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Belated Birthday Fishes.

@kav82 and @Diageo Play nicely, please. ------------------------------------------- I haven't had more than 3 hours sleep a night for the last few weeks. It's horrible. I drift off okay, but then I'm awake an hour or so later. Then after I drift off again, I'm awake at least two hours before my 6am alarm. Yes, I'm depressed and I'm getting help. The question is: is this my bi-polar preceding a manic episode, or am I just regular depressed. Answers on a postcard and send to the usual address.

I wouldn't say I'm rejoicing. Glad that another fire of hate has been extinguished perhaps, but hardly ringing his death from the rooftops. Pedophiles who rape children and those who preach hatred like this guy just don't qualify for my sympathy. I think it would be hilarious if his funeral was picketed by a bunch of gay guys snogging. It would just serve as the icing on the cake for such an absurd caricature of a man. Nevertheless, if you disagree, so be it. Besides, my response was tongue in cheek - much like my comment on Charlton Heston's passing p: "Quick, I'm gonna get his gun!"

No, not really. I just don't think of these people as human beings with human feelings. I know that's hypocritical, but bite me.

Fred Phelps has died. Let's go picket his funeral.

Episode 14.

Yep, I hear you on that! Mind you, I'm lucky that most of my villagers are clustered around the south of my town near to my house - they want to be close to their Lord and Master.

Fortune Teller Shop?! I better go and get more fortunes - but I've only had about 3 so far... argh, another 17 weeks to wait...

Still playing this every day, still loving it. Although I do wish Nintendo would release some DLC - new shops, more public works projects and more daily encounters like Gulliver, Saharah etc.

I feel like turdz, yo'. Had a stinker of a cold since Monday, and my throat hasn't felt worse in recent memory. The worst thing is that my insomnia is getting worse: I wake every morning after midnight and then my mind just starts racing - work, personal life, football team... I saw the doctor yesterday to get a note for my cold and he suggested I need to up my anti-depressant dose. I'll have to go and see the psychiatrist at my regular hospital on Thursday. But then I've got so much to do at work with decorating large swathes of the school, my pupils have had no classes and my mentor is coming on Thursday to observe classes. Too much to do, not enough time to do it in.

Thanks much! Got my Y-Wing through the post yesterday and had a marathon building session late last night. Too tired to take any really good pics of the finished article. However, I am pleased that my Rebel Fleet Carrier hanger is coming along -X-Wing is next.

Dunnit. That was arduous.

I've nearly been on a Lego binge recently - every time I saw something I just managed to stop myself from buying. But today I am going to be purchasing as many loose bricks as I can to go with my Star Wars stuff. I've decided to take the time and energy to make some of my favourite scenes from the Expanded Universe books and photograph them. If you have instagram, my ID is narsfweasels, come and have a look!

I do want to see this, I enjoy the idea very much. But yes, what happened with Total Recall is an ICY GLASS OF WATER DOWN THE UNDERPANTS kind-of-cautionary tale of how things that are so wonderful can be shit up so perfectly.

Of all the "big" Marvel properties, Fantastic Four is my least favourite. I'd like to see if a new movie can pique my interest, but I will not hold my breast*. *You heard me.

O..Kay, wrong thread.

This is a technique that I hear from China the whole time -it's a psychological trick used to put people on the defensive. The person using it well-knows that intelligent people will automatically begin to question their own beliefs, which will cause them to backtrack and force them into a weaker position in the power dynamic of the debate/conversation. The most effective way of countering it is to ignore it. Or make it into a complete joke, thereby rendering it useless as a future rhetorical tool. Another way is to turn it around: Something like this: "If you think I'm capable of bullying Scotland, the country so masculine that they invented a skirt for men, then you hold Scottish people in low esteem" On the note of this debate: It's up to the people of the nation. Let them do as tbhey please but they should be responsible for taking their share of the debt, as there has been benefit from it. It would set a poor precedent otherwise.

Happy birthday!

I could happily help out with a few Chinese words if it was kept simple. Not the characters though, oh no.

Dude, can you just try breathing out and in without making a statement about something? I'm not watching this because I have virtually no interest in the Summer or Winter Olympics. I don't enjoy that kind of competition.

Happy Birthday!

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Hah, well, you'd think so! It doesn't confer QTS, but it does have you spending a lot of time in the classroom - and subsequently compiling reports, lesson plans, evaluations, homework/classwork that you have set. You have a mentor that is supposed to watch a certain number of lessons, the people from the University will come and watch you at some point (or ask you to make a video). Anyway, it all comes together to form the qualification, which is accepted by schools all over the world. But if (God forbid) I wanted to come back to the UK and teach, I'd still have to spend another six months achieving QTS.

Harsh though it be, I agree with you. These kids have lost their father, but anyone who has three children and still does heroin.... is what kind of father? Again, feel for his family.

I have no idea. I'm a bit annoyed because when we married we agreed that Valentines Day was my responsibility, and Chinese Lover's Day was hers - but last year she abrogated her responsibilities and made like I was a horrible husband for asking. I wonder if I can get away with something similar? It seems unlikely.