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The paragraph above is an example of corporate sprootle of the highest order. Could the author please repost it in plain english? Also, how do you intend to get the electrickery to the mainland? Bury the cable? The hydro have always maintained that burying cables was so stupendously expensive that it would bankrupt the entire universe (I never really believed them on that one) and, furthermore, isn't the controversy about the link from landfall on the mainland to the central belt precisely because of the size of the pylons? A little clarification on this would be appreciated. Oh, and please use plain english for the benefit of those of us who haven't been to bullshi.., sorry, I mean, management school.

Fantastic! Well, that's a whole morning wasted! I only logged on to waste some time while I was downloading some new video drivers. The aqualung live video is awesome. Long live YouTube

Fantastic! Well, that's a whole morning wasted! I only logged on to waste some time while I was downloading some new video drivers. The aqualung live video is awesome. Long live YouTube

I look forward to the day when Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rice and Blair are hauled up in front of an international court to answer for their war crimes. It makes me sick to think that Blair dragged this country into the gutter in his eagerness to kiss Bush's ass. Before Iraq WE, in the West, were the hope of the world, the shining light of freedom, civilisation and law in the world. We held the moral high ground against the corrupt dictators, the dogmatic one-party communists and the religous lunatics. We beat the Nazi's. We won the cold war. We saved the world. All that has been tossed into the toilet with this illegal war of aggresion. (reading this back, it seems a bit strong. But then it is from the heart, I think I'll go with it anyway, rant over.)

I lost all respect for the local force when a friend of mine was stabbed (superficially, but it was a wound caused by a knife) in the ass by a notorious troublemaker. The incident happened in broad daylight, in front of several witnesses and my friend went to casualty and had the wound treated and photographed. He handed over the photo, the name of the assailant and the names of the witnesses. He is still waiting for action. This incident happened more than two years ago! Oh yeah, the villian was arrested a month or so after the incident, for playing his stereo too loud!

Long John Silver! Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike The bosun brained with a marlinspike And cookey's throat was marked belike It had been gripped by fingers ten; And there they lay, all good dead men Like break o'day in a boozing ken Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! The skipper lay with his nob in gore Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore And the scullion he was stabbed times four And there they lay, and the soggy skies Dripped down in up-staring eyes In murk sunset and foul sunrise Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Ten of the crew had the murder mark! Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! 'Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead Or a yawing hole in a battered head And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes Looking up at paradise All souls bound just contrawise Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Fifteen men of 'em good and true Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! There was chest on chest of Spanish gold With a ton of plate in the middle hold And the cabins riot of stuff untold, And they lay there that took the plum With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb While we shared all by the rule of thumb, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum! More was seen through a sternlight screen... Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Chartings undoubt where a woman had been Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. 'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid That dared the knife and took the blade By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. Fifteen men on a dead man's chest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum Drink and the devil had done for the rest Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum. We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight And we heaved 'em over and out of sight, With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell, Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

I watched Tony Robinsons program last night about the End Timers and the book of Revelation. This is scary stuff. The way these fanatics are actively working to bring about Doomsday is terrifying. The more I learn about organised monotheistic religion, the stronger my belief that it is a corrosive, poisonous viral meme that has polluted the human psyche for the last two thousand years. (try saying that with your mouth full) My solution? Bomb the churches, burn the mosque's, shoot the priests and, above all, burn the books! Oh, and in the meantime, keep this sh*t out of our schools.

Had a curry from the Sarmile on Friday night. Xacutti chicken with sag bhat. It was fantastic! One of the best curry's I've ever had, and they delivered it. I recommend the Sarmile unreservedly.

It's the sound that gets you. I once saw a drunk fall over backwards in the Grassmarket, and the back of his head caught the edge of the kerb. We thought he was dead but he just picked himself up and staggered off. It sounded just like that. Ouch! 8O

Get Akira out of Bolts, JA. I haven't seen any other anime, but Akira is one of my favourite films of all time. (Going to have to edit my top ten now)

Whodat makes some interesting and important points, but, IMHO, misses the most important one. Without US funding and military technology Israel is nothing. Without US F-15's, F-16's, smart bombs, Patriot missiles and the rest Israel would be a smoking hole in the ground. The 6 day and Yom Kippur wars were won with western military hardware and the Israeli Nukes came from the US. Wasn't Mordecai Vanunu jailed for revealing that the US had supplied Israels nuclear technology. (I genuinely don't know this so I am open to correction, just repeating heresay or "accepted wisdom") On a totally seperate point, is there any way to make sure my signature is attatched to all posts I make automatically instead of having to tick the box every time I post. (And is there a topic where I should address such points?)

You are what you eat...and we eat everything! We spent several million years climbing to the top of the foodchain. I, for one, intend to enjoy it while it lasts. Waiter, bring on the pepperoni!

The worst tune I think I have ever heard was the theme song for Star Trek Enterprise. It was excrutiating.

I have found that it does no harm to write nasty e-mails complaining to as many consumer-rights groups (BBC Watchdog for instance) as you can find and quoting these e-mails in your complaints to the companies concerned. Corporations HATE bad publicity. BTW, How did you get on?

That is brilliant. Cheers! One for the bookmarks.

