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I think the fun is in trying.

I would hazard that some of them make gay jokes themselves, a good number of funnies perhaps. However, yeah, I guess there's a lot of over sensitive people out there who overreact at the drop of a hat. You make some good points in your post about where to draw the line, but the problem is that is the case with everything this subjective.

Thanks for the insight.

That's exactly what the guy next to me at work said. Frankie for Prime Minister.

118 minutes till I get home to a beerless flat then . We're going riding tonight y'con. Fag. This has all gone rather off-topic.

Sam, I knew that this would go down hill as soon as you got involved. Please tell me you're drinking that shitty Carlsberg and not my beers.

Haha, yeah I've read that one before. I agree with it in a lot of ways minus the god bothering crap.

Favourite so far. What was Howard's policy on gays? (can't google gay at work!!!)

Nah, I know you're not. I saw what you were trying to do. I'm just feeling obnoxious and in some kind of twilight zone between drunk and hungover.

You mean in the way Hitler was a guy? We have a guy in charge too.

The government is bringing in legislation that deems all homophobic jokes to be illegal. Other than the fact they have far better things to worry about at the mo, isn't this a bit overkill? I'm not going to do a Noel Edmunds and be all "It's Britain gone maaaaaaaaaaaad" but I think it's kinda stupid. I have to say, hand on heart, I find a fair few racist/homophobic/sexist jokes funny in the right setting; jokes about disabled people, Irish guys, black guys, queens, Muslims, people in wheelchairs, abortion, rape, blah. Nothing *too bad*, but just 'light-hearted' humour and never in situation in which I judge that offense might be taken. Nothing wrong with that, right? To me it just seems like an inadvertent (but obvious) effect of this is that the government is upping the naughty factor. Gay jokes will be all the rage. I mean, everyone fears repercussion or reprisal when telling a racist joke at work or school, and not getting caught or told off just enhances the delivery. So will this bullshit mean that Little Britain is out the window? Half their jokes are homo-related. Surely if it's a gay guy cracking a gay joke or saying faggot/ass-bandit/sausage jockey or lays on a bit of homosexual innuendo, then it's cool, no? If not, hopefully Graham Norton will f**k off. Guy grinds my gears.

Nowt wrong with newbie videos, give him a break.

Get the feeling he's taking the piss, Jon (Dave that is!).

True. But when things do improve (I reckon it'll be far longer than a year) the effects of the BoEs horrendous quantitative easing programme will probably lead to hyperinflation, and then we'll all be properly f**ked.

Better than Da Vinci by far!

The problem with ex’s is that because they’re not about anymore you forget about the shit bits and only prefer to remember the things you liked about them or doing with them (or to them ). It’s balls because even if you know this it doesn’t make you feel that much better. Stupid emotions.

One of the thick c**ts I work with thinks that google maps is live .

Haha, same. I packed minutes before leaving for the airport.

Yeah, they’re recording out how much weed you’ve smoked cumulatively in the last 12 months so that they can hit you with ultra-arrest by kicking your door down in the middle of the night, sporting balaclavas, sniffer dogs and AK’s. You’ll be there, biff in one hand, dick in the other, wishing you’d chosen a different path in life. Anyway, I don't really know what everyone is moaning about. I've kind of changed my mind on this. Surely all the stuff you can see on street view you can see when you're walking down that particular street anyway. It's not really any different so why the big deal?

I tend not to read much fiction these days, but when I was younger I hammered my way all but a few of Stephen King’s books in a matter of months. The Talisman was quite cool, but it has to be all about The Stand. It’s about a virus that wipes about the majority of the USA’s population (and probably the world’s too), the rise of two separate settlements of people (one good one evil – obviously) and the ensuing struggle. Sounds a bit crap when you describe it in that amount of detail, but I’ve read that book maybe four or five times and it gets better every time. It’s the only book I’ve read more than once I think. Completely shits over the TV mini-series that was based on it, but I guess that’s usually the case. Another fiction; We Need to Talk About Kevin. I know it’s been mentioned already, but I cannot stress enough how good this book is. It gets off to a slow start, but once it got rolling I couldn’t put it down. I think there’s a film in production at the moment. At the moment I’m reading The Great Shark Hunt by Hunter S. Thompson. It’s a selection of a few of his different works and makes me laugh with every turn of the page. Basically, for those of you who don’t know who he was, Hunter S. Thompson was an American sports reporter who was very liberal in his views concerning politics, drugs and I suppose, fun and good times. He was the inventor of ‘Gonzo Journalism’ which is essentially a very subjective way of reporting a story, often with both fact and fictional balled into one to kind of get across the vibe of the article. That was poorly explained, but the best I can do on no sleep. A number of his books tend to track his drug and alcohol crazed adventures whilst he’s supposed to be writing articles for sports magazines. Highlights so far include him and an English sketch-artist stealing a rowing boat so they can write ‘f**k the Pope’ on the side of an Australian yacht at a boat show, and also the way he constantly expresses his disgust for Richard Nixon. Aside from the drugs and booze, there are a lot of interesting political and sociological ideas in there. Next up its Rare Earth I think. That’s about this. Oh yeah, and quickly, one of my favourite books of all time has to be Prometheus Rising (cheers ben ). Read it.

I wouldn't say people don't wear them anymore. Having been away from the scene for a while, I would say that far more people wear a lid now than they did in 2004ish. On the London ride a few weeks ago I reckon I only spotted five or six people who weren't wearing one.

Yeah man, chilled.

That and being less self-destructive.