Be Excellent To Each Other

Leona Lewis had the X factor as a launch vehicle, though, and when Girls Aloud first apepared that particular juggernaut had not yet reached its collossal momentum. "Sound of the Underground" is also still a mighty fine song.

I like "The Show". It reminds me of a good time in my life.

I'm not debating the quality of their output, just that the figures seem really low for a decade's "work".

It does seem to be quite low, yes. Surprisingly low. Their last single reached Number 97, which prioabbly helped their decision...

They also had 3 years off as well don't forget, so that's not going to help their figures. In fact, if you read their Wikipedia page.. The word 'Hiatus' appears quite a few times.

All these posts for Girls Aloud? You people sicken me.

The man sitting opposite me used to live on teh same road as Ms Walsh.

Grim... - Leona broke America, Girls Aloud did not. They've still sold a lot, just Leona/Adele/1D sold a fuckload.

Harry Reems

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21874543

My cousin went to school with fay from steps.

Boris Berezovsky



So many enemies... Putin, the Russian Mafia, Abramovich...

Richard Griffiths

YOU TERRIBLE CUNT!

Jane Henson

Milo O'Shea

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22011629

Roger Ebert

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22035330

Thatcher.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-22067155

Time to leave the internet for a few weeks.

Such a shame.

You bastards. Leave her alone! She's now in a better place where you can't touch her. With Jimmy Savile.

I am racking up the kills points this year.

Fucking hell! Thatcher made APOD go!

I fear the reaction will be on par with the US celebrations over killing Osama.

Even in death, she is an example to us all.

I changed my mind when Myp beat me to it by 60 seonds.

Filthy junkie bitch.

Remember her greatest contribution to the world: she helped create Mr Whippy.

This is probably worth it's own thread, isn't it?

Deliberately didn't

Possibly. We're probably half a day from a fight/flounce, so makes sense to keep the deathlist pure.

If this doesn't bring Cavey back, I'll eat my Porsche.

I'm going to bet on a 3 person fallout, followed by 1 unflounce.

STATE FUNERAL????

Fuck off! FUCK OFF!!

Do they actually want a fucking riot?

Ahem. Apologies.

Thats not enough to send the bat symbol up.

I can’t take any pleasure in the death of any human being, not even Thatch, much as I despise pretty much everything she stood for. Like everyone else she’ll have been a bit more complicated than that, though, and her family and friends will be devastated.

But the legacy is very much alive and kicking today. At the risk of being a big softie I’d simply say that this wouldn’t be a bad moment to reflect for a few minutes and maybe, just maybe, (and this applies to me as well as anyone else) try to be less of a cunt to our fellow humans in the future. Being nice doesn't have to be a weakness.

Amen, MrC.

Between Thatcher and Jimmy Saville though, it's been a good year for minors.

It's a shame. I thought she was great in superman.

I thought she'd expressly said she didn't want one?

But don't state funerals mean a day off work?

Its a 'not really' state funeral, like the Queen Mother and Princess Di had, so no.

I imagine a whole flottila of young tories are breathing a great sigh of relief as they realise they don't have to be carted off to awkwardly receive benediction from her in an uncomfortable ceremony once having made their 'bones'.

As far as Thatcher goes in domestic politics, whilst I despise most of her decisions I can't hate her as she did what she felt was right - even if it did destroy the social fabric of this country. She was transparently destructive, unlike todays political leaders. On her support for murderers like Pinochet, however, I can add a handy feeling of dislike and contempt.

A nigh-irresistable Shakespeare quotation comes to mind, but I can't bring myself to type it.

There'll be a lot of partying at work going on though, especially in my department. It's my day off however, so I shan't be witness to it. Shame.

Although i will add to that, that the country was totally fucked at the time. How would it have turned out if she hadn't done what she did? No idea, but she didn't destroy a perfect society in the slightest, it's quite possible that she made life a hell of a lot better for the majority, but who really knows what would have happened if she didn't step in.

Point. I really need to check out this 'Earth 2' these multiversers keep talking about. I didn't think it was perfect, btw, but it was a society. Societies tend to be good things. I like 'em.

Oh certainly. Heath and Wilson (the 1970s gritty reboot version) probably had the most disastrous administrations since the war, with the exception of Eden, but he was knifed for foreign policy disasters.
By the end of his time, Callaghan started some of the monetarist policies that would make Thatch famous, but Labour were dead in the water by then.

She died in a hotel though?

I feel a bit sad by it really, it's another part of my childhood dead irrespective of if you liked her or not.

Malc