Eh... Duh! It might be due to the utterly useless mental health system we have up here. I have been off work with depression for a number of years now, and for the first few of those I was simply told to "keep taking the pills". After three or four years (You tend to lose track) I was finally offered Cognitive therapy, which might have worked if I had been offered it right away, but after years it just put me in a tailspin and set me back to the horrors. I don't think we even have a resident Psychiatrist in Shetland since Dr Shaw left and I only ever saw him once. Most treatment is carried out by Psychiatric nurses or voluntary councellors, who, IMO, are fine as support staff for the doctors but are not capable of handling the whole Shetland Mental Health thing themselves. It makes me cry sometimes. And at other times it leaves me screaming with anger and frustration. But then, that's Depression.

The thing that is really boiling my piss at the moment is the BBC's insistance on advertising digital TV on the very digital channels they are advertising! I've already got it you ignorant, stupid w*****s!

Here are a few quotes from people who have grown out of fairy stories: But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most? ~Mark Twain If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be a criminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane. ~Robert G. Ingersoll I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. ~Stephen Roberts Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? ~Douglas Adams Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them? ~Jules Feiffer On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor. ~Author Unknown If by any possibility the existence of a power superior to, and independent of, nature shall be demonstrated, there will then be time enough to kneel. Until then, let us stand erect. ~Robert G. Ingersoll, The Gods, 1872 He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him. ~George Orwell The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. ~George Bernard Shaw Instead of being born again, why not just grow up? ~Unknown A long and wicked life followed by five minutes of perfect grace gets you into Heaven. An equally long life of decent living and good works followed by one outburst of taking the name of the Lord in vain - then have a heart attack at that moment and be damned for eternity. Is that the system? ~Robert A. Heinlein An Atheist loves himself and his fellow man instead of a god. An Atheist knows that heaven is something for which we should work now - here on earth - for all men together to enjoy. An Atheist thinks that he can get no help through prayer but that he must find in himself the inner conviction and strength to meet life, to grapple with it, to subdue, and enjoy it. An Atheist thinks that only in a knowledge of himself and a knowledge of his fellow man can he find the understanding that will help to a life of fulfillment. Therefore, he seeks to know himself and his fellow man rather than to know a god. An Atheist knows that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An Atheist knows that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said. An Atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanquished, war eliminated. He wants man to understand and love man. He wants an ethical way of life. He knows that we cannot rely on a god nor channel action into prayer nor hope for an end to troubles in the hereafter. He knows that we are our brother's keeper and keepers of our lives; that we are responsible persons, that the job is here and the time is now. ~Madalyn Murray (later O'Hair), preamble to Murray v. Curlett, 27 April 1961 One might be asked "How can you prove that a god does not exist?" One can only reply that it is scarcely necessary to disprove what has never been proved. ~David A. Spitz And on the subject of evolution versus creation, how do the creationists explain MRSA? In the 1950's penicillin killed all known bacteria, now it doesn't. Why? Are the creationists expecting us to believe that God nipped back to the workshop to create antibiotic-resistant bacteria just to put those cheeky humans back in their places.(And if that is true, then what does that say about AIDS? Did He just knock that up in His spare time for a laugh?)

Stunning! I'm pissed off I can't make it. Does the folk festival committee know about this guy?

Hmmm.. I stand corrected. It does look like there will be one almighty bun-fight if the SNP do get in tho'.

Surely we only need a cable to Dounray? Wasn't that a power station connected to the grid?

I remember getting horribly mangled in Posers one night on Blastaway's, which consisted of Diamond White cider and Castaway (not sure if you can still get this) in a pint glass. I puked over a girl before being thrown out. The funny thing was, she went to Oz for a year the next day so it was a year later that she hit me.

My remote control has one button with a faded symbol.. the Mute! I do like the Honda ad with the guy with the beard and that preposterous song. The lyrics are pure golden cheese!

Ghostrider writes :-Also, the sound insulation qualities, and acoustics of many more modern houses are very variable. I agree. The design of the houses could use a little more thought too. I grew up in a Victorian 'Villa' in central Lerwick, detatched with 3 foot thick stone walls - not a problem. Granny and Grandad lived in a terraced house in Goodlad Crescent. This was also a fantastic house for noisy people as at one side there was an alleyway and the other side had the front door and stairwell. No downstairs rooms backing against the neighbours. In contrast, the houses in Nederdale were built with the stairwells and bathrooms at the ends of the house and the living spaces butting up against each other. Result: You could hear your neighbours when they were going about their normal daily lives. Having said that, older does not nescessarily mean better. I currently live in a 100 year old council bedsit with neighbours either side and a flat above. There is no problem with the neighbours on either side, but the noise from upstairs is terrible. I hear them get up, use the shower, I hate their taste in music (80's american cock rock) and their taste in TV (Soaps and BB) and should they decide to get passionate.... well, lets just not go there, ok? (Think worst ever Hotel experience) The really annoying thing is that these people are not doing anything remotely obnoxious, simply living a normal life in a building with crap sound-proofing. God knows what they think of my music. So, a plea to any practicing or budding architects out there. If you ever find yourself designing public housing, remember sound insulation. It will be appreciated. Does anyone know about the relevant building regulations concerning this?