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All fair points Ush - I thought I may have misconstrued what you'd written which is why I put the the "implied"s and "inferred"s in my post.

The Dome was a poorly chosen example but I hope you got the jist of what I was saying.

And I hasten to add, I'm not a top whack tax payer anymore unless you count what I have to hand over to the kids.

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I'd challenge the assumption (perhaps inferred by me rather than implied by the author) that everyone that pays top rate tax has done nothing to earn it.  I used to work hard for my money.

Also, the implication (again, which I may have picked up incorrectly) that all top rate tax payers resent paying it and do everything to wheedle out of it.

It's a simple way for some of the benefits I have to be redistributed. Goodness knows, there's plenty of bits of the country and people that need it.

I'm annoyed that I can't choose what it gets spent on. ("Millenium Dome? No thanks. New hospital? Yes, please")

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Yeah, lovely place.

The spoiler space below contains some patronsising comments about name calling and arguing.


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Yeah, why can't we just all be friends?

Or, you know, genuinely ignore deliberate bits of baiting. Responding only gives the baiter power over you.

Or, maybe, not jump to the conclusion that you are being deliberately baited.

Or, if you really feel the need to get into name calling, take it outside of the public forum.

The third one normally works for me but given that most of the people on the board are mature and intelligent, everyone should be able to come up with a solution that works for them that doesn't mean public threads turn into unpleasant private arguments so quickly.
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"I'd be off like a shot"

I have to ask, "Where to?"

Grrr!  Event sold-out. Didn't realise it was free but ticketed.

So I won't be going along.

But given that I've been typing/talking to myself for the last four posts, that's probably not an issue...  ;¬)

Change of plan - ceilidh is actually on Saturday so I can actually make it along to this.

Just one question is at 7, as Huff says above or 6 as it said in today's Metro?

We should maybe go along at 6 and if early, go to the pub.

Bah!

I'm going to have to trade one Scottish event for another.

It's our village ceilidh on Friday night so I'll be dusting off ma kilt, putting my bonniest lass on my arm and doing eightsoime reels.

That's quite tempting Huff - I'll check with the missus and see if I'm allowed to come out after work.  I can probably swing it with the promise of some free books!

I take it you'll bve going along anyway?

I've just put two and two together and realised why this question was asked.

Angelina Jolie in uniform is always a welcome sight (cue pictures - this could rival the underwear thread).

And I agree that Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow were pretty lacking - little chemistry in their banter (despite what could have been one or two good exchanges).

" its just going to be a disaster like the eighties film ( Memorable only for Brian Blessed and Timothy Daltons Prince Barin"

May I just point out that this seems a bizarre thing to post on a thread where there's loads of people saying what a great film it is?

"Sky Captain is a crackin film"  - I thought it was OK but not "cracking".  Not a bad vibe to be aiming for though.

She looked even better walking away from you.

If I recall, she did some top class tiffin in Swann in Love (which was a bit of A La Recherche de Temps Perdu (sp)).

There's something very special about watching tiffin in "legitimate" movies and telly series rather than porn.  Given the choice of edited highlights of Alex Kingston in Moll FLanders or Debbie Does Dallas, I know where I'd put my money.

I got it for Christmas last year.

Brilliant stuff.  Special effects were very imaganitive (if not particularly effective).

We need a picture (or several) of Ornella Muti on this thread.

Good choices all. Especially the shout on Tek-Judges.

Henry Flint did wonders with SHAKARA - absolutely the only reason I read it.

And even though I've never liked Kevin O' Neills human art, it was always a pleasure to see him in the prog.

Alan Davis - What was the name of the creature in Captain Britain that slew all the super-heroes?  It had a great design with the gun growing out of it's arm and the sort of monocle eye thing.

I quite like seeing John Burns and Arthur Ransom on contemporary stuff (even though I have issues with some of the stuff they do) but am never happy when I see them doing stories set in the Big Meg - just not wacky enough.  Ron Smith also did some really painfully designed stuff in Rogue Trooper

Artists whose design work (character, clothes, tech) I like: Carlos, Cam Kennedy, McMahon, Simon Fraser, Ian Gibson, D'Israeli (just check out Hastur in Leviathan) and, Dave Taylor coming up fast by the looks of that.

Desite his lovely lines, Bolland never quite made Mega City what it could be.  Gibbons sort of worked but sometimes his spaceships that were giant guns looked a little too childish.
   

Anyone care to add to the list?

Marvellous.

And Max, Playboy isn't really full of smut.  Not compared to say your average lads mag these days.