'd recommend this group Midlake, they only came to my attention via the fabulously titled 'Beyond the Wizard's Sleeve remix' of a track called Roscoe. It was a bit of a shock when i heard the actual album as it sounds like it was written at the same time as Fleetwood Mac's Rumours. Bizzare but its been on my iPod everyday for the last fortnight. Will look into that...Rumours is a very good album.

Not drinking benzene is a top tip too. What is that in?

Coldcut, christ that takes me back. Can some geek do me a list of albums I should have purchased in 2008?

Freedom, free speech, censorship...... and Happy Face and his US Christian Neo-Con allies trying to destroy the first 2 and bend the latter to their whim.

It'll still be grabbed onto by every fat bastard "victim" out their to claim it's their genes/hormones/whatever that make them fat (when in fact almost no one that is even morbidly obese has anything wrong with them in that sense). Not it's not, it's the 4000 calories of lard you shove in your gob every day, whilst you strenuously watch TV, that does it. Aye. What's the game behind this lark then?

Waking up in a postive frame of mind is the best cancer prevention.

No need, just wire up those vests they wear now. Satellite to issue fire and forget protocols?

By Kate Devlin Medical Correspondent Last Updated: 10:48PM GMT 10 Dec 2008 The gene appears to encourage those who carry it to shun healthy options like fruit and vegetables and opt for high calorie foods containing sugar and fat. It is carried by more than half of the population and encourages children to eat an average of 100 extra calories per sitting, the study found. The researchers estimate that the number of extra calories would be greater for adults and possibly up to 15 per cent more than other people at every meal. The gene, called FTO, has previously been linked to an increased risk of becoming overweight or obese. But scientists have struggled to understand if it affects calorie intake or how our bodies process fat. Almost a quarter of the population are now obese and experts predict that the proportion of the population that is heavily overweight will continue to rise in coming decades, alongside associated illnesses such as diabetes and heart disease. "What this study effectively shows is that the people with the relevant variants on the gene have a trait which may lead them to eat more unhealthy, fattening foods. "I would stress that this is a trait, and not an absolute occurrence," said Professor Colin Palmer, from the University of Dundee, who led the study and was also one of the scientists who discovered the gene last year. But he insisted that the effects of FTO could be overcome.

What's all this about?

Agreed.

What a load of bollocks. How do they keep a straight face when talking about tosh like this? More than half of Britons have it....Rubbish.

A light dusting of napalm before a free kick would do the trick.

Lot of people give me music so have bought very little.

Prodigious printing of monopoly euro's by Italy will take care of Germany.

Germany is fucked.

25-30 units a week. Bottled beer. White and red wines. Whiskey. Cocktails.

Brown would have to call a snap election right now to capitalise on that, though. If he holds out until 2010, people will have seen through his economic "rescue" measures by then. ...again this is a worldwide economic crisis. Is it worldwide? Or is it only limited to those countries blindly following the Chicago school model? Admittedly, that's almost all. Brazil (Latin America's largest economy) and their state-owned oil firm Petrobras aren't doing too bad? http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2008/101...s_cardenas.aspx Last time I looked the owed the world bank 900 billion dollars.$ This is after some king of write down in the mid ninetees. iirc

Brown would have to call a snap election right now to capitalise on that, though. If he holds out until 2010, people will have seen through his economic "rescue" measures by then. ...again this is a worldwide economic crisis. Regardless of how true that may be, and no matter how much Brown keeps claiming "the Americans started it", people will still blame the government of the day at the ballot box when they're out of a job and the country's in a depression. I don't make any of my plans or ideation in relation to what people might or might not do and nor do our leaders. They are part of a cyclic elite, a governing class if you like most of whom are about as far removed from everyday realities as it gets. They blame Brown cause they don't want to think about things too much and this is how it continues. But real pain is coming.

Hasn't it always been the case? Even a vote for "change we can believe in" Obama was just a vote against Bush who hadn't quite fucked things up enough at home to warrant a beating off Kerry in '04. Both main parties policies are basically the same on either side of the Atlantic. You're only voting on personality if you see those two as your only choice. The money behind Obama won the election, peoples preferences had nowt to do with it.

Brown would have to call a snap election right now to capitalise on that, though. If he holds out until 2010, people will have seen through his economic "rescue" measures by then. ...again this is a worldwide economic crisis.