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for Everyoneby A verified travelerfrom Melbourne, Aust.
Iconic HotelPosted Nov 15, 2014
Pros: It was everything as described, no disappointments.
Cons: A bigger pool and area.
Location: Ideally situated between Ala Moana and Waikiki.
Enjoyed our stay. Nothing was unsatisfactory. Rooms were spacious, clean, modern and well equipped. Had all of the usual facilities, location was suitable close to Alana Moana and Waikiki. This local landmark hotel was interesting to see the memorabilia and read about its history.
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Very nice hotel next to the marinaPosted Nov 11, 2014
I went to Honolulu on business but was able to stay at this nice hotel. The staff exceeded my expectations. The room was large and had a great view.
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For the price paid, just OK, not the greatest.Posted Oct 8, 2014
Pros: Close to amenities. The staff are helpful especially the housekeeping lady.
Cons: The kitchen is probably not used often by clients but seeing to it that this is always clean should be included in the checklist.
Location: This is walking distance to a lot of amenities including night buzz and the Waikiki beach. There's a bus stop right in front that can take you places.
We were attending a convention at the Hawaii Convention Center. It was a 15 minute walk which is just fine. It has full kitchen however the cabinets stinks and there were stains inside the freezer of the refrigerator. The vanity cabinets were not also "spic-and-span".
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great view of the oceanPosted Aug 20, 2014
Pros: View, cleanliness, friendly hotel staff.
Cons: Nothing
Location: Beach, close to Ala Moana shopping center, next to Hawaiian Hilton Hotel, and Hale Koa Hotel ont the other side of Hawaiian Village.
My wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our stay at the Ilikai Hotel.
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convenience from downtownPosted Aug 15, 2014 on Hotels.com
Ilikai was much older than expected, hotel was clean and services were very good, inside hotel room it appeared that room was apparently refaced as it looked that way in kitchen-ette, there were 2 lamp switches that were off centered with its switches and could be easily repaired by changing the switch, bathroom needed a fan for ventilation due to heat and humidity, mattress was decent but slightly softer than usual...overall, the convenience and history of the hotel location from the downtown area was the major factor for stay and very close to ala moana mall and and the main roadways...
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Great hotel for the location and nightly ratesPosted May 20, 2014
Pros: Location, Location, Location
This hotel is great for its location to all the amenities near by from shopping, beach/pool access, and nightly entertainment.
for Everyoneby Tiffanyfrom San Diego, CA
Nice hotelPosted May 10, 2014
Nice hotel if you want to stay in the heart of Waikiki. Clean, but beds weren't that great and the look of the room was dated. Great service and great location
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Awesome!Posted May 5, 2014
Got us in for dinner with no reservations. Excellent customer service.
for Everyoneby ursulamfrom Sydney
Nice!Posted Apr 8, 2014
Pros: I loved that this hotel had a self contained kitchen. When you are away from home for awhile, a nice home cooked meal is missed!
Cons: It would be nice if the room was serviced everyday. They seem to only service the room every other day. you run out of tissues, toilet paper & towels
Location: The location is fabulous! right in the heart of Waikiki. across the street is a great sports bar that sells heaps of delicious gluten free options.
Great location and nice place to stay. Would recommend this place. Would return. The lobby is lovely, the staff are nice and there is a nice, reasonably priced sports bar in the hotel.
for Familiesby Michaelfrom Salt Lake City
Great Home Base for all of OahuPosted Mar 17, 2014 on Hotels.com
Third time staying at this hotel in three years - we love it. On the edge of Waikiki, so an easy walk to all the shopping and restaurants. Short walk to the beach. Pleasant and easy going staff, especially the valets.


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Lure Them In
Ben Bangham sings the praises of these nasty flies! Lures may not imitate any insects but they are extremely effective for targeting winter trout.
Water Wolf
A few adventurous flyfishers are turning their hand to the UK's apex predator, the pike. "On the fly they take some beating," says David Lovell.
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Designed To Succeed
Simon Robinson is not only one of this country's most accomplished anglers, he also has some great fly creations to his name. The Copperhead Mary is one of his best.
Catching In Flat Calms
When blessed with less than favourable conditions – bright sun and no wind – you'd better up your game. Tony Spacey highlights the methods that keep those trout coming, no matter what!
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Pimped-Up Patterns
Fulling Mill's Steve Carew shows off his three favourite patterns: two are the new 'must-haves' for stillwaters and the other is a river fishing essential.
Ask The Panel
It's bigger, it's better – our advice section has a panel of experts on hand to help you with any fly fishing problem.
No Room For Finesse
When it comes to catching large, resident trout from big waters the effectiveness of tube flies cannot be ignored. Ian Hunt looks at these special flies and how to fish them.
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Keeping on fishing when the rod rings are freezing up can be a real nightmare, but if you want to carry on we have the ideal solution to iced-up guides!
Counting Calories
Why are stalking flies so heavy? Howard Croston believes our patterns should be more waiflike and so all the more tempting to those 'seen it all before' fish.
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There are many small, overgrown rivers out there that harbour specimen fish. Lewis Hendrie believes that if you're willing to fish them the rewards can be spectacular.
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After the rains and the relative cold it is a delight to see the sun back in Dubai. Time Out picks out ten places to try for al fresco dining Discuss this article
Year-round sunshine is one of the best things about Dubai.
But between the unusually chilly winter and the no doubt scorching summer there isn't much time to enjoy the good stuff in the middle.
So, while the weather is well suited for al fresco dining we are going to make the most of it. Time Out picks ten restaurants, cafes and bars where you can enjoy an outside eating experience.
Dining by the Creek on a sunny day is one of the must-do experiences for visitors and residents in Dubai. A gentle breeze will stop you getting too hot and just sitting back in The Boardwalk and watching birds make an occasional dive into the water is about as much activity as you could wish for.
The Irish Village in Garhoud has been a Dubai institution since before Time Out existed. It is as close to a British country pub or beer garden as you will find anywhere in Dubai. Grab a table and say goodbye to the rest of the day.
The ultimate in outdoor cool, 360° at the Jumeirah Beach Hotel is built on a private pier. With panoramic views of the Dubai coastline and within shouting distance of the Burj Al Arab it is a poseur's paradise and painfully cool.
Still a relative newcomer to Dubai's nightlife scene Crossroads shows every sign of becoming an instant favourite for the after-work drinks crowd. Not much in the way of food but for an outdoor bar with a view you will be hard pressed to find a more chilled out venue.
