Illuminati-R-Us

I read some of the comments on the BBC site and a large majority of the commenters had little idea what they were talking about, but then the journalists have no idea what will happen either. I'd wager that during the period of the USA's greatest expansion its rating would have been much worse than ...

As part of keeping a practicing certificate I have to do a number of hours of Continuing Professional Development which involves seminars, lectures, etc. Yesterday's involved some gimlet warbling on about efficiency and eliminating mistakes and he brought up the usual example of Indian tiffinwalla a...

I hear ya Enzo, I was in my forties before I could leave food, or not have what was left as seconds.

I have several Packers shirts, mostly quite elderly. But I can't start wearing a new one while they are the champions can I?

I need a new lucky shirt.

I didn't realsie it was an early kick off so was on the train.

Fuck, fuck, fuckity fuck . .

GOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLL! Get it up ye!

Still tense but there is hope.

The season has hardly started and tonight is a must win away game in Malmö, they lead one nil from the first leg so we need a win. Anything else and we are out of Europe. In a show of faith and to appease the Gods I have just bought a Rangers polo shirt which I will wear while listening to the game ...

Are these the C16th city walls that Ivan the Terrible put up? I don't know the name of them tough.

If she had brought the child back to the UK she would have had the Social Work Department at her door in pretty short order.

sopunds like a deal has been done, probably.

On looking at the map properly for the first time I assume Corsica was missed out by mistake.

I'm also guessing that it is Belgium's lack of a government which is downgrading them.

wring wrote: I also read that immediately prior to her death, she was attempting to adopt a 10 year old girl.

No way would that have happened, not until she had cleaned herself up for a number of years.

You are giving away your age HD, I was at primary school when Biafra jokes were in vogue.

Would be fine with me. If the debt were downgraded to AA and the credit spreads reflected that, I think I might like to trade on that spread . . . I don't even know what that means. Whatever S&P say the US is AAA, so if they are rated AA then you can make money by backing them as AAA at AA rate...

And the other figures would put them both behind us and two spots closer to the top 100. :D

Is state debt backed by the Federal government in any way? Who do states borrow from, I take it they simply borrow from the money market like national governments?

Some interesting countries at the lower end of the table, then you realise that is because no-one would lend to them.

Yep we pull away from Germany and then Netherland and Spain are in our sights. Top 100 here we come!

High anglicans in one of our kirks. Alas I am unlikely to be in Edinburgh this weekend, which is probably just as well as my usual response to Johnson and Delagllio is to hurl abuse and this time I wouldn't have the anonymity of a crowd of 67,000 to protect me. By all accounts they are decent, well...

But I do think your prediction is most likely to be borne out, there will be no default. If the debt were downgraded to AA and the credit spreads reflected that, I think I might like to trade on that spread . . . There are worse bets on the go. My investment in Luis Leon Sanchez for the Classica Sa...

"retired" or "over 65 (or similar)" would make some sense. How likely is it that it will all go tits up? I'm guessing it is brinkmanship on both sides and it will all get sorted out with minutes to spare. Tangentially I saw Standard and Poor were threatening to downgrade the US f...

Sky News: "Police treating death of singer Amy Winehouse as Unexplained"

Are they taking the piss?

126 pages of Amy Winehouse jokes here

ISpeedway is a major presence in the gas market here. Whenever gas prices edge up, people write in blaming SPeedway. It seems Speedway controls all the prices. SO when they raise the price 20 cents, apparently all the other gas statiions in town are powerless to leave their prices where they were. ...

Bugger, I have to quench. Hmmm . . .

Notting Hill Gate

or perhaps

Sokolniki

I had read it before and I still laughed out loud. Snopes has it as undetermined but see no reason it couldn't be true. I was out cycling both days last weekend and both days a deer ran out about 10m in front of me and away accross the fields. I would have come off a poor second if they had hit me.

Like Mactep I keep hearing how upbeat and uplifting the music was but I never heard it that way. The videos never suggetsed it was very cheery. A lot of the blame falls on her management who excused or condoned any behaviour as long as she was working; the recent debâcle of a tour suggests they did ...

These fools no longer think beer is food, but alcoholic. I must test this out this evening.