Wall of Mouths

Well, your tongue looks, fairly healthy, all told, but the fact that you carry it around in your purse is probably a bad sign.
Here are some amusing novelty chocolates in the shape of willies. They’re modelled on Dan’s willy, in fact. There’s 100g of choclate here, made into 200 true-to-life willies.

Is that the bit you do like?

Yeah, The Hanson Brothers are named after the characters in Slapshot, but since it’s a film starring Paul Newman, I thought maybe that was your starting point. :)

Smum, is that a Slapshot reference? Hurruh! :D

You can also just hit the ‘x’ next to the thread on the main page, and you’ll never even know it’s there.

But I really do like that pot noodle. :(

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20081003/tod-uk-australia-zoo-b7e5c6f.html

“Security camera footage at the Alice Springs Reptile Centre showed the smiling youngster also bludgeoning to death a small blue tongue lizard and two more thorny devils during a half-hour of breakfast-time havoc last Wednesday.”

:D

I don’t remember. :(

well _I_ for one won’t excuse you.

lack of memory is no defence. I don’t remember Dresden, but do you think any court would accept that?

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20081002/twl-pull-the-udder-one-mad- … f21e0.html

Sarah, just where were you on Saturday? :-/

Happy birthday, CE! :) You’re now officially hurtling towards forty. ;)

Give it your best. I know someone who studied guitar in Guildford, and so far as I know he had absolutely no regrets doing it. Last time I saw him he was making a small fortune giving lessons (guitar lessons; he didn’t give it all up to be a primary school teacher).

That’s not applause, that’s Dettol, though it’s still a pretty impressive party trick.

I’m glad you posted that link, as I had no idea he’d written anything close to full length. :cool: The book I had was The Nightmare Factory, which is I think the Teatro Grottesco collection and another collection in one book. I see there’s a graphic novel now with the same title, though, so it’ll be harder to pick up another copy.

This is the one I had:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Nightmare-Factory-Thomas-Ligotti/dp/07867 … amp;sr=8-3

:o £180?! I really should ask for that back!

Happy Birthday, Mehket and René, sory I’m a bit late. :)

Dermot wrote:

Ah, Mr Brooker… always perfect for that Monday morning mood!

I meant to bump this thread a while ago to tell WOMbles about this guy:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Ligotti

He’s kind of like a modern HP Lovecraft. Was trying to get something by him for ages, and one of his books was finally published in the UK a couple of months ago (Teatro Grottesco) and it didn’t disappoint

I absolutely love Thomas Ligotti’s stuff. Some of the imagery is so surreal and amazing “Dr Voke and Mr Veech” always particularly sticks out in my mind. Incidentally I’m trying to get something by him, too: I lent out a collection of stories to one of my philosophy lecturers, and he never gave it back. :’(

Congratulations from me, too! :)

She has. … like a chicken.

I like suits. I wish I could afford one.

mrs h wrote:

Labour wins because 40% of the country voted for them, even though 60% of the country didn’t. That’s all I was saying.

Ah! Gotcha. :)

mrs h wrote:

But it DOES usually happen! When is the last time you can think of the elected party having more votes than the competition? Not that it matters since nobody really votes any more so it’s all a bit of a joke.

Maybe I’ve completely misunderstood, but it seems what you’re describing is a hung parliament? If so, they don’t usually happen. Wiki says the last one was in 1974. But as I’ve said, maybe I misunderstood.

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Anyhow what is this single transferrable vote? Is it a spin on proportional representation? If so I have to say I’m all for the theory and it’s very democratic, but would anything actually ever get done? I don’t think so - although not doing anything would probably be a very good idea at the moment. I might even start my own party and promise not to fuck about getting involved in global politics. i think people would love that :)

I guess it’s related to propertional representation, but it’s not the same thing. Basically, at the moment, if you don’t want labour to win, you have to vote conservative (and vice versa), which means that the apparent popularity of the opposition is higher than it really is, which inspires other voters who don’t want conservatives to win to also vote the opposite way (which may not reflect who they DO want to win). The result is everyone is voting _against_ who they don’t want in power, no matter who they actually do. With an STV, you vote for who you want to win, but have a back up option. (So you could say ‘I want the Green Party in charge, but in the unlikely event that they don’t get enough votes, I want to vote Lib Dem. ANd if they don’t get enough votes, then I guess I’ll go with Labour.’
The outcome is still ‘No Vote for Conservative’, and, in all probability, Labour still in power, but the picture is much clearer who everyone is actually supporting.
That probably didn’t make any sense. :(

mrs h wrote:

Despite his comparatively tender years, Sammy is a bitter and vitriolic conspiracy theorist who is physically incapable of holding any degree of faith or trust in another human being, with the possible exception of Gav.

:D Bless!

“Your second post is closer to what I meant”
But I think the point Gav was making is that that doesn’t usually happen, rather than the winning party “almost certainly” having less votes than the combined. When we get anything close to the Lib Dems actually being ‘kingmakers’, then they’re supposedly going to push for the single transferrable vote. Which can only be a good thing, as far as I’m concerned.

Actually I’m with Squall on this one, at least up to a point. Fair enough you wouldn’t go into interviews saying ‘No, I don’t give a shit about whatever you thnk your company’s [air quotes]’work ethic’[/air quotes] is, and frankly I’ll just be doing the bare minimum to avoid getting fired’, but if you have problems with something like panic attacks (as I do, actually), it shouldn’t be glossed over. Similarly if you had an allergy to cats, and you were told ‘this job might involve lots of working with cats, is that going to be a problem?’ you’d be a moron to say ‘no, no problem at all.’

But still: comb your fucking hair next time, Squall. ;)

So the article actually shows: Bees - smart. Hooch - not so much. :p

I’ve not heard of it before, but I just checked Wiki, and it looks like it’s well worth a viewing. :D

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I nearly died.

Don’t worry, she can flush it when she gets back. :)

Erm… That video just seems to be a loop of the same section of tape. :s

Lol, bless. *grumbles* :mad:

That’s going to be one hell of a busy day.