Customers lured to the newly re-opened Bussola will find the gentle sea breeze drifting romantically through their locks, the stars lighting up the night sky, and the gentle swish of the sea from the beachside terrace.
Talk about café culture in Dubai and it is hard not to mention More. The Garhoud branch has a good-sized outside terrace and a cosmopolitan crowd can be seen soaking up the sun and the restaurant quality food.
Seville's is another bar/restaurant which shines thanks to the large outdoor terrace. Sit inside and you are in danger of having conversation drowned out by resident flamenco guitarists. But step outside and you can enjoy regular drinks promotions, reasonable food and an occasional visit from a resident cat.
Not as trendy or obviously stylish as some entries on this list. But Al Mallah on Al Dhiyafah Road is always an interesting place to sample some genuine street life. Take a seat at the outside seating area and you can enjoy a shawarma as the world, in all its many shapes and sizes, walks by.
Outdoor dining is one of the joys of the Madinat. A handful of restaurants offer a combination of drinks and bites. Try the Bahri Bar if you're not too worried about the food but want a nice outdoor venue with a good atmosphere and a spectacular view.
More famous for it's British take on Indian food than its dining areas. The Rupee Room actually has a very pleasant al fresco section along the Marina Walk. Grab a seat outdoors and remind yourself of home – whether you are from Scotland or India.By 0
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It's one thing to see a photo-drone reviewed in DPReview, and costing the best part of a thousand quid. It's quite another to see one in the flesh, in a London shop window, on sale for less than four hundred:
Photoed by me through the window of Maplin's in the Strand, late this afternoon.
Here are the details of this gizmo, at the Maplin's website.
Okay, that must be a very cheap camera, but even so, this feels to me like a breakthrough moment for this technology, if not exactly now, then Real Soon Now. Note that you can store the output in real time, on your mobile phone. Something tells me that this gadget is going to generate some contentious news stories about nightmare neighbours, privacy violations, and who knows what other fights and furores.
What might the paps do with such toys? And how soon before two of these things crash into each other?
A few days ago, my beloved Panasonic Lumix FZ150 started misbehaving. An immobile black blob, the same blob every time, started inserting itself into all the pictures. Disaster. I shook the camera to see if it might be a superficial problem like a bit of gunk which further shaking might move to a harmless spot, but the black blob never moved, not by one pixel. I am sure this could be mended, but I didn't have time for that, because last night I was about to attend that Libertarian Home cost of living debate, for free, on the clear understanding that I would take lots of photos.
Besides which, I hate not having a camera on me at all times. Who knows what unimortalisable dramas I might have to endure while being bereft of the ability to photograph them?
So, I immediately went out and bought another camera, from a shop. I chose the FZ150's smarter younger brother, the Panasonic Lumix FZ200. This camera was a bit costly, yes, but, having been around for a while, not as costly as it might have been. And, it works better than the FZ150 in low light, or so everyone who cares has been saying. At indoor meetings, for instance.
I had hoped that the FZ200, being so very similar to and merely a bit better than the FZ150, would use an identical battery, which would mean that I would then have two spare batteries for the FZ200, in addition to the one it came with, on account of me having bought a spare for the FZ150 when I bought that. Alas, not. The FZ200 has its own somewhat different battery, and that meant I needed yet another spare battery. Now that SD card space is infinite, it is batteries that are now liable to run out, what with all the snaps you can now put on your infinite SD card. One battery, for a big event or expedition, is not now enough.
So, I ordered an FZ200 battery via Amazon, and paid extra for it to arrive yesterday, instead of just whenever.
And it did arrive yesterday. Once again, just as happened with that book that reached me the day before yesterday, the fundamentally important thing got done. I wanted the book and I got it. I wanted a new back-up battery, pronto, and I got it. Good.
An email arrived first thing yesterday morning, saying that the battery would arrive between 11.54 and 12.54, and that I should be in at that time, to sign for the package when I received it. Excellent. This email was identical in format to the ones telling me about how Macmillan Distribution (MDL) would be delivering the book that they had been promising, but I recognised the email about the battery as genuine, because it had lots of Amazon verbiage at the top of a sort that always signifies genuine Amazon business. Again, good. I was all set to write an admiring blog posting about this latest delivery service, the one that delivered the battery, an enterprise called DPD.
Saying when a delivery will be made, to the nearest hour, is a huge step forward, when the receiver is householder in a household rather than an office worker in an office. An office can have someone present throughout any given day, to receive incoming items and generally communicate with the outside world on behalf of all workers based there, present or absent. But the idea that a householder should be expected to wait around all day just to sign for one incoming delivery is, frankly, contemptible. As soon as a delivery person knows approximately when he'll be arriving, and the chances are he will know this first thing in the morning, that information should be communicated to the householder. This used not to happen, but with these two delivery enterprises, it did. As I say, this is a big step in the right direction.
In both of these cases I did get this message. The book was promised between 8.30 and 9.30, and it arrived then, by which time I just about believed that the book emails were genuine. This battery was promised between 11.54 and 12.54, and it arrived then, just as I expected it to.
But all this fuss and palaver about timing becomes rather superfluous if all that the delivery person actually does when he arrives is leave the thing, unsigned for, in whatever place near to the householder he considers sufficiently near. The whole point, as insisted upon in both emails about this, of stating a specified time of arrival, is to make sure that I, the householder, was present in person, to sign for the thing. But in neither of these two cases was my presence, as it turned out, actually required. My buzzer, the one outside the front door of all the flats where my flat is, is working fine. I checked, using a visiting friend to hear it when I myself went downstairs and buzzed. Yet neither of these two delivery persons deigned to use this buzzer. They knew the number. The book deliverer even found his way right to my own personal door. But, no buzzing.
Let me spell it out. Both delivery companies told me I had to be there during the hours they each specified. Failure by me to sign would mean no delivery and further palaver while re-delivery was negotiated. These proclamations may have been offered in good faith, but they were false. I did not have to be there.
I got what I wanted. But if the original supplier wanted proof that I had received the items in the form of my signature, then DPD and MDL, in the form of the two delivery persons, would be unable to supply this proof without faking it. Were my signatures forged on little electronic devices, I wonder?
In the case of the DPD person, the person who did not even try to get my signature had, according to the DPD email, a name: "Mark". I had been anticipating something better from "Mark". Sadly, not.
