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That's cracking work there, Radiator!

Shot Through the Keyhole, with Floyd Grossgit.

Jeez, and I felt hard done to when my dog died

I fear the phrase " a plastic Rory" may enter everyday parlance for all the wrong reasons. Or the  right reasons, if you hate men.

There'd be no point to all these discussions if we agreed all the time!

Yes there would :-P

Hope you're through the worst of it now, Fishy. Sounds like you deserve a little sunshine.

Happy Birthday for Teusday, Albi!

Now you can officially wear those dead comfy pants that come way up over your belly. Welcome to a whole new world of luxury and social freedom!

Cheers, Tanky Glad we're still good.

And you're absolutely right, Joe. Mourn one, mourn all. That's kinda' what I meant with the football analogy. Inevitably, though, every now and again an individual becomes the focus. If the focus exists, it may as well be used to make a point about the wider issues. I guess it's a very mercenary thing of me to do in that regard - but if it offers one person the opening insight into a deeper understanding of their own world view, I reckon it's worth it. It's still just guff, though

Impromptu yap, anyone?

Ah Jeez, Tankie - I'm sorry. I really didn't intend to imply that I'm some kind of saint or something. I'm no better than anyone else and probably worse than most. I'm just a normal, confused bloke, that's all.

I'm not saying anything that countless far more learned and holy people haven't said before, and if nobody listened to them it's a dead cert that nobody's going to listen to me, either. It's all just guff. At the end of the day, I can't bring peace to the world. All I can do is strive to bring peace to my own, personal world. That's all the power I have and all the power I need. Sometimes I'll get it right and sometimes I'll get it wrong.

I guess that's how pretty much all of us are doing it; trying to bring peace (or something) to our own personal worlds using our preferred methods. Everybody sees it different, I get that. I hope you'll understand and forgive my arrogance, Tanky, when I say that I was just airing my own personal view of the world and that I in no way think that the way I see it is the Only Way to see it.

If I thought like that I'd write a Little Red Book or Sharkist Manifesto or something, and I really can't be arsed with it. That kind of thing is just asking for trouble.

That does it.

First thing tomorrow I'm off down the cloak shop to get a black cowl.

Religion gets a lot of stick for the bad stuff it causes, and rightly so.

Sadly, it really doesn't get enough credit for the good it can do, either. The modern perception is that religion is either infested with paedophiles or a training ground for terrorists. More and more, religion is seen as evil. Like most things, I think, the truth isn't so simple.

Here's a (presumably, or this whole rant will be  for nought) religious mass for the most hated man since Hitler. There are those people in religions, most likely the silent majority (humble majority?) who really believe what Jesus or Mohammed (PBUH) said about peace and love and trying to get along with one another. Yes, we might hate and mistrust each other, we might be trying to blow each other to bits - but we're all God's Children and, no matter what we think of each other, at least He loves us all. So they're trying to be good souls, good  humans, by saying a Mass for a man most people would rather spit at. I find that incredibly uplifting.

Now, I'm not religious by any stretch of the imagination. I do, however, have Faith in some kind of Higher Power, though I have no idea what it is. If I have a belief system it's simply that we should really be figuring all this spiritual stuff out. Exploring it, finding out about ourselves, our souls (if we have them), our place in the Cosmos. From my perspective all this war and corporatism is distracting us; holding us up from getting on with something important. It's something we should all be working on, and from that perspective I'd also say a little prayer for Bin Laden, because it forces me to remember that he was just a human being, with all the frailties, faults, hopes, dreams, fears, loves and hates as the rest of us. In order for us to be getting on with it we need to stop all this stupid scrapping, and the first step is to recognise that we're all the same. All in this together. We're going to have to work together to get ourselves out of this mess. I have no idea how, but we gotta' do it.

So yeah, say a little prayer for Bin Laden because he was, when all said and done, one of us. It's Humanity v Eternity, and every time we lose a player it weakens our team.

Unless, of course, the priest taking the Mass sees it as an excuse for explaining how Bin Laden's going to be roasting in Hell and jolly good thing too - in which case I may as well just throw up my hands and join the Dark Side. If there's a nuke going to be dropped, you may as well be riding it like Slim than under it like EM1.

That's bloody good, that is.

Heh, I rest my case.

The Doctor does spend a lot of his time alone in the TARDIS - and isn't that female...?  Who knows; a carelessly discarded Kleenex, a biogenetic morphological discharge in the time vortex and bang, Tardigirl is born.

(They never did let me write Who scripts. I wonder why?)