Sylvester

be prepared for the arguments between the Wyons and Benedetto.

I'm not too keen on things that fly either, whether it be a bird or a ball that comes whistling towards you off of the end of a cricket bat... I never was keen on pigeons flying over my head, the flapping wings bother me, but not half as much as the fact that it's aiming for me.

For some bizarre reason 5 things really make me feel nervous or uncomfortable. One scares the hell out of me. 5) Dogs (they make me feel uncomfortable, but i can usually control my urge to run away) 4) Bees and Wasps (obvious really) 3) A very slight fear of Heights (also flying probably as it involves heights) 2) Agoraphobia (Which is a fear of Markets and open spaces... it may sound odd but the fear is because you are in a position where you are trapped in by people or in a place where you cannot escape or hide should you have to for any strange reason, like if there was a fire). I do go in markets but i walk around them at 10 miles an hour and i get very nervous when i get surrounded by lots of people, i just want to get away as fast as possible, to the point where i get footpath rage and barge straight through people if they annoy me too much by stopping in front of you when there's a whole load of people all away around me... arrrghhhh! Get me out. Small spaces don't bother me though as long as i know there is a way out. Lifts bother me. 1) Slugs, oh god they really put the fear of god in me, i hate em i hate em, dunno why but i've had nightmares about the damn things... I can't go near one without feeling nausiated. *shudder* Despite all this i really don't like it when people salt them... it must be agony for the poor things, melting like that.

Oh i love spiders... gorgoeus creatures, i just think it is well cool the way they walk and the way they spin their webs...

Authoritarian Left, very slightly authoritarian (one block up) slighly left (two blocks left from the centre). Although i think it's wrong... The religion questions are what threw it they always do, firstly i have no problems with aborition, secondly there was a question about whether religion and morality are closely linked, i voted that i strongly disagree... how many jihad supporters are religious? How many are moral? I think the religion should not be involved in politics it only creates hatred, think Ireland. Indeed the Irish problem is one that created problems for me, is there a right side to support? Firstly from nationalistic point of view i'd support Northern Ireland, but from a religious doctrine point of view the Republicans win hands down. Created a difficult situation for me there, hence why religion and politics should be separated, it causes too much trouble if they are together. I'm also a bit dubious about free trade, i'm not sure how i'd like that solved, either the government keep the hell out and go minimalist, or the government should have full control over the trade agreements, and have a closed market. Smells of feudalism to me. With a slighly feudalist point of view regarding trade it is impossible to come ouit right wing on that politics test.

Perhaps why Oli and I often have the odd tiff every now and again, is because we are from two totally different backgrounds and we see the same things from two very different perpectives. Oli being the middle class one from Lancashire (it was Lancashire wasn't it?), who goes to a grammar school, and fox hunting, probably with prospects of being a business man of some kind... Versus. Sylvester, from a working class background (very working class!), brought up in a city once famous for industry but now moreso for its crumble into decay... having gone to a bog standard comprehensive, and gone to a college in an even more renound place, Barnsley. (Ah sunny Barnsley) It's the typical Yorkshire versus Lancashire, Middle versus Working... argument. Politically you'd think Oli and I would be opposed but we are surprisingly on the same side, because we is both snobs and with regards to the political spectrum, oli is just a bit further to the right and more conservative than me. Admittely politically my opinions are often a contradiction in terms, this is what happens when you are ingrained as a child with ideals and doctrines but then rebel against them and form your own opinions against much of your further education. You pick up a bit of this, a bit of that and before you know it if you're as open minded as me you can be on both sides of an argument at once and agree with neither. That's the joy of looking at everything from a philosophical removed from context point of view!

I never did like farmers... But i realise that foxes are a major issue from their point of view. I know cos i live in a farming community (what's left of it), and we get the odd fox, hence why i have to lock the pet goose away at night. I think pigeons might hold the record for Enemy number 1 though!

Isn't there a nicer way to solve the fox problem without having them ripped apart by a bunch of savage rancid canine fiends? Can't they be shot or something?