The basic problem here, I think, is that the service supply chain is too long and is out of control. Suppliers of products promise in all sincerity that products will be delivered in exactly the manner they promise. But the person they are depending on to keep that promise doesn't care about that promise, or not about all of it. He knows that, so long as the punter gets his hands on his precious thing, then whether any signing happens is, as far as the punter is concerned, a secondary matter. Being commanded to be somewhere you didn't actually need to be is annoying, yes, and this is what happened to me, twice. But not getting the thing is something else again. Had one of these items (especially the battery) not arrived when stated, then you can be sure that I would have been complaining. But complaining as in trying to get my hands on the damn battery, not complaining as in just marking the whole scenario out of ten, after my basic problem (getting the battery) had been entirely solved.
By the way, when I enabled the graphic decoration of one of the Macmillan Deliveries (MDL) emails, the email then proceeded show me a picture of a DPD van. Either Macmillan are all mixed up with DPD, or else Macmillan stole the DPD email and neglected to expunge DPD from it. Or something. I really do not care.
But that's typical. Who the hell was I dealing with here? Who, in the event that either of these items had not turned up at all, would I have had to direct my seriously angry complaints? As opposed to these mere grumbles about a basically satisfactory state of affairs, underneath all the crap.
When you have a major complaint to aim at one of these complicated supply chains, then you could well be screwed. It may take you many hours or even days to find out even who to complain to, let alone how to gouge satisfaction out of them. (Although, to be fair to Amazon, they take responsibility for everything that they do or that anyone unleashed via them does, for and to you, which is all part of why I bought that battery through Amazon rather than by some other cheaper but less dependable means. (The previous sentence is a short explanation of why Amazon now rules the world.))
But (and to get back to my point before all the brackets), when it comes to lesser complaints, complaints about blemishes on a system that basically works pretty well, well, this is why blogs were invented. With a blog posting, you can slag off the entire universe. You don't have to be bothered with which exact bit of the universe it was that did you wrong. You can just tell your story. Then, instead of you begging the universe to correct things, the universe, if any of it cares, has to convince you that there was no problem and to convince you to stop saying it.
In case you are wondering why I have gone on at such length about a basically rather minor problem, the answer is that I am optimistic about problems like this actually being solved. A business often does a basically good thing, but rather crappily, while they struggle to get it totally organised and running totally smoothly. People buy whatever it is, but sneer at the crap, because it is crappy and because they can. The businesses then hears all the sneering and gets it sorted and gets even better. Compare and contrast: the government.
This is a point I have made here before. Follow that link, as you now don't need to, and you will read me deriding a plan to refer to a Big London Thing as the "Safesforce Tower". Salesforce is a perfectly decent business, which does whatever it does. But it had a silly plan to change the name of a Big London Thing from something sensible to something very stupid. And guess what, what with all the complaints about this plan from me and from multitudes of others, that ridiculous circumstance has now been corrected. Not in the way I would have liked. Salesforce has still not been shamed into civility. But nearby politicians have forced civility down Salesforce's throat. And the Heron Tower will not now be officially called the "Salesforce Tower".
Although, London being London, this tower might now actually be called the Salesforce Tower, unofficially, in perpetuity, as a joke, given that no other joke name now obviously suggests itself for this rather ungainly erection.
By the way, it turned out that one battery sufficed for last night's meeting. But, I did not know that this would be the case beforehand, and had I only had one battery I would not have felt free to take as many photographs as I did feel free to take. With public meetings, it's a numbers game. The light is bad and people are constantly moving about, so half your pictures will be rubbish right off, if only because someone was blinking at the time. The trick is for the other half of your pictures still to be a large enough collection for you to be able to pick out a few truly good ones. So, the spare battery was useful, even if I didn't make any actual physical use of it.
I realise that very few readers indeed will have read right to the end of this ridiculously long-winded and repetitious posting. But, having written it and having posted it, I feel better.
It's that time of the year when I go into one of my local supermarkets and immediately start taking photos, like that, or like this:
Yes it's Halloween. And the shops, in this case Sainsbury's, are full of Halloween crap. And I photo it. I wouldn't buy any of it. Oh no. I am far above that sort of thing. But, I photo it.
Except, how about these rather cute buckets? Just the thing for my Last Friday of the Month meetings, to put crappy food in:
Only 50p per bucket! I got two. And I just might go back for more.
Not that. I wouldn't want one of them. That's my picture of Sainsbury's, having the last laugh.
Yes, there I was, relaxing in one of the big old armchairs that Mr Gramex reckons have made him so much money over the years, and this guy shows up at the door wanting to photo the CDs.
Mr Gramex has no objection, so, he does. And I photo him. This is what this looked like:
I thought I was the only one who did things like photo CDs in CD shops. Why was he doing this? He was evasive. My guess is some kind of project photoing lots of different stuff in lots of different London shops. Or, maybe wherever he goes, in life, he photos stuff in shops, the way I photo photographers. He said he was from Turkey.
Mr Gramex was very keen that Mr Turkey should also go outside and photo the window display, which he did. Even if he actually cared nothing for this window display the marginal cost of digital photography is zero and if that was how to keep in with Mr Gramex, fine, he'd do it. Which is when I took the photo on the right. Click on that photo, and, in the event that you care at all, you can see me photoing, reflected in the shop window, bottom right.
The bike in the middle picture belongs to Mr Gramex. As you can see from the reviews here, Gramex does not suit everyone. But it suits the people it suits very well.
Yes, dezeen (Dezeen?) continues to be a favourite wwwspot for me. Here are some recent dezeen postings that got my attention, for this or that reason.
First, news that there will be a viewing platform on top of the Walkie Talkie:
The Walkie Talkie Skygarden has yet to open and will, I'm sure, come with a catchier name. But already it is in obvious competition with the Shard – pricey versus free, ascetic steel and glass versus sylvan repose, supreme height versus not being able to see the Walkie Talkie. ...
Very droll. The original was about how you couldn't see the National Theatre from the National Theatre. But me, I am warming to the Walkie Talkie, and I don't just mean I'm standing under it and being fried. I especially like how it looks from a distance. The point being: it looks like the Walkie Talkie. Not just some anonymous rectangular London lump, no, that particular Big Thing. Yes it is not properly beautiful. But neither is London. Besides which, anything that just might compete down the price of going to the top of the Shard has my vote. I'll definitely make my way up there, as soon as they'll let me
Next up, isn't fun when someone hitherto impeccably cool suddenly turns into Grumpy Old Man:
Speaking to Dezeen, the 85-year-old English designer said tech products like the iPhone and Apple Watch were turning people into zombies, adding: "I've got a certain cynicism of Apple and their motives. It's a bit of a monster."
