Okay Madness I'll give you and perhaps The Cure, Depeche Mode too, but I draw the line at Spandau!
And talking of shit, what about Flock of Seagulls, Echo and the Bunnymen, what about crazy laces, and clashing colours, big baggy jumpers, suit jackets with the sleeves rolled up*ugh*, backcombed hair, lipstick and eye makeup on men, race riots, polltax and *shudder* Maggie Thatcher. There you see case closed. On 4 Sep, 16:23, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > Oh come on, lee, Madness, Spandau Ballet, The Cure, Depeche Mode ... > As Frank'n'furter remarked to Janette after seducing her, "But it > wasn't all bad, was it?" > > Francis > > On 4 Sep., 17:18, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > Ohh shame on you sir! I also was young in the 80's and yet I still > > call it 'The decade that taste forgot'. > > > No no it was rather a crap decade. > > > On 4 Sep, 16:16, frantheman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hall & Oates? No, Chris, please don't. A good example of the worst the > > > 80s had to offer (and I normally like the 80s! - after all, I was > > > young then :-) ) ... > > > > Francis > > > > On 4 Sep., 17:13, Chris Jenkins <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Where is Hall during all this? > > > > > On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 11:12 AM, frantheman > > > > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > > *** I think Oates has gone out for a piss ... *** > > > > > > On 4 Sep., 16:53, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > I might have guessed Slip would be my Admundsen on this! > > > > > > > On 4 Sep, 15:21, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > I am somewhat seriously concerned we don't really have the big > > > > > > > issues > > > > > > > under general public scrutiny. Perhaps we could write a book > > > > > > > Slip, > > > > > > > with cryptic clues on the location of your Swiss Army Knife and > > > > > > > the > > > > > > > temptation of a reward for the first of the horde that buy the > > > > > > > book at > > > > > > > 10% of our net? A world stupid enough not to understand how > > > > > > > serious > > > > > > > the weather is must be stupid enough to buy into to the book. No > > > > > > > doubt we should write the book during sipping sessions round at > > > > > > > Chris' > > > > > > > place. > > > > > > > > On 3 Sep, 18:12, Slip Disc <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Actually Arch, I've already sun bathed at the North Pole, fact > > > > > > > > is I > > > > > > > > really can't wait for the caps to melt down again completely > > > > > > > > because > > > > > > > > it seems I left my Swiss Army knife and a good pari of > > > > > > > > sunglassed up > > > > > > > > there. I'm sure they'll be well preserved. > > > > > > > > The signs of the melting polar caps tell a grim tale, for > > > > > > > > example > > > > > look > > > > > > > > at this......... > > > > >http://www.gemzies.com/img_photos/melting_polar_ice_caps_global_warmi... > > > > > > > > Further studies and scientific indicators reveal a stark truth > > > > > > > > regardless what global warming critics have to say. We might > > > > > > > > all be > > > > > > > > living like this soon.......... > > > > >http://go635254.s3.amazonaws.com/redgreenandblue/files/2009/03/flood.jpg > > > > > > > > > Whether I'll be around to retrieve my knife and glasses is > > > > > > > > another > > > > > > > > issue altogether! > > > > > > > > > On Sep 3, 8:06 am, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The Eocene ran from 56 million to 34 million years ago, much > > > > > > > > > longer > > > > > > > > > than humans have existed unless science is just a Bishop Usher > > > > > > > > > memeory. Geological evidence from the early and middle part > > > > > > > > > of this > > > > > > > > > period offers troubling news: the average temperature in the > > > > > tropics > > > > > > > > > at this time could have been as high as 40°C while the poles > > > > > > > > > were > > > > > at > > > > > > > > > temperatures of 15 or 20°C. None of our climate models > > > > > > > > > accounts for > > > > > > > > > how this "Eocene hothouse" might have arisen (New Scientist, > > > > > > > > > 21 > > > > > June > > > > > > > > > 2008, p 34). This is bad news for life on Earth. For a > > > > > > > > > start, any > > > > > > > > > tweaks we make to our climate models to account for it will > > > > > > > > > produce > > > > > > > > > scarier predictions of warming. Secondly, it suggests that > > > > > > > > > there is > > > > > no > > > > > > > > > feedback mechanism that will stabilise a warming world against > > > > > runaway > > > > > > > > > climate change. And third, there is geological evidence for > > > > > > > > > plant > > > > > > > > > extinctions in the Eocene. If the modern Earth goes the same > > > > > > > > > way > > > > > and > > > > > > > > > plants in the tropics start dying, that will provide yet > > > > > > > > > another > > > > > way > > > > > > > > > for atmospheric carbon dioxide levels to rise faster. The > > > > > > > > > Eocene > > > > > > > > > hothouse anomaly suggests that our worst-case scenario is > > > > > > > > > probably > > > > > > > > > optimistic to say the least. Human contributions have been > > > > > > > > > puny in > > > > > > > > > comparison. The only place safe to sun-bathe may well be > > > > > > > > > Santa's > > > > > back > > > > > > > > > garden and the elves have already staked out the sun beds as > > > > > > > > > surely > > > > > as > > > > > > > > > early-rising Germans in Majorca. This makes me wonder > > > > > > > > > whether the > > > > > > > > > secret primaries are politicians go through involve such > > > > > > > > > matters as > > > > > > > > > pissing in the wind contests. > > > > > > > > > > I'm agnostic in the sense I can't disprove the existence of > > > > > > > > > some > > > > > kind > > > > > > > > > of god (to be honest I think 'something' we don't construe > > > > > > > > > well is > > > > > > > > > likely and is likely to have nothing to do with our fables > > > > > > > > > around > > > > > the > > > > > > > > > world). Information such as the above and a lot of basic > > > > > > > > > science > > > > > we > > > > > > > > > are all part of is at bottom what I believe in. The elves, of > > > > > course, > > > > > > > > > only appear when Chris and I share his magic brew whilst > > > > > > > > > teasing > > > > > > > > > Flying Harringtons on the days we devote to world domination > > > > > > > > > in our > > > > > > > > > off-shore bunker created by skimming Craig's massive profits > > > > > > > > > as > > > > > owner > > > > > > > > > of this group (some believe Craig is only a fictitious Patsy > > > > > > > > > we > > > > > have > > > > > > > > > set up in case the IRS rumble us). In light of the above, > > > > > > > > > there > > > > > are > > > > > > > > > real questions about Dawkins telling us god probably doesn't > > > > > > > > > exist > > > > > and > > > > > > > > > we should just get on with life. 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