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Really?? Kept that one quiet, didn't they???

Just seen the headline on todays Reading Post "Berkshire Lass to Wed".

"You're becoming predictable" [anhaga]

I was always predictable, except when I wasn't.

Antimatter atom trapped for first time, say scientists

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11773791

Are those dilithium crystals I spy in the picture?

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What do we do about 'arry the bd

Didn't they try to let geopolitics deal with that question?

the former king of afganistan must have a grandaughter knocking about some where???

marry him off to her and ship them out as the new king and queen of afganistan

not only do we get rid of him, we also scupper the americans plans for a democracy in afganistan and the royal family has very close ties to us

afganistan would then be split 3 ways

karzi, king and taliban, the resulting civil war could drag on for decades, keeping alqeeda to busy at home to trouble us too much!!!

Alex Cuba, from that hotbed of Latin American music, Canada, wins Best New Artist at the Latin Grammy Awards: http://www.bclocalnews.com/bc_north/interior-news/news/108466784.html

Taff, your proposal sounded so sensible that now I am worried.

Don't give Taff too much credit

He's just employing the method, okay a bit of an unlikely Taff method in detail, but it's intriguing.. Non-the-less, the tried and tested British method that kept us an Empire for a few hundred years, namely 'Divide and Rule'.

Eg. A British civil servant drew lines on a map to create modern Iraq after the Ottomans were sent packing, comprising Sunnis, Shi-ites and Kurds. They all basically hated each other. *Oil was needed*. And the middle east was carved up between Britain, France and Russia. Things worked okaish, even after independance, until a certain Saddam got too big for his Sunni boots, and then we got the yanks to help us out..

Yep, divide and rule can work a treat.

we could always marry 'arry the Bd off to a scandinavian princess, that way when the kids pop out with ginger hair, there won't be too many embarassing questions, ginger being a nice viking trait

Cool Royal College of Art show. Hundreds of post cards for sale..just a few will be made by famous contemporary artists, but you won't know until you've bought one as the names are hidden on the back.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11763755

(I wasn't asked to contribute )

i'll have the one printed on an embalmed headless squirrel

think i'm onto a winner there

What would the headless squirrel think of that?

I forgot that squirrels can't think without their heads. I'm not sure they can think even *with* heads, but they seem to outsmart us humans rather a lot.

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/espana/Principito/taliban/elpepiesp/20101119elpepinac_17/Tes


The “Little Prince against the Taliban”
The book of Saint-Exupery, The little prince, is given among children and women in Afganistan by Spanish soldiers.
A Spanish collectionist of that book in different languages, knew the story of the Afgan translator G.Sakhi Ghained. In 1977, he did a translation into Dari, a dialect of Farsi, but the edition never could be sold. Later, that collectionist and a group of friends founded the translation and 5000 books were released. Fuencisla, the collectionist, wrote to the Spanish Minister of Defence, Carmen, another woman, btw, and she agreed with the idea of the soldiers giving the books among children and women. But, the story has gone further and there´s now a project to build a hispano-afgan school in Kabul.

Fuencisla read during the presentation of the project this fragment from the book Taliban, by Ahmed Rashid:

“Children, spent the day studying the Koran(...) interpreted by almost illiterate teachers. (...)Those students in the Wahabi schools were the disabled, the jobless, the humble(...)Admired the war because it was the only posibility of adaptation.

The simple belief of a mesianic and puritan Islam instilled by force by some rural mulas was the only support they have to give meaning to their lives”

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4365223/Rescue-for-trapped-West-Coast-miners-could-take-days

Sadly, we have to get our news second-hand from countries that have already exploited their full media potential.

RF

http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/11/18/guinness-world-record-day-10-odd-newly-shattered-records/

Ten odd newly shattered records

Most nationalities in a sauna!

Yes, I liked that one too

On the right hand side of that page- "Susan Boyle as big as the Beatles".

What- all of them??