"It's a game they're playing and it's an absolutely straightforward, commercial, ruthless game, and it's dressed up nicely because they've got some talented people in their employ," he said.
Grange, who was knighted in 2013 for services to design, believes that the tech giant has successfully turned Modernism into "good commerce", using aesthetics to dress up a self-perpetuating product cycle.
"There are probably few companies around now that absolutely answer the prospect that Modernism is good commerce," he said. ...
Modernism is good commerce? Can't have that.
… "They've been so bloody ruthless that you almost get no choice in the matter."
"Almost" there means "not". (See also: essentially, basically, fundamentally, etc. etc. etc.) Because actually, you get plenty of choice about whether to buy Apple stuff or not. Apart from one rather nice keyboard, I never have.
People always talk about the behemoths of capitalism like this, just as they are starting their long slide down into moderate size and moderate success, into business as usual. How do I know Apple is now at the top of that slide? Easy, they are building a custom-designed headquarters. It absolutely yells: from now on, all Apple-persons will talk to each other and keep everyone else out. And what they will be talking about, to an appalling degree, will be their own living arrangements inside this huge circular corporate burial chamber. They're doomed, I tell you, doomed. Someone tell Sir Grumpy (above) that he can relax.
Next: what a driverless car might look like. Not. But, it looks very pretty. The basic point, that driverless cars will in the longer run utterly transform the look of the outdoors is, I think, a very good one. Maybe that is how some of them will look.
I really do not like the way this floating bikeway along the River Thames looks, in the pictures there. At the very least, I say, find a way to avoid having those obtrusive shapes above the level of the track, which makes it look like an infinitely extended item of tasteless garden furniture. I get it, that crap is there to enable it to float up and down on the tide. Well, find another way to do that.
Next, some excellent photos of the High Line, in New York. I especially like the distant aerial view of it curving its way over the Rail Yards, with the spontaneous architectural order of Manhattan's towers in the background.
I do like this rectangular block of a house, but with one end lifted up. Usually the rectangular block houses featured at dezeen are impeccably, terminally tedious. But this one, I like. Apart from the fact that whenever the damn architect called round, you'd have to tidy up all your domestic crap all over everywhere, and turn the place back into the dreary corporate office it resembles in the photos. What is it with architects not wanting homes to look, inside, like homes, but instead like some kind of dystopian hell with nothing in it besides a wooden floor?
Here are some impeccably, terminally tedious rectangular type houses, in Japan. To me, by far, by several hundred miles, the most interesting thing about these photos of them is the amazing amount of electrical crap in the sky over the street outside. If I was photoing in Japan, I would be all over that. More Japanese sky clutter here, in photos of another impeccably, terminally tedious block house with an interior that also looked like a corporate office reception area when the photos were taken.
Google drones. Spooky.
A weird footbridge in Paddington.
Parisian blocks become wavey.
Finally what with this being Friday, some black cats with bronze bollocks. I kid you not.
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Indeed. Photoed by me this afternoon:
I don't know what went wrong with this one.
Googling reminds me that there were a lot of complaints, the summer before last, about Boris buses getting too hot. Has that been sorted?
In general, I am suspicious of these new buses, on two grounds. First, as its nickname makes clear, this is a very political sort of bus, being the Boris Johnson answer to Ken Livingstone's Bendy Bus. When politicians push technology, expect trouble. I'm not saying they always get things wrong, because they don't want to look like prunes, and when they push things that go wrong, they do. But, they are still tempted to push, because, in defiance of what you often hear, politicians are typically very short-termist, being unable to look beyond their next election. Businessmen, at any rate businessmen of the sort who preside over the design of buses, tend to look further ahead, and not unleash their buses until their are truly ready.
Second, it was designed by a "designer". By Thomas Heatherwick, who designed that cute roly-poly bridge in Paddington and also the bridge Joanna Lumley wants to have built across the Thames. If you want a bus not to malfunction too much, the kind of designer you want designing it is a bus designer, who is thoroughly familiar with the particular problems that buses can get engulfed by and knows all the tried-and-tested recipes for avoiding such problems. This Heatherwick bus smells to me of change for the sake of it. This is okay if you are designing something small enough to fail without too much expense, like a chair or a spoon or an iPhone case, or a rather pointless roly-poly bridge. But buses are serious. When they go wrong it can cost millions.
And when a "designer" is involved, mistakes do tend to happen, because designers are brought in precisely to design everything. And when you try to do everything anew, you make mistakes.
And if that happens to a politicised design, such as this bus, other political things cut in. Politicians and their supporters don't suffer financially when their pet projects go wrong. They can start fighting the wrongness by just chucking money at it, and just pass the bill on to the rest of us. If unlimited money doesn't sort out the mess and instead becomes part of the mess, then their next impulse is to try to cover things up. If that fails, Plan C (we've reached about C, I'm guessing) is to find someone or something else to blame. Does that also fail? Plan D: just walk away from the mess, refuse to talk about it, and insist on talking about something else, anything else, everything else. Change the subject. In politics, in the end, all there is is "the subject". If politicians keep winning, then they "succeed", no matter how much havoc in the form of things like crappy buses they leave in their wake.
I'm not saying that these Boris Buses are guaranteed to fail. New designs, of the sort driven by politicians, can be a triumph. Sometimes, they even triumph economically. Look at the Volkswagen Beetle. And nor am I saying that one bus attached to a tow-truck is evidence of complete failure. I'm just saying that this particular bus has a lot of bear traps to get past.
LATER: By pure coincidence, favorite blogger of mine 6k right now also has things to say about Boris.
He's a law unto himself, but if you believe that there's nothing behind the apparent buffoonery of his outward image, I think you're mistaken. You don't get where Boris is by being a buffoon. Acting one, perhaps – being one, no.
Spot on. The British toff classes are full of people like this. I had an uncle who behaved exactly this way.
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My interest in what will be happening next in London, architecturally, is intense, but erratic. It switches on and off. Occasionally I go looking to see, but neglect to do this for weeks at a time. Google sends me emails about "new architecture london", but the results are seldom as dramatic as they ought to be. Also, I have been in the rather bad habit of filing these emails in a special email file, and then neglecting to return to them, which is a habit I need to change.
So today, I went into that email file and cranked up the latest "new architecture london" email, and found my way to this place, where I learned something I did not know until now. Apparently the Helter Skelter Tower, the one that looked like (as in: the tallest pointy thing in the very middle of) this, …:
... having been stalled for ages when the money ran out, has finally been scrapped. It will be replaced with an entirely new design.
