Polly Neate makes £122,500 as the CEO of Shelter. That’s good money but much less than her skills could demand on the open market, and a damn far ways off yacht money. Please don’t spout this ardent nonsense.

I would tattoo “Staycation” on my arse if it deleted the word Holibob from existence.

Ding ding ding.

Square go?

This is terrific news for the local area.

Agreed regarding the widget space. I wish you could pin a line, or route maybe, for display in the widget.

They stagger down the Sauchiehall in single file to hide their numbers.

At first a nibble. Then a slow tempting lick. I suck and munch my liquid lunch; And then I swallow quick.

Why?

Poor Monty, you ever die young, or live long enough to resemble a Peter Howson painting.

We’ll see about Suffragette. The Metropolitan has two more syllables and doesn’t get abbreviated, but Lizzie does, and that has one less than Metropolitan.

I would say Liberty is the weakest by far. The rest I’m fairly happy with (after initially wondering why they didn’t bring back East London Line, or North London Line)

I listen to mostly upbeat stuff.

Surrealist/Absurd Comedy

• The Beef and Dairy Network
• Regular Features

Dungeons & Dragons

• Dungeons and Daddies
• The Adventure Zone

Star Trek

• The Greatest Generation
• Greatest Trek

My parents started calling me it about thirty years ago; it’s either an allusion to the fact I have broken so many bones, or a tacit admission that I was an unplanned pregnancy. Or both.

The hivemind is an analogy for the way the average person had turned on the war and viewed it as a national disgrace. Just watch that opening act of Rambo, the soldiers returning from Nam late in the conflict came home to joblessness and derision. A far cry from the parades and support of the GI bill the generation before had.

Haldeman is trying to show a universal truth of long wars, at some point the home you left stops existing, and you return to a place that isn’t what you fought for in the first place, though of course Haldeman takes this to absurdity almost. Like many vets of Vietnam Mandela and his fellow soldiers are now so feared and removed that society doesn’t have a mechanism for integration. Haldeman uses genetic and cultural shifts to represent the more subtle social ones.

Forever War and Forever Free are an amazing duo. I don’t think they are amateurish though, Haldeman writes these exactly as they need to be to represent the difficulty Vietnam vets faced returning home.

Edit: I confused the novels Forever Free and Forever Peace. Forever Free is the duet to Forever War, while Forever Peace is disconnected but plays with similar themes as both Forever War and Ender’s Game.

Aye, they added a fair bit of salt to their tea that day!

Belfast?

Prismic structures give me horrible indigestion I’m afraid.

Speak for yourself. I can only eat foods served in Pyramids, this Christmas is going to be all Profiterols and Goa’uld Symbiots.

Oh definitely, they wouldn’t have shaped the foam as it would give no support. Having had to actively distress maquette for a film set, it was hell! It’s durable to a ridiculous degree!