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Makes you wonder why we all put up with such a system. It's supposed to work for us, not against us - or is that just me being naive?

Great Moff action! Loving that, Grimm.

This is the time of night when the creepy people start creeping in... Are you feeling creepy, yet?

Colin MacNeil's in the room.

If you haven't been in before (or for a while), why not drop by and say hello? Just follow the instructions at www.paltalk.com and find us listed under: Miscellaneous/Other/Rowdy Yates Block Citizens' Yap Shop. We'd be happy to see you!

Also, Colin MacNeil's in the room.

Well, we're just about half way through the Yapping and what have we learned so far? Well, Jared probably isn't evil and Adrian Bamforth is interested in famous monkeys.

Good evening everyone. The Rowdy Yates Block Citizens' Yap Shop is open for business. No wallies in here, nuh-huh, so the jays won't get to eavesdrop. Jared is not an undercover judge. Not one bit. Oh no.

Was that all right, Mr Dredd, Sir? Ouch. Thanks.

"Capitalist" indeed. Humph.

I mean, lol, but humph nevertheless.

Got a 'phone call from the council this morning. Voice on the other end informs me I've not been paying the correct amount of rent for the past 3 years. Heart sinks, anger rises. Just about to blow top when it is explained that I've been overpaying and would I like the (considerable) sum I've overpaid back as a cheque or directly into a bank account.  Me chuffed. Ebay calling...

You don't know how hard it was for me not to mention the cheesemakers there

Good on you, Peter. Blessed are the peacemakers and all that.

Well done, lads - excellent! I really enjoyed that; interesting, informative and entertaining. It doesn't get much better than that.

[Eyes Wide Shut]

Eyes Wide Shut. Kubrick may have been a genius, but he didn't half make some weary-arsed films.

That's a bit dangerous, posting your 'phone number openly on t'interweb...

"Local politics -- schools, zoning, council elections -- hit us where we live. So why don't more of us actually get involved? Is it apathy? Dave Meslin says no. He identifies 7 barriers that keep us from taking part in our communities, even when we truly care."

(7m06s)

http://www.ted.com/talks/dave_meslin_the_antidote_to_apathy.html?utm_source=newsletter_weekly_2011-04-12&utm_campaign=newsletter_weekly&utm_medium=email

"The disastrous proposal to extend the term of copyright protection for sound recordings to 70 years is back on the European Council's agenda.

"There is a chance to stop this. You can help by writing to your MEPs now to tell them about your concerns, and ask them to make sure the Directive gets proper scrutiny from the European Parliament."

This is going on all over the world, even in the UN. They're starting with music and such, but it's basically a way of giving corporations more power over the things they create (drugs, new technologies etc), thereby extending the amount of time they can extract over inflated profits from stuff that could be produced cheaply by smaller companies once the copyright has run out.

http://action.openrightsgroup.org/ea-campaign/clientcampaign.do?ea.client.id=1422&ea.campaign.id=10288