Interestingly, if you click on the first of the above links, you will, if you persevere within the somewhat unwieldy virtual place that it is (in this case by scrolling sideways), you may manage to find your way to this, concerning "The Pinnacle":
Designed as the centrepiece of the City cluster
Plans for a tower on-site have been active since 2002
Initial planning application was submitted in June 2005.
Revised application with 19m height reduction approved April 2006.
Current status: Undergoing a redesign, with possible height increase.
Possible height increase. Something quite bland looking (compared to the Helter Skelter I mean) but still very high (like the new World Trade Centre for instance) might work rather well, aesthetically, because it would put the present muddle of the City in its place, if you get my meaning. Anyway, we shall see.
Just about to go to bed following a very satisfactory Last Friday meeting, addressed by Priya Dutta, on the subject of education and libertarianism. Priya, many thanks for an excellent talk, and for attracting such a large and intelligent throng to listen to it. Although I don't want to definitely promise anything, I will try to say something more about what you said than that, Real Soon Now. But right now, I am too tired to attempt anything.
Something I often forget to do at these things is take photos, probably because the photos I take are usually not very good. Tonight, Rob Fisher took photos, and I of course photoed him doing this ...:
... and then I took other photos. But the really good news is that Rob's camera is much better than mine, especially in bad light. He has promised to send me his best, and I look forward to seeing what he got.
For something rather more substantial from me, about libertarianism if not about education, try this recent Samizdata posting.
Flying cars will have to be flown by robots
Chippendale without Rannie
Bill Bryson on the miracle of crop rotation
Out and about in the sunshine
Xxxx-ie outside Xxxx-ridges
PID at the Times
ASI Boat Trip 9: The man driving the boat
Bombardier Embrio
You need to have abseiled …
Cashing a cheque by photoing it
What to call the sneerquote Salesforce /sneerquote tower? (plus a quite profound tangent)
Capturing moments
Compact Cats buried under London's poshest homes
I see cats
Me and the first cranes at London Gateway last September
Classical Amazon
A selfie taken in 1955 - another taken in 2014 - another being taken in 2014
The good done by the Apple Newton
A new Morrisons is opening in Strutton Ground next Monday
A Bitcoin vending machine and a Lego photographer (and a Lego Hawking)
I think I may at last have found myself a sofa
A quota post (with a quota link to a post about a post about a quota photo) and another quota photo
Big Things happening in the City
Selfies of me – 2001, 2007 and yesterday
Photoing the A380 from above – from the ground
I now have a new computer screen
Slightly wider tube trains
Guangbiao Chen's incredible business card
3D printer sighted!
Tough going in Australia
Merry Christmas
Big Things and small things
La Porte des Indes
Father Christmas Aerodrome
Happiness is Gold Blend at only £3 instead of £4.50
On the insecurity of ObamaCare - and on the unwisdom of only punishing big and later
Rob Fisher on old things not looking old
A Strutton Ground shop and a Strutton Ground pub
Alex on Quentin
Halloween is near!
Amazon pricing puzzle
The Times of May 24th 1940
Bad and good in bad weather
Earn yourself fifty quid by finding me a suitable sofa
London Gateway from above
Rob Fisher on the 3D printing future
Quota photo of a bucket of plastic crocodiles in an otherwise deserted shop window in Oxford Street
The Alex Singleton blog
Spot the Samsung connection
Views from the Hackney Wick station footbridge
BMdotCOM mixed metaphor of the day
Wedding photography (5): Photography!
Wedding photography (4): Preparations
Bookshops as Amazon showrooms
Google Nexus 4 photos
Michael Jennings - pictures of globalisation
What Michael Jennings has been learning about and will be saying about globalisation
Waterloo Station's new upper deck
Classical CDs from Gramex
At the bottom of the Shard
Looking along Victoria Street to The Wheel (and on how to be liked (or disliked) by Google)
Skull made of skulls in gift shop street
Croydon cats
An afternoon in Croydon
London reflected
Cleaning lady for hire
Michael Jennings on how the taxis at Skopje airport are an evil racket and what he did about it
Turning back the spam comment tide and allowing proper comments from way back still to be read
The Bezier Building and a hideous advertising erection at the Old Street Roundabout
"I just came across this fascinating photo …"
Talk by Frank Braun about Bitcoin at my home on Aug 3rd
Black Katz
62 Buckingham Gate
Space launch monster
Today I'm in a "How very odd!" mood
Street social services management integrated command sub-centres
The England rugby aftermath
Jarrod Kimber on biased cricket commentators
Go Gary Johnson!
The Jobs difference
David Friedman on the similarity between fractional reserve banking and insurance
Empty tables and empty chairs
Bitcoin etc.?
Misspelt (correction: Italian) signs of the times
Just Righter
Signs from the Frenchosphere
Someone doesn't understand what I mean by roof clutter
If you can't beat them hire them
The bike behind the theatre
Absolutely not a private navy (except that it probably is)
Noticing signs of the times
Jobs departs from Apple (again)
Mozart might have become a criminal
And then give up and stay fat
From pop to purrfume
Ashes highlights on ITV4
Those cameras are getting cheaper
Rockets are a great improvement on balloons
Beyond the Dome with Goddaughter One
Guerrilla webfare
I don't usually approve of swear blogging but …
Happy hundredth
Andy Flower urges England fans not to punish cricket for being corrupt
Toby Baxendale on what went wrong and what to do about it
BrianMicklethwaitDotCom least obnoxious spam comment so far
At the launch of Alchemists of Loss
If they don't want to be British Petroleum anymore they should stop calling themselves BP
Nuking the Oil Spill is probably a rather bad idea
Lucky we didn't go to Lords
Apple passed Microsoft in market capitalisation today
Rubbish bridge in Shangai
How my camera and the internet explained an old bus
Why my libertarianism has the look and feel of socialism
You know where you are with a book - usually
Apple keyboard remains excellent – iPhone software not so excellent
Six lions on a white Mercedes bonnet
Quota cat rubber
Sounds like a brothel with film star lookalikes
Beyond iPad (and a picture that goes beyond this posting)
Does Google now rule the world of computing?
Fitness Superstore
My local Blockbuster Video just closed
Cricket talk tonight
Hasselblad hit by custom-built headquarters disease!
Three airplane photos
Short posting (with short photo) about SpaceShipTwo
The Shard is definitely being built!
