Oedo 808
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If you had one of these:
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Yes, but I don't see that having a massive impact since the bars are owned but not run by Punch. We're talking about the transfer of ownerships of these establishments, not their closure.
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Maybe it's mumps.
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Why is these rule even adopted? As far as I'm aware, they don't do it in the States.
You can't really judge the veracity of an idea by asking "Does your average American know about it?"
The reason it ends at noon in the UK is simply tradition. I'm not saying it's right or it's wrong but it's the way we've always done it. Prank festivals or muck up days in many cultures often have a strict time limit. April Fools is just another example.
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What I'd like to see in a restaurant
...is to write the menu myself like when I'm at home?
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It really does work!
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Works well as a death metal song:
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But if experience has taught me anything it's that what we take seriously in the Aberdeen music scene has got fuck all to do with anything.
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Why did R&B let him fanny about with a 1600 quid guitar!?
Advertising of some kind I presume. This kid is no fucking dope.
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She unfortunately got married after 17 years to his dad.
That dusnae sound like a ringing endorsement. Crack on my son.
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I actually find this more fascinating than the music:
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The EE are always swayed by stupidity like this. Best of luck to the kid.
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It's funny when someone says "war films" we pretty much think of contemporary wars. What about historical... like um, Zulu or The Four Feathers? (And you can always watch Heston's Khartoum as the background to the second one) I always liked the American Civil War movie "Glory". Ace film.
The Guns of Navarone
Stalag 17
...and purely for a laugh...
Von Ryan's Express
The Longest Day
M*A*S*H
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I don't quite agree with your assessment of the Scottish Parliament but it is correct that Iain Gray is the best MSP the Labour Party have left and he is not fit for purpose. He's a sort of Gordon Brown type character without the same keenly focused sense of political direction, internal party respect or any real personality.
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Way too much autotune.
No, THIS is way too much autotune. 70million plays and counting.
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Where Eagles Dare
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Iain Gray actually looked a lot better than normal last night. I think he'd been shaved to within an inch of his life moments before being put in front of the cameras. He's usually a lot scruffier looking. In terms of what he said and did it was still a total car crash though. Arguing with the audience, butting in when Salmond was talking. Getting angry, being laughed at. Simply terrible.
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Anyone watch this new BBC sketch show? I found it a bit bewildering.
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Did anyone else watch it?
Pass marks for Salmond, Goldie wasn't too bad, Scott squirmed through the whole thing and Gray was largely terrible and the only person the audience actually laughed at.
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I think this is awesome.
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That's a real shame. I'm a bit gutted about that.
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On Sky 1, Monday nights at 10 I think
Jolly good fun
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She sounds like fun
Holyrood TV Debates
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Either Labour or the SNP.
I don't want to prevaricate so I'll cut straight to the chase: I'll be voting SNP.
Since the election will be a two horse race I have to weigh up which of these two parties is best placed to run Scotland over the next 5 years. (We usually have 4 year terms but the Scottish election after this will be forced back a year by the ConDem Government at Westminster running roughshod over Holyrood and adopting the same date for the next UK election).
Since I watch First Minister's Questions every week I've had a fair amount of time to size up all of the parties, their leaders and prominent party members.
Quite simply, the SNP's Alex Salmond is head and shoulders above the rest. He knows his stuff and the people he surrounds himself with (for the most part) do their jobs very well. The worst leader by a mile is Iain Gray and he is the best amongst Labour's current front bench. An insider within the current Labour group was quoted saying Gray is led by an "immature element" within the party and is seen to put party political interests before the good of the country. Those are pretty damming 'qualities' to have in a prospective political leader. (He is more interested in tribalism than doing the right thing.)
Over the last four years:
The SNP have abolished bridge tolls and prescription charges
They have frozen Council Tax (A move which Labour voted against every single year - that's 4 times)
They have put 1000 extra police on the streets (Crime is now at a 32 year low and knife crime is at a 10 year low)
They have built 3300 new council houses (The last Labour administration managed 6. That's right, 6)
Created a record number of new apprenticeships
Saved local A&E services for the chop under the previous Labour administration
Those are just the things that spring to mind.
Labour on the other hand:
Forced through the Edinburgh Trams scheme which has proved to be a total disaster and is still nowhere near completion
Voted against minimum alcohol pricing in Scotland while supporting it for the rest of the UK
Voted even against the policies they supported and called for such as new apprenticeships
Is it any wonder that Wendy Alexander, one of Labour's few remaining heavy hitters at Holyrood will not be standing in the upcoming elections?
Some of Labour's policies over the next term of the Scottish parliament will be based on an idea called "triangulating". That basically means whatever the SNPs policies are Labour will adopt them even though they oppose them - confused yet?
This is why Labour now support the Council Tax freeze that they opposed and voted against 4 times
They promise to maintain A&Es which they had previously said they'd close
They will not introduce student tuition fees in Scotland (Even though they were the ones who introduced them in the first place)
These are good policies and I agree with every single one of them. So why vote SNP and not Labour? Because they are SNP policies which the Labour party has only adopted in the last two or three weeks. So I ask myself who I trust more to carry them out; the party who has been fighting for them since the beginning or the party who has fought against them every step of the way and has suddenly made a U-turn in the final moments before the election.
When I think of uniquely Labour policies I think of:
Mandatory jail time for carrying a knife
A move towards new nuclear power plants...
There's a hint of desperation about Labour that makes me incredibly, incredibly wary.
Anyway, don't simply take my word on who the best choice for Scotland is: Here's a choice quote from John Farquhar Munro yesterday - member of the Scottish Parliament for Ross, Skye and Inverness and a senior member of the SCOTTISH LIBERAL DEMOCRATS:
(my bold)When your political opponents openly admit in the run up to a major election that the best man for the job is Alex Salmond it has to make you sit up and take notice.