Quote from yesterday: I can't even say I hope Brazil wipes the floor with them because if there's one team that's worse than Portugal and Italy for cheating, it's Brazil! (ah... just realised France has yet to play Brazil... in that case I hope France wipe the floor with Brazil and then with Portugal).

Muahahahahaha France won. :)

I'm watching the england match, and although I don't particularly like England (I know I know, very unpatriotic of me), I have to say that the Portugal team could very well give the Italians a run for their money in the new Olympic sport of diving one of you mentioned recently. And Cristiano Ronaldo would do well to move to Real Madrid next year, ( Read more... )

From the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/5134116.stm?lsRead more... )

Ok... read the following sentence, and then tell me whether you feel there is anything, let's say, incongruous about it:

"I don't agree with several categories of liberals, but I do not want to see them summarily killed, though I suspect they feel differently about me as a Christian conservative male."

What do you all think of Ned Flanders ( Read more... )

To Rod, Tom, Vern, Walter, and anyone else I've missed out - in a world of too many absent dads it's great that you are there for your kids ( Read more... )

So you all know what I think on legal stuff in Guantanamo - here's the action to go with it. A petition to the EU Council leader Chancellor Schlussel, run by Amnesty International, requesting him to discuss Guantanamo Bay (and renditions) with George Bush this week when they meet. See ( Read more... )

TESSA! If you happen to see this... you're on my list of emails to write today. Things to do: clean bathroom, tidy spare room, write to Tessa... hmm, wonder which will be my priority.

Everyone else: this is a rant-free day on here. Think of skipping lambs or, if you want to be more accurate to Swiss nature, cows covered in mud. :)

I think virtually everyone on my flist is a Harry Potter nut, to some extent. Some of us are involved in Harry Potter communities (online, RP or otherwise), some of us engage in debate about whether or not Ginny is a Mary Sue or Snape might yet be vindicated, and others are perhaps just capable of quoting the books off by heart.

( Grr extreme Harmonians )

"They are smart. They are creative, they are committed. They have no regard for life, either ours or their own. I believe this was not an act of desperation, but an act of asymmetrical warfare waged against us." - Rear Admiral Harry Harris, on Saturday.

"We had decided this was a safe person, free to be released, but we needed a country to send ( Read more... )