Talking with Toby Baxendale
Apple mobile phones are very profitable but Nokia mobile phones are not very profitable
Under a hundred copies
Today I bought an Apple Mac keyboard …
God is killing cinemas!
Quotes dump
Pull Tab
Computer coffee table
Magic bottle that makes dirty water drinkable
Me and Michael Jennings talk tech trends
Model T parts flatvert
Laptop for emails
The latest Canon DSLR comes without a twiddly screen
Handel in London – and an angelic tenor aria
The Vita-Mix 5000 at the Veggie Show
Two Samizdata comments on the sinking of Brown and on the sinking of the Daily Telegraph
Register for your free pack and five £1-off-coupons
A photo of the Samsung NC10 and the original Asus Eee-PC next to each other
The Fixed Quantity of Advertising fallacy and the menace of targetted advertising
James Tyler's speech at Policy Exchange
Lawrence H. White on the Scottish experience of free banking
My confusion about free banking
Toys and big toys
Kevid Dowd video now up and watchable
Work begins on the Shard of Glass
Clay Shirky on newspaper doom
MBA - necessary but insufficient
Work photos
The Shard may actually be being built
Not cricket
Google and dongle
On being sold a telly
Vote for crazy flavoured crisps!
You don't wait for it – you go looking for it
Roll out the Lino
OLED TV - very thin and detailed but not very big and not ready yet unless you're stupidly rich
Picture charging advice please
Happy Christmas
Is the contemporary art bubble bursting?
Big clocks
Colonial Governor's Mansion dwarfed by modernity
Linkin Park - one leg short of libertarian
Snapped in Egham
Why Willem Buiter blogs and why I do
Lang Lang crushes Yundi Li!
It's over
Another pendulum theory
Guido Fawkes conflates the Monetarists and the Austrians – needs to chat with Antoine Clarke
Antoine and Michael on what to do now
Tama the feline stationmaster saves the Wakayama Electric Railway Co.
Antoine Clarke on the financial turmoil and the US election
Tom Burroughes on the banking crisis
An abstract view of Kings Place
Chinese Friday?
Profundity and silliness
On classical music voice addiction
Cricket misery
A poetic Hornby
Voice of God journalism
Today I have been blogging elsewhere and also doing other things
Cisco – fuck off and die
"Better value on goods and services across a wide range of categories …"
Big Bens - Wheels - Big Ben teapots - telephone box teapots
Classic car thinness
News Media Coalition versus Indian Premier League
Travis Perkins of Pimlico Road are not good at delivering timber
Twickenham shop attacked by the Dark Side of The Force
Flat pictures for flat screens
Ed Smith on how baseball defeated cricket in America
Bookcase staircase many books electric book manybooks.net
Reflections in a Belgravia shop window
Customer service
Michael Jennings on telecoms at Samizdata
Moore versus Stossel on Cuban medical care
The great DVD packaging clearout
Blogging – the end of the beginning
The petty cash effect cuts in for Linux
Linux versus Windows - the bigger tiny laptop breakout
Jones the department store
The new South Bank
Democracy for sale – starting with football and beer
I love competition
A job well done
Eee PC not eeesy to get in Asia either
When the penny drops
Probably not right - but definitely written
The qualitative difference made by quantity
The A380 bulge
It's the decline of old-school advertising that's really hurting old-school journalism
The business of gadget blogging
"How much better …?"
Not actually all that dramatically
Michael Jennings on private law in Hollywood
Will China fail?
Smelling the smoke in the Microsoft machine
End the medical monopoly!
The cranes are migrating to China and Michael Jennings will be talking about China
Lots of links
The publicness of private life
The double thank-you moment
Pictures with words
"Information makes markets work …"
Classical under-15s
"That's not Minnie Mouse - that's a cat with large ears"
Old gits at the Oval – and Shane Warne
Insurance question
How to handle the complaints of your fiercest critics
Very small screen – high resolution
Plastic that conducts heat better
Comparing classical music with modern architecture
Susie Bubble turns shopping into a job with her blog
Bollocks to the fashists
iPods as the new CDs
The future of music
New York Times links - owned genes
Very very low cost kitten in space
And further talk at Christian Michel's about water and power
Back to the future with the virtuoso violinists
Billion Monkeys and people waving blue things!
Screwed by Google – and Google screwed by the kitten-bloggers?
Happy Christmas Day
The Pirates opens in New York
Big ships
Alice in Fortnum and Mason
Adriana Media Influencer: What do you do? (the mp3s of the book)
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Paul Ryan Begging Congress to Pass TARPSubmitted by j on Sat, 08/11/2012 - 21:00
Great time to run it on TV!
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Damning Video
Thanks for posting. I used it in an article I wrote earlier about Paul Ryan's smoke and mirror techniques.
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For 1st time I have a feeling American TV victims will vote for:
The two good looking younger white guys over the black and older guy (that's all they really know about them).
Both will rob them of more freedom.
Unless we can somehow wake up the delegates!
his Herbert Hoover history is wrong
it's the actions of Hoover and FDR that made the depression last decades compared to two years when the govt did nothing.
Second, this comment he made really annoyed me, "I'm going to get on MY PLANE and go home to my 3 kids." what a turd...did he really say that?
It should be pointed out that
It should be pointed out that TARP was Bush's big spending Bill. It came in October of 2008. It's Bush's bill that Ryan felt compelled to vote in favor of and defend in this video.
It's interesting to juxtapose his arguments for TARP with his argument against Obama's economic recovery bill in Feb 2009 just a few short months later. This time he referred to it as a "spending Binge" and properly spoke out against it. Too bad he could only see the light when it was politically expedient.
It's all just partisan BS. There is nothing these politicians actually stand for on principle. They'll find a way to rationalize anything if it's the party consensus. Just like Harry Reid once supported auditing the Fed and demanded that raising the debt limit would weaken the country. Only a fool would believe that a politician will stand by his word.
There is only 1 who has earned that respect.
I Agree
You have made a very good point and it works down even to lower levels unfortunately. When I was at the TX state convention I was praising Ron Paul to an old timer and she made a complaint about Ron I hadn't heard before. She said, "But he doesn't always vote with us." I said, "What is more important, voting for the right thing, or voting with the party?" Then I walked off figuring it might be the best thing to do.
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You know, for the "conservatives."
Great Proof
This is the V.P. that is supposed to get votes from the now co-opted TEA party? Try again! The powers that be must be working hard for Obama 2012.