I kinda like foxes. If there is one animal i really can't stand, it's dogs. I wouldn't go as far as shooting them or harming them, but i would be stood on top of the nearest table until someone had removed the beast. Dogs... *shudder* Cats are nice though, i like cats. Squirrels are my fave animal though, i love squirrels. Especially red ones.

It probably is, GEM BU then... it's as good as BU gets. (But i should warn you if it looses it's full lustre and tones then it drops to UNC).

Well i wouldn't exactly call a tiger or a lion harmless but i agree with you HPJ!

I may not be an animal lover, but i do have alot of respect for animals of all shapes and sizes, the amount of spiders i've saved from certain death at the hands of someone is amazing. I certainly have alot more respect for animals than i do for my fellow man, i hear stories of kids shooting squirrels or tying fireworks to cats for a joke. Very sick people... I don't like waste, and i don't like the idea of animals suffering for a pointless cause. And that's my two guineas.

This is before we get to the miss quotes... who said 'play it again Sam'? Roger Moore did in Moonraker. Bogart never said it, he is often misquoted as saying it, but what he actually said was... 'play it!'

Alright i'll level with you, if BU isn't good enough call it Gem UNC, it probably is, Gem UNC means probably the top 2 to 5% of business strike coins. (i.e those struck for circulation). It's the best it can be considering the modern mas methods of production.

Fine Master! It does look better.

In my honest opinion, no.

I don't know how anyone can drink Earl Grey with milk... Mind You Æthelred i'm hard pushed to see why anyone would have sugar?

Oli's all for equal rights until he is the one with the advantage... I've come across people like that before.

I didn't know Ronald Reagan was down for that, i'm glad it went to Bogart! Can you imagine Reagan? It'd be like that quote from Airplane... "I haven't felt this bad since i saw that Ronald Reagan movie!" as she reaches for the sick bag... I had heard about an alternative ending though! I do believe the Simpsons made fun of that one...

Ewwww copper... (well bronze but it's just as bad) And it doesn't even have full lustre.

Oh and by the way; Fave monarchs... From a monarch point of view, personality... King = Henry VII / James II Queen = Mary I From a Coinage point of view... King = Stephen Queen = Mary I

I see you guys have all bought into Bess's propaganda... Now let me see Elizabeth I was a ditherer, she prolonged making any decisions, she drove her councillors to distraction by refusing to marry and refusing to name a successor, the Armada was defeated by a combination of luck and the weather. Oh and another little known fact about Elizabeth very few of her contemporaries mourned her passing, infact they were actually quite glad to be rid of her and her fiscal burdens. James I was actually welcomed with open arms by many (except those that despised the Scots). It's only because Charles I messed it all up, partly through his own fault and because of the unfavourable situation he inherited from his father, that Elizabeth's reign became glorified and considered the best one of the lot. (read Barry Coward's account for this, or Aylmer, or perhaps even Haigh) She upset the Protestants because she didn't take the religious change far enough, she upset the Catholics cos she went too far. The brains behind her reign was William Cecil who did much of the day to day running of the country. After his death her popularity dropped immensely. Although if memory serves me correctly she nearly had a crisis at the coronation, as all but one of the Marian bishops refused to crown her, if Oglethorpe had refused too there would have been no coronation. (Starky for that) And by delaying both the execution of Mary Queen of Scots during her incarceration in England she had a rival claiment to the throne on her own doorstep and many plots were hatched around her against Liz. Also the fact that she refused to name a successor until her dying breath mean that if Elizabeth had died in the 1570s (which she nearly did), there would have been a civil war. (Haigh for that and quite possibly Guy to) Elizabeth's greatness can only be measured by her longevity (she outlived the opposition), her propaganda, the failure of the following dynasty, and sheer bloody luck.

Isn't BU good enough?

Wow! You are the first USian that has said tea!

Ah a fellow Casablanca Fan! Yeah i though Independence Day was awful, too patriotic for my liking.