^ That's the link mentioned in the video, so you can get to it without having to visit Youtube. Quick summary - this is Paul Ryan's abridged voting history, Ron Paul voted the exact OPPOSITE for each of these cases:
Paul Ryan on Bailouts and Government Stimuli:
-Voted YES on TARP
-Voted YES on Economic Stimulus HR 5140
-Voted YES on $15B bailout for GM and Chrysler.
-Voted YES on $192B additional anti-recession stimulus spending.
Paul Ryan on Entitlement Programs:
-Voted YES on limited prescription drug benefit for Medicare recipients.
-Voted YES on extending unemployment benefits from 39 weeks to 59 weeks.
Paul Ryan on Education:
-Voted YES on Head Start Act
-Voted YES on No Child Left Behind Act
Paul Ryan on Civil Liberties:
-Voted YES on federalizing rules for driver licenses to hinder terrorists.
-Voted YES on making the PATRIOT Act permanent.
-Voted YES on allowing electronic surveillance without a warrant.
Paul Ryan on War and Intervention Abroad:
-Voted YES on authorizing military force in Iraq.
-Voted YES on emergency $78B for war in Iraq & Afghanistan.
-Voted YES on declaring Iraq part of War on Terror with no exit date.
-Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq starting in 90 days.
TY MitchMitchMitch. The voting record clearly shows that
the talk doesn't meet the walk of Mr. Ryan.
If this guy was a New Zealand politician, and talked his talk with a record like that, our political commentators would tear him limb from limb. He simply wouldn't survive in politics here.
Perhaps I could loan you guys Cam Slater and a few of our other great political attack dogs, and you could loan us Ron Paul to give our politicians a few remedial classes? :)
What do they mean when they
What do they mean when they say taxpayer's protection or that taxpayers will be repaid/refunded? They claim from time to time that TARP and the likes will turn a profit for the tax payers. I don't understand this.
Ok, so the banks got a huge amount of money from the taxpayers. GM got a huge amount of money from the taxpayers. Some of that money supposedly has been paid back to the treasury. What does government do with it? I've never received a check from the government that said I was being reimbursed for my share of the cost of bailing these institutions out. Perhaps if taxes were lowered I would consider that a repayment but they are going up.
The only thing I can figure is that this money goes into public works programs. If that is the case then the beneficiaries would more than likely be those on government assistance and they more than likely don't pay taxes.
Just another TBTF shill. Funny how financials use to have 8%
of the S&P profits and moved to 40%. As clearly stated yesterday these plans do nothing. Obamney won another one by letting Goldman off. Funny how First Lady's 600K health care job or REFCO, MF Global, or billions of Bain and these clown stole buying stuff others built using FED, pensions, sovereign wealth.. The real welfare recipient of phony capital... AND I AM THE BIGGEST FREE MARKET GUY OUT THERE.. There is no way Bain deserved billions in loans for consolidating because of special TBTF credit lines. All presented by forcing Americans to use specific mutual and pension funds. Then again the country has fallen down by the " good intentions" and forced economic choices cause by lack of savings and Crony credit economy..
1 TPG Capital Fort Worth $ 50.55
2 Goldman Sachs Capital Partners New York $ 47.22
3 The Carlyle Group Washington DC $ 40.54
4 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts New York $ 40.21
5 The Blackstone Group New York $ 36.42
6 Apollo Management New York $ 33.81
7 Bain Capital Boston $ 29.4
8 CVC Capital Partners London $ 25.07
9 First Reserve Corporation Greenwich, CT $ 19.06
10 Hellman & Friedman San Francisco $ 17.20
11 Apax Partners London $ 16.64
12 General Atlantic Greenwich, CT $ 15.10
13 Warburg Pincus New York $ 15.00
14 Cerberus Capital Management New York $ 14.90
His company sits back while Illisnois goes bankrupt....
What did you expect? The liberal banking establishment will do everything in their power, everything possible, to prevent Ron Paul from getting in there.
This is a seedy, failed, disastrous system known as the Federal Reserve and it isn't stopped by a President. A President is just a CEO to a larger, more obvious scam.
The only real way to end the Federal Reserve for good, is to simply disengage from all of it. And this below is the cartel on full display, the 65 interlocking corporations who relish theft.
Start disengaging from each and every company there, if you want the system to end. Verizon too. Remove it out of the banks.
"With all my heart"
The fact that he stumbled and needed to check his notes as those words were leaving his lips... WOW!
"I believe... (wait, what?) with all my heart" - Priceless!
I noticed that too. hilarious
I noticed that too. hilarious
I may be biased...
...because Paul Ryan is my congressman, but I'm hoping, really hoping, that he is a man moving in the right direction. To me this video illustrates a person caving under pressure and making one of many mistakes. For a man who follows Ayn Rand so closely, how can he ever justify a bail out? It just doesn't add up. I don't see him as corrupt--yet. He's no Ron Paul, that's for sure, but who amongst us really is? Even Ayn Rand didn't live up to her idealism, but does that make her invalid, or a bad person? It certainly doesn't take away from what she wrote.
Well, if they're doing corrupt things
then they're corrupt. NO MATTER WHO IT IS.
The person creates their actions from their character. We can judge their character ONLY from their actions, not our wishes.
Much of Rand's philosophy is correct, but her actions do not match. I accept the correct things and reject the corrupt things.
Paul Ryan? Obviously not striving for Liberty. He is also a corrupt hypocrite. This video shows that clearly.
I don't hate his guts or anything
And I know what you're saying. But I think he is just going to be window-dressing. Just think about how much power Joe Biden has in the general course of things.
It's almost like they picked Paul Ryan in order to give a veneer of being for limited gov't, but they aren't putting him a position to actually do any more than make decent speeches.
"This bill offends my principles, but I'm voting for it to conse
He totally contradicts himself. He says there is a lot of fear and panic in the markets and TARP would act to prevent that. Then he goes on to say how scared he is of economic collapse in order to fear-monger people into supporting the bill. So if panic was bad, wouldn't we keep our cool and let the market play out rather than acting as we did with the bailouts? As the Judge said, those who risked the most would lose the most, those who were conservative would retain the most. "This bill offends my principles, but I'm voting for it to conserve my principles." Are you for realz?
bailing out wallstreet banksters is stealing from mainstreet
17 trillion worth we know about and probably 10 times that we don't know about. How is stealing 80% of the wealth from mainstreet helping anyone but the theives? Hmmm? Tell us Mr Ryan!! The facts are Wallstreet and Washington are a corporatist cesspool
Government is supposed to protect our freedom, our property, our privacy, not invade it. Ron Paul 2007
@3:22 "if we fail to do the right thing, heaven help us"
Can't really disagree with that statement. Too bad he did the exact wrong thing.
You know what gets me?
I'm on Main Street, not Wall Street. I emailed and called my representatives begging them to not vote on this bill, but instead they responded that I was basically an idiot and that they knew what was best.
To this day I am enraged over this thing, and believe me I'm not forgetting who voted for this.
That's a no-go
That right there was the line in the sand for me, the whole TARP thing.
I appreciate that Paul Ryan has made some effort to decelerate the rate of government expansion, but, really, that is just tinkering around the edges. Anyway, as VP I don't anticipate Ryan to have much say or sway. They'll just bring him out when Romney needs to throw a bone to the limit government types.
I think the GOP establishment base
will find Ryan much more appealing than Romney.
I wouldn't be surprised to see a lot of him in the coming days, if not weeks.
Romney ran out of things to say a long time ago. Ryan was a speechwriter and this is how he got started in politics. He's much more able when it comes to public speaking and imagine, he can even do it without a Teleprompter!
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...this Bill offends my principles,
but I am going to vote for this Bill in order to preserve my principles..." - oxyMORON Paul Ryan
words you have never, nor will ever hear, uttered by Ron Paul!
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Ryan is a double speaking, stooge for the bankers and the...
...military industrial complex.
He has no principles and if Ryan is a conservative, then I don't understand the meaning of the word.
"We have allowed our nation to be over-taxed, over-regulated, and overrun by bureaucrats. The founders would be ashamed of us for what we are putting up with."
-Ron Paul
Paul Ryan is a Neocon
And always remember this:
The Neoconservative ideology teaches that they MUST (not can, nor should nor might want to ... but MUST) lie to the public because the general public is too stupid to accept their ideas as "right" (from the neocon perspective).
Mitt Romney's campaign is surrounded by neocons. It is no surprise that a neocon has been selected FOR him to be his running mate -- *IF* he wins the nomination in Tampa.
Dick Cheney Loves Paul Ryan
"I worship the ground Paul Ryan walks on," says Dick Cheney, former Director of the Council on Foriegn Relations, leading Neocon, and co-founder of Project for a New American Century (the leading suspects in the alternate theory of the 9/11 attacks).
Cheney's endorsement is all I need to know.
Good video in that article as well
Good video in that article as well
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I know this doesn't matter but...
when I clicked on that link to the wall photo and saw the pic I now cannot get the name Eddie Munster out of my head.


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10 posts • joined 18 Feb 2008
Darth Vader tops movie misquote poll
TV Shows
from Las Vegas: "I'm going to slap you so hard, your unborn kids will come out well behaved"
love that line
BOFH: Spontaneous Legal Combustion
what was that?
Street View caught taking the piss - again
pavement leveller?
Man cops to $1m phony bar code shoplifting scheme
Its Maggie that gets scanned
man thats sad that i know that
BOFH: Fine detective work
new boss needed
Its a job for life
BOFH: Unfriendly ghosts
Do Not
Feed the troll.
Noel Edmonds defies BBC's jackbooted enforcers
Here is the IT Angle
A TV Licensing spokeman said: "TV Licensing has checked its records and can confirm we have a valid current licence on record for his address."
Surely they used their IT systems to do this
Mines the one with the pedant tag in the pocket
BOFH: The London Underground vending machine conspiracy
@ AC Conspiracy
there was the episode where the vending machine had a debounce 'problem' that caused it to dispense 'nasty cola' but a secret code delivered a nice cool lager. only problem eas the doubling in price of said lager for each can
Ofcom says yes on more TV ads
American TV
So, we are going down the american route...
IIRC from my last trip "over the pond"
On Next announcement
Opening Sequence
10 mins of programme
Ads (5 mins)
10 mins of programme
Ads (5 mins)
7 minutes of programme
End Credits
On Next
Repeat Ad Nauseum(sic)
Joke alert cause thats what OFCOM is, if this goes through
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
Up until a year ago, they used OWA for the webmail access. then they changed it for the wierd one they currently use.
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This is a recipe from Mario Batali, and is incorporated into 'Timpano Di Maccheroni' (the mythic pasta dome, Timpano Di Maccheroni (The Mythic Pasta Dome)). Fabulous meatballs. My husband has resigned his own recipe in lieu of this one.
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Yes, Tabloid Reports: Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart are in Love!by Hilton Hater at . Comments
Another day, another tabloid reporting on a possible relationship between Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. (You might wanna turn away right about now, Michael Angarano.)
Following the near-kiss heard around the world at Sunday's MTV Movie Awards, OK! spoke to a friend of Stewart. This anonymous source confirmed that the aforementioned co-stars have always gotten along well.
"Robert and Kristen spent a lot of time alone together when they filmed the first Twilight movie - they'd stay up most of the night talking, laughing, playing music. Although [Robert] knew Kristen had a boyfriend, he made no secret of the fact that he was crazy about her."
Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson in love? Kate Gosselin in a bikini? Susan Boyle in the hospital? It's been quite a week for celebrity gossip!
What about Angarano, the little-known actor Stewart has been linked to for months?
"Kristen and Robert hit it off the minute they were introduced," the friend says. "When they auditioned together for the first time [in 2007], sparks flew. The problem is, she's torn between her onscreen and off-screen loves."
Of course, anyone that has seen a photo of Robert Pattinson likely can't understand what there is to be torn over. Has Kristen seen his face?!?
I'm so happy to hear they r couple!!!
They r rocking together!
Oh Gosh!! it broke my heart!! I feel like crying, , hohoh, , by the by, , if that what makes my love (EDWARD) happy,,,, He don't know me either..
LEAVE THEM ALONE. OK! they're only people like us. How would you like it if people posted things about you everywhere? If they're in love let them be, and if they are'nt they aren't get over it.
ithink they r perfect 4 each other...
They are just as ordinary people as We are in some sense.it is useless to think over their relationship complicately!everything they do is just as normal as other young lovers since they are only human!For God's sake 'give them some room to breathe!
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they r perfect 4 eachother
* they have a strong chemistry
I don't believe they're dating. But I do think they're a strong chemistry on and off-screen and besides they seem perfect for each other. I absolutely love Rob and Kristen as well. And I think she plays her role in Twilight pretty well. She